Spreadsheet Lab Manual (SLM) is a federally funded professional learning community (PLC) started as grass roots professional educators dedicated to making the standardized practice of spreadsheet modeling part of the STEM education experience of every student. Spreadsheet modeling is programming or coding a spreadsheet to depict a computing model of any STEM phenomena aligned to the Next Generation Science Standards. We provide teachers with training and instructional materials based on a unified and standardized approach to mathematically modeling phenomena on spreadsheets to teach science and math.
Spreadsheet Modeling Pedagogy = Essential Skills + Enhanced Content + Inclusive Learning
How?
Automaton and saving capability unleashes mathematical thinking enhancing the learning experience with the computing power of spreadsheets. This interactive math learning accelerates student Q and A turnover with an empowered representation that synthesizes mathematical concepts. This leads students to computational thinking, quantitative awareness and learning high value digital literacy and data skills. This will improve student outcomes in Physics, Chemistry, Biology and Math as well as all future higher education classes and careers in which spreadsheet are used. Spreadsheets are universal because they are efficient.
Everybody needs them and they are standardized: Excel, Sheets, Apple so SLM coding is compatible with whatever your students can access.
ATTENTION STEM TEACHERS: Click to learn how to participate in our NSF Research
Current Research Participation Enrollment: 118 STEM Educators
Awarded Phase 1 Funding in June, 2019 by the National Science Foundation Small Business Innovation Research (NSF SBIR) program, Spreadsheet Lab Manual LLC has built and implemented a standardized computational spreadsheet modeling pedagogy. With NSF support we have formed a new Professional Learning Community (PLC) exclusively for engaging professional educators. Proposed and designed based on a theoretical "knowledge engine" concept, we will use teacher incentives to recruit, train and equip members to develop content and share successes. Schools can invest Title II funds to pay their own teachers to access to this diverse learning community, which they will improve by sharing their own unique perspectives.
Project Abstract for Congress: "Computer Science for All with Spreadsheet Modeling: Researching How Low-Cost Video Training for Teachers Leads to High Value Programming Skills for Students"
This game-changing, computational modeling professional learning community for STEM teachers is shown to enhance data fluency and make math more meaningful and relevant to students. SLM leverages the computational power of the modern microprocessor with a standardized pedagogy across all STEM disciplines. STEM educators are the only ones qualified to build and grow this body of original content that delivers teachers the fundamentals and an action plan to realize the student benefits of computational modeling. The professional educators of America have the expertise, talent, passion and diversity to innovate limitless new spreadsheet-based instructional applications. Modeling in STEM with spreadsheets, which will be an essential learning fundamental so long as the spreadsheet remains a fundamental tool for managing information in society.
Low cost and high value added is our promise to taxpayers in working to benefit all students, regardless of background or ability level.
How?
Automaton and saving capability unleashes mathematical thinking enhancing the learning experience with the computing power of spreadsheets. This interactive math learning accelerates student Q and A turnover with an empowered representation that synthesizes mathematical concepts. This leads students to computational thinking, quantitative awareness and learning high value digital literacy and data skills. This will improve student outcomes in Physics, Chemistry, Biology and Math as well as all future higher education classes and careers in which spreadsheet are used. Spreadsheets are universal because they are efficient.
Everybody needs them and they are standardized: Excel, Sheets, Apple so SLM coding is compatible with whatever your students can access.
ATTENTION STEM TEACHERS: Click to learn how to participate in our NSF Research
Current Research Participation Enrollment: 118 STEM Educators
Awarded Phase 1 Funding in June, 2019 by the National Science Foundation Small Business Innovation Research (NSF SBIR) program, Spreadsheet Lab Manual LLC has built and implemented a standardized computational spreadsheet modeling pedagogy. With NSF support we have formed a new Professional Learning Community (PLC) exclusively for engaging professional educators. Proposed and designed based on a theoretical "knowledge engine" concept, we will use teacher incentives to recruit, train and equip members to develop content and share successes. Schools can invest Title II funds to pay their own teachers to access to this diverse learning community, which they will improve by sharing their own unique perspectives.
Project Abstract for Congress: "Computer Science for All with Spreadsheet Modeling: Researching How Low-Cost Video Training for Teachers Leads to High Value Programming Skills for Students"
This game-changing, computational modeling professional learning community for STEM teachers is shown to enhance data fluency and make math more meaningful and relevant to students. SLM leverages the computational power of the modern microprocessor with a standardized pedagogy across all STEM disciplines. STEM educators are the only ones qualified to build and grow this body of original content that delivers teachers the fundamentals and an action plan to realize the student benefits of computational modeling. The professional educators of America have the expertise, talent, passion and diversity to innovate limitless new spreadsheet-based instructional applications. Modeling in STEM with spreadsheets, which will be an essential learning fundamental so long as the spreadsheet remains a fundamental tool for managing information in society.
Low cost and high value added is our promise to taxpayers in working to benefit all students, regardless of background or ability level.
2 Student Engagement Tasks:
Task 1: Model Development Task 2: Experimentation, Analysis
Task 1: Model Development Task 2: Experimentation, Analysis
Multiple Points of Assessment: (1) Every student succeeds at programming the spreadsheet model using the steps that precisely guide them (starting from a blank spreadsheet or blank template file). (2) After verifying the model is programmed correctly experimentation is done by altering variables. This enables students to interact with graphs and directly observe model predictions. Interacting with the model in this way helps students learn about the mathematical nature of Science through investigation and discovery while gaining skills on spreadsheets simultaneously.
SLM lessons are truly multidisciplinary, NGSS aligned and engage students in all 8 Science and Engineering Practices despite being written years ahead their adoption.
SLM lessons are truly multidisciplinary, NGSS aligned and engage students in all 8 Science and Engineering Practices despite being written years ahead their adoption.
3 Fundamental Priorities in Pioneering SLM:
- Grow Student Data Fluency: Enhance productivity with spreadsheets (both for future applications and productivity in learning)
- Innovative Computational Models with Sound Science: Aligned to NGSS high school STEM curriculum content
- Easy to Implement: Across all disciplines, all starting skill levels for students and teachers, many ways to differentiate instruction, highly engaging and self guiding so students learn at their own pace with a minimal teacher time investment.