Well, the laptop I have right now doesn't have Word, Excel or Powerpoint (lame, I know, but what do you expect for $40?) but I have used them all in the past.
I did use Word recently for an art project where I had to have a colorful border on it. I was surprised to find a lot of clip art borders that were really fun! One project I would use for students using Word is doing book reports. They can get creative with it and create a cover page with borders or clip art.
A project students could do with power point is to have them make a slide show for an oral presentation. You could have them include a balance of both text and pictures to get their point across. Students could take pictures of themselves and incorprate them into the presentation.
Excel I have only used at work, but I'm sure it has it's uses in the classroom as well. Students can use it for making charts to analyze data. They could put all the students names across the top and then down the sides have how many pets they have or how many people in their family, etc. The students could fill out the chart and compare and contrast the chart to find data such as the average number of people in each household, or how many people have dogs vs. cats, etc.
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