Project Includes

  • Teacher Guide
  • Student Workbook
  • Customizable Resources
  • Assessment Tools
  • Extension Activities
  • Sample Files
  • Templates
  • Parent Letters
  • Certificates

TechnoThink

Item Number: CAMP-THINK
Technology Integration: Language Arts, English.
Technology Skill: Creative Activities with Excel
Program: Art

Includes: Not your usual spreadsheet activities! Engage your students as they make fun, interactive puzzles and games to challenge their friends.

Session 1: You Found My X Cell
Excel for kids? Yes! Students aged 7 to 12 make fun, clever puzzles using spreadsheets in this technology project. TechnoThink includes lesson plans, resources, and sample files. It’s a perfect way to get kids excited about Excel, as they produce brilliant brain teasers and then challenge their friends to solve them.
Session 2: EXCELlent Word Search
Your students will enjoy learning spreadsheet skills as they make a challenging word search for their friends. Follow detailed instructions to teach how to add text, insert clip art, format borderlines, and merge cells. After your students complete their puzzles, they trade with their friends to have some word search fun!
Session 3: Mad Lib with EXCELlence
Learning advanced spreadsheet skills can be easy. Have your students learn about 3D cell referencing by making silly sentences in the style of a ‘mad lib’. A mad lib is an unexpected sentence or story that is created using words that a person selects.
Session 4: EXCEL Your Brainpower with a Quiz
Have fun with functions. Make a multiple choice quiz using if-then statements. If-then statements are formulas that are used to display a response based on the answer in a cell. For example, if a person types in the correct answer to a question, ‘You are smart’ will appear but if the answer is incorrect, then ‘Try again’ will appear.

Excel Lesson Plans for Kids

Have fun with Microsoft Excel. Follow the detailed lesson plans to use spreadsheets in innovative ways . Make a variety of brainteasers including a word search, mad lib, and interactive quiz.

  • Develop brainteasers: word search, quiz, mad lib
  • Understand basic spreadsheet terminology
  • Enter and format text in cells
  • Insert clip art
  • Format borderlines
  • Classify words in a sentence
  • Create a formula that uses 3D cell referencing
  • Generate questions and multiple choice answers
  • Create an if-then formula
  • Customize settings to print a worksheet on one page

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elementary computer based activities 

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School,
INDIA

Customer Reviews

Have fun with Microsoft Excel. Follow the detailed lesson plans to use spreadsheets in innovative ways . Make a variety of brainteasers including a word search, mad lib, and interactive quiz.

Review

elementary computer based activities

Name,
School,
INDIA