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The University of Arizona: Study Finance: Getting Started With Excel
A great tutorial that takes you through all the steps you need for mastering the Microsoft Excel spreadsheet application.
Google
Google for Education: Data Aggregation and Decomposition (Python)
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,...
Google
Google for Education: Sorting the World's Cities (Python)
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...
NASA
Nasa: Sea Surface Temperature Trends of the Gulf Stream
Students investigate changes in the surface temperatures of the Gulf Stream over the course of the seasons using data collected by NASA's satellites. The data is inputted into a spreadsheet and graphed.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
The Math Forum: Seventh Grade Mathematics: Data Sense
This site has some interesting ways to collect and evaluate data. There are some activities about note taking, spreadsheets, surveys, and a cool bridge construction project. Teachers may want to use this site as a resource for some...
University of Oregon
Magnet Lab: University of Oregon Virtual Laboratory
The collection of interactive physics applets offered by the University of Oregon is an excellent resource for students. The applets are grouped in broad subject areas including astrophysics, energy and environment, mechanics and...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Social Security Issues
In this activity, you will look at the relationship between the age at which you start drawing social security and the amount drawn. Both graphs and spreadsheets will be used.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Using Microsoft Excel to Explore Gravity Forces and Accelerations
Students will learn about the force of gravity and the factors that affect it, and use and analyze the universal gravitation equation using Excel spreadsheets.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Average Rates of Change and Trend Lines
In this Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum activity, students calculate the average rate of change and graph a scatter plot of status high school dropout rate for 1975-2002. The module combines interpretation of rate of change in the...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: The Mole in Chemistry: Determining the Number of Atoms in Everyday Items
Students explore the concept of the mole as a measure of quantity. They build spreadsheets that allow them to convert between moles, grams, and atomic mass units for given quantities of everyday items, elements, and simple chemical...
American Association of Physics Teachers
Com Padre Digital Library: Open Source Physics: Data Tool Program
Use this online data analysis tool to build graphs and display results from scientific investigations. Data can be entered directly with the keyboard or imported from, and exported to spreadsheets.
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Fast Food Fun
Use your knowledge of spreadsheets to analyze the calories and fat content of fast food choices. This project gives links to a USDA site and a final report format. A sample spreadsheet and grading rubric is also provided.
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Think Free Office
ThinkFree allows you to create, view, publish, edit, and share word processing documents, spreadsheets, and presentations, all online. Sign up and have access to all of your documents from anywhere that you have web access. The website...
Goodwill
Gcf Global: Google Drive
In this tutorial, learn how to use this cloud-based program to create and share documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and more.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Becoming a Wise Consumer: Creating a Budget
In this instructional activity, students will learn how to become a wise consumer by creating a budget based on needs and wants. Students will create a weekly budget with a variable income using the interactive app MWB: My Weekly Budget...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: File Types
Computers store all files as binary data, long strings of 111s and 000s. Files represent all types of data: images, videos, documents, text files, spreadsheets, and applications. Files are stored as binary data.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
The Math Forum: Spreadsheet Basics
A simple introduction on how to create a spreadsheet.
Other
Laus Dnet: Grade 5 Excel Lesson Plan
In this online instructional activity, students will survey students in their school to determine their favorite type of hand-held ice cream. Before performing the survey, students will make predictions about which ice creams they think...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Take a Deep Breath on the Appalachian Trail
A lesson plan that includes a PowerPoint learning module for students. 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...
Other
Making a Word Find With Microsoft Excel
Teachers and students can create a word find using Excel. It will help them learn to manipulate columns and rows and format and lock cells. This plan is based upon 10 word or phrases on any topic.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Design Your Own Bedroom
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...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Rainfall and Elevation: A Charting and Critical Thinking Exercise
In this lab, students will learn to organize and present data in a visual way so that they can then summarize in writing their conclusions about the relationships between the data.
PBS
Wnet: Thirteen: Ntti: Managing Students With Computers Best Practices
Explore ideas on the best practices for integrating computer technology into your classroom. Investigate whole-class presentations, computer teams, independent work, and special issues and challenges in the computer classroom.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Simple vs. Compound Interest Spreadsheeting the Difference
A lesson plan that includes a PowerPoint learning module for students. The goal of the instructional activity is to learn the difference between simple and compound interest and to use the functions in Excel to perform the calculations...
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