This Business Nation site has links to numerous actual demographic databases such as the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the United States Census Bureau. It is a good site to attain actual data on the various demographic categories.

This lesson plan provides guidelines for teaching students how to use primary sources such as images, text, or statistics (e.g., maps, census). Includes a document analysis worksheet.

Charles Baker (P) was a resident of Shelby County, Tennessee. Baker filed suit against Joe Carr, the Secretary of State of Tennessee. Baker's complaint alleged that the Tennessee legislature had not redrawn its legislative districts...

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] This concept introduces to students to the difference between a census and a sample, and how to identify sampling error and bias.

Students analyze the types of biases in surveys and how they affect the outcomes. A downloadable version of the activity and a survey activity are included. This lesson is from a group of lessons that uses "Census at School" data.

Use the information from the U.S. Census to determine if women will ever earn as much money as men.

"Suri" is the self-name of a little-known group of agro-pastoralists/cultivators straddling the borderland of southwestern Ethiopia and Sudan. They show some historical and cultural affinities with the Nilotic peoples in neighboring...

The Pende occupy a territory that extends from the banks of the Lutshima, a tributary of the Kwilu, to the Kasai. The last colonial census (1959) indicated that there were 200,000 western Pende and another 40,000 Pende in Kasai, the...

Articles about the evolution of new classes of workers in Britain leads into information about the 1841 census, as well as an activity and quiz.

Commentary on book of Numbers written by John Wesley in the eighteenth century.

This Bible Tutor website is a very introductory site on the book of Numbers. Includes hyperlinked terms.

A review of the development and history of the current, official poverty thresholds.

Fascinating history of Korean Americans in the Seattle/King County area. Includes the basics of Korean history and some short biographies of prominent Korean Americans.

Check out this site from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory for several different types of maps for the state of Alabama. You can find everything from a county map to a shaded relief map. If you are looking for map...

Discusses the tension in Kansas over the issue of slavery after Nebraska voted to be a free state.

A free, searchable database of federal government spending.

This resource takes you through the fourth book of the Torah, Numbers, while introducing you to Hebrew names and script.

What do you know about creating a family history? This site offers a complete lesson plan for developing a sense of how your own family history fits into the bigger picture of the world's history.

The homepage of the U.S. Department of Commerce's Bureau of Economic Analysis. This site provides national, international, regional, and bureau-wide information. You can click on a link titled "GDP and related data" to get more...

[Free Registration/Login Required] Read about the tremendous growing pains faced by the new republic of the United States from the presidency of George Washington up to the election of Thomas Jefferson. Find out about the domestic...

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] This Concept introduces students to methods for reducing bias.

Search the U.S. for information you might need or want just for the fun of it. Look up everything from addresses, zip codes, distances, phone numbers, radio stations, schools, labor statistics, crime statistics, demographics, and much...

Read a brief synopsis of the House of Representatives in the Legislative Branch, and then complete the short quiz to check for understanding.

After completing this mini-unit, students will understand some of the economic, educational, and lifestyle reasons why African Americans have moved from one place in the United States to another.