spreadsheets

=Spreadsheets=

General Information Interactive Spreadsheets Graphs from Spreadsheets Instructional Uses of Spreadsheets Spreadsheet Tools (Other than Excel)

Also see Excel by Microsoft and CALC, a tool in OpenOffice.org

**GENERAL INFORMATION**
Working with Numbers - Spreadsheets http://www.jegsworks.com/Lessons/numbers/index.html

The Spreadsheet Page J. Walkenbach http://www.j-walk.com/ss/index.htm The site includes a page of Spreadsheet History and another for Spreadsheet Jokes…

Spreadsheet Basics http://mathforum.org/sum95/math_and/spreadsheets/basics.html

Get Tab Delimited Text Into Page Layout Software http://desktoppub.about.com/od/textacquisition/ss/tabdelimitedss.htm

**INTERACTIVE SPREADSHEETS**
Welcome to Interactive Spreadsheets http://web.utk.edu/%7Eawatkin3/interactive/

Instructions for creating interactive spreadsheets (doc) http://web.utk.edu/%7Eawatkin3/interactive/instructions.doc

Final Formatting for Interactive Spreadsheets Created in Excel (Windows Operating System) (PDF) http://web.utk.edu/%7Eawatkin3/interactive/excel/formatexcelwin.pdf

Interactive Spreadsheets [This is from the O’Bannon textbook!] [|http://web.utk.edu/~bobannon/preparing/chapter10.shtml] There is a link to a ‘Guide for construction of interactive spreadsheets’ by Allison Watkinson, a rubric for an activity, and artifacts (examples).

**GRAPHS FROM SPREADSHEETS**
An example of charts and graphs in Excel: Favorite Thanksgiving Foods http://tech.wisd.org/debweb/Charts.htm

Mathematics and... Spreadsheets by Jan Gardner [|http://mathforum.org/sum95/math_and/index.html]

Create a Pictograph http://www.microsoft.com/education/createpictograph.mspx This is a page of instructions from Microsoft using Excel, a spreadsheet program.

**INSTRUCTIONAL USES OF SPREADSHEETS**
General Ideas and Activities Using Excel

School Spreadsheet Safari http://library.thinkquest.org/J0110054/ In addition to information and activities, this site also includes information about the history of spreadsheets!
 * //General Ideas//**

Spreadsheet - A Variety of Activities! http://www.fi.edu/fellows/fellow4/may99/spreadsheet.html

What Percentage of your Class is Right or Left Handed? http://math.rice.edu/%7Elanius/Algebra/rightleft.html

Spreadsheet Themes [TeAchnology] http://www.teach-nology.com/themes/comp/spreadsheets/ Note: The TeAchnology web site is an excellent site for many teacher resources.

Spreadsheets, Mathematics, Science, and Statistics Education http://sunsite.univie.ac.at/Spreadsite/


 * //Activities Using Excel//**

Classrooms that Excel Resources http://www.sabine.k12.la.us/class/excel_resources.htm "Guides, Tutorials, Applications and Lesson Plans" This has an extensive list of resources and activities for classroom use at many levels. Excel (Spreadsheets) http://www.rcps.org/creativeways/excellist.htm This is from a site called Creative Ways to Use Your Existing Software at http://www.rcps.org/creativeways/index.htm which has links to ideas for teaching tools that can be developed with other basic programs. (Don’t be too concerned if they are using an earlier version of the software. Rarely do software companies take features out – they may move them or rename them in a newer version, but the features are almost always still available!)

Teaching and Learning with Excel for Elementary School Students http://curriculumlinks.sd76.ab.ca/inservice/Excel_Elem/default.asp

To Excel [in the classroom] is Elementary (Forsyth County) http://www.forsythcountyschools.org/its/kadkins/spreadsheet.htm

To Excel (in the classroom) is Elementary {Northside ESD) http://northside.isd.tenet.edu/glass/Technology/eCamp06/Excel/To_Excel_Elementary.htm

Excel Activities for the Classroom [|http://www.northcanton.sparcc.org/~technology/excel/]

Microsoft Excel Modules http://www.internet4classrooms.com/on-line_excel.htm

SPREADSHEET TOOLS
Num Sum - Easy, Sharable Web Spreadsheets [|http://numsum.com/] Sheetster [|http://sheetster.com/index.jsp] Gnumeric – GNOME Spreadsheet http://www.gnome.org/projects/gnumeric/ “The Gnumeric spreadsheet is part of the GNOME desktop environment: a project to create a free, user friendly desktop environment. … We are not attempting to clone existing applications. However, Gnumeric can read files saved with other spreadsheets…”