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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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Thursday, October 22, 2009
Dominant and Recessive Traits in Filemaker Pro 9 and Excel
The 8th Grade Science students used Filemaker Pro 9 to create a database with their class's data which included information about seven different physical traits. Once the students compiled all this data (which they obtained by importing their classmates' exported data files from the teachers' shared folder on the Middle School server), they used Excel to calculate and compare the percentages of the dominance of the different traits. This project took three class periods to complete.
