Incorporating Spreadsheets in the Classroom

Spreadsheets take some to learn how to use but if you make it fun and interactive it can be used throughout different grades levels. I choose to make a spreadsheet on multicultural diversity in Texas and the United States. I will use an inquiry-based approach by asking this essential question: "How do we communicate?" I will ask three unit questions which are: "How do different cultures live?", "How do we distiniguish letters and sounds?", and lastly "How many different types of culturals are out there?".

I can incorporate these questions into different subjects such as reading, writing, social studies, and math. They would be able to search for the answers on the web and learn about the many different cultures we have in our area. They would be able to document their information on excel or google docs as a spreadsheet. Once they are done they would be able to make a presentation as a slide share, voice thread, or movie.

There are so many different ways to use spreadsheets. We can even use them to document information for ourselves. Technology makes life today a little bit easier.