Reflection 4A

1. Reflect on your experience developing your Integrated Lesson Plan. What new did you learn during this activity? I enjoyed making the Lesson Plan. I thought it was fun to explore the different websites that are out in the technology world. There are so many different ideas and ways to format lesson plans, it is fun to see some of the more creative methods. I learned that the formatting can be a million different ways and still not be considered wrong. I like this aspect.
2. Talk briefly about how you integrated a spreadsheet activity into a lesson plan? I incorporated a spreadsheet into my lesson plan by having the spreadsheet be a means of data collection. The children are to monitor three flowers over a six week period. Each flower will receive a different amount of water and the children will record the heights of each flower in the spreadsheet each day. Then the students will use the spreadsheet to compare all of the flower heights at the end of the unit.

Reflection 3 : Spreadsheet Reflection

1. To be honest, this is the first spread sheet I have made in years! I learned so many new features about MS Excel! I watched all of the tutorial videos that were uploaded on my class file. In every video, I gained loads of information about all of the cool things Excel can do!  I never knew that you could highlight to gain the totals of information. This is very helpful and saved me a lot of time and calculation when adding my final grades.  I would integrate many productivity tools into my lesson plans.  MS Excel could be integrated into a lesson plan by having the student find weekly averages and having the teacher tally them into a chart. This helps the children understand averages, means, and modes. An activity I think would engage children using a spreadsheet is a plant experiment. A plant would be monitored over a period of time and the height of the plant would be recorded in excel once a week. After the growth time was over, the totals could be added and then the data could be shared with the class. Sounds like a fun experiment to me :)