California
State Board
of Education
Academic
Content
Standards
from K-12,
You cannot have
a democracy
without a
statistical
system that
is objective
and
accurate
(Janet Norwood)
CensusAtSchool is a project that gathers data about K-12 children using an online survey
and returns the data and curricular materials that use that data to the teacher of those children
for use in the classroom. It is a voluntary project that makes the data handling and chance part
of the curriculum fun and engaging while educating on the importance of evidence based decisions
across the curriculum. This workshop shows how to use the activities of the C@S project to
implement California's Curriculum Content Statndards in Statistics, Data Analysis and
Probability in practice and across the curriculum. The workshop will be of interest to teachers,
university professors teaching the first course in Statistics, official statisticians and parents
and education advocates.
PRELIMINARY DRAFT PROGRAM
REGISTRATION FORM TO SEND IF YOU DON'T WANT COLLEGE CREDIT
REGISTER HERE IF YOU WANT COLLEGE CREDIT. Mail first to get PTE number for Stat 296
ACCOMMODATIONS: UCLA Guest House
Local Organizer: Juana Sanchez, UCLA
International CensusAtSchool Web site
REGISTRATION DEADLINE MAY 30TH
Sponsors
UCLA Department of Statistics, Office of Instructional Development (OID-UCLA), International Associationfor Statitical Education (IASE), Statistics Online Computational Resources (SOCR), UCLA Center for the
Teaching of Statistics (CTS-UCLA), Cengage Publishers
Curriculum Resources for K-12 teachers
The 2nd International CensusAtSchool Workshop gathers together all the directors of the C@S projectin several countries and statistics education and government leaders in the United States to engage
participants into active learning of the concepts and resources that have proved effective in children'
comprehension of data handling and chance in the classrooms.
Participants in the Workshop will receive a booklet with K-12 curriculum resources selected from the
many free activities in the participants' projects, all adapted to the culture and scenario of the Californian
school population. The workshop leaders will show how these activities have been used effectively in classrooms.
Poster Competition
If you have a poster or project that uses Census data, or data about your students, you may submit it as anentry to the Poster Competition on Monday 28th of July in the evening. Monetary prizes will be given to the
first, second and third best entries.
Workshop Flyer
LINKS
State of California
Department of Education
State of
California
Department
of Demographic,
Economic
and Financial
Research
ISLP
(International
Statistical
Literacy Project of IASE