Students will review a series of infographics to learn how America’s demographics have changed between 1940 and 2010.

Students will use data about geographic mobility to explore rates and patterns of migration within, and immigration to, the United States.

Explore maps containing census data from 1950 through 2000.

Students will read an informational text about college completion rates for people born in different years and answer questions citing evidence.

Students will examine a table of 1850 Census data on employment to understand the professions of free men across the United States at the time.

Students will use state and regional unemployment data for various education levels to create scatter plots and calculate correlation coefficients.

Students will analyze excerpts from the 1790 legislation that allowed for the administration of the first decennial census.

Use images, U.S. Census Bureau data, and interactive maps to visualize and calculate densities at various scales.

Students will analyze a variety of county-level census data in histograms to compare and contrast the shapes of their distributions.

Students will calculate various measures of central tendency using data on the number of people who bike to work in select states.

Students will learn about the nature and importance of qualitative research as a complement to numerical data.

Students will develop, justify, and evaluate conjectures about the relationship between two quantitative variables over time in the United States.

Students will use two data visualization tools to explore U.S. population growth between 1790 and 1890.

Consider the causes and effects of waves of migration and compare the historical data with more recent data on migration overall.

Use U.S. Census Bureau data to learn how population pyramids describe population structures and to calculate age range population percentages.

Students will look at data showing how the experiences of young adults today differ from other generations.

Students will engage in a class discussion on young adulthood, answer questions about a technical document, then write about their generation.

Students will use census data from a sample of 136 U.S. counties and other sample data to make estimates about the U.S. population.

Students will use a data visualization tool to understand shifts in the U.S. population distribution from 1790 to 2010.

Students will explore census data, including infographics and reports, to better understand rates of poverty in the nation.

Students will analyze multiple resources to learn how President Abraham Lincoln and Union forces used a 19th century population density map.

Students will identify the connection between government statistics and government programs by examining the problems from the Great Depression.

Students will examine a data visualization that displays 2010 Census data on population density along Interstate 90.

Students will examine tables of data from the 1820 Census to understand the implications of the Missouri Compromise, specifically in Maine and Missouri.

Students will explore distributions of various census data sets to determine whether it can be reasonably assumed that those data follow a normal distribution.

Interpret and analyze a political cartoon about the 1920 Census.

Students will explore an interactive data visualization of state-by-state population growth as measured by the decennial censuses of 1790 through 2010.

Students will examine graphs on education, earnings, and workforce participation for men and women between 1940 and 2010.

Students will examine an 1850 Census questionnaire and an 1851 political cartoon to understand women’s rights issues during the Antebellum Period.