High School Lesson Plan Ideas as posted by Mike

Hey all, Mike here. Here's the lesson plan ideas the high school group came up with....

1) Show one of the pictures as a writing prompt. Have the students write a story, or figure out the history of a particular person.

2) Have the students conduct a census of their teachers without being able to ask them questions. They should determine age, family, etc. with just the prior knowledge they have. This would show how hard it is as an enumerator to be accurate with just guesswork in many cases.

3) Split up the local and Federal census information among different groups. Have them analyze a particluar person or family over time, or construct a history of that family. Then compare the data from the different groups to see how different the information is between the different sources.

4) Categorize the pictures into racial groups as a census taker would be instructed to do.

5) Create a family tree and show how race changed over time in the census data.

6) Show how property values related to race.

I think I got most of our major ideas down. If not, certainly comment or elaborate on this post.
-Mike