Wednesday, Feb 27 - Spreadsheets and Careers

Bellringer:
On page 44, type lines 9 and 10 and 14

Guided lesson:

“Spreadsheet PowerPoint Presentation”
describing uses of spreadsheets (slides 11-15)
(what if analysis, charts and graphs)

Who uses spreadsheets? People, who use spreadsheets http://www.teach-ict.com/gcse_new/spreadsheets/spreadsheets/miniweb/pg9.htm

Charades- each group of three will have 3 minutes to come up with a way to act out one of the people below using spreadsheets. They can say anything but the name of the person.
For example: They can not say "Look at me, I'm an accountant."

Accountants, Teachers,
Engineers, Sales people,
Scientists, Supermarkets,

Market Researchers.

Car lot exercise-
1*Students will create a spreadsheet of dream cars that they would have in their own car lot business.
2*Open the "car lot" file found in student docs, Witkowski folder, Spreadsheet folder and save to your lunch number.

3*Students will go to http://www.carmax.com and find 3 cars and type the information (year, make(brand), model(name), miles, and price) into their spreadsheets.

Write and answer questions 11 and 12 from the Spreadsheet Vocabulary PowerPoint.

If there is time, we will review the following daily spreadsheet skill exercises:

Skill 7- format table, Skill 13- data bars, Skill 23- change color of tabs,
Skill 31 formatting cells, Skill 24- transpose data, 18- themes,
and 16 hide and show rows

Exit Activity

How much do you remember about Spreadsheets? By yourself or with a partner take turns and play http://www.quia.com/hm/174125.html?AP_rand=933500499&playHTML=1