New Resources from Statistics in Schools Bring Census Data to the Classroom
Do you know how
many amusement parks are available in your state? Or have you considered the
amount of businesses in your country? If you stay in Florida, there are about
53 amusement parks, and there are 6,074 paid employees in Sussex County,
Delaware. Solutions like these originate from the U.S Census Bureau’s County
Business Patterns, but you will discover a lot more in easy to handle classroom
facilities and activities developed by the Census Bureau’s Statistics in
Schools (SIS) program.
As teachers all
over the nation starts drawing out plans for lessons, they have the ability to
integrate both new and recent SIS facilities in important subjects like;
Mathematics, History, English, Geography and Sociology, in order to let
students know the Census Bureau data and how to incorporate them into the
actual world.
The Benefits of Statistics in Schools
According to
Kimberley Glascoe, who is an SIS marketing expert, making use of SIS charts,
maps and graphs, to inculcating in students how to read and understand graphic
information, the teachers always discover benefits and values in our materials,
regardless of the subject they lecture or what discipline of education they are
in. For instance, educators makes use of materials and games in order to assist
students in learning while still enjoying themselves playing SIS trivia games,
such as ; Kahoot, Population bracketology, and also contributing in other tasks
with the use of Census Bureau handouts to open up the way.
An important
objective of the SIS program is to indicate to educators that the term
“Statistics” is not a term that should only be taught in high school or in
mathematics classes. According to Vicki Glasier, who is the chief of the
Statistics in Schools Branch, elementary and middle school teachers can make
use of the SIS facilities to substitute what they are teaching across all grades
and subjects to assist students know the benefits of data and develop their
statistical literacy in a very early stage.
Recent SIS Resources
Among the recent
SIS lessons, interesting activities and communicative data journeys are now
available;
4Fun Facts
Starting from the
benefits of fireworks received to the U.S, down to the amount of businesses
that makes Chicken grills, the Census Bureau’s interesting fact about the 4th
of July holds the answers we have interesting nuggets about Hispanic Heritage
Month, Constitution Day, and Back to School. These facilities are interesting,
bright and very simple to download and use in the classroom.
4Communication Maps
After going into
some business, demographic, and population data, students and teachers that are
familiar could enjoy different new communicative State Facts for Students to
watch. Students can put in their state or any other state, Washington DC, Guam,
U.S, American Samoa, and Northern Mariana, in order to know about the Census
Bureau data that is known at the state level. Students will be happy to learn
about their state’s information, how the population of their states is
different from others, how workers in their state communicate, or how many
homes in their state actually use a mobile device.
4Play Statistics in School Games on Kahoot
The SIS has a
combination of 9 Kahoot, which are the U.S Census Bureau Data games. These
games are known to highlight the Census Bureau statistics during holidays,
celebrations and observations of the United States’ different population. A new
game to be released within the month known as “From Diplomas to Degrees;
Exploring U.S Education Statistics”. This game tests your IQ by asking
questions such as; Has the amount of adults who finished high school in the
last 10 years enhanced or reduced? What was the average annual earning of
workers that has a bachelor’s degree?
SIS Ambassador Program
With the SIS
Ambassador Program, a gathering of teachers, librarians and others that are in
the educational field can enhance the activities of SIS and contributes in
choosing virtual events and unique ideas. Working as a team with other
educators, librarians and the Census Bureau, the recent 72 SIS ambassadors
finds creative ways to bridge the gap between the real world and data, and
enhances statistical literacy of K-12 students across the nation.
These ambassadors
can collect a digital badge and other national distinction for their hard work
in spreading the word about the benefits of census data. According to the chief
of the Statistics in Schools Branch, there is a constant search for recent and
creative ways to work as a team with educators. Also, to add to recent
resources and concepts like virtual field trips and engaging students with
Census Professionals, virtually, we want to keep a list of recent subject areas
that we would like to create good contents for, economics inclusive.
Conclusion
The U.S Census
Bureau’s Statistics in Schools program offers free activities and facilities
for teachers to assist in bringing statistics to actuality in the classrooms,
and helping students get ready for the digital world. There are different
materials that have been introduced by the SIS to help students learn more and
better, some of which are; a sing along song, videos for students in grades
K-12, a recent classroom maps with the census statistics on it, a new task book
for children within the ages of 2-4. With the help of these materials, teachers
can integrate the Census Bureau statistics into different subjects like
Mathematics, English and Social Studies. The handouts are completely free and
created by educators and subject professionals from different parts of the
country.
The Census
Statistics in Schools program offers a good chance for students to have a good
connection to big data collection and examination project. Students will start
to see the data as something gathered by actual people, under real situations
and that talk about the importance.
In a time where data is universal, collection is cheap, and software to
examine data is either free or very cheap. People should be able to reason like
statisticians, and also be able to properly examine data in order to see their
world (Rob Gould). In any given opportunity that is available to assist people
to better assimilate how statistical thinking is used to think about our world,
the better we will get.
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