Technology

=Technology Summer 2012=

Excel for the classroom:
 * ** Elementary Schools **

** Middle School **
 * [|Group Graphing]
 * [|Using Spreadsheets in Thinking Science] -Spinning Coins Activity
 * [|Spreadsheets: A Variety of Activities]
 * [|An Empty Can and Bottle Drive]
 * [|Santa's Elf Spreadsheet]
 * [|Native American Comparisons]
 * [|Understanding Weather]
 * [|Weights and Measures] - equals weight...Ever wonder how tall the average kid your age is? Or how much you'd weigh in Paris?
 * [|How Much Would I Weigh on Mars?] -
 * [|Measuring The Circumference Of Trees]
 * [|Our Little Gardens] -
 * [|The Weather and Spreadsheets] - the amount of rainfall in a month and record the information on a spreadsheet.
 * [|Spreading Christmas Cheer Using Spreadsheets]
 * [|Hunger And Homelessness] ||


 * [|School Spreadsheet Safari]
 * [|Info-Web Spreadsheets] - Spreadsheet lessons for grades 6-8
 * [|EXCEL-lent Middle School Math Lessons!]
 * [|Spreadsheets as Mindtools in the Classroom] - created by Carol Wortman CCIU
 * [|Making a Mess o' Mousse! - Recipe]
 * [|Stock Market] - Guide to setting up project.
 * [|Nutrition Goodies]
 * [|Surfing Amusement Parks]
 * [|Who's the Greatest?]
 * [|Methods of Being Paid]
 * [|Bird Watching]
 * [|Zoo Mathematics]
 * [|Let's Have a Field Day] - Students plan a school field day including event planning and cost spread sheets.
 * [|Collecting Weather Data]
 * [|Climate Change Over 50 Years]
 * [|Middle Schoool Net: Spreadsheets]
 * [|Using Computers to Produce Spreadsheets and Bar Graphs] - Links to many lessons using spreadsheets. Scroll down to the grade levels (4th-12th)
 * [|Lemonade Business] -Use the information generated playing the Lemonade Stand to create an income statement using Excel to use in the Power Point presentation.
 * [|How Much Tax Would You Pay?]
 * [|It's in the (Chocolate) Chips] - Students will investigate which brand of chocolate chip cookies contains the most chocolate; they analyze and compare data using Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel, and then use Microsoft PowerPoint to communicate their findings.
 * [|Do Vampires Really Exist?]
 * [|Code Crackers Math Game] - This engaging and challenging math game provides students with opportunities to work with math operations and simple algebraic equations by creating a spreadsheet-based 'rule machine.'
 * [|The Great International Pennies Toss] - use a spreadsheet to keep track of the data in a penny tossing experiment and a web form for collecting more data
 * [|Fill'er Up ­ How Many Calories Do You Need?]
 * [|Graphing Linear Functions]
 * [|Graphing With Spreadsheets]
 * [|Television Viewing Questionnaire]
 * [|Batter's Up] - Given a prepared spreadsheet for calculating batting averages, change the number of times at bat or the number of hits and describe how the batting average changed.
 * [|Boston Marathon] - Use data from the 100 years of Boston Marathon winners homepage to determine if there is any pattern to the speed of the winners over the last 100 years.
 * [|Investment Plan]
 * [|Judy's Allowance]
 * [|Scale Solar System Model] -
 * [|Pay Plans]
 * [|State Lottery Numbers]
 * [|Weather Statistics Activity]
 * [|Chesapeake Bay Population Studies] ||
 * ** High School  **


 * ** [|Statistical Data Analysis:] ** [|Prove it with Statistics]
 * [|Introduction to the Waste Problem]
 * [|Stock Market] - Guide to setting up project.
 * [|Using Computers to Produce Spreadsheets and Bar Graphs] - lessons using spreadsheets. Scroll down to the grade levels (4th-12th)
 * [|Comparing Prices of Dream Cars]
 * [|A Worldwide Search for the Dominant Trait]- Classes using this project collect information concerning dominant and recessive traits. These can then be entered into Excel as as a database, graphed and interpreted.
 * [|Table It or Spread It]
 * [|Solving Polynomial Equations] - To aid students in graphically visualizing polynomial equations, beginning with cubic equations, to model for students how Excel spreadsheets can be used as problem-solving tools, and to introduce students to advanced Excel spreadsheet functions.
 * [|Buy Low, Sell High -]This lesson will teach students how to invest in corporate stocks by creating investment 'portfolios.' Step-by-step instructions will enable students to develop worksheets that track their portfolio's performance over a specified time period and report the results to the class.
 * [|Campaign Hot Buttons] - This simulation activity asks students to work as staffers for a politician (played by you). They are assigned to design, administer, and analyze a simple poll on an important community issue; to develop a position statement based on poll results; and to persuasively present the candidate's stand on the issue.
 * [|Planning a Family Budget]
 * [|Math Club Candy Sale]
 * [|Growth of Triops] ||