Problem: What are the main causes of death over the last 200 years.
1. Click here to open the excel document with all of the cemetery data from BASTROP, ELGIN & AUSTIN.
2. Your table group will be given a range of dates.
3. You must find the year(s) with the largest number of deaths in your range.
4. Once you have found that year you must research the following things to find correlations between deaths and war/disease/disaster.
5. 1 person research Texas wars
1 person research diseases in Texas
1 person research any natural disasters that might have occurred near Bastrop (floods, fires)
1 person research man-made disaster that might have occurred (explosions, car wrecks, etc)
6. Each person must write a one paragraph conclusion that answers the problem question above.
Your paragraph must have at least 6 complete sentences. Your paragraph must include the following stem: I conclude that the deaths in the year ____ were caused by _____.
7. Turn paper into the class box.
