Acquaint your class members with data sources for employment in the United States and help them gain a better understanding of a vital measure of our economy's health.

Additional Tags

unemployment, civilian labor force, social studies

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Instructional Ideas

• Consider an extension assignment that involves learners developing a simple research question based on their own inquiry and analyzing data provided on this website
• Incorporate lesson alongside studying unemployment and measures of economy

Pros

• Involves opportunity to work with graphs and review online data sources

Cons

• None

Common Core

RH.11-12.2 RH.11-12.7 RH.11-12.9