This is a Stand-Alone Instructional Resource (StAIR) project which integrates skills in math (simple math operations, tables, and charts), reading (poetry), and technology (computer use, video embedding, Excel2007 with macros, and PowerPoint2007).
Its interactive features enable the learner to:
- navigate to the different pages of the presentation.
- open an Excel workbook that allows the user to learn the skills in using tables and charts.
- take a short quiz on applying the skills learned to real world projects.
Students will be focusing only on the first stanza of the poem, Hungry Mungry, a favorite poem by Shel Silverstein’s collection titled "Where the Sidewalk Ends", published in 1976. The main goal of this project is for the students to learn the intermediate skills in addition to the basic knowledge in Excel 2007.
TECHNICAL REMARKS:
1. Please take note that you will be downloading a zipped file which contains a folder with three files: PowerPoint show, Hungry Mungry movie, and the Excel workbook with macros.
2. Extract/unzip the mfishell_HungryMungry folder from the zipped file and save it on your computer or desktop.
3. Please do not open the PowerPoint show in the zipped folder. If you do, the show will not link to the Excel table nor will link back to the show. Macros in Excel may also not work.
4. Run the PowerPoint show from the extracted/unzipped folder saved on your desktop or computer and it should link the rest of the files. Have fun while learning!
