Excel & Access Application Ideas
Spreadsheets & Data Base Programs can be used for the following activities:
All Subject Areas
- Name Tags
- Awards/Certificates
- Inventories
- Letters to Parents
- Mailing labels
- Gradebooks
- Create an organizational spreadsheet of characters in a novel.
- Create a Glossary of Vocabulary Terms from a novel. Possibly include term, definition, image, etc.
- Submit a Persuasive letter of interest to several colleges.
Science
- Create a spreadsheet that calculates results based upon the collected data. (Velocity, etc.)
- Tabulating/Charting/Graphing data collected.
- Create a spreadsheet of characteristics of mammals and use Mail Merge to create presentation display, note cards, etc.
- Create a spreadsheet with personal Presidential data and use the functions to find average age of presidents.
- Tabulating/Charting election results.
- Use Mail Merge to construct letters to different Chambers of Commerce.
- Solving word problems by using functions within a spreadsheet on given data.
- Collecting and Comparing Data using the graphing features. These features will allow the chart to be “alive” and change as the data changes.
- Using Range, Mean, Median and Mode.
- Vocabulary/Glossary (on-going)
- Organization/Comparison of Alphabets