K-12 Activities
Find activities specially designed to be engaging and appropriate for your students' grade level, from counting for kindergarteners to examining career statistics for high schoolers. Each activity also teaches your students about the importance of a complete count in the decennial census.
All Grades
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Diversity: Languages at Home
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Creating and Taking a Survey
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Featured Activity: Let’s Get the Count Right
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Diversity: Minority Entrepreneurship and the Economy
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Make Data Speak
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Community Change
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Featured Activity: How the Census Impacts My Community
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The Opportunity Atlas
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The Census Questionnaire: Then and Now
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Where to Next?
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ReapportionmentHigh school students will predict population changes from the 2010 Census to 2020. Then they will reallocate seats in the U.S. House of Representatives.
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Featured Activity: Population Change Over Time
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Diversity: Differences in Communities
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ApportionmentElementary students examine the results from the 2000 and 2010 Censuses and use that information to predict the results of the 2020 Census in their state.
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Featured Activity: City Planning With Census Data
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Diversity: Languages Spoken in the United States
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Constitution DayStudents will learn the significance of the U.S. Constitution and Constitution Day, with a focus on how the census is called for in the Constitution and why.
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Diversity: Census Questions Over Time
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Featured Activity: Exploring Questions for the 2020 Census
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ApportionmentMiddle school students will learn about what congressional apportionment is, how it works, why it’s important, and how it relates to the decennial census.
Page Last Revised - April 19, 2022