For the 7th Graders of Will Rogers Middle School, Lawndale, California who taught me a lesson. Last week, I hauled my 'road-tour' technological media gig (that's code for slideshow) to Rogers Middle School to participate in their annual career day.
What I thought would be a ripe day to brainwash kids to consider entrepreneurship, turned out to be something quite the opposite.
In fact, all of the 120-7th graders when asked about Census, had no idea what it was let alone what it meant. All but two students that is, a bright African American boy and an astute Middle Eastern girl. The two knew it had something to do with counting people. I found myself dropping Val's propaganda (I'm joking) and opting for a civic lesson.
A promise to the kids that I would find a better tool for them to learn about Census began this hunt. I'm proud to announce that I found it kids, (one week later). I soon discovered that the tools were there all along on the Census.gov website. The same site that I frequent at least weekly. Shame on you Val...
Since Scholastic did a better job outreaching to me about their tools (credit Census.gov), I thought I'd feature Scholastic as the one-stop shop for teachers to teach Census to kids. All the tools comes courtesy of the It's About Us program, provided free by the U.S. Census Bureau. It customizes the reach to schools in the continental United States as well as territories such as American Samoa and Guam.
These lesson plans and classroom ideas are short and fun. They are sure to make students talk about getting counted in the 2010 Census. Find these cool resources on the Scholastic teaching page by clicking here:
SCHOLASTIC CENSUS TOOLS FOR TEACHERS
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