EXCEL-lent Samples

 

 

 

  • Modifying Excel Charts - Tips and tricks for Excel charts.

  • Computer Capers: Spreadsheets/Graphs - Fun school activities using computers to encourage students to draw, research, calculate and express!
    • K-2 - Get to Know You Graph, Sorting Solid Shapes in a Spreadsheet, Spelling in Cells, Spelling Squares Game
    • 3-5 - Lots of activities here to choose from!
    • 6-8 - Activities for Spreadsheets/Graphs

  • Non-Mathematical Uses of Excel - Excel is a very useful number-crunching application. However, there are many ways to use Excel that do not involve math. This page contains links to sample workbooks which illustrate some of those non-mathematical uses. You can download these files and edit them for use in your classroom.

  • Creating a Timeline with Excel - A timeline can represent information from many different curriculum areas such as science, social studies, math, and language arts. Timelines often look at changes over time in areas such as transportation, technology, space travel, and so on. They also work well when representing people's lives (a student, a character from a story, or a famous person) and events throughout history.
  • Let's Create a Pictograph - A pictograph is a graph that uses pictures to show and compare information.

  • Ideas for Integrating Spreadsheets

  • Microsoft Lesson Plans:


Harness the POWER of EXCEL!

Getting Started with Excel
A place to help you become familiar with the fundamental components and features of Exce so that you can use them in producitve ways in your classroom and with your students... read more

Creating Graphs with Excel
Excel has a wonderful Wizard for creating a wide variety of charts and graphs using data from spreadsheets ...read more

Neat things to do with Excel
Ideas, links and lists of Excel integration ideas ... read more

 

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