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• Meeting the Needs of an Aging Population ( More about this ) - Students use the current demographic profile of the Canadian population to predict changes to the demographics of the population over the next fifteen years. They then consider the potential challenges posed by an aging population. Creator: Statistics Canada Submitted on: 07/07/2010 Subject: North America, demography, population, elderly Education Level: Middle School, High School, Undergraduate (Lower Division) Type: Lesson/Lesson Plan, Activity Access Rights: Free Access Relevance

• What is a Family? ( More about this ) - Students examine data on family structure from Census 2006 and previous censuses focusing on issues such as family size, number of children and non-traditional family structures like common-law couples and same-sex couples. Students will turn data into illustrated or written profiles of Canadian households. Creator: Statistics Canada Submitted on: 07/07/2010 Subject: North America, demography, families Education Level: Middle School, High School, Undergraduate (Lower Division) Type: Lesson/Lesson Plan, Activity Access Rights: Free Access Relevance

• Political parties and election results, 1997 and 2000 ( More about this ) - Students examine returns from the elections of 1997 and 2000 by region, and analyze the data both with visual representations such as graphs and charts and in written form by writing papers suggesting electoral strategies for various political parties. Creator: Statistics Canada Submitted on: 07/07/2010 Subject: North America, elections, voters Education Level: Middle School, High School, Undergraduate (Lower Division) Type: Lesson/Lesson Plan, Activity Relevance

• Immigration: The Changing Face of Canada ( More about this ) - A lesson plan on immigration to Canada. Includes calculating immigration rates by province, identifying the factors leading to immigration to Canada and ranking the provinces by the number of immigrants that they receive. Creator: Statistics Canada Submitted on: 07/07/2010 Subject: North America, immigration, migration/mobility, mapping Education Level: Middle School, High School Type: Lesson/Lesson Plan, Activity Access Rights: Free Access Relevance

• Piecewise modeling with multiple functions: Federal Debt ( More about this ) - This lesson, from Statistics Canada's E-Stat, asks students to model the Canadian federal debt since independence in 1867 using a piecewise function containing exponential, linear and quadratic periods. Also teaches the use of r^2 tests to determine what function best models a scatter plot. Creator: Statistics Canada Submitted on: 07/07/2010 Subject: debt, North America Education Level: High School, Undergraduate (Lower Division) Type: Lesson/Lesson Plan, Activity Access Rights: Free Access Relevance

• Sinusoidal modelling of Canada's youth cohorts ( More about this ) - Exercise using census data and statistical software to model the size of the 20-24 year old cohort with the independent variable as the number of years since 1971. The scatter plot fits a sine curve with peaks around 1983 and a second peak around 2010. Helps students understand applications of algebra and the demographic history of Canada. Creator: Statistics Canada Submitted on: 07/06/2010 Subject: North America, demography, birth rates Education Level: Middle School, High School, Undergraduate (Lower Division) Type: Lesson/Lesson Plan, Activity Access Rights: Free Access Relevance

• "Linear modelling of the life expectancy of Canadians ( More about this ) - A module, from E-Stats, in which students will calculate the relationship between time and life expectancy in Canada using a linear model. Students should be familiar with y=mx+b linear equations, this module will teach the ways that they can be applied to scatter plots and real data. Creator: Statistics Canada Submitted on: 07/06/2010 Subject: North America, public health, health, mortality Education Level: Elementary School, Middle School, High School, Undergraduate (Lower Division) Type: Lesson/Lesson Plan, Activity Access Rights: Free Access Relevance

• Canada's immigration patterns, 1955 to Present ( More about this ) - A module, through E-Stats that allows users to generate time plots on immigration flows to Canada from specific areas. Allows students to learn how to use time plots and also teaches them that immigration to Canada is decreasing from Europe while increasing from Asia. Creator: Statistics Canada Submitted on: 07/06/2010 Subject: North America, migration/mobility Education Level: Elementary School, Middle School, High School Type: Lesson/Lesson Plan, Activity Access Rights: Free Access Relevance

• E-Stat ( More about this ) - A student data analysis software from Statistics Canada, licensed exclusively for use at schools. The web based software allows students to make charts and tables and preform elementary analysis of Census data. Creator: Statistics Canada Submitted on: 07/06/2010 Subject: North America, demography, census Education Level: Elementary School, Middle School, High School, Undergraduate (Lower Division), Undergraduate (Higher Division) Type: Database Access Rights: Available for Purchase Relevance

• Analysing economic data and seasonality using line graphs and a scatter graph ( More about this ) - A module, available through E-Stat, where users analyze tourist flows to and from Canada. Shows the secular increase in travel to Canada, along with the annual cycles in travel. Also shows the relationship between tourist travel and economically desirable outcomes like employment in the food and beverage sector. Creator: Statistics Canada Submitted on: 06/24/2010 Subject: North America, migration/mobility, economics Education Level: Elementary School, Middle School, High School, Undergraduate (Lower Division) Type: Lesson/Lesson Plan, Activity Access Rights: Free Access Relevance