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Sample
Spreadsheet Activities
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- Sun
Spots by Travis Whyte
This is an excellent extension activity for grade 5 / 6 science
students, building on the knowledge of magnetic fields. The activity
looks at the relationship between Sunspots and Northern lights, an interesting
magnetic phenomena.
- How
Well Do People Live? by Marianne
Rogers Activity #7 of this grade 9 social studies / language
arts project has students creating a spreadsheet, sorting and filtering
the data, creating meaningful charts of the information, and reporting
their findings of the relationships between fields within the data.
- Needles
and Trees by Chris
Jackson
One task of this project for grade 6 science project
has students displaying and manipulating data in a spreadsheet form.
Sample spreadsheet available here.
- Decades
by Susan Mackey
The intent of this study is to help grade 7 students develop
an understanding of culture. Students will conduct a study of America
culture through the decades. From this experience they will develop
a basic understanding that culture is a learned way of life shared by
a group of people.
- Tree
Harvesting and Reforestation in Canada
by Joe Lennon
This exercise or lesson will be incorporated into the Environmental
Quality Unit of grade 9 science. More specifically we will be
looking at an example of direct changes to environments that occur as
a result of resource extraction. This spreadsheet exercise will provide
background data and analysis and sets the stage for more detailed study
of the topic.
- A
Pioneer Journey by Linda Melnyk
Grade 3 students will use information to pack a wagon for a trip
from Winnipeg to Edmonton. They choose the supplies they wish to pack
but must make careful choices according to criteria. The two criteria
are: the mass the wagon is able to carry when pulled by oxen or horses
and the amount of money they have to spend. They will use a spreadsheet
to record their choices, the total mass and the total amount of money
spent.
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