The Giver

Activities for Chapters 18 - 19

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Vocabulary word for Chapters 18 - 19 imploringly

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Research multiple births. How frequently do mothers in the United States have twins? tripletts? etc.? How many are identical twins? Make a bar graph of your findings.

Resources for Data

National Center for Health Statistics   for Multiple Births http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/multiple.htm

National Center for Health Statistics - Births http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/births.htm

National Center for Health Statistics - Matched Twins  http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/r&d/rdc_twin.htm

 

Now imagine release for the smallest child in each set of identical twins?

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