Students collect data in a spreadsheet and learn to use various functions and analysis tools to better see patterns in their eating habits.

Spreadsheet software allows you to calculate numbers arranged in rows and columns for specific financial tasks. This activity allows students to create an "Employee Work/Pay Schedule" spreadsheet to reinforce spreadsheet skills. Students...

A lesson plan that includes a PowerPoint learning module for students. The goal of the lesson is to learn the difference between simple and compound interest and to use the functions in Excel to perform the calculations and graph the data.

A lesson plan that includes a PowerPoint learning module for students. The purpose of the lesson is to use spreadsheets to explore a rating and ranking method for choosing someone to date. They look at the problems that arise when...

This activity helps students create their own personal spending plan.

Students study trends in the periodic table of elements, supplemented by the use of spreadsheet functions. The spreadsheet functions presented can be used on any data set.

Young scholars collect data on energy production and consumption around the world. They input the data into a spreadsheet and use spreadsheet functions to analyze it. Finally, they upload the data into a fusion table to create a...

Students learn to organize, sort, and display data in a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet using latitude data for 120 major world cities.

The second of two similar lessons where students learn how a Python program can organize and sort data. When taught in conjunction with Sorting the World's Cities with Excel, students make the connection between writing a program and...

Young scholars download sunrise and sunset data along with moon phase data, and graph these data sets together in a spreadsheet in order to visualize the cycles of the seasons and the moon.

This personal site provides a student activity that allows learners to plan a class party while organizing the budget details in a spreadsheet program. Learners will demonstrate computer skills in inputting data, formatting data, and...

Many students dream of designing their ideal bedroom. In this exercise, students will be required to limit their designs by size (as a specific volume) and price (a specific amount). They must design the floor plan, including furniture...

How to amortize a loan using an Excel spreadsheet.

Students will study planets and moons in our solar system by working online and other resources. This lesson has students working together to generate a spreadsheet of data found. Students will use this information to describe why Earth...

Students learn how to use and analyze data to draw conclusions about information collected from classmates. Then they use computational thinking by collecting and aggregating data onto a spreadsheet, identifying patterns in their data,...

Using their own habits for data, students predict how much time they spend on different activities each day, and how much variability each activity is likely to have. They then collect data into a class spreadsheet and look at the...

Students begin this project by taking an inventory of hand tools at home. They then categorize their tools and make a detailed list in a spreadsheet. After research on tool storage, they will choose materials and a tool board style, then...

By using Microsoft Excel, students collect, decompose, and re-aggregate class data. Students use computational thinking skills by decomposing long lists of information and writing basic algorithms to help analyze data.

By creating a spreadsheet, students can learn more about energy production and consumption around the world. Students have to research the data to be analyzed in the spreadsheet. An example of the spreadsheet is given in this lesson plan.

In this instructional activity quantitative skills in geologic context are reinforced. Students create a spreadsheet to calculate the distance of a peak using vertical angles sighted from a wagon train heading directly for the peak. The...

Students practice clothing vocabulary and computer spreadsheet skills by visiting authentic French online clothing catalogs. They choose articles of clothing for purchase for themselves and family members and create a spreadsheet to...

For this activity, learners first work in groups to collect information about a set of pennies. They measure and record the mass for each one in a table using a spreadsheet program if possible. They also record its year and, for 1982...

A lesson plan that includes a PowerPoint learning module for learners. They will examine spreadsheet data on air quality in Great Smoky National Parks, and solve problems using ratio and proportion. The exercises will help them to...

Simulation where learners apply mathematics and economics concepts in the lemonade business. Learners set up a virtual lemonade stand and must determine production costs, product variables, and profits. Students record data collected on...