Course assignments
Education faculties
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Environmental
Science Case Study
Teacher candidates develop a case study which introduces an environmental
issue and applies relevant data from the Statistics Canada web site or
Human Activity and the Environment for an intermediate / senior
environmental science class. (OISE/University of Toronto)
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Integrating
Databases in the Education Curriculum
Teacher candidates use electronic resources such as E-STAT to develop
teaching activities for upper high school history and social science
courses. (University of Ottawa)
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Technology
Integration in the Curriculum
Alberta Education's new program of studies entitled "Learner Outcomes
in Information and Communication Technology ESC-12 Framework"
describes how students from K-12 should use technology. This course has
been specifically designed to help educators (in-service and pre-service)
understand the role technology can play in the classroom and to develop
some of the skills needed to integrate technology into classroom
activities. (University of Alberta)
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Using
Canadian Data in Curriculum Courses
This assignment, designed for a social studies curriculum course, requires
teacher candidates to develop a teaching activity for a grade 9 social
studies class using E-STAT. (Brandon University)
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Investigating
One's Practicum Community
Education students use the census database on E-STAT and the Statistical
Profile of Canadian Communities to familiarize themselves with the demographic
make-up of the community where they spend their practicum. A series of
sequenced lessons using E-STAT are provided to research the make-up of a
community for a "Schooling and Society" course. (Laurentian
University)
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Group
E-STAT Assignment - Getting Ethnicity & Race, Social Class and Gender
Data for Local School Communities
As a group, education students identify relevant demographic issues and
then use the census database on E-STAT to extract related data for a number
of different school communities in which they are practice teaching.
Students submit the raw data as well as graphs, maps and tables, along with
a short paper describing similarities and differences among the selected
communities. (Laurentian University)
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Workshops
on the Use of STC Learning Resources
Handouts for teacher and teacher-librarian workshops on how to use
Statistics Canada resources in teaching (Laurentian University)
Geography
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Canada
through the Census
This second year geography assignment uses census data to explore the
historic and contemporary differences between provinces in two regions of
Canada. (University of British Columbia)
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Geography of
Global Economic Systems
Students in a second year economic geography course use E-STAT to generate
graphs used in a short essay on the impact of agricultural chemicals.
(University of Ottawa)
- Introductory
Human Geography Assignment
This second year human geography assignment uses the STC website and
E-STAT to calculate the Human development index and build population
pyramids for selected areas in Canada. (University of Winnipeg)
- Economic
Geography (Word document)
This lab teaches how to use the CANSIM and Census databases on E-STAT
for economic analysis through guided activities and content questions.
(Camosun College)
- Regional
Geography of Canada
This assignment is designed to familiarize students with ways of
describing and making comparisons among the regions of Canada using
readily available statistics from E-STAT. Students construct
population pyramids for two regions of Canada and then interpret the
meaning and implications of these pyramids. (Brandon University)
- Census
Assignment – Geography 450 (PDF document)
In this 4th year geography assignment, students write a
major paper based on their in-depth data analysis of the Vancouver
housing market using census data from E-STAT. (University of British
Columbia)
Economics
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Urban
Economics
This third year urban economics assignment uses census of population data
from E-STAT to compare two communities and prepare a term paper. (Brock
University)
History
- Using
Early Censuses for Canadian Social History Courses
This assignment is designed to introduce students to what early
Canadian censuses (on E-STAT) can tell us about Canadian social and
intellectual life. (Acadia University)
- Reference
material – Le
Bilan du Siècle – (available in French only) This is a
collection of historical data (from CANSIM and elsewhere), images, and
other materials for Quebec and Canada for the 20th century.
(Université de Sherbrooke)
Social sciences
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Exploring
the Data Liberation Initiative (DLI)
More examples of postsecondary use of Statistics Canada data from DLI
contacts and data librarians; see the DLI site for other training materials.
Statistics
- Data
analysis case study projects for senior students in statistics for a
presentation at the annual conference of the Statistical
Society of Canada
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