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Ecology
Sixth graders identify the steps of the different cycles of matter, while learning to use WP utilities.
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Moving On Up!
Students complete a game-like simulation to determine a career and salary. In groups, they collect information and decide what is the "best" city in which to live. They create a monthly budget for their "best" city based on salary from...
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Graphing Favorite Fruit
Third graders take poll and sort data, enter the data to create a spreadsheet and create bar and pie graphs.
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Country Landform Brochure
Third graders create brochures that include landforms, natural resources and pictures of a country that has been researched or studied in class.
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Graphing Our Favorite Candy Bars
Students use ClarisWorks to graph class' favorite candy bars on a bar graph.
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Dinosaur Database
Students learn to use a database to share information about a dinosaur they have researched.
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Have Fun With Technical Report Writing
Students use Clarisworks Word Processing and Spreadsheet, Quick-Take Camera and Software, and produce a publishable technical paper.
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Creating a Graph
Fifth graders learn information can be organized in different ways to make it easy to read and understand. Students pretend it is their summer vacation and think about their favorite thing to do. After brainstorming, 5th graders survey...
Teachnology
Teachnology: Spreadsheet Guide for Teachers
A Spreadsheet is a wonderful tool with applications well beyond simple calculations. This site provides a collection of lesson plans, tutorials and worksheets that help bring spreadsheets into the classroom.