Social Booking-HW for Week #5

While watching the Eagles game (unfortuantly, because PA doesn't show NY Giants games!) I just created my Diigo page. With 20 bookmarks, 40 tags, and 0 friends, I think that diggo will be a very helpful resource as a student and eventually as a teacher. Whether I am looking for ideas for lesson plans, fun activities for the students, busy work or creative projects, I can view other peoples bookmarks and explore some practical ideas.

Excel in the Classroom:
1. Candy Games/Statistics: Give each student a bag of M&Ms and have them make a spreadsheet in excel marking down the percentages of the different colors in each bag. Make a graph of the most popular color, least popular color etc. Make it into a fun, creative way to learn about percentages, graphing, and statistics.

2. Sports: Students track their favorite sports teams by making an excel spreadsheet of wins/losses/players stats/total points per game/averages etc. This would be a fun project for the students to do. It is a long term project that will help them improve their mathmatical skills, graphing skills, averages, percentages etc. (ex. March Madness)

3. Create a boardgame: I did this activity in 4th grade and I remember it was a blast. Have the student work in groups and create their own board game involving a lesson/subject that you have taught to them. Have the students play their games in their groups and also play other groups games as well.

4. Heads or Tails: Have the students break into groups. Have them flip a coin and record how many times heads comes up and tails comes up. Transfer their findings into percentages and share their findings with the class.

5. Who cost more: Break the class into boys vs. girls. Have each student record how much money they spend each week (on clothes, food, snacks, etc). At the completion of each week, each student enters their recordings into excel and the boys add their costs up as do the girls. At the end of the semester see which gender spent more and on what kinds of things. Could be fun?

Just got an update that the Giants are winning!