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                        Bring your classroom to life with real world data.  Select an activity that supplements what you are currently teaching in subjects including English, Math, Geography and History.

                    

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                        Increase the data literacy of your students with resources that display data in fun ways.  Choose from monthly Fun Facts, 5-Minute Challenge warm-up activities, maps, videos and more.

                    

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                            Constitution Day
                        
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                            Games
                        
                            Historical Documents and Images
                        
                            Kahoot! Games
                        
                            Learn About the Decennial Census
                        
                            Maps
                        
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                            Videos
                        
                            Visualizations
                        
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                            Census 101 for Students
                        
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 Find monthly-themed activities and resources for use in your classroom or at home. They offer students an opportunity to learn about and work with Census Bureau data while celebrating holidays, special observances, and current events specific to the month. This month, we have a collection of teaching materials to observe Mathematics and Statistics Awareness Month; Earth Day; National Zoo Lover’s Day; National Pet Day; and more!
 
 Resources for April Observances
 State Facts for Students

            Help students learn about their state as they collect, organize, analyze, map, and graph a variety of information in “State Facts for Students.” National Pet Day

            If your students could pick a career in the veterinary and animal care field,
what would they choose? Try this warm-up activity and find out!
 Additional Resources for Special Events in April
 Mathematics and Statistics Awareness Month
 
 To celebrate all things math this month, share our math activities that teach students the value of statistics while exploring cool topics like commuting, educational attainment and population growth.  This will help students develop an understanding of how important and valuable math and statistics are.
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 Kahoot! Game: Springtime, Sunshine, and Statistics!
 
 Happy Spring! How many people in the United States biked to work in 2022? Students can discover the answer to this and many other season-related questions playing our Census Bureau data-filled spring Kahoot! game.
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 National Librarian Day – April 16
 It’s National Librarian Day – mark the day by sharing the following SIS activities with your students.
 
 Numbers That Tell a Story
 
 For this middle school English activity, students analyze Census Bureau data about their state’s population and businesses using the State Facts for Students data tool. Then students can share their opinions on how the population has changed over time with their classmates to practice and improve their communications skills.
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 Showing Appreciation to Librarians
 
 Download our Librarian Appreciation Card coloring page and have students design and color it then share it with a special librarian in their lives.
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 National Kindergarten Day – April 21
 
 Use the following K-2 SIS resources to celebrate this day while teaching your youngest students the importance of data and enhance their statistical and civic literacy skills:
 Let’s Count—Students count items in their classroom; record this information in a data table; and suggest how such data can be used.
My Dream Home—Students construct their dream home after analyzing and interpreting data on housing characteristics like the number of U.S. homes by total bedroom units.
How Does Our Class Compare?—Students collect, organize, and compare data about the number of girls and boys in their classroom who play sports, take lessons, and participate in clubs.
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 Earth Day – April 22
 
 Share our Earth Day Fun Facts handout with students, which includes key environmental statistics such as the different ways U.S. homes are heated; average commute times; renewable energy sources and more. Then have them complete the activity suggestions from the accompanying teaching guide. For example, students can create social media posts to celebrate the day!
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 Activity of the Month
 SIS has a variety of standards-based activities that students in all grade levels can use in the classroom. In this section of our newsletter, an SIS staff member has handpicked one of their favorites for you to explore.
 Play it Safe!
 
 Learn how the U.S. Census Bureau helps emergency responders provide support during natural disasters. With this elementary school geography activity, students learn which U.S. coastline counties were most frequently hit by hurricanes between 1960 to 2017. Students can analyze the effects of environmental hazards on people; explore how people prepare and respond to environmental dangers; and determine items needed to prevent and deal with natural disasters in their community.
 Why this activity is a SIS favorite... Preparing for natural disasters is key. This activity gives students the opportunity to think about ways to stay safe ahead of a natural disaster. Students walk around to various stations in the classroom and complete tasks that include creating an emergency preparedness kit, determining states with the highest risk for hurricanes and reviewing photos of different types of houses to determine which one is most likely to survive a natural disaster. Which of these structures do you think is most likely to survive a natural disaster?
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