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- Building a paper bridge: An introduction to problem solving
- This activity allows the student to explore problem solving strategies while working with a partner. This activity (building a paper bridge), requires students to question word definition and the application of those definitions. Through problem solving strategies, students discover the need for applying math skills.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Mathematics)
- By Steve Walston.
- Collecting and organizing data
- In this lesson students will learn to collect data and organize the data into a chart using computer technology.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Computer/Technology Skills, Information Skills, and Mathematics)
- By Rochelle Mullis.
- Dear Tootsie Roll company
- The students will measure the surface area and wrapper area of five pieces of candy. Using appropriate formulas and measuring techniques, they will complete information needed for a spreadsheet and database. Students wrap up the lesson by writing a letter to the company with the most wasted paper to explain how the waste affects them as consumers and a suggestion for correcting the problem.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 7–8 English Language Arts and Mathematics)
- By Tonya Thompson.
- Graphing with second graders
- Second graders will sort M & M's and then enter the data into a spreadsheet in order to create a simple graph.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2 Computer/Technology Skills and Information Skills)
- By DPI Integration Strategies.
- Integrated unit on South America
- This lesson includes information concerning database operations, word processing, desktop publishing, and spreadsheet formatting. Students will solve math problems.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–7 Computer/Technology Skills, English Language Development, Mathematics, and Social Studies)
- By DPI Integration Strategies.
- Using percent of change to measure growth in North Carolina
- Students will work in small groups to use the internet to gather data on the population growth for each of the 100 counties in North Carolina from 1992 to 1995. From these data, students will find the percent of increase/decrease for the counties they have been assigned. As a follow-up, the students will enter their data into a computer spreadsheet and from that spreadsheet, produce graphs of the information.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 7–8 Information Skills, Mathematics, and Social Studies)
- By Wanda Washburn.
