• Develop the skills to use the Microsoft Excel program.
• Manipulate a spreadsheet of population data.
• Identify demographic changes in the North American settlement.
• Hypothesize about social, economic, and political causes and effects relating to the changes in population.

• Microsoft Excel 97 or newer

Standards:

National History Standards: Standards in Historical Thinking

Standard 2 - Historical Comprehension
Standard 3 - Historical Analysis and Interpretation

Virginia Standards of Learning

10.5
10.6
11.2

National Council for the Social Studies

Time, Continuity and Change
Peoples, Places, and Environment