Summary
Spreadsheets are not just for technology and math classes! They can be incorporated at almost any age level and within all content areas. Incorporating spreadsheets into lessons can provide opportunities for students to enhance their critical thinking skills by organizing and analyzing data, creating graphs and charts, and looking for patterns within data.
Why teach with spreadsheets?
Spreadsheet Lesson Example: Water Conservation Project
Resources
ISTE Standards for Students
3a Students plan and employ effective research strategies to locate information and other resources for their intellectual or creative pursuits.
3c Students curate information from digital resources using a variety of tools and methods to create collections of artifacts that demonstrate meaningful connections or conclusions.
5b Students collect data or identify relevant data sets, use digital tools to analyze them, and represent data in various ways to facilitate problem-solving and decision-making.
6c Students communicate complex ideas clearly and effectively by creating or using a variety of digital objects such as visualizations, models or simulations.
3c Students curate information from digital resources using a variety of tools and methods to create collections of artifacts that demonstrate meaningful connections or conclusions.
5b Students collect data or identify relevant data sets, use digital tools to analyze them, and represent data in various ways to facilitate problem-solving and decision-making.
6c Students communicate complex ideas clearly and effectively by creating or using a variety of digital objects such as visualizations, models or simulations.
ISTE Standards for Teachers
2. Design and Develop Digital Age Learning Experiences and Assessments
(a) Design or adapt relevant learning experiences that incorporate digital tools and resources to promote student learning and creativity.
(b) Develop technology-enriched learning environments that enable all students to pursue their individual curiosities and become active participants in setting their own educational goals, managing their own learning and assessing their own progress.
(c) Customize and personalize learning activities to address students’ diverse learning styles, working strategies and abilities using digital tools and resources.
(d) Model and facilitate effective use of current and emerging digital tools to locate, analyze, evaluate and use information resources to support research and learning.
(a) Design or adapt relevant learning experiences that incorporate digital tools and resources to promote student learning and creativity.
(b) Develop technology-enriched learning environments that enable all students to pursue their individual curiosities and become active participants in setting their own educational goals, managing their own learning and assessing their own progress.
(c) Customize and personalize learning activities to address students’ diverse learning styles, working strategies and abilities using digital tools and resources.
(d) Model and facilitate effective use of current and emerging digital tools to locate, analyze, evaluate and use information resources to support research and learning.