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What's new!

Check out these new additions to the site for the for the 2009/2010 school year:

June 2, 2010

Census at School is now on Facebook. We welcome your discussion and comments!

May 4, 2010

Video series now complete!

See the last 10 video tutorials of the Census at School series, these ones suitable for students as well as teachers. These cover:

• Excel: Importing data, creating various types of graphs and using formulas to find the mean, median and mode
• Tinkerplots: Importing and analysing class results
• Getting a random sample from the international site
• Fathom: Importing and analyzing an international dataset

Find the links to these videos on the Teachers and Students pages.

April 20, 2010

What teachers are saying…

Teachers told us of the many ways they are using the Census at School project. Read Why teachers are using it.

April 9, 2010

Census at School: more videos...

Following the first two video tutorials (on registration and preparing your class), four new videos are now available on:

• completing the survey with the students
• getting the class results
• using the learning activities and the Canadian summary results
• using a spreadsheet

Find the links to these videos on the Teachers page.

March 12, 2010

Two new videos

Watch two new videos on TeacherTube: an experienced teacher gives step-by step instructions on registering for the project and on preparing the class for the survey by taking measurements. Links to the videos are on the Teachers page.

September 3, 2009

Project now open:

The online questionnaires are now available and the project runs until June 25, 2010.

August 27, 2009

Last year's summary results:

Under "Data and results" see the Canadian summary results for 2008/2009. You can compare them to your own class results after having your students complete the questionnaire.

January 16, 2009

Updates to lessons—Grades 4 to 8

Just how old are you?
Have fun discovering your age in different units of time: minutes, days, months.

How tall will you be?
Predict your adult height using today's height.