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TeachersJust for you—everything from Statistics Canada that’s most relevant to your students!
www.statcan.gc.ca/learningresources
Keep informed!Join more than 7,000 teachers who receive Statistics Canada’s free monthly Learning Resources Bulletin by e-mail. Click on Subscribe on the Teachers’ page.
Resources by school subject
Each subject page is divided into three tabs:
LessonsKey resources animations elementary tables articles intermediate databases maps and more secondary
Canada Year Book Historical Collection, 1867-1967With this stunning online collection of original Canada Year Books,studentscanresearcheverydayissuesthataffectedCanadians throughout the last century—such as employment opportunities, cost of living, immigration, urbanization or family structure.
The accompanying 20 lessons, for intermediate and secondary students,weredevelopedbyEllieDeir,CarolWhiteandGordSlyofQueen’sUniversity’sFacultyofEducation.Aimingtomake history interesting for young people, the authors asked themselves: “Where were the farmers and beauticians, the shopkeepers and soldiers among all the numbers? How can we encourage students and teachers to engage in ‘active learning’?”
The Great Depression: Students role-play a 1936 family from a particular community, find data on household income and expensesanddevelopafamilybudget.(secondary)
Immigration and emigration: Students study the impact of immigration on population growth, discover where immigrants settled in Canada and consider ‘push’ and ‘pull’ factors that influencedtheirmigration.(intermediate)
Canada at War: Students investigate the actual costs, both human and monetary, of both world wars and reflect on honouringthosewhocontributedtoCanada’swarefforts.(intermediate)
Changing families and households: Students research the effectofindustrializationonfamilystructures,comparingdifferentpartsofCanadaanddifferenttimeperiods.(secondary)
History
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Short animations bring history to life: Seven vignettes relate settlement history to the patterns of today’s population distributionindifferentregions of Canada.
Time line of the Canadian centenarians, 1901 to 2006 recalls major 20th Century events.
100 years of immigration showsthedifferentcountriesof origin of immigrants to
Canada.
Census families, 1921 to 2006 reviews social changes that affectedfamilystructures.
Collections: Censuses of Canada, 1665 to 1871offersdescriptionsofthe population, dating from first contacts with aboriginal peoplesandearlyFrenchandEnglish settlements, through to the 1800s.
For elementary and intermediate students: Virtual winter count:LikeNorthAmericanPlainsIndians, students record their history using pictures and stories.
Role playing Jean Talon: Students review 1665-1666 census data collected by Jean Talon and try to convince the KingofFrancetoincreaseinvestmentinNewFrance.
Key resources
Lessons
Find more at www.statcan.gc.ca/learningresources > Teachers > History
Animations: Population pyramidsWatch the age structure of Canada’s population evolve throughout the 20th century and spot the post-war ‘baby boom’andthemorerecent‘boomecho’.Theshapeofanagepyramidrevealsastory:Nunavut’sexplodingyouthpopulationortheexodusofyoungadultsfromNewfoundlandandLabrador.
Business Studies—Hot new lesson!The lesson “Identifying potential target markets” has students create market profiles for two communities in their region to discover the best location for a fictitious business, using Community Profiles.
Find more at www.statcan.gc.ca/learningresources > Teachers > Business Studies and Economics
Geography
Key resources
Lessons
NewfoundlandandLabrador’spopulationbyageNunavut’s population by age
Articles: Canada Year BookEach year, the Canada Year Book reviews current life in Canada, with short, easy-to-read articles on major trends in
agriculture population and demography
ethnic diversity international trade and immigration
environment and many other topics…
Urban and rural communities: Students compare distinguishing features of urban and rural communities, using census data from Community Profiles.(elementary)
DataCommunity ProfilesResearchanycommunityinCanada.Findtablesand graphs on population, age groups, labour, income, and much more. Compare data between locations.Createathematicmap.Formajorcities,locate neighbourhood-like areas in the related Census Tracts Profiles.
Find more at www.statcan.gc.ca/learningresources > Teachers > Geography
Canada and its trading partners: Students investigate the importance of international trade—and of trade with the United States in particular—using data in E-STAT.(intermediateandsecondary)
Concrete graphsYoung students can show the distributionofdifferent-sizedhouseholds in their class—or of their favorite types of candy—by makingaconcretegraph.Weoffermany other ideas and activities for bar graphs, circle graphs and line graphs.
Lessons
Investigating social justice issuesAstheymature,studentsdeveloptheirpersonalprincipleswithrespecttosocialjustice,equityandhumanrights.AccordingtoGeoffreyRoulet,MathematicsEducationprofessoratQueen’sUniversity,“The
mathematics classroom can and should serve as a place for students to struggle with these ideas. The students’ emerging concerns and opinions are a source of debates that require data analysis for solutions and thus, that support mathematics.”
Intermediate and early high school students view justice issues in terms of their own lives, preferring toinvestigatedataofalocalorpersonalnature.Forexample,studentsparticipatingintheCensusatSchoolsurveycanexaminetheirclassdataonenvironmentalbehaviours, like recycling and composting, as a springboard to taking action.
Senior students are able to address broader issues, applyingstatisticalanalysistechniquestoquestionsthat are meaningful to them, such as:
Howdoaverageearningscomparebetween industries, between regions, or between men and women?
Coming in the fall of 2009! Investigating social justice issues,intheGrade9to12Mathematicspage,offersdata sources for student projects.
Census at Schoolinternational online surveyElementary students have fun while learning about surveys, data management and analysis. Using theirowncollecteddata,theycreatefrequencytablesanddifferenttypesofgraphs;calculatemean,modeandmedian;investigatehypotheses;and make comparisons with Canadian results. Secondary students create scatter graphs, make correlations and obtain random samples from theinternationaldatabasetostudytheeffectsofsample size. Visit www.censusatschool.ca.
Reference guidesFindgrade-appropriatedatasets,understand basic data concepts and learn to calculate basic statistical measures in the Teacher’s guide to data discovery.
Grade 9 to 12
Canadian microdataSenior students can analyse these sets of unaggregated survey data using spreadsheet or data analysis software. Data are taken from past censuses, a longitudinal survey on youth, and a survey on health behaviours of school-aged children.
DataKey resources
Find more at www.statcan.gc.ca/learningresources > Teachers > Mathematics
E-STATE-STAT—Search, create, analyse!WiththeE-STATdatabasetool,youcaninvestigateand dynamically display statistics about Canada anditspeople.Fromachosendataset,choosethegeographic region, characteristics and time period youneedtocreateyourownuniqueoutput:atable,map or graph.
The CANSIM socio-economic database lets you track trends over several years of phenomena such as prices, divorce rates, immigration, and much more.
Censuses shed light on the population in a particular census year. Investigate 2006 Census characteristics—such as family type, income, immigrant status and many more—for geographic levels that go from province and region to municipality and neighbourhood-like areas called ‘Census Tracts’.
What information can you find in E-STAT?For Business Studies and Economics: priceindexes,retailandwholesaletrade,incomeandspending;alsopopulationanddemography(formarketresearch)
For Family Studies:agriculture(foodandnutrition);families,households(familytypesanddivorces);income,spending;seniors;societyandcommunity(womenandgender)
For Health and Physical Education:healthbehavioursofschool-agedchildren(sexuality,substanceabuse,bodyimage);disability,diseases,factorsaffectinghealth
For Geography and Environmental Studies: agriculture,energy,environment(climate,naturalresources,pollution),populationanddemography
Help is close by Check the User guides and lesson plans to make the mostofthispowerfultool.Anyquestions?ClickonContact E-STAT.
“E-STAT gives students access to a phenomenal amount of information in all the social science fields... and lets them work with real world data.”
To study social and economic conditions in Canada, try the 2006 Census Results Teachers’ Kit, written by The Critical Thinking Consortium. Students in grades 7 to 12 practice their analytical skills while studying information from the 2006 Census. They use criteria for judgment and thinking strategies that are provided in each lesson.
Population change: Students consider the types of migration that contribute to population change and then they rank the economic, social andenvironmentaleffectsofmigration.
Immigration:Afterstudyingthepullandpushfactorsaffectingcurrentimmigration,studentsrecommend ideal destinations in Canada for two hypothetical immigrants.
Aboriginal peoples: Students create population pyramidsofCanada’sAboriginalandNon-Aboriginalpopulationsandconsidertheneedsofayoung and growing population.
Work, employment and education: Students examinechanginglabourmarketconditions,identify challenges and opportunities, and then assess government plans to address them.
These four other lessons complete the Teacher’s Kit:
Aging population
Families
Earnings and incomes
Ethnic origins and visible minorities
Find it at www.statcan.gc.ca/learningresources > Teachers > Quick links > Census of Canada resources > Lessons
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