Links for the one-day Science Literacy funded workshop, "Using a Spreadsheet to Assist in Teaching Science and Mathematics", at the Whiteside Regional Office of Education

Tutorials from the University of Illinois:  

• Getting Started With Excel 97

• Excel 2000 Introduction 

More links to help you get acquainted with Microsoft Excel:

• Excel 2000 How To's

• Microsoft in Education - Excel 2000

• Teaching and Learning with MS Office

• In and Out of the Classroom - Excel 97

• Productivity Exercises with Office 97 - Graphing Information

Lesson Plans & Class Projects using Excel:

• Introduction to Spreadsheets

• Spreadsheets in the Math Class

• Everyday Spreadsheets in the Classroom

  • Creating a temperature conversion chart

  • What's My Grade?

  • Candy Is Dandy

    • Candy is Dandy template - right click & choose Save Target As

  • Weights and Measures

  • Do Vampires Really Exist? - Microsoft lesson plan

  • Virtual Journey Travel Service

  • Land Biome Research Project

  • Trends in Precipitation

  • Average Snowfall

  • Shopping Center Lesson Plan

  • Class Survey / Graph

• Probability with "M&M's" - grades 3 - 6

• How Does Temperature Change with Respect to Latitude and
  Longitude? - High School

• Excel Spreadsheet Basics - Technology Center of DuPage (High School)

• Computer Skills Lesson Plans - Middle School

• Keeping Track of Hours and Pay - Middle School/High School

• Euclid’s Algorithm, Heron’s Algorithm, and the Estimation of Pi - High School

• Traffic Problem - High School

• How a basketball flies - High School/college

• Comparing prices of dream cars - High School

• Spreadsheet Activities for Science - High School/college

• Functions as input-output "machines" and translations - high school

• Investigating Functions Using Spreadsheets - high school