Students use the Internet to study population and race by county.
Working in pairs, the students will use the Internet to locate statistics on population and race by county from 1870-1990. They will then create a graph showing these changes and make inferences about them. Americans lived in rural areas during the 1800's. The Internet site used in this lesson has the statistics needed for the students to make a graph depicting population changes by county. If students do not have access to the Internet to get this information, the teacher can use the Internet to print copies for the students to use.