Spreadsheet sample

Spreadsheets are a great tool to use for Inquiry-Based learning. Spreadsheets allow students to aquire and imput data. A good use for spreadsheets would be with a project that allows students to find information online and imput the data to find an answer. These projects can be based off of subjects such as math, science, or history. As an introduction to spreadsheets, students can be asked to tally how many girls and boys are in the classroom. Then, the student can imput their data into a spreadsheet. They will be able to insert a formula that allows the students to find the difference in number of the two genders. This can also be used by having children gather various information from their peers such as a list of sports and everyones preference.

An in depth project that can be used to allow the children to use spreadsheets would be to introduce information about historical dates. Children can research dates of different battles and what state they occured. The students can input their information state by state and create a bar graph to show the range of data.

Questions to ask students while working on grade sheets would be:

1. How can spreadsheets be used to make out work easier?
2. What kind of information can we imput into a spreadsheet?
3. How do spreadsheets help us learn?