Eighth graders use a spreadsheet for the first time. They work on a selected environmental issues as their theme. Students prepare costs or income for an event that raises money for an environmental issue. They use the costs and income...

Students investigate the concepts that are related to finance and how it is used in the world. They take part in activities that are focused around the use of a spreadsheet while using a T-chart to simulate a ledger of credits and debits.

Seventh graders study the difference between architectural detail from the Romanesque and Gothic eras. The class participates in discussion on are in different eras. They predict what picture belongs in what era.

Eighth graders study about precipitation and graph the information. They look for patterns in a scatter graph and make inferences based on what they see. They need to see a relationship between location and the amount of precipitation.

Students write letters to town officials and local businesses asking for favorite dessert recipes. They tabulate their responses in a spreadsheet. Students turn their survey results into colorful graphs.

Students keep records and determine how much time they spend on certain activities. They insert the data into a spreadsheet. Students graphically display data in a bar graph and a circle graph.

Eighth graders discuss and analyze Civil War data, manually graph data on handout, work with partners to enter data into spreadsheets, and create charts on spreadsheet for each data set.

Students enter data regarding the height of classmates into a spreadsheet. Formulas will also be entered to find the median, mean, and mode of the data.

Students use a given spreadsheet to investigate an iterative process by changing the variables. They design their own spreadsheet to investigate the iterative process.

Sixth graders explore the concept of averaging of numbers and the function of a spreadsheet. Data is collected, analyzed, and displayed in this lesson. The NASCAR race results provides the basis for the collection of data.

Students examine how sorting is the process of putting things into an orderly sequence based on some key value. In this lesson students create a spreadsheet with 26 rows of data, then sort those rows by different values.

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