General Lesson Plan Sites
Microsoft URL Address—A variety of different lessons incorporating
the Microsoft Office programs.
http://www.microsoft.com/education/lesson/productivity/default.asp
Teaching N’ Technology—A database of lessons created by Florida
teachers which can be modified for your purpose. In the search section,
try entering spreadsheets or word processing to get a list of lessons that
incorporate that specific technology.
http://twister.coedu.usf.edu/tnt/
Classroom Projects—Some classroom lessons that using ClarisWorks
but the ideas could be transferred to Microsoft Office.
http://www.stark.k12.oh.us/TeachersTips/projects.html
Integrated Lessons—A few lesson ideas to integrate spreadsheets
and word processing into the Math curriculum.
http://www.ups.edu/community/tofu/lev1f/intframe.htm
Integrated Technology Lessons—Lessons for K-5 incorporating word
processing and spreadsheets.
http://www.isd196.k12.mn.us/Classroom/itc/k5/tech%20curr/lessons.html
The New York Times Learning Network--The New York Times has created
a lesson plan archive related to current event articles.
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/index.html
ISTE Curriculum Integration Lessons
http://cnets.iste.org/index2.html
Word Processing Lessons
A is for Aardvark—A lesson using a template that allows students
to do an alphabet book.
http://www.microsoft.com/education/lesson/productivity/aardvark.asp
Letters From Santa—Primary and intermediate classes are both
involved in this letter writing activity.
http://twister.coedu.usf.edu/tnt/DisplayLesson.asp?id=lp210
School Newspaper—Using a template you have created, your students
could make a class newspaper.
http://www.stark.k12.oh.us/TeachersTips/newspaper.html
Learning the Facts from Different Media Sources—A High School
lesson having students look at current events and the media.
http://twister.coedu.usf.edu/tnt/DisplayLesson.asp?id=lp598
Spreadsheet Lessons
Classifying and Grouping Our Class Activity—An activity for primary
students to learn how to gather data and create graphs.
http://www.alfy.com/Teachers/Teach/lesson_builder/overView.asp?LessonId=66&saveVal=yes
Graph It!—A graphing exercise looking at favorites.
http://twister.coedu.usf.edu/tnt/DisplayLesson.asp?id=lp585
The Perfect Vacation—An activity that has students do research
and then within a budget plan their perfect vacation.
http://twister.coedu.usf.edu/tnt/DisplayLesson.asp?id=lp616
All About Me—A database activity that provides for filtering
and sorting of information.
http://twister.coedu.usf.edu/tnt/DisplayLesson.asp?id=lp581
Recycling, Reducing, and Reusing—An environmental activity using
spreadsheets to manipulate information.
http://twister.coedu.usf.edu/tnt/DisplayLesson.asp?id=lp537
Addition Practice—An example of how you can create a template
for your students to use.
http://www.stark.k12.oh.us/TeachersTips/multadd.html
Mighty M&M Math or Candy is Dandy—An activity incorporating
graphing and simple formulas.
http://mighty-mm-math.caffeinated.org/main.htm
http://www.netlabs.net/hp/ebend/mightymm.html
http://www.microsoft.com/education/lesson/productivity/candy.asp
PowerPoint Lessons
Who wants to be a Millionaire? PowerPoint
http://www.amphi.com/~pgreenle/manuals/millionori.ppt