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Government lessons for Microsoft Excel
Gerrymandering Activity (Most Popular!)
A custom gerrymandering activity that will help your students understand how the same area can be gerrymandered for whichever party is in power. The exercise uses Los Angeles as an example. The exercise is set up with each excel square representing voters in a certain party. Students are instructed to create as many districts for each party as possible, while making sure each district is contingent and of equal amounts of voters. Students can work on their own or in pairs, using a pencil for out
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12th
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Graphs, Charts, and Tables: U.S. Census Data Study
This lesson uses data from the 2010 U.S. Census to allow students to access numbers and data in a social science classroom. The lesson is a 2 day mini-unit centered on working with charts, graphs, and tables (serves extremely well for SAT and ACT prep). This cross-curricular lesson draws meaningful parallels between math and social science, and the necessity of bringing these subjects together. The lesson uses a comparative look at Census data for California and the United States as a whole, but
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8th - 12th, Higher Education
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Social Studies, Government, History Computer Project: Electoral College in Excel
Welcome to my Electoral College Excel Project. During this project, students will learn how to create and manipulate information on 3 different spreadsheets. They will learn all about the history of the Electoral College from some awesome websites I discovered. They will create one spreadsheet with all the states, regions, # of electoral votes and how each state voted in the 2008 and 2012 elections. Did you know that there are 2 states electors are not required by law to vote with the popular m
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6th - 12th
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