http://www.fi.edu/fellows/fellow4/may99/spreadsheet.html.
There are a few different ways that they used spreadsheets and databases in the classroom on this website. One of my favorites is the "Civil War and More Simple Graphing". The way this teacher introduced her 5th grade to spreadsheets was by using the Civil War. This teacher used American Civil War Battles by State. The teacher would ask the students questions like: Which state had the most civil war battles? Do they know how many a certain state had? Do they know what percent the states battles represent compared to the entire war? This was great because it not only got the kids involved with spreadsheets but also got them learning about the states and the civil war.
Describe something you found that surprised you about how databases or spreadsheets can be utilized in the classroom.
The thing that surprised me the most is that you can make spreadsheets fun to use and strike up the imagination of kids by using them. Another website that I visited was http://www.ncwiseowl.org/kscope/techknowpark/FreeFall/ShoppingSpree.html. This activity was called “Most Wanted Toys with Dead Batteries or Live!. The activity was to pretend that you entered a contest at the local mall to win a $1000.00 shopping spree at a toy store of your choice. The catch was that you had to spend between exactly $995 and $1000 if you went over you lost all the money. If you spent exactly $1000 tax included you won an additional $500.
I thought this was a great activity because this would get the kids excited and ready to learn how to use a spreadsheet to accomplish the task at hand.
Discuss how you have used spreadsheets and databases in the past.
The way that I have used spreadsheets and databases in the past are for budgeting, keeping up with my grades when teaching, and I have also used them for classes.
Include ways you have used them with your students or ways you have used them as an educator.
When I was a youth career advisor at KCEOC we required our students to use a spreadsheet to setup budgets and also provided a budgeting workshop for our students to take. I also had to used a database called EKOS to do monthly reports. These reports included things like:
How many student graduated?
How many became employed?
How many attended workshops?
How many attended college?
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