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Activities on other educational sites
- Activities for introducing E-STAT
- Mathematics sites
- Mathematics sites - Grade 7 to 12 (Ontario)
- Mathematics of Data Management - Grade 12 (Ontario)
- Social Studies sites
- Health Education sites
- Science Education sites
- User Guides for E-STAT CANSIM database
- User Guides for E-STAT Census database
- Animated census tutorials in Flash format
Note: The following Web pages originate with institutions not subject to the Official Languages Act and are available in the language in which they were written. The following links are provided solely for your convenience. Statistics Canada is not responsible for the information found through them.
Activities for K-12 schools
Activities for introducing E-STAT
- E-STAT Data Hunting PowerPoint presentation on how to get into E-STAT and find data, then how to import the data into Fathom and model them (Vlearning)
- Introductory Exercises on how to Find Numeric Data using the Daily and E-STAT Short exercises which involve finding articles and numeric data from the Daily and E-STAT, and then working through an E-STAT lesson (University of Winnipeg)
- Atlantic Canada Grade 9 Data Management Unit using E-STAT Complete unit of 5 lessons (Nova Scotia Department of Education)
- Mathematics lessons, datasets, completed projects and more (Teacherweb)
- Fathom Community Exchange Activities Fathom activities using E-STAT data and Statistics Canada microdata. (Key Curriculum Press)
- Exploring Logistic Regression with E-STAT Data Instructions to import E-STAT data into a graphing calculator. (Texas Instruments)
- Math Central An internet service for mathematics students and teachers. (University of Regina)
- Bringing real life data to your statistics class with E-STAT and Excel (Mohawk College)
- Communauté d'apprentissages scientifiques et mathématiques interactifs (CASMI) (available in french only) A virtual learning community that posts challenging questions for students in mathematics and science and then provides feedback to student responses (Université de Moncton)
Mathematics sites - Grade 7 to 12 (Ontario)
- E-STAT lessons and other resources for grades 7-12 (Teacherweb)
- StatCan Resources for mathematics education Many of the best links to Statistics Canada resources for grade 7 to 12 math courses in Ontario (Queen's University)
- AFEMO (available in French only) Resources for french language teachers of Ontario mathematics (L'association francophone des enseignantes de mathématiques en Ontario)
Mathematics of Data Management - Grade 12 (Ontario)
- Course Profile, including 3 activities using E-STAT (activity 1.2, 1.3, and 5.2 ) (Ontario Ministry of Education, 2002)
- Sequenced MDM4U lessons, datasets, exemplary projects and more, with ongoing updates (Teacherweb)
- Sequenced lessons (Vlearning)
- Resources, including lessons, project ideas and examples (Ottawa Carleton District School Board)
- Mathematics of Data Management including sample student projects using StatCan data (Brock University)
- Math Forum - data management lessons, including many which use E-STAT and Statistics Canada microdata (Drexel University)
- 41 lessons searchable by provincial curriculum and level on Migration: The Human Journey (Canadian Council for Geographic Education)
- Guide to using E-STAT historical census data with the ArcView Mapping Software (Nova Scotia Learning Resources and Technology)
- Instructions for downloading and importing E-STAT data into the ArcView mapping software (ESRI Canada)
- Statistics Canada resources for the Ontario geography curriculum, including exemplary E-STAT lessons and PowerPoint presentation (Ontario Association for Geographic and Environmental Education)
- Statistics Canada lesson plans and other resources for the Manitoba social sciences curriculum, including E-STAT lessons (Manitoba Social Sciences Teachers Association)
- Regional Disparities in Canada This lesson introduces the students to the concept of regional disparities. Within the lesson, the students will consider disparities in terms of both the standard of living and quality of life. These ideas are examined at two different scales, the national and the regional/provincial scale. Spatial patterns of disparities are emphasized along with the use of scatter graphs. (Atlas of Canada)
- Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children Background information and supplementary data for this international survey whose data reside on E-STAT. (Public Health Agency of Canada)
- Student assignment and grade 4 to 8 lessons based on health data in E-STAT (Nipissing University)
- Curriculum-specific resources for teaching health including more than 120 pre-service teacher presentations for specific topics in grade 4-10 based on E-STAT data from the survey on the Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (Nipissing University)
- Communauté d'apprentissages scientifiques et mathématiques interactifs (CASMI) (available in French only) A virtual learning community that posts challenging questions for students in mathematics and science and then provides feedback to student responses (Université de Moncton)
User Guides from postsecondary sites
User Guides for the E-STAT CANSIM database
- Cheat Sheet for E-STAT A concise intro to help you get started using E-STAT (Carleton University)
- How to Search CANSIM on E-STAT and on the CHASS site for postsecondary institutions (University of British Columbia)
User Guides for the E-STAT Census database
- Finding 2001 Census Data with E-STAT How to access, manipulate and output census data with E-STAT (University of Manitoba)
Animated census tutorials in Flash format (Simon Fraser University)
- Extract and map census data by census tract
- Extract census data by census tract, sort and sum the data. Select data for specific tracts.
If you would like your activities to be included on this page, please send your suggestion to education@statcan.gc.ca.
