Find monthly-themed activities and resources for use in your classroom or at home. They offer students an opportunity to learn about and work with Census Bureau data while celebrating holidays, special observances, and current events specific to the month.

This month, we have teaching materials for the Fourth of July, National Ice Cream Month and more!

It’s World Population Day! Check out our activity, How Do U.S. Populations Stack Up? Reading, Analyzing, and Creating Population Pyramids, to learn more about our nation’s population. Students can use U.S. Census Bureau data to learn how population pyramids describe population structures and to calculate age range population percentages for a selected state that will help them create a population pyramid.

Happy National Ice Cream Day! Discover the total number of ice cream and frozen dessert makers in your state with our State Facts for Students data tool. Students can then expand on the research by looking at the total number in surrounding stages and the U.S to see how they compare. 

What’s in a name? Plenty, as it turns out! Have your students review the most common U.S. last names and how they have changed over the years in this activity. The lesson provided serves as an introduction for students to complete a narrative writing assignment about their surname and its history. They will also examine and answer questions about census data on popular last names, listen to a story about names, and complete a Quickwrite about that story. To further prepare for their narrative writing assignment about names (which is not part of this activity), students will jot down their thoughts in a graphic organizer.