Large Data Set Resources

Each of these websites has an abundance of data. I suggest finding something of

interest to your students that has a fairly normal distribution.
http://www.fedstats.gov/
http://www.data.gov/
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/learn/kml.php
http://activefiremaps.fs.fed.us/
http://data.octo.dc.gov/
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/gis/kml/