Extension Activities

We have tried to provide additional activities that will help extend your level of

understanding and proficiency for each of the instructional modules.  You are not

obligated to do them.  They are provided simply for your personal enjoyment.

Windows 2000 Professional Extension Activities

There are lots of great tutorials on the Web.  Here are a select few that you may

want to check out:

1.   Windows 2000 Professional in the Classroom

 

2.   My favorite—very visually appealing with lots of interactive screens and

       assessment.  It has software tutorials and online courses.

 

3.   Beginners tutorials from the UK

 

4.   Internet4Classrooms---very user friendly sites

For more assistance with mastering the mouse, try these fun practice activities. These

links will take you to other pages in the Internet.  Use your browser's BACK button to

get back to ETTTT lessons.

1. To see how to hold the mouse. 

2. Mouse Aerobics—fun while learning.

3. Practice movement, single clicking, and double clicking.

4. Practice dragging and dropping something with the mouse  

5. Practice making patterns on a grid.

6. Magnetic Poetry

Check out our webliography links for more Windows 2000 Professional tutorials.

Word Extension Activities

Extend your Word  skills and your students’ with these activities.

1.   This is a user friendly basic Word tutorial

         

2.   This tutorial explains how to do basic screen shots

 

3.   This tutorial is more in-depth

 

4.   This tutorial is for MAC users

Excel Extension Activities

Extend your Excel skills and your students’ with these great online activities.

1.  Florida Gulf Coast University’s Technology Skills Orientation Series – a very complete

        introduction to Office 2000, includes this Excel-lent tutorial:

2.  The ABC List of things to Graph - These are just a few things that teachers and

         elementary students can use to chart data.  Many of the links on this page don’t work,

         but the list still stands as a compendium of things kids can graph using Excel.

3.   Self-Check Skill Sheets – This activity is posed as though for teachers, but students will

          enjoy making quizzes, too, while they extend their Excel worksheet-building skills

4.   Create a grid for students to make their own wordsearches – Check out these sample

          word search puzzles 

5.    Adventures in Statistics - We describe a mathematics project involving fifth grade

            students and the area of classrooms, which incorporates measurement, graphing,

            computation, data analysis, and presentation of results.

6.    Making a Mess o’ Mousse - A delicious lesson on doubling, tripling or even quadrupling

            the recipe and graphing the results.

            http://www.sfusd.k12.ca.us/schwww/sch634/Webpages/7thgr/mousse.html

7.     Properties of Circles - This lesson plan (grade 8) employs Excel as a convenient tool

             or graphing C vs. D and A vs. D2 to discover that the quotients C/D and A/ D2

             have the same value for all circles.

8.     Survey Says…A Puff Doesn’t Make You Cool Stuff! - Grade Levels: 9-12;

             Subjects: Health, Physical Education, Business Computer Literacy; Learner

             Outcomes: 1) Upon completion of the lesson, the learner will gain an

             understanding of the level of tobacco usage (cigarette smoking) in our school.

             2) Students will create and format an Excel chart based upon survey data.