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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