These are ideas on ways to use spreadsheet programs with your classes. These ideas are easily adaptable from one grade level to the next. I use Excel, because that's available in my computer lab.

Have students use Excel to make their own hundreds chart, ten grid frame, etc. Print these and let them use them with their math lessons.

Have students use Excel to create graphs and charts. Be sure each one includes a key. Have students exchange graphs and interpret each other's.

Have students complete simple graphs in Excel to chart characteristics of the class, such as eye color, hair color, etc.

Have students create charts in Excel, Word, or other program to record the lengths of the day and night and the seasons. Have them create charts to use to record observations of the shape of the moon. Print the charts and let the students use them in class. They can get recorded sunrises and sunsets from sites such as http://www.weather.com.

Have students use Excel to practice putting numbers into the correct place values. Have them label columns with each name, and then give them a list of numbers to put into the columns. Have them figure out which column the numbers go into.

Have students use Excel, Word, or other program to create timelines with the events that shaped the revolutionary movement. Be sure they include these:  the French and Indian War, British Imperial Policy that led to the 1765 Stamp Act, the slogan “no taxation without representation,” and the activities of the Sons of Liberty, and the Boston Tea Party.

Have students use the Internet to track weather changes for your area and to predict what these fronts will cause temperatures and other weather conditions to be. Have students use Excel or Word to record their predictions.
http://www.weather.com

Have students create graphs in Excel to show temperature changes when they place different colors of construction paper in sunlight. Their results should show a correlation between light colors and reflection, and dark colors and absorption.

Make spreadsheet to find out how many gifts were actually received during the twelve days of Christmas. (This is for older students.) You will have to use simple formulas (AutoSum).