Monthly Highlights

Monthly Highlights

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 teaching materials for Mathematics and Statistics Awareness Month, Earth Day, National Pet Day and more.

Activities and Resources for April

Looking at Numbers of Births Using a Line Graph

After looking at census data, students will determine the birth years of children who were aged 8 through 11 in 2019.

What is a Statistical Question?

Students will identify which questions about a data set are statistical questions and which are not.

$Differences in Earnings for Men and Women$

Differences in Earnings Across Sex and Educational Attainment

Students will interpret box plots and be able to make claims based on median earnings and educational attainment data of men and women aged 25 years or older.

Why Statistics?

Watch this video to learn the relevance of statistics and how many different things can be learned about the nation and its communities.

Earth Day Fun Facts

Earth Day is recognized every year to raise awareness of environmental issues and inspire an appreciation for the environment.

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 Days in April

April 4-10 – National Library Week and April 16 - National Librarian Day

Did you know there were 317,596 librarians, curators, and archivists in the U.S. in 2019? Explore digital resources for grade K-12 to help students learn how to find, understand, and use data. Discover the benefits of our program.

April 7 – National Walking Day

Does the percentage of people who walk to work in cities vary with population size? That’s a good question to have students answer on National Walking Day. With this activity, middle school students can create box plots to make inferences about the percentages of people who walk to work in cities of different population sizes then use their findings to write a short report.

April 9 – National Name Yourself Day

Popular last names in the United States include Smith, Davis and Hernandez. On this Name Yourself Day, use our English activity “Narratives and Names” to help elementary school students discover what last names ranked among the top 15 in 1990, 2000, and 2010. Students can examine and answer questions about census data on popular last names, listen to a story about names, and complete a Quickwrite about that story.

April 11 – National Pet Day

It’s National Pet Day! Use this 5-minute challenge to teach students about different careers in the veterinary and animal caretaker fields. Then discover which type of career is of the most interest to your students and why?

April 21 – National Kindergarten Day

Kindergarteners love to count. With our “Let’s Count!” activity, they can count items in their classroom or at home, record their information in a data table, and analyze and understand uses for such data.

April 27 – National Tell a Story Day

Let numbers tell the story of how the United States’ population has changed over time. In this activity, students use the State Facts for Students data access tool to find Census Bureau data about their state and then voice their opinions on population change in small or virtual discussion groups.

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