Using Open Ended Activities with Graphs and Charts to Develop Background Knowledge

 

 

US History

 

• US Presidential Election Results of 1860 (US Civil War)

 

• Results from the 1860 Census (Slavery and the US Civil War)

 

• Population of the United States, 1790-2010

 

• Life Expectancy in US 1900-1998

 

• Lands Held by Native Americans - 1607, 1850, 1880 & 1990

 

 

 

World History

 

• Home and Factory Weaving in England, 1820-1880 (Industrial Revolution)

 

• The Great War 1914-1918 (World War I)

 

• Unemployment in Berlin, 1928-1930 (World War II)

 

• Percentages of the German Electorate Who Voted for the Nazi Party in Various Elections in Germany between 1924 and 1932 (World War II)

 

• Estimated Jewish population figures in some European countries before and after World War II. (World War II)