To chart the casualty totals for the five costliest battles of the Civil War. To use spreadsheet formulas to calculate totals for each data set. To use spreadsheet formulas to calculate percentages for each data set from objective one. Teacher hands out and discusses Civil War data.
Students analyze and manually graph data on hand out.
Students are grouped into pairs for entering data onto spreadsheet. Now hit enter to end the formula. You are telling the computer to divide the Union States Population by the Total population. This multiplies the product by 100 to make a percentage value. Now hit enter to end the formula.