Deaf Culture: Deaf Population Centers
Description
In this lesson students will use online resources to research the deaf population in each state. As a class we will come back together and insert our data into a Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet.
Goals and Concepts
Students will learn how to use Microsoft excel to create visual graphics demonstrating complex ideas. After the graphic is created students will be able to visually see the demographics of where deaf people tend to migrate. By using the spreadsheet to display the data visually I want students to recognize that there are a higher population of deaf people in states with bigger cities, I then want them to make inferences as to why. The students should be able to think critically to come up with ideas related to the culture of the deaf as to why deaf people migrate to bigger cities.
Objective
Students will be able to analyze data to discover that deaf people migrate to bigger cities due to availability of resources.
Materials
Access to the internet
A Google account (BSU provides one)
Overview of Possible Learning Activities
Students will break into groups and use the internet to research the population of deaf people in a few states. Then we will come back together as a class and insert our data into the columns labeled "States" and "Deaf Population". The States column with include the two letter abbreviation of the state, and the Deaf Population column will include the percent of the population that is deaf. As a class or individually students can write a blog post about their inferences as to why deaf population is larger in bigger cities.
Below is a working example of the spreadsheet and graphic. Note that the data is made up and only shown as an example.
Go ahead and play with the numbers to watch the color of the map change. Green=less deaf population Red=more
In this lesson students will use online resources to research the deaf population in each state. As a class we will come back together and insert our data into a Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet.
Goals and Concepts
Students will learn how to use Microsoft excel to create visual graphics demonstrating complex ideas. After the graphic is created students will be able to visually see the demographics of where deaf people tend to migrate. By using the spreadsheet to display the data visually I want students to recognize that there are a higher population of deaf people in states with bigger cities, I then want them to make inferences as to why. The students should be able to think critically to come up with ideas related to the culture of the deaf as to why deaf people migrate to bigger cities.
Objective
Students will be able to analyze data to discover that deaf people migrate to bigger cities due to availability of resources.
Materials
Access to the internet
A Google account (BSU provides one)
Overview of Possible Learning Activities
Students will break into groups and use the internet to research the population of deaf people in a few states. Then we will come back together as a class and insert our data into the columns labeled "States" and "Deaf Population". The States column with include the two letter abbreviation of the state, and the Deaf Population column will include the percent of the population that is deaf. As a class or individually students can write a blog post about their inferences as to why deaf population is larger in bigger cities.
Below is a working example of the spreadsheet and graphic. Note that the data is made up and only shown as an example.
Go ahead and play with the numbers to watch the color of the map change. Green=less deaf population Red=more