Links for Microsoft Office in the Classroom




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
 
 

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