Tues, Oct 1: 7th Grade: Spreadsheet Uses

Bellringer:
1. Open your PowerPoint project.
2. Open up your Typing document
3. Turn to page 59 of your typing book.
4.  Type Line 7  - hyphen key
5.  Turn to page 60 of your typing book. 6   Type Line 11 
     _ underscore key (need to use Shift key)

What are we learning?
Spreadsheet basics

4.1	Know the components of Spreadsheets

Announcements:

• Interim report pick up Today 4 to 6
• Wednesday class pick up if you don't come Today
• Will need to have parents sign interim reports
• Everything but the last PowerPoint Project will be on interims
• We will share PowerPoints once corrections are made.
• Today is ATMS Dominos Pizza Night
• Animation Technology Club Meeting Today
• Today we will be in the Spreadsheet folder 

Guided Lesson:@ Students will complete the Text Based Questions
@ Spreadsheet vocabulary PowerPoint

Independent Activity:
What are we learning today?
The uses of spreadsheets and how having this skill can help you get a job.
 

106,344 jobs require knowing how to use spreadsheets.
 3,000 jobs are in North Carolina.

Go to  http://www.simplyhired.com/a/jobs/list/q-spreadsheet

and look at your monitor number.
Go to that number's page and find one job that needs spreadsheets.
You will need to give the name of the job and a sentence that DESCRIBES the job.

For example: If you are sitting at monitor 20, go to page 20 and pick one job from that page.

“Spreadsheet PowerPoint Presentation”
describing uses of spreadsheets (slides 1-8)

Who uses spreadsheets? Uses of 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.

Group activity- Students will act out charades of Spreadsheet occupations.  http://www.teach-ict.com/gcse_new/spreadsheets/spreadsheets/miniweb/pg9.htm

Exit Activity:http://www.learninggamesforkids.com/keyboarding_games/keyboarding_games_typing_adventure1.html