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Million Dollar Project

For Teachers 5th
Each student is given the task of spending $1 million. The way students spend their money is dependent on a theme such as "creating a dream world," "taking a trip," or "doing something to better society." Each student researches,...
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A Christmas Project

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders publish a letter and spreadsheet using the computer. They build a three-dimesnsional object with construction paper and develop a Christmas object using coordinates on a graph. Students compose a response in their journals.
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"How to Succeed as a Nontraditional Student"

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Students create a one hour lesson plan on "How to Succeed as a Nontraditional Student." They brainstorm and research all the alternatives to becoming a "norm" student in today's society. They compile their research and findings into a...
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Pedestrian Safety for Students

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students create a spreadsheet. For this spreadsheet lesson, students take the responses they received from a pedestrian safety survey to create their spreadsheet. Then they turn this information into a graph.
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Running a Business

For Teachers 6th - 8th
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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Numbers, Patterns, and Algebraic Thinking

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders use spreadsheets.
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What Happens on Average

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders are introduced to convergence of sequences based on averaging previous terms in the sequence. The power of the "fill-down" function in spreadsheets is exploited. By using various starting numbers, and inferring the limit,...
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Creating a Bar Graph Using a Spreadsheet: Dice Rolling Probabilities

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders explore the concept of spreadsheets. They create a simple spreadsheet and chart from given data. Students perform basic formatting procedures on their chart. They use spreadsheet functions to perform calculations.
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How Much Sport Is Good For YOu

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Young scholars using spreadsheets, devise a weekly exercise timetable for a fitness fanatic and a realistic one for themselves. Students chart out the number of calories used by doing different sports. Young scholars plan out a healthy...
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Sportsround

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Pupils devise a plan to help get kids more active by encouraging them to participate in sports. Student, using spreadsheets, devise a weekly exercise timetable for a fitness fanatic and a realistic one of themselves.
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Action Research for Students

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students conduct an Action Research project of their own to help them become better readers of informational text, study about the regions of the United States and analyze reading skills by utilizing spreadsheets.
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Bones and Math

For Teachers 5th - 12th
students identify and explore the connection between math and the bones of the human body. Students collect data about bones from their classmates and from adults, apply formulas that relate this data to a person's height, and organize...
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Newspaper

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders, in groups, create a newspaper using topics from an assigned chapter. They use ClarisWorks word processing, insert graphics, and create graphs using spreadsheets.
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Comparing Weather Conditions

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Young scholars conduct research on temperature, wind speed and weather conditions from a variety of areas. They organize their findings on worksheets and spreadsheets and discuss various examples of databases.
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Language Arts: A "Perfect" Lesson

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Pupils read "Be A Perfect Person in Just three days," and participate in a host of activities. Connected to technology, they use online sources to create word searches and puzzles from vocabulary words. In addition, students create...
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Unit 2: Lesson 7

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students are introduced to spreadsheets. They conduct a survey of television viewing time of different shows based on different age categories. Students work in small groups. They collect, data and interpret the data from a survey.
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Enquiry 1: Introduction

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students explore war memorials from the First World War. After visiting a local war memorial, students research the soldiers listed. As a class, they discuss the the impact of the war on their community. Students research their...
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Geography Fieldwork River Study

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders collect, record, and analyze data from a local river and input the data into the computer. They collect and record the information, discuss the data collected, and enter the data into a spreadsheet and charts to compare...
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Home, Home in the City

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students create a spreadsheet that organizes housing information in the Houston area. They write a formula to determine the average price of homes in the Houston area.
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Paper Tower Challenge

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Student explore the challenge of building a tower using paper. They build their tower using paper and record the height of their tower. Young scholars collect and record the heights of other towers and use that data to create a spreadsheet.
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What Colors Are Your Skittles?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students record the numbers of each color in their own Skittles. They compare their results with their partner. Students create a spreadsheet to chart the different colors found in a package of Skittles. They create a PowerPoint...
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Following the Stock Market With a Palm

For Teachers 10th - 12th
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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Inner Workings of Cabinet

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders explain the relationship of the Cabinet within the Canadian Government structure through video, worksheets and spreadsheets.
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Wildlife Sampling

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders use paper bags and crackers to simulate a wildlife sampling of salmon. They record data on spreadsheets and determine a formula to estimate salmon populations.

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