Happy New Year! Start off 2024 with a bang by enhancing your students’ statistical and civic literacy skills with Statistics in Schools (SIS) resources! From discovering the total number of kids ages 8 to 14 in your state to exploring census-related terms, SIS activities help boost students’ understanding and use of data well before they reach college. What better way to ring in the new year?
January 4 – National Trivia Day
Kahoot
Celebrate this day using the Census Bureau’s Kahoot! collection of games that improve and test students’ knowledge using real-life data about things like population, American history, U.S. businesses, education, and more. Students can explore fun topics like the average annual salary of workers with a bachelor’s degree and the top three states with the most chocolate makers. Who will come in first, second, and third?
January 6 – National Technology Day
National Technology Day
It’s National Technology Day! Check out our Teachers’ Guide to Data Access Tools for Students to discover a variety of tools you and your students can use to access data. Elementary and middle school students can explore the State Facts for Students data tool that looks at cool things like the total number of zoos and botanical gardens, fitness and recreational sports centers and more in your state. High school students can explore data using the Census Business Builder tool for demographic and economic data at the county, city, ZIP code and census tract level. A great way to recognize this day!
January 16 – Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Martin Luther King Day
Did you know that the percentage of Black or African American adults with a four-year college degree increased by about 24 percent from 1964 to 2020? Celebrate this day with students by sharing with them our elementary school history activity, I Have a Dream – Learning About Martin Luther King Jr., which includes key statistics like this and others such as changes in the U.S. population, voting rates and education levels of Americans since the early 1960s when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech.
Learn More: https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/sis/resources/kahoot.html?utm
