Spreadsheets are the perfect tool for studying population,
social trends, and economics. The trick is finding the numbers
and statistics to create them. My favorite print resource is the
World Almanac. Get enough copies for every student to have one
and spend time teaching them how to use it.
I also found lots of resources on-line. Some of the government
files are in PDF and have to be downloaded, and then you'll need
Adobe Acrobat to read them. It's free and available from www.adobe.com.
Better yet, your technology coordinator probably already has a
copy.
Patty Terry suggested the Ellis Island web site for immigration
statistics. Thanks, Patty.
Civil War:
http://members.xoom.com/civilwar/stats.htm
http://members.aol.com/jfepperson/causes.html
Election Information:
http://www.polisci.com/history.htm
Election stats and info on other countries
http://www.umich.edu:80/~nes/nesguide/toptables/tab6a_2.htm
Voter turnout 1952-1996
http://www.igc.org/cvd/on_line_library/Voter_Turnout/turnout.htm
Voter turnout in other countries
http://www.igc.org/cvd/index.html
The Center for Voting and Democracy Interesting discussion of
other voting methods
Presidents of the United States:
http://www.ipl.org/ref/POTUS/
In this resource you will find background information, election
results, cabinet members, notable events, and some points of interest
on each of the presidents. Links to biographies, historical documents,
audio and video files, and other presidential sites are also included
to enrich this site. The Internet Public Library (www.ipl.org)
is a good resource for lots of general reference-type information.
American History
http://www.cwc.lsu.edu/cwc/other/stats/warcost.htm
Information on costs of war
http://us.history.wisc.edu/hist102/index.html
http://ssdc.ucsd.edu/ More economic data than you could ever want,
but not everything is available to everyone
Government Sites:
http://www.census.gov
Searchable access to census statistics
http://www.fedstats.gov
Links to government sites with statistics
http://www.ins.usdoj.gov:80/stats/110.htm
Immigration statistics
Lewis and Clark:
http://www.wmburgweb.com/DigitalScrapbooks/Travel98/index.html
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