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Developing Quantitative Literacy Skills in History and the Social Sciences: A Web-Based Common Core Standards Approach
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ISBN-13: | 9781475810516 |
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Publisher: | Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. |
Publication date: | 07/22/2014 |
Pages: | 208 |
Product dimensions: | 5.80(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.60(d) |
Age Range: | 9 - 4 Years |
About the Author
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments xi
Preface xiii
Introduction 1
The Need for Instructional Change 1
Responding to the Workplace 2
Making the Connection 3
Obtaining the Skills 4
Rethinking the Textbook Approach 5
Required Hardware, Software, and Expertise 6
Book Arrangement and Recommended Use 7
Site Selection Criteria 7
Internet Idiosyncracies 8
References 9
1 Using Quantitative Sources 11
An Overview of Quantitative Literacy 11
Definitional Problems 13
Quantitative Literacy Criteria 14
Quantitative Literacy Research Results 15
Applying Quantitative Literacy Skills to the Study of History and the Social Sciences 17
What are Quantitative Sources? 19
Quantitative Classification 20
Quantitative Source Caveats 24
Quantitative Source Preparations 24
Instructor-Designed Quantitative Literacy Curriculum Activities 24
Quantitative Literacy Curriculum Activities Sites 25
Quantitative Instructional Strategies 27
Team Up and Publicize It 28
Quantitative Literacy Assessment Rubric 29
References 29
2 Interpreting, Displaying, and Visualizing Data 33
Displaying Quantitative Data 35
Chart Types 40
Visualizing Quantitative Data 46
Animation and Video Data Displays 48
References 49
3 Social Sciences Sites 51
Accidental Discharges of Oil 51
Ancestry: U.S. Census Bureau 52
Association of Religion Data Archives 54
Children and Youth in History 56
Children's Defense Fund 57
City-Data.com 59
Cost of War Calculator 60
Critical Thinking Questions and Activities 61
Death Penalty Information Center 61
Economagic 63
Economic Historical Data 65
Harris Interactive Vault 66
Homeland Data and Security Statistics 68
Library of Congress Country Studies 69
Literacy Rates of the World 71
NationMaster.com 72
Pew Global Attitudes Project 74
Roper Center Public Opinion Archives 76
Statistical Abstract of the United States 77
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration 79
Terrorism 80
UN High Commission for Refugees 82
Women Watch 84
World Bank Data 85
Youth Indicators 87
ZIPskinny.com 88
Note 90
4 U.S. History Sites 91
All About California and the Inducements to Settle There (1870) 91
American Soldier Surveys of World War II 92
BIOWAR 94
The Bisbee Deportation (1917) 95
Coal Mining in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 97
Cold War Air Defense Relied on Widespread Dispersal of Nuclear Weapons 98
The Cyclopedia of Temperance, Prohibition, and Public Morals 100
The Domestic Slave Trade 101
The Drought of 1934 102
Historical Census Data Browser 1790-1970 104
How Many Nukes and Where are the Nukes? 105
Illinois Central Railroad and Its Colonization Work 106
In the Footsteps of Lewis and Clark, U.S. Population Growth 108
The Influenza Epidemic of 1928 to 1929 with Comparative Data for 1918 to 1919 109
Lend-Lease Shipments: World War II 110
Lessons Learned from U.S. Humanitarian Intervention Abroad 112
The Marshall Plan 113 National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States 115
Native American Documents Project 117
1929 Stock Market Crash 118
The Peter G. Peterson Foundation 119
Report of the Chicago Relief and Aid Society 121
The Salem Witchcraft Site 122
San Francisco Great Earthquake and the Fire of 1906 123
The Southern Diaspora and the Urban Dispossessed: Demonstrating the Census Public Use Microdata Samples 125
Statistical Information about Fatal Casualties of the Vietnam War 126
The 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire 128
Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of the 1973 Oil Embargo 129
U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey: The Effects of the Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, June 19, 1946 131
The Wealthiest Americans Ever 132
Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 134
5 World History Sites 137
African Activist Archive 137
Argonaut Conference, January-February 1945: Papers and Minutes of Meetings 138
The Berlin Airlift 1948-1949: Facts and Figures 140
Bosnia's Civil War Origin and Violence Dynamics 141
Census of India Reports 1871-1901 143
The Chernobyl Catastrophe-Consequences on Human Health 145
The Chiquita Papers 146
Colonial Reports Annual No. 1504 Gold Coast Report for 1929 to 1930 148
The Death Toll of the Rwandan Genocide: A Detailed Analysis for Gikongoro Province 149
East India Company Ships 151
The Famine in Ireland: Statistics 152
Guns-for-Slaves: The Eighteenth Century British Slave Trade in Africa 153
The History of the Present State of the Ottoman Empire 155
Iranian Production of 19.75 Percent Enriched Uranium: Beyond Its Realistic Needs 156
Jewish Emigration from Germany 1933 to 1939 158
Lenin: The Development of Capitalism in Russia 159
Migration Information Source-Global Data Center 161
The Nanking Massacre Project 162
The Normandy Invasion: D-Day, 1944 164
On the Mode of the Communication of Cholera 165
Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics 167
Piracy and Maritime Crime: Historical and Modern Case Studies 168
Statistical Materials for Learning about Japan 169
Statistics Canada 171
The Survey of Scottish Witchcraft 1563 to 1736 172
Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database 174
Trenches on the Web (1914 to 1918) Casualty Figures 175
U.S. and Allied Efforts to Recover and Restore Gold and Other Assets Stolen or Hidden by Germany during World War II 176
A Vision of Britain Through Time 178
References 181
Index 187
About the Author 191