High School | Daily Do
How does access to resources at the neighborhood level impact health outcomes?
Lesson Snapshot
This is Lesson 5 of the Using Data to Understand and Improve Health Outcomes Unit.
High school students, as scientists, analyze data representing many different factors for several neighborhoods found within the different counties we initially studied. Many of the neighborhoods are close to each other, but show even larger differences than we saw when we investigated differences in counties in Lesson 1. They use patterns in the data to make connections between access to community resources and health outcomes, and update a systems-level model to explain how these factors contribute to the differences in health outcomes that exist between these communities.
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Note: Based on feedback, we have revised and incorporated parts of the former Lesson 6 into this lesson. Lesson 5 now moves into Lesson 7. At this time, we have not changed the numbering on the PDF of Lesson 7.
Materials
Student Materials
Per Student
- HDW Unit L5: Analyzing Community Data
- HDW Unit L5: Census Bureau Data for Communities in different US Cities (handout)
- HDW Unit L5: Census Bureau Data for Communities in different US Cities (slides)
- HDW Unit L5: Why Collect Demographic Data
Per Group
- 2 pieces of chart paper
- Computer or tablet if accessing the electronic version of materials
Teacher Materials