This is the teachers guide for Part I of a unit of introductory statistics activities that help students apply basic data analysis, graphing, drawing inferences, etc. Search for Statistics Unit, Part I (Student Handouts) for handouts, and search for Statistics Unit, Part II (student handouts and teachers guide) for more activities.

In this simulation, students assume the role of a mediator helping to determine what is a fair raise for a group of workers. They investigate different ways to calculate averages and how people from varying perspectives (management, union, etc) might choose one method over another to arrive at a desired outcome that justifies their perspective.

This website includes data, research, and analysis about how young people are impacted by and interacting with the juvenile justice system. It explores topics like juvenile arrests, lack of counselors at schools, racial disproportionality, etc., and is a great resource for designing lesson plans.

Students explore different ways to calculate the unemployment rate, and make an argument for an assigned perspective as a member of the government, a women's rights organization, and other groups. These lessons are meant to help students understand how different approaches to calculating unemployment may actually leave many people undercounted.

This is the second part of an introductory statistics unit that contains a collection of activities that help students explore a variety of social justice issues through data analysis and graphing. Search for Statistics Unit, Part II (Teacher Guide) and also for Statistics Unit, Part I for related resources.

Using the EPA’s data, ProPublica mapped the spread of cancer-causing industrial air emissions down to the neighborhood level across the US. Useful tool for analyzing local environmental impact.

Students compare historic data about average SAT scores in different states, and represent the data using dot-plots and histograms.

The Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program generates reliable statistics for use in law enforcement. It also provides information for students of criminal justice, researchers, the media, and the public. The program has been providing crime statistics since 1930. The UCR Program includes data from more than 18,000 city, university and college, county, state, tribal, and federal law enforcement agencies.

Students calculate the percent of federal budget that is spent on different categories (ie. defense, education) and reflect on what this means about government priorities.

Where you were born makes all the difference. This 3 min video explores the leading cause of death and the related number of years lost in different parts of the world. Useful video for contextualizing issues around global health, the health privilege of living in certain countries over others, etc.

Over 300,000 datasets from the U.S. Government on a wide range of topics including food resilience, climate, energy, human health, etc.

In this lesson, students have to develop a formula to calculate the distance from the center to the vertices of equilateral triangles of both fixed and variable distances around the outside of the triangle. The context of the problem is set in Peru where a community has installed a water pump in the center of several villages and needs to determine the distance from the pump to each community.