SSAC General Collection Modules
Following are short descriptions of the available modules. To access any of them, select from the list and you will connect to cover material including learning goals, context of use, and other information. Within the cover material (under "Teaching Materials") there is a link by which you can download the student version of the module. You can also request an instructor's version by clicking on the "request" link under Teaching Materials.
There are a couple of ways of searching for modules. The box below left provides a full-text search of the cover material about the module, so you can search by author, subject, or keyword. The controlled vocabularies below right allow targeted searches by three different dimensions (click on the links to see the full, hierarchical vocabularies): Math content (Quantitative Concept) (Microsoft Word 41kB Jun17 10), Context (Subject) (Microsoft Word 29kB Jul13 07), and Excel Skill (Microsoft Word 32kB Jul13 07).
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What's the Difference? -- Calculating the difference in wages for a bookkeeper (AA degree) vs. a cashier (no college degree) part of Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum:General Collection:Examples
Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum module. Students build a basic spreadsheet to calculate the accumulating difference in wages between two jobs in the context of deciding to get an AA degree.
Subject: Education
Excel Skills: Basic Arithmetic:Simple Formulas, Arithmetic Functions:SUM, Graphs and Charts:Bar Graph
Why Don't I Feel Better Yet? Examining the effect of dose, time interval, and elimination rate on attaining a therapeutic drug level part of Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum:General Collection:Examples
Spreadsheets across the Curriculum module. Students use a spreadsheet to build a two-way table of drug level vs. time and elimination rate with parameters dosage interval and amount.
Subject: Natural science:Chemistry, Health:Nursing, Natural science:Biology
Excel Skills: Basic Arithmetic:Percent (format), Nested Formulas, Graphs and Charts:XY Scatterplot:One Plot, Multiple Plots, Basic Arithmetic:Simple Formulas
First Accounting Cycle, 1 -- Classifying Accounting Data Using Excel part of Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum:General Collection:Examples
Spreadsheets across the Curriculum module. Students build a spreadsheet to post financial transactions and use a table-lookup function to classify them.
Subject: Business, economics and finance : Business
Excel Skills: Other Manipulations and Functions:Lookup Functions
First Accounting Cycle, 2 -- Sorting and Grouping Data Using Excel part of Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum:General Collection:Examples
Spreadsheets across the Curriculum module. Students work with the spreadsheet they created in Part I to sort and classify the data they entered using a Pivot Table.
Subject: Business, economics and finance : Business
Excel Skills: Other Manipulations and Functions:Pivot Table, Pivot Chart
Buffer Capacity in Chemical Equilibrium: How long can you hyperventilate before severe alkalosis sets in? part of Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum:General Collection:Examples
Subject: Natural science:Chemistry, Biology
Excel Skills: Graphs and Charts:XY Scatterplot, Basic Arithmetic:Nested Formulas
The Digital Divide: A Data Analysis Activity Using Subtotals part of Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum:General Collection:Examples
Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum module. Students analyze a given data set to understand the "Digital Divide" by means of percentages and the Subtotal tool in Excel.
Subject: Mathematics, statistics and computers:Computers, Statistics
Excel Skills: Basic Arithmetic:Percent (format), Other Manipulations and Functions, :Data/Sort, Basic Arithmetic
Exercise to Calculate River Discharge part of Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum:General Collection:Examples
Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum module. Students use field data from rivers to understand how river discharge is calculated.
Subject: Natural science:Earth science
Excel Skills: Basic Arithmetic
The Price is Right - Or is it? part of Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum:General Collection:Examples
Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum module. Students learn through the use of spreadsheets how to optimize profits and revenues.
Subject: Business, economics and finance : Business , Business, economics and finance
Excel Skills: Basic Arithmetic, Graphs and Charts, :XY Scatterplot
Calculating Readability part of Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum:General Collection:Examples
Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum module. Students use the Gunning FOG Index, the Flesch Reading Ease Scale and the FORCAST Readability Formula to understand the readability level of a given passage.
Subject: Humanities: Reading and writing
Excel Skills: Basic Arithmetic:Simple Formulas
Maximize the Volume of a Box: Exploring Polynomial Functions part of Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum:General Collection:Examples
Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum module. Students build spreadsheets to find the maximum volume of an open-top box by cut-and-folding a sheet of cardboard.
Subject: Mathematics, statistics and computers:Mathematics
Excel Skills: Basic Arithmetic:Simple Formulas, Graphs and Charts:XY Scatterplot, Graphs and Charts, Basic Arithmetic
