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Chart/Graph
Students create a class survey, place the data in a spreadsheet and graph the information.
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Entering Numbers 1 to 10, 1 to 20, 1 to 100
Students enter numerals on spreadsheet and use template to record numerals.
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Filling Out a Retrieval Chart
Fourth graders generate a spreadsheet that includes research about coastal plants, wetland plants and animals and Hawaiian stream animals.
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Which Color Will You Pick?
Students create a spreadsheet to chart the different colors found in a package of M&M's or Skittles. They collect data, create appropriate charts, and use percentages to describe quantities.
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Who's Going to the Convention?
Learners practice planning budgets as they create a budget for ten employees of a company to attend a professional convention. They use the Internet, and spreadsheet software to complete their assignment.
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Oceanography-Related Careers: To Be or Not to Be. . .
Students investigate various careers in the field of oceanography. They conduct Internet research, record data on a spreadsheet, write a justification to explain why someone should accept a position found online, and write a letter to a...
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Watersheds:Stream Channels And Post-fire Stream Flows
Students draw cross sections of a stream channel from field data. In the field, using a GPS, they determine the depth of a stream channel and use a spreadsheet to graph the stream channel.
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The People Behind the Numbers
Tenth graders brainstorm potential definitions for "developed" and "developing" countries. They work in groups of four and research using Web sites listed to find information about their country then they create a spreadsheet which...
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Pumped Up Gas Prices
Young scholars spend one month keeping track of the mileage and gasoline amounts they or their family has used. Information is entered into a spreadsheet to help calculate the average gas prices over time.
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Sweet Car Dreams
Students rebuild two different makes of cars. They calculate the cost of rebuilding the car. They create a spreadsheet to track their progress and costs.
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Destination Mars!
Fifth graders view Mysteries of Earth & Mars Video on DVD and record thoughts in their online journal. They record data in a spreadsheet about each planet then form a theory of the best time to launch a space craft from Earth to land...
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Strength Building
Fifth graders go to each of the 3 stations testing their maximum strength and then make a spreadsheet and how to work with excel. Students create and finish their spread sheet on how they did on day 1.
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Introduction to Evaluating
Seventh graders are introduced to how to evaluate an electronic product. In groups, they grade the product on quality, materials and aesthetics. Using this information, they create a table of results along with a pictogram and...
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Peopling the New World -- An Archaeological Exercise in Excel
Students examine different types of spears that have been discovered from various civilizations. In groups, they calculate the answers to various word problems and enter their information on a spreadsheet. They use the data in other...
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Power In The Wind
Students experiment designing graphs of selected readings from the Nebraska sites from the Power in the Wind study. They choose whether or not to put their data in a spreadsheet program to make a computer-generated graph or to complete...
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Computer Science: Pendulum
Students investigate the basic properties of pendulums as a function of spreadsheets. Working in groups, they measure the period for a pendulum at six different lengths and record the results. They prepare a file using Microsoft Excel...
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Technology Across the Curriculum
Students take pictures of items they believe have at least one line of symmetry. They print their photos out in class and analyze the items they photographed. They continue by entering the names of their pictures into a spreadsheet. They...
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Geographic Effects on Precipitation, Water Vapor and Temperature
High schoolers investigate the factors affecting climate using Live Access Server. In this geography lesson, students graph atmospheric data using Excel spreadsheet. They compare and contrast temperature, precipitation and water vapor of...
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2D Kinematics w/ String Racers
Students calculate the speed of string racers. In this physics instructional activity, students measure the time in several trials and get the average. They graph their results using a spreadsheet.
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Pulse Rates
Students answer the question, "How will the intensity of exercise effect your heart rate?", using physical workouts and AppleWorks, or similar spreadsheet program. This lesson can conclude with the creation of a graph of data collected.
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Body Length Experiment
Students measure the lengths of their bodies and various body parts to determine the relationship (or lack of one) between body part length and the length of the entire body. A spreadsheet program is suggested for data collection.
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Following the Stock Market With a Palm
Students research and explore the stock market. They research a three-year history of stocks, develop a group and individual spreadsheets, and follow their stocks and prices for a ten-day period, graphing the results.
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Running a Business
Students discuss spreadsheets and how they work. They then imagine they are owners of a store, determine twenty items that they would sell, and create spreadsheets to record amounts of each item sold in a two-week period. After entering...
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Collecting Data on Running Speeds
Students collect data on running speeds of various individuals in class to determine the average running speed for a distance of 20 meters.
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