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=Example of Course Assignment=

**Assignment Description**
The following assignment required the student to become familiar with MS Excel by developing data files and then use the files to create graphic representations of the data (e.g. bar graph). This particular assignment is related to science. It asked the student to extract avialable data on water quality from an existing file and organize it in a new spreadsheet. Then it asks the student to, using the tools of excel, create two different graphic representations to represent the data from the new spreadsheet. Finally, the student is required to develop two analytical questions for each graphic representations.

**Technology and Teaching**
It’s been a frequent practice of mine to scan through books and magazines and on-line in search of graphic representations that could be incorporated into a lesson or unit. For example, in a unit on World War II a chart illustrating economic outputs of France, Germany, the UK, and the US could be made available for analysis by students. Unfortunately, raw data is often easier to come by then graphic representations. But using excel of a similar program enables the teacher to easily recreate a list of the data and convert it to a Gantt chart of some other table that allows students to identify trends or make comparisons more quickly.

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