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.
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.
Among the recent SIS lessons,
interesting activities and
communicative data journeys
are now available;
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
