Digital+Spreadsheets

= Welcome to technology enhanced professional development =

**// STEM Instruction: Using Digital Spreadsheets to Enhance Mathematics and Science Lessons in Middle School //**

 * Essential Questions: **

● How can professional development support teachers in creating interdisciplinary lessons? ● How can interdisciplinary lessons increase students’ mathematical and scientific understanding?


 * Learning Targets: You will learn: **

● to use digital spreadsheet as a tool in math and science by increasing your own knowledge and skills. ● how to plan a lesson using the Lesson Planning Template while working in a study group.


 * Success Criteria: At the end of this professional development you will be able to: **

● use the basic capabilities embedded in digital spreadsheets to organize and compare data. ● use the formula and graphing features of digital spreadsheets to increase student engagement while learning mathematics and science content standards. ● identify specific student engagement strategies with digital spreadsheets in interdisciplinary science, mathematics and technology lessons ● describe student learning targets in STEM learning that incorporate digital spreadsheets as learning tools. ● identify specific instructional strategies for supporting student learning with digital spreadsheets in interdisciplinary STEM math and science lessons. ● design a lesson or lesson series where students use digital spreadsheet capabilities in interdisciplinary STEM problems in a math or science class. ● discuss explicit connections among mathematics, science and technology.