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I decided to evaluate the State Economy Chart for 7th grade. The project had students research a state's economy, write these percentages, and then create  a pie chart. The students did it all in Excel, they then presented it to their classroom.

This activity basically is about teaching students to take information and, using  Excel, create a chart that makes this information easy for an audience to comprehend. My discipline area is history. History has a lot of numbers, especially when it comes to things like wars or battles, you could ask for students to find some statistics and create a graph on Excel for it. This still allows for the students to gain the skills in using Excel that the activity is created to gain, it simply uses different numbers and allows for the students to use different graphs if they so desire. The great thing about this activity is that it is usable any time where you have multiple numbers. We simply change the graphs used and numbers, and everything else about the activity still works for almost every grade and/or discipline.