Spreadsheet Assignment

July 9, 2009
Spreadsheet Assignment


This assignment is about is building a spreadsheet where the students will fill in the blanks. I'm asking fourth grade students to count the nouns, adjectives, pronouns, verbs, and adverbs in a short fable. After putting the information into the spreadsheet, it will generate a graph. The graph will give them a visual to understand how many adverbs and adjectives were used to bring this story to life. The students will be able to refer to this information when writing their fable.


Reflection Guidelines for the Spreadsheet Assignment

1. My thematic unit topic is Fabulous Fables

2. The unit objective this project supports is Objective 3: Using the computer (C), fourth grade students (A) will write and illustrate (B) their own fable (D). –DM Language Arts, Grade 4

3. The audience for this assignment is fourth grade students

4. This project supports the component “encourage students’ development of critical thinking” from standard number 4: “Instructional Strategies” because the students will need to differentiate between the parts of speech to complete this assignment. This project also supports the component "Integrates the computer and other high and low technology” from standard number 11: Computer Technology, because the students will use the computer to complete the spreadsheet to generate the graph.

Another example of a spreadsheet being used in the classroom is about movie soundtrack CD prices

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