Job Distribution after 1945
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K-12 Objectives |
Materials
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Procedures |
Assessment
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K-12 Objectives:
- Develop the skills to use the Microsoft Excel program.
- Manipulate a spreadsheet of employment data.
- Identify when a pie chart is the preferable form to graphically represent
data.
- Identify changes in the distribution of jobs in America since WWII.
- Hypothesize about social, economic, and political causes and effects
relating to the changes in job distribution.
- Independently explore the causes and effects of changes in job distribution
during one decade between 1945 and 1995.
Materials:
- 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
7.6
7.7
7.10
C/T 8.1
11.14
11.15
11.17
National Council for the Social
Studies
Time, Continuity and Change
Peoples, Places, and Environment
Center
for Technology and Teacher Education, University of Virginia,
This
module created by Brooke Graham
of the University of Virginia..