Today’s students are preparing to enter a world in which data literacy – the ability to find, analyze, interpret, and describe data – is essential for academic and career success.
The Roper Center provides educators with curriculum aligned with AP course requirements, as well as sample teaching assignments helpful in getting students acquainted with polling data. Assignments utilize several Roper Center resources to support learning of fundamental polling principles.
AP Curriculums
- AP History: What's the Connection Between Public Opinion and US History (Unit/Topic: Civil Rights, Presidential Elections, Public Opinion, Grades 9-12)
- AP Government: Exploring American Political Ideologies Through Polling Data (Unit/Topic: U.S. Governments and Politics, Grades 9-12)
Lesson Plans and Assignments
- U.S. History – Public Support for WWII (pdf)
- U.S. History – The Public and Desegregation (pdf)
- Civics – Using Polls to Develop a Political Strategy (pdf)
- Polling Basics Assignment (pdf)
- Sample Assignment Using the Roper Center’s website (pdf)
- Topical Assignments (pdf)
- Statistical Methods of Political Science
- Original Research and Polling Slides (ppt)
- Polling Analysis (Rmd)
- Polling Memo Lecture (R)
- Polling Memo Assignment (pdf)
- Polling Memo Assignment Details (docx)
- Stata (dta)
- READ ME (.docx)
- Module on Survey Methods: Public Opinion Polling
- Survey Methods Overview (pdf)
- Annotated Bibliography (pdf)
- Assignment: Evaluating Polls in Roper iPoll Slides (pdf)
- Survey Research Methods Polling Slides (pdf)
- Syllabus (pdf)
- Assignment: Evaluating a Roper iPoll Public Opinion Poll (pdf)
- Survey Research Methods Module Broad Slides (pdf)
- Survey Research Methods Module Slides (pdf)