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Creating a student-friendly worksheet

Creating a student-friendly worksheet

From the course: Teacher Tips

Creating a student-friendly worksheet

Hello, and welcome to another Teacher Tips video. I'm Aaron Quigley. This week, we're going to talk about how we can use Microsoft Office to create better assignments for our students. Here on my screen, I've opened up a very simple Earth and Space worksheet. This is the kind of worksheet that a student would complete during an independent work activity. Right away, I notice that there's several things wrong with this worksheet. For a struggling reader, it seems like all the text is just merging together. There's not a lot of separation and not a lot of stylistic things to help students separate the text in their mind. Further, I also see that there's a lot of wasted space on this page. I'm looking at the margins on the top and the right and the left and I can see that there's a ton of white space that we could utilize to help make this a better student worksheet. Let's go ahead and dive in to reworking this worksheet to make it more student friendly. Then, once we've created a more…

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