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Measuring Wellbeing Across Racial Groups Using Data and Statistics
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Measuring Wellbeing Across Racial Groups Using Data and Statistics
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This set of assignments exposes students to statistics and data pertaining to economic wellbeing over time across racial (black-white) categories in the U.S.

Subject:
Economics
Mathematics
Social Science
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Homework/Assignment
Provider:
Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:
Quantitative Writing (SERC)
Author:
Jenny Wahl
Date Added:
08/28/2012
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Using Census Data to Identify a Town's Housing Needs: A Student/Faculty Collaborative Research and Service Learning Experience
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Using Census Data to Identify a Town's Housing Needs: A Student/Faculty Collaborative Research and Service Learning Experience
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In this classroom project, students and faculty help a local housing non-profit identify area U.S. Census tracts most in need of its assistance in promoting decent and affordable homeownership to low- to moderate- income individuals. While this example describes an experience in a small, upper-level elective economics course, it includes suggestions for modifications of design and learning goals for other learning levels and environments.

Subject:
Economics
Social Science
Sociology
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Teaching/Learning Strategy
Provider:
Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:
Teaching and Learning Economics (SERC)
Author:
Elizabeth Perry-Sizemore
Date Added:
08/28/2012
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Who Was Thaddeus Lee? Using the 1940 Digitized Census for Personalized Historical Inquiry
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Who Was Thaddeus Lee? Using the 1940 Digitized Census for Personalized Historical Inquiry
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This article summarizes inquiry-based approaches to the use of the U.S. Census Records to teach historical thinking. These suggestions focus on the analysis of primary source documents found in the Census archive, the contextualization of these documents with evidence, and the use of questioning to drive research.

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
Education
History
Material Type:
Primary Source
Reading
Teaching/Learning Strategy
Date Added:
09/08/2015
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