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Linguistic Diversity. Languages in Canada - Elementary
Create a language mosaic to reveal the linguistic diversity in your community. Pupils interview a person with a home language other than English and contribute to a bulletin board display representing the variety of languages spoken. The...
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People and Places in the North and South
North and South: two opposite directions and two opposite economic and social systems in time of the Civil War. Pupils peruse census websites and primary source photographs to understand what life was like for the everyday person before...
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Where Do I Want To Live?
Students use a variety of Internet sources to gather income, population and housing data. Each group bring their results to the class and the class use their findings to compile mean population, income, and housing for all states.
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Being an Educated Consumer of Statistics
Students examine kinds of data used to report statistics, and create their own statistical report based on any of the four sources of media information (Internet, newspaper, TV, magazine).
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Census Countdown
Students read and discuss the census and how the census is used by the government. In this census lesson plan, students use the data collected to compare different census's and their outcomes.
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What's the Point?
Students learn why the census makes a difference. In this U.S. Census lesson plan, students identify who uses census data and how, trace the impact of census data from Census 2000, and present findings in a graphic format.
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Size It Up: Map Skills
Compare information from a US population cartogram and a standard US map. Learners draw conclusions about population density by analyzing census data a population distribution. They discover that census data is used to apportion seats in...
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Getting There
Young scholars practice reading a pictograph. In this data analysis lesson, students collect data and create their own pictograph. A young scholars worksheet is included.
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Constitution/Impeachment/Reconstruction
Eleventh graders analyze a chart comparing U.S. census data from 1850, 1880, 1900, and 1920. They read a handout summarizing immigration legislation from 1882-1996 and create a graph charting how open / closed U.S. immigration is over time.
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Taking an Animal Census Grades 3-8
Students comprehend the competitive, interdependent, cyclic nature of living things in an environment. They conduct an animal census in a designated research area over a six-month period to determine what types of species are present,...
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Population Pyramids
Learners work with and make population pyramids. In this population pyramid lesson, students use census data to make population pyramids for China, India, and the United States. They use the information to determine why jobs are leaving...
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Entrepreneurship: Will it Work?
Consider to possibility of starting a business as a way to examine the concept of entrepreneurship. Learners develop and analyze feasibility studies, marketing strategies, proposals, and local census data all needed when starting a small...
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Classroom Census
Students identify the processes involved in data collection. They decide how census data can be used. Students engage in the data collection process and represent and interpret classroom data. They use scattergrams, arrow diagrams, block...
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Senior Classroom Census
Students recall the data collection cycle and engage in the data collection process. They record data, represent it in graphical form and anlyze and question the data. In addition, they decide how census data can be used for
planning.
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Neighborhood statistics
Students examine statistics relating to neighborhoods. They use the data to explain how a population affects their environment. They discuss how businesses use statistics to find out information about their clientele.
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Arthur Young and the President
High schoolers work with NASS data by converting it into prose. For this historical agriculture information lesson, students read about how George Washington communicated information about crop yields, livestock, and land values. They...
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Exploring Our Country: An United States Scavenger Hunt
Young scholars visit a selected web site and search answers to given questions. They investigate census data for a several states. They explore data such as business, geography, and people. Students demonstrate ways to navigate...
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District Decisions
Students review census data and examine the manner in which reapportionment and redistricting occurs. They, in groups, debate a proposed change in the way congressional districts are drawn and present their debates to the class.
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The Hispanic Migration into Iowa
Sixth graders examine the positive and negative effects of the migration of people of Hispanic descent in the state of Iowa. They examine and interpret census data using maps before comparing the positives and negatives. They read...
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Fill in Your Future
Students discuss the Census 2000 slogan, "This is Your Future. Don't Leave It Blank." They design billboards for the slogan. They discover the role of the census in community planning and congressional representation.
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Teenage pregnancy trends in Canada
Young scholars analyze demographic data relating to teen pregnancy trends. They develop skills to locate and interpret data. They discuss the factors that influence teenage pregancy such as social, economic, and educational issues.
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Ohio Census 1990 & 2000
Students use Ohio census data to solve problems, make comparisons, draw conclusions, and support predictions related to Ohio's population. They interpret and work with pictures, numbers and symbolic information.
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Ohio Census 1990 and 2000
Students begin the lesson by examining Census data from the state of Ohio from 1990 and 2000. Using a worksheet, they solve problems using the data and a calculator. They share their responses with the class and discuss what the data...
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The Gender Wage Gap
"Equal pay for equal work!" may sound logical but it is not the reality. High schoolers begin a study of the gender wage gap with an activity that asks them to position themselves along a line that indicates whether they strongly agree...
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