Standard One: Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and

Creativity
Teachers use their knowledge of subject matter, teaching and
learning, and technology to facilitate experiences that advance
student learning, creativity, and innovation in both face-to-face and
virtual environments
Name of Artifact: USING SPREADSHEETS FOR AMEASUREMENT ACTIVITY
Date: 7/7/1
Course: EDUC 201: Using Computers in Education
!rief Description:
In this Skills Builder activity you will apply your spreadsheet skills to
the creation of an efective classroom activity. After your students have
measured objects in the classroom, they can organize their data in a
spreadsheet and then chart those measurements. To do these tasks, they
must frst create the spreadsheet containing the information, and then use
that information to display it visually by means of a bar chart and a pie
chart. This activitys skills can be adapted for use in any type of classroom
exercise that requires the organization, calculation, and/or display of
numeric data (Pearson Education, 1).
"ationale: #aving t$e students measure t$e materials and t$en input it into a
spreads$eet gives t$em %ot$ face& to& face interaction and tec$nology
interaction' ($is teac$es t$em measurements can %e adapted to tec$nology and
t$at %eing organi)ed in real life leads to success on t$e computer causing less
confusion and ma*es for a clean presentation'