Tuesday, June 9, 2009

Solar System Spreadsheet

My 3rd grade students have been studying the solar system and its planets. They have been collecting data on each planet from the internet for the last few weeks. Each of my students will be required to gather together their information and fill in the blank spaces within the spreadsheet with the appropriate answers. Once the spreadsheet has been created they can design it the way they'd like. After all this has been accomplished the students will need to pick one or two different types of information from the spreadsheet to than create a chart using their chosen information. I feel that this will be a fund and interesting lesson because not only will the kids learn about the solar system but also how to retrieve information from the computer and than once they place it in their spreadsheets than they can see a visual example before them of the same information. The chart will let them see the same information but displayed in a different format.




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