IPUMS Terra

IPUMS Terra has partnered with Concord Consortium to provide sample data for classroom instruction via Concord’s Common Online Data Analysis Platform (CODAP) application. CODAP provides a drag-and-drop web-based interface for secondary students to explore, visualize, and analyze real-world data.

IPUMS Terra data are free of charge and cover a wide range of population and environmental topics. Population data are from U.S. and international censuses, and cover demographics, education, employment, income, housing and other areas. Environmental data include land cover, agricultural land use, and climate.

Educators and students may also use TerraScope to create their own datasets, which incorporate international aggregate data and environmental data.

Educational Standards:

Lessons incorporating CODAP and IPUMS Terra data can be designed to satisfy a wide range of educational standards. The data and sample lesson plans contain material for a range of curricula. The most common applications are for social studies and math coursework, including geography, government, and statistics. For a list of applicable common core and selected state standards, see the standards page.

Getting Started

Sample lesson plans

To help you discover how IPUMS Terra and CODAP can be used in classroom instruction, we have created some sample lesson plans for Geography and Statistics courses. Feel free to use these lesson plans as-is, or modify them to meet your needs.

Looking at data about persons in different parts of the US with IPUMS Terra data in CODAP.

If you have suggestions, comments, or questions contact ipums@umn.edu.

This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. DRL-1435470. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.