Excel in the curriculum

The 5 ideas that I would present to my colleagues are:

1. Using excel to track students participation in the school dress code policy. This spreadsheet could keep track of how many times students were out of uniform.

2. A teacher could use excel to chart students behaviors, this would enable the teacher to specify behaviors and how frequently the occur in the classroom.

3. Excel can definitely be used as a grade book, by incorporating formulas into the spreadsheet all the teacher would have to do is type in the grade and get students percentages.

4. Excel could be used in the classroom to teach social studies/ geography. Ask students which states they have been to , take a tally and make a chat or graph to see where the most visited state is and have students make a report on that state and ask them  why they think it is so popular.

5. The last way that Excel could be used in the curriculum is to introduce spelling words. You could create a spreadsheet that lists the spelling words for the week and  and leave columns next to the words empty so that the students could practice writing them each night for homework. At the end of the week you could  collect and test the students on what they have been practicing all week.