Friday, March 27, 2009

Monday, March 23, 2009

Spreadsheets

This is my wedding budget with graph. I think using spreadsheets in the classroom will be beneficial to the children. You can compare numbers, calculate as well as modify when you need to. Spreadsheets are a nice tool to learn about technology. Learning about formulas is something many do not know as adults now, but teaching your students will help them greatly throughout life.

My unit theme is weather. This would be beneficial in collecting data. Things such as rain and all other weather data could be put on the spreadsheets. I could have them record the tempature outside for a week and then put it into a spreedsheet. This could work with wind or rain as well.

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