Excel in the Classroom

Five ideas to incorporate Excel into the classroom includes: 1. Using Excel Spreadsheet to record the data for the science project in the classroom for the Egg Project. The students would record the data of the eggs as they grow and hatch; recording their growth progress, temps, and % of unhatched chicks, and graphing into pie charts and line marker graphs.
2. The classroom could keep track of the "Boxtops for Education" that are collected from the students in their own classroom for the school year. They could create a marker line graph to view when their highest/lowest months were for the year. The class could then compare the previous year to their own progress.
3. The 5th graders could conduct a poll of favorite lunch foods among their entire fifth grade class students. This could extend throughout the year to include the other grade levels. Fifth graders would be responsible to collect and record this data using Excel Spreadsheets. The results could be used to have students then draft a written document to the Food Director to petition for more of their favorite foods for lunches.
4. Students could keep track and graph their own progress of DIBELS scoring/Progress Monitoring (month to month) scores to encourage them to improve their scores and to view their progress from test to test.
5. For Grades 1,2, &3- Students could record data of absences in their classroom, similar to the temp. of the day project. This activity introduces them to this program and familiarizes them with the steps for the many different features of Excel.

Excel could be used by Administration in the building to record and compare many things: Reading & Math scores from beginning of year to end, monies collected from different fundraisers, amount of parent participation for activities throughout the year, etc.