Spreadsheet Skills
Recommended Spreadsheet Skills Resources
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Creating Simple Formulas Using Excel
Use this lesson for Microsoft Excel® to familiarize your students with simple spreadsheet formulas and features. The... -
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Birthday Party Budget: Excel Exercise
Familiarize students with the basics of a budget. In this lesson, students learn how to use a spreadsheet to calculate p... -
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How Many Pets Does Our Class Own?
In this printable computer lesson and activity, students learn the basics of a spreadsheet and create a graph showing th... -
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Create a Column Chart with Excel
Teach students how to create a chart from a spreadsheet. The step-by-step instructions in this lesson demonstrate how to... -
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My Budget: Using Excel
Use this lesson plan to teach students how to create a personal budget spreadsheet that tracks their monthly income and ... -
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Use the SUM Function in Excel
Follow these step-by-step instructions to teach students about the SUM function for spreadsheets. This lesson plan requi... -
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Back to School Shopping Trip: Excel Exercise
In this computer lesson, simple spreadsheet formulas are used to calculate shopping trip expenses. Students learn how to... -
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Heads or Tails?
Students collect data from coin tosses and chart this information on a spreadsheet. Then, they create a graph and analyz... -
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Determine Mary Jo's Budget with Excel
In order to determine whether Mary Jo has enough money to go camping, students create a budget spreadsheet that tracks h... -
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Create a Line Chart with Excel
Show students how to create a line graph in Microsoft Excel® using the step-by-step instructions in this lesson plan... -
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Order of Operations & Excel
Follow the step-by-step instructions in this lesson to make a spreadsheet that solves complex math problems according to... -
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Animal Speeds
Hand out a printable computer activity that teaches the basics of a spreadsheet. Students research how fast different an... -
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Profit & the School Store: Using Excel
In this computer lesson plan, students will set up a school store using spreadsheets. Using their knowledge of spreadshe... -
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Average It! with Excel
Learn how to calculate the average of sets of numbers, with the resources in this computer lesson plan. This lesson incl... -
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Line Chart Comparison in Excel
In this computer lesson plan, students use a line chart to compare profits from two different school years. Following th... -
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Getting Fancy with Column Charts in Excel
Further students' knowledge of column charts in Microsoft Excel® with this computer lesson plan. Students will make ... -
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Spend a Million Dollars Using Excel
Practice using spreadsheet formulas to calculate expenses. In this Microsoft Excel® activity, students use a spreads... -
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Learn About Spreadsheets Using Excel
Introduce students to basic spreadsheet terms with this lesson about Microsoft Excel®. In order to use this computer act... -
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Graphing Turkey Consumption
Students use the Internet to research turkey consumption worldwide. They graph their data with a spreadsheet program, an... -
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Converting to Metric
This spreadsheet activity asks students to collect, organize, and graph data. Students will use formulas to convert stan... -
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Computing Multiplication Facts
In this printable computer activity, students learn about formulas on a spreadsheet and use this knowledge to calculate ... -
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Your Favorite Foods at Thanksgiving
In this printable classroom activity, students brainstorm a list of their favorite foods at Thanksgiving. Then they use ... -
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Create a Pie Chart with Excel
In this computer lesson, students will learn how to create a pie chart from survey data in a Microsoft Excel® spread... -
GAMES AND APPS
In Search of the Wild West
Hand out a printable computer activity that will help your students perfect their spreadsheet skills, as they create a w...
