Students examine primary sources in the form of auction records, create frequency charts, graphs and diagrams that they analyze to anwer questions followed by the writing of a paper that demonstrates their comprehension of the lesson.

Students compile results in their own census. In this early childhood U. S. Census lesson plan, students collect and represent information about events in simple charts.

Students explore how to describe the Gulf Stream, how Benjamin Franklin charted it, and correctly plot it on a map.

Students locate the Trade Winds, Westerlies and Polar Easterlies on a map, explain the impact of the rotation of the Earth, and plot a route for a round trip voyage from New York to London.

Young scholars recognize that data represents specific pieces of information about real-world activities, such as the census. In this census lesson plan, students take a class and school-wide census and construct tally charts and bar...