Developing quantitative literacy skills in history and the social sciences: a web-based common core standards approach

Introduction

Using quantitative sources

Interpreting, displaying, and visualizing data

Social sciences sites

U.S. history sites

World history sites.

Acknowledgments; Preface; Introduction; The Need for Instructional Change; Responding to the Workplace; Making the Connection; Obtaining the Skills; Rethinking the Textbook Approach; Required Hardware, Software, and Expertise; Book Arrangement and Recommended Use; Site Selection Criteria; Internet Idiosyncracies; References; 1 Using Quantitative Sources; An Overview of Quantitative Literacy; Definitional Problems; Quantitative Literacy Criteria; Quantitative Literacy Research Results; Applying Quantitative Literacy Skills to the Study of History and the Social Sciences.

What are Quantitative Sources?Quantitative Classification; Quantitative Source Caveats; Quantitative Source Preparations; Instructor-Designed Quantitative Literacy Curriculum Activities; Quantitative Literacy Curriculum Activities Sites; Quantitative Instructional Strategies; Team Up and Publicize It; Quantitative Literacy Assessment Rubric; References; 2 Interpreting, Displaying, and Visualizing Data; Displaying Quantitative Data; Chart Types; Visualizing Quantitative Data; Animation and Video Data Displays; References; 3 Social Sciences Sites; Accidental Discharges of Oil.

Ancestry: U.S. Census BureauAssociation of Religion Data Archives; Children and Youth in History; Children's Defense Fund; City-Data.com; Cost of War Calculator; Critical Thinking Questions and Activities; Death Penalty Information Center; Economagic; Economic Historical Data; Harris Interactive Vault; Homeland Data and Security Statistics; Library of Congress Country Studies; Literacy Rates of the World; NationMaster.com; Pew Global Attitudes Project; Roper Center Public Opinion Archives; Statistical Abstract of the United States; Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration; Terrorism.

UN High Commission for RefugeesWomenWatch; World Bank Data; Youth Indicators; ZIPskinny.com; Note; 4 U.S. History Sites; All About California and the Inducements to Settle There (1870); American Soldier Surveys of World War II; BIOWAR; The Bisbee Deportation (1917); Coal Mining in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era; Cold War Air Defense Relied on Widespread Dispersal of Nuclear Weapons; The Cyclopedia of Temperance, Prohibition, and Public Morals; The Domestic Slave Trade; The Drought of 1934; Historical Census Data Browser 1790-1970; How Many Nukes and Where are the Nukes?

Illinois Central Railroad and Its Colonization WorkIn the Footsteps of Lewis and Clark, U.S. Population Growth; The Influenza Epidemic of 1928 to 1929 with Comparative Data for 1918 to 1919; Lend-Lease Shipments: World War II; Lessons Learned from U.S. Humanitarian Intervention Abroad; The Marshall Plan; National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States; Native American Documents Project; 1929 Stock Market Crash; The Peter G. Peterson Foundation; Report of the Chicago Relief and Aid Society; The Salem Witchcraft Site; San Francisco Great Earthquake and the Fire of 1906.