ESTAT and Census at School Resources

The following resources are available for download.
These resources have been prepared by Cynthia Rutledge and have been utilized in workshops that she has given.
Other authors contributing to some of the resources are credited in the actual resource material, the resource is released with their permission.
Feel free to download and use any resource listed.
This page is under construction.


1) Census at School

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i) Data Analysis using TinkerPlots®
Step by Step Instructions for analyzing class data using TinkerPlots® Word 885K
PDF 759K
    Title Page for Data Analysis using TinkerPlots® Word 54K
PDF 38K
Student worksheet that goes along with the 'Step by Step' Instructions Word 885K
PDF 759K
Demonstration Class File that matches the instructional booklet

Elementary

.tp 20.8K

High School

.tp 23.0K
ii) Teacher Signing Up for Census at School
Step by step instructions for signing up your class Word 878K
PDF 531K
iii) Student Survey Video
  A video using webpage access .avi 14.5MB
  In  order to run these videos on your machine, you need the Techsmith (Camtasia®) video codec. It is an executable file which puts the codec in the appropriate spot on your machine -download the zip file, unzip it and run the exe .zip 158K
iv) Measurement files for posters and student worksheet

   Student measurement worksheet

Word 119K
PDF 118K

   Arm Span Poster

Word 40.5K
PDF 31.1K

   Length of Foot Poster

Word 33K
PDF 21.5K

   Fore Arm Poster

Word 33K
PDF 19.2K

   Height Poster

Word 36K
PDF 23.6K

   Wrist Circumference Poster

Word 33K
PDF 22.8K

   Wrist to Middle Finger Poster

Word 33.5K
PDF 22.1K
v) Census at School Corel Presentation in a .shw format
  This presentation was adapted from the Power Point presentation in the Census at School folder on Teacherweb.com/on/statistics/math

  Elementary Presentation 

.shw 3.16MB

Secondary Presentation

.shw 3.12MB
vi) Accessing Class Data From Census of School and inputting into TinkerPlots®
  Step by step instructions for teachers to access class data from the Census at School site and then input the data into TinkerPlots® Word 885K
PDF 759K

   A video demonstrating how to bring in Census at School data into TinkerPlots
(requires the Techsmith Video Codec available above)

.avi 24.2MB
vii) Instructions for Students to Access the Survey
  Step by step instructions for students to access the survey on the Census of School website   Word 885K
PDF 759K
viii) Instructions for Students to Access the class data from the handout drive
  Step by step instructions for students to access class data from the handout drive   Word 885K
PDF 759K
  Step by step instructions for students to access class data from the handout drive (active directory school)   Word 885K
PDF 759K
    Title Page for students to access the survey in a handout directory and place into their own personal space on the server Word 54K
PDF 759K
ix) Canadian Results in TinkerPlot format
    Step by step instructions for comparing class data with Canadian data from 2005-2006 coming soon
    Summary data for all of Canada 2005_2006

Participation in Census at School, by age

.tp 6.8K

Number of people in your household

.tp 5.75K

What language do you most often speak at home?

.tp 6.9K

Average height, by age

.tp 5.55K

Average length of arm span, by age

.tp 5.56K

Average length of forearm, by age

.tp 5.85K

Average wrist circumference, by age

.tp 5.98K

Average length of hand, by age

.tp 5.96K

Average length of foot, by age

.tp 5.56K

Average ratio of certain body measurements, by age

.tp 7.25K

What colour are your eyes?

.tp 5.30K

Do you have allergies?

.tp 4.17K

Right-handed, left-handed or ambidextrous?

.tp 5.11K

Median reaction time( Elementary students only)

.tp 4.41K

Median reaction time (Secondary students only)

.tp 5.25K

What do you usually eat for breakfast?

.tp 5.74K

How many cigarettes a week do you usually smoke?
(Secondary students only)

.tp 4.77K

Median number of hours per day spent doing certain activities
(Elementary students only)

.tp 5.41K

Median number of hours per week spent doing certain activities
(Secondary students only)

.tp 5.60K

How much pressure do you feel because of schoolwork?

.tp 5.28K

What is your favourite physical activity?
(Elementary students only)

.tp 7.89K

Have you done anything to control your weight in the past year?
(Secondary students only)

.tp 4.25K

On how many days last week did you do an intense physical activity?

.tp 6.10K

How do you usually get to school?

.tp 6.71K

How long does it usually take you to get to school?

.tp 5.12K

What is your favourite subject?

.tp 5.12K

How many times have you been bullied at school in the last month?

.tp 5.30K

What gadgets do you have?

.tp 5.68K

Which of the following pets do you have?
(Elementary students only)

.tp 5.30K

Which method do you use most often to communicate with friends?
(Secondary students only)

.tp 5.35K

If you had $1000 to donate to charity, what type of organization
would you choose?

.tp 6.09K

What is the most important issue facing young Canadians today?
(Secondary students only)

.tp 5.08K

Who do you look up to?

.tp 7.42K

Plans for the year after high school
(Secondary students only)

.tp 5.61K
    Summary data for the provinces and territories of Canada 2005_2006

Participation in Census at School, by province and territories

.tp 6.46K

What colour are your eyes?

.tp 6.17K

Do you have allergies? (Elementary students only)

.tp 5.72K

What do you usually have for breakfast?

.tp 6.87K

How much pressure do you feel to get your homework done?

.tp 6.87K

How do you usually get to school?

.tp 6.40K

How many times were you bullied last month?

.tp 6.09K

Which method do you most often use to communicate with friends?
(Secondary students only)

.tp 6.49K

If you had $1000 do donate to charity, what type of organization would you choose?

.tp 6.48K

What do you think is the most important issue facing young Canadians today?
(Secondary students only)

.tp 6.87K

Who do you look up to?

.tp 6.44K
2) Census at Schools and Fathom
i) Data Analysis using Fathom®
Census at School Data Analysis and Comparing Word 2.31 Mb
Data Set for above (ClassDemoHS_86.ftm) .ftm 42.2K
Student Work Sheet for above Word 53K
Master Data Set on which ClassDemoHS is based .ftm 52.9K
ii) Resources
Function Modeling Instructions Word 101K
Grades 10-12 E-STAT Modeling and Curve Fitting Word 41K
Census Mini-Project FINAL Word 137K

3) ESTAT


4) LINKS

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