Updates for the 2020 Census:

What’s new for the 2020 Census? is from The Washington Post.

What You Need To Know About The 2020 Census is from NPR.

The Best Articles Explaining Why It Would Be Terrible To Add An Immigration Status Question To The Census

The United States government does a census once every ten years to determine how many people live where in the country, along with other demographic data about residents. It’s a great teaching/learning opportunity for English Language Learners for both language and civic development. Immigrants are often under-counted (and their neighborhoods subsequently penalized by receiving less government funds) because of their fear of legal consequences or because of language.

We just finished a lesson on the Census in our Intermediate English classes, which finished-up a unit we did on neighborhoods. I’ll be compiling a slideshow of posters students made encouraging people to participate in the county, and will be posting it here.

I thought it would be useful to list my previous posts related to our Census lessons — which includes links to materials we have used — as well as some great new resources that just became available.

Here is a short list of The Best Resources To Learn About The U.S. Census (and are accessible to ELL’s). This list will grow:

Here are some great resources hosted by Scholastic:

How to Use Family Take-Home Pages are PDF’s available in 27 different languages. They’re great for students to take home as a follow-up activity to language-development lessons related to the Census. We’re going to have students write a letter in English on their reverse side telling their families why they think it’s important that they complete the form.

Census History Challenge is a nice interactive for students to learn more about it.

The New York Times Learning Network has some good Census-related lesson plans, and links to a useful article titled Counting America.

“A Breakdown Of The 2010 Census” is a very accessible infographic about…the 2010 Census.

CNN has many Census-related videos. That link should take you to all of them. However, if it becomes broken at anytime, just type in “census” into their search box. That will bring you to all of them.

Here are links to my previous Census-related posts:

Persuasive Essays, Low-Income Communities & The Census Count

More On The U.S. Census & The Classroom

A Lesson Highlighting Community Assets — Not Deficits

Here are a few posters on the Census our Intermediate English students created:

Mapping America: Every City, Every Block is an amazing interactive from The New York Times that displays U.S. Census data from…everywhere. The New York Times Learning Network also has a simple lesson plan related to it.

Reuters has an interactive on the Census.

CENSUS BUREAU UNVEILS UPDATED STATISTICS IN SCHOOLS WEBSITE & RESOURCES

High Stakes for Schools If 2020 Census Undercounts Latino Families is from Ed Week.

The Evolution of the American Census is from The Pudding.

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