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Lessons & Activities
46-60 min
Single-Parent Households and Population Below the Poverty Level by US County
OVERVIEW
This lesson focuses on the relationship between single-parent households and population below the poverty level. Students search for data on single-parent households and population below the poverty level and visualize them in FRED. The goals are for students to observe patterns in mapped data, note differences across geographical areas, and hypothesize the reasons for those patterns and differences.
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