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PRODUCTIVITY TOOLS

Name: Nick Singleton

Grade Level: 9-12
Content Area: Biology
Basic Productivity Tool Used: Microsoft Excel
Standards Addressed:
SCSh6. Students will communicate scientific investigations and information clearly.
b. Write clear, coherent accounts of current scientific issues, including possible alternative
interpretations of the data.
c. Use data as evidence to support scientific arguments and claims in written or oral presentations.
d. Participate in-group discussions of scientific investigation and current scientific issues.
SB4. Students will assess the dependence of all organisms on one another and the flow of energy and
matter within their ecosystems.
a. Investigate the relationships among organisms, populations, communities, ecosystems, and biomes.
Blooms Level of Critical Thinking:
Remembering Understanding

Applying

Analyzing

Evaluating

Creating

Description of how to implement in the class: Microsoft Excel will be implement into the class
during a lesson about the environment. Students will be divided into four groups. Two groups will
collect data outside in a designated wooded area. One group will count the different plant species
and the amount of each in that area. The other group will do the same thing but for insects. The last
two groups will follow these same procedures but will collect data in a grassy area. Using the excel
template I provide, each group will make a graph of their collect data. I will then display all the
graphs on the board and facilitate a class discussion. Students will be asked to talk about any
similarities or correlations in the data. I will direct the discussion toward focusing on the
relationships found in the ecosystem. This activity of using excel will help students create and
visualize collected data. This will help the students see any relationships in the data more clearly.

Level of Technology Implementation (LoTi): I believe this project would fall under LoTi level 4,
Integration. Students will be using technology to report and analyze date. They will then create
graphs from the data they have collect. The technology they will be using is central to classroom
instruction
Description of the sample spreadsheet and graph/chart provided *: I have provided a
screenshot of the template spreadsheet that the students will use. As you can see there are four
colored coded tables, one for each group. Students would only have to write in species names or
descriptions, and then enter the number of individuals found. Students will use this template to
create their graphs as well.

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Other comments about your proposed spreadsheet/graph/chart activity: When students are
ready, I will show them how to create and insert a graph of their data.