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The objective of our blog is to share information about how we integrate our technology curriculum into the subject area curriculum. The foundation of this effort is the methodology of team teaching the lessons with the Middle School subject area teachers. Each post describes a particular lesson, the software used, some of the skills that were targeted, and the number of days that were spent in the lab.

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Friday, February 27, 2009

Earthquakes, Word, Excel and Filemaker

The 7th grade Science students used different websites to research about earthquakes from all around the world. To understand the assignment, they opened a Word document with all the instructions and an empty data table.



Then they filled this table with approximately 40 different earthquakes that they found, according to the teachers' specifications. Next, the students copied and pasted the data into Excel. They saved this file with the csv format so that it could be imported directly into a Filemaker database without having to retype the data.



Next they created a Filemaker Pro database and imported all of the records from the Excel CSV file. After importing the data, the students searched the internet for appropriate graphics for some of the records.



Finally they exported their Filemaker database file with their 40 earthquake samples for their classmates, and then they imported the rest of the class's exported database files, so that each student could analyze a large sample.

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