At&T Classroom Podcast 5 - Excel
Excel Spreadsheets on the Palm Handheld Computer
Nancy Pittner's fourth grade class from Riverview Elementary School in Stow, Ohio spent six weeks in the AT&T classroom learning about how to collect, organize, represent and analyze data. Children used ordinary materials like raisins and M&M packets to estimate and then find precise counts. Line plots were constructed and the terms associated with statistics were defined. Students were soon picking out the mean, mode and range on measurements of their height and that of a group of first graders.
The students gathered and organized data from surveys, read and interpreted tables, charts and graphs, constructed spreadsheets in Excel both on desktop computers and on their Palm Handheld Computer. A final project gave the students an opportunity to utilize a variety of technology options to demonstrate what they learned. Several of the student groups employed animation, using PowerPoint and Digital Blue cameras to show the change over time. Whether it was raisins on a graph or a clay flower growing and blooming, the students demonstrated that their understanding of data analysis had grown and developed over this six week unit.
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Nancy Pittner's fourth grade class from Riverview Elementary School in Stow, Ohio spent six weeks in the AT&T classroom learning about how to collect, organize, represent and analyze data. Children used ordinary materials like raisins and M&M packets to estimate and then find precise counts. Line plots were constructed and the terms associated with statistics were defined. Students were soon picking out the mean, mode and range on measurements of their height and that of a group of first graders.
The students gathered and organized data from surveys, read and interpreted tables, charts and graphs, constructed spreadsheets in Excel both on desktop computers and on their Palm Handheld Computer. A final project gave the students an opportunity to utilize a variety of technology options to demonstrate what they learned. Several of the student groups employed animation, using PowerPoint and Digital Blue cameras to show the change over time. Whether it was raisins on a graph or a clay flower growing and blooming, the students demonstrated that their understanding of data analysis had grown and developed over this six week unit.
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