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Basic Excel

1st - 4th
Students explore basic Excel spreadsheets.  In this spreadsheet lesson plan, students enter Alaska weather information and  perform calculations. Students title the columns on the spreadsheet and format the cells. ...
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Let's Get Linear

8th - 10th
Math whizzes utilize spreadsheets to examine linear modeling. They roll marbles down a ramp from three different heights and measure how far they roll. They use Excel to record their data and create a plot of their data.
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Excel Lesson

4th - 5th
Young scholars explore data and Excel spreadsheets. They collect data about political candidates. Students enter the data into a chart on Excel. They create a graph using the data and Excel.
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Basic Algebra and Computers: Spreadsheets, Charts, and Simple Line Graphs

5th - 12th
Students, while in the computer lab, assess how to use Microsoft Excel as a "graphing calculator." They view visual representations of line graphs in a Cartesian plane while incorporating basic skills for using Excel productively.
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Excel Lesson

5th
Fifth graders will perform exercises and write the number of each exercise performed on the collection data sheet. They survey eight of their classmates for their exercise data and write that data on the collection data sheet. They then...
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Using Excel to Reference and Graph Live Data from a Web Site

6th - 8th
Young scholars collect live buoy data about water temperatures in the Gulf of Mexico from the Internet and work individually to organize their data and create a line graph using Excel Spreadsheet. Students analyze their data and examine...
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Hopes and Dreams: A Spreadsheet Lesson Using Excel

4th
Fourth graders read "The Far Away Drawer" by Harriet Diller and discuss the story as a class. After discussion, 4th graders create a t-shirt GLYPH about their hopes and dreams,share their information with the class and create spreadsheets.
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Entering Local Groundhog Data in an Excel Spreadsheet

4th
Here is a cross-curricular ecology and technology lesson; your learners create spreadsheets depicting the location and number of groundhog dens in a local park. They research groundhogs and analyze data about where the groundhog...
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Excel Lesson

9th - 10th
Students investigate Microsoft excel. In this technology lesson plan, students create formulas using excel and apply these formulas to solve relative, absolute and mixed reference cells. They perform immediate and delayed calculations.
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Multiplication Tables Using Microsoft Excel

8th
Eighth graders are introduced to Microsoft Excel as a computer application software program. They create multiplication tables in Microsoft Excel. Students work in small groups. They discuss the $ (anchor) function in Microsoft Excel.
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Building Arrays Using Excel Spreadsheets

3rd - 5th
Students create arrays using Microsoft Excel. For this technology-based math lesson, students expand their knowledge of multiplication by creating arrays on the computer using a spreadsheet program such as Microsoft Excel.
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Using Spreadsheets and Graphs

3rd
Third graders explore mathematics by utilizing computers. In this graphing activity, 3rd graders gather class data based on a particular topic such as the "favorite candy" of the class. Students utilize this information and computers to...
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Fast Food Survey Using Bar Graphs

2nd
Second graders create a bar graph to pictorically represent the data collected from a survey of students. They use Excel to electronically create the graphs and data tallies. They then interpret their data using sentences to explain.
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The Viewing Tube

5th - 8th
Looking for an excellent lesson that incorporates math, science, and technology? Groups of three students use a viewing tube to perform an experiment, and discover how to organize their data into an Excel spreadsheet.  This is a...
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Conversation Heart Graphing

6th
Sixth graders review the different types of graphs (bar, line, pictograph) They predict the data set they can garner several boxes of conversation hearts. Students record their data using an Excel spreadsheet. They create a graph based...
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EXCEL It!

5th - 8th
Students surf the Web gathering information about graphs. The data collected is incorporated into an Excel spreadsheet and graphs of varying nature generated to further enhance student understanding.
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Speed Cameras

6th - 9th
Do speed cameras help reduce accidents? Scholars investigate this question using a series of spreadsheet activities. Along the way, they learn about randomness, probability, and statistical analysis.
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Shoe Showdown

3rd
Third graders use rulers to measure their shoe size in inches and centimeters. They then enter the class shoe measurements into an excel data base and graph the results of both to make the comparison.
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Making Data Visualizations

9th - 12th
Relax ... now visualize the data. Introduce pupils to creating charts from a single data set. Using chart tools included in spreadsheet programs class members create data visualizations that display data. The...
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Simple Bar Graphs Using Excel

6th - 8th
Students create original survey questions, and develop a bar graph of the data on paper. They input the survey data using two variables onto an Excel bar graph spreadsheet.
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Sales Spreadsheet

6th - 8th
Students use Excel spreadsheets to organize purchases, discounts, sales prices, and sales tax. Students follow step by step instructions and enter formulas as well as use the auto sum feature to calculate required calculations.
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Electronic Hydrology Lesson Plan - Revised

8th - 12th
Learners use Excel spreadsheets. They predict time and height of peak flow on river
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Interest Calculation and Spreadsheets

5th - 12th
Students, while in the computer lab working on a spreadsheet program, calculate interest and accumulated value of a savings plan. They follow specific directives on how to create their spreadsheets. At the end of the lesson they print...