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Popular Spreadsheet Lesson Plans for Grades 3-5

Spreadsheets / Christa Love / November 3, 2021 / financial literacy, TechnoCandy, TechnoSales

TechnoKids has spreadsheet lesson plans for Grades 3-5. These are a welcome addition to school curriculum. Not only because they are project-based, but also because they include helpful resources for classroom, digital literacy, and STEM teachers. The TechnoKids projects, apply a problem-solving model. By completing the assignments, students learn data analysis techniques. As well, they […]

Free Spreadsheet Lesson to Paint a Picture

Spreadsheets / Christa Love / October 22, 2021 / free lesson, Google Sheets, TechnoSales

Could you use a free spreadsheet lesson to use with your students? Look no further! The instructions below are from TechnoSales. TechnoSales is a technology project jam-packed with Google Sheets activities designed especially for kids. Assignments have students apply a problem-solving model to plan a fundraiser. They learn how to organize, graph, and calculate data.

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How to Download to Google Drive on a Windows Device

How-To / Christa Love / October 13, 2021 / Google Drive, TechnoHub

Do you want to know how to download to Google Drive on a Windows device? You are not alone. Teachers want things to be simple. No extra steps! In many schools it is common for students and teachers to have different devices. Often a teacher will have a Windows device, but students will be using

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Get a Google Sheets Lesson Now – Ice Cream Cart

Spreadsheets / Christa Love / October 5, 2021 / free lesson, Google Sheets, survey, TechnoSales

Download a Google Sheets lesson from TechnoKids. This free computer lesson is from TechnoSales. It is a skill review, that applies graphing skills taught during the Session 2 assignments. It has students analyze the data to make informed decisions. Want more Google Sheets lessons? The TechnoSales curriculum unit integrates math with spreadsheet skills. Using a

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Bake Sale Fun – Real-World Spreadsheet Lessons for Kids

News / Christa Love / September 28, 2021 / financial literacy, fundraiser, TechnoSales

Engage learners with fun spreadsheet lessons for Google Sheets or Excel. In TechnoSales, elementary students plan a bake sale fundraiser. This real-world scenario allows children ages 8-12 to investigate practical solutions to a realistic problem. Throughout the activities, they become actively involved in developing a viable plan to raise funds. It might be for a

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Get to Know Microsoft Office Search

Word Processing / Christa Love / September 9, 2021 / Microsoft Word

The Microsoft Office Search tool can save you time. Did you know that there are more than 100 commands on the ribbon in Microsoft Word– and that doesn’t even include those on contextual tabs. If you counted those, plus all the extra features available in panes and dialog boxes, then there are literally hundreds of

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One-of-a-Kind Images in Google Docs

Word Processing / TechnoHella / September 2, 2021 / free lesson, Google Docs, Google Drawings, TechnoEditor

When users of Microsoft Word switch to Google Docs, they might be disappointed at first. Adding images seems to be limited to simple formatting choices. At first glance, it appears as if options for creativity are scarce. But wait! While there is no fun gallery of preset styles as in Word, there are plenty of

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5 Reasons to Use Fact Cards for Research

Teaching Strategies / TechnoHella / August 19, 2021 / environment, fact card, research, TechnoEnvironment

Environmental education tackles complex issues that can be made easier to understand using Environmental Fact Cards designed specifically for children, tweens, and teens. When teaching an environmental unit as part of a geography or science class one of the biggest stumbling blocks can be accessing reliable information online. Too often, students get bogged down in

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Technology vs Pen and Paper

Teaching Strategies / TechnoHella / August 12, 2021

A teacher recently expressed to us the keyboard versus longhand dilemma: what do students gain by using computing devices instead of writing by hand? And what do they lose? Technology vs pen and paper is a common quandary. Many school districts are not teaching cursive writing or even printing. In this digital age, most careers

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Fun with Gradients in Microsoft Word

Word Processing / TechnoHella / August 5, 2021 / free lesson, Microsoft Word, TechnoEditor

Students love to ‘put their own stamp’ on their work. And creativity is something that we, as educators, encourage. Here’s a quick activity that has students design their own custom gradients to fill shapes made in a Word document. It is from TechnoEditor, TechnoKids’ latest release. In this project, students master essential word processing skills

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