Friday, Oct 4- 8th Grade- Databases- Which field type should you use?

Bellringer:
1. Open your Project Summary.
2. Open up your Typing document
3. Turn to page 65 of your typing book.
4.  Type Line 4  alphabet review
5.  Turn to page 65 of your typing book.
6   Type Line 5  alphabet review  

What are we learning?
Understand the basics of databases. 
How is database information used, organized, and managed in business? 
What formatting options are available when creating databases?
 

Guided Lesson:
@ Check your Project Summary for the following items:
    1. Paragraphs are tabbed or indented.
    2. All sentences begin with a Capital Letter.
    3. All sentences end with a period.
    4. You have spell checked and grammar checked it. 
    5. Switch with another person and read their project summary.
        Help them find mistakes.
    6. Do NOT print yet!!!!

@ What is a database? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-bvjtYgRVU
start at 1:10 explains relationships to 5:50

Independent Lesson:
Open the Database Fundamentals PowerPoint

Continue the Review of Database Tables worksheet.
Use slide 1 and write the Database definition on the bottom of page 1, 
Use slide 21 to help with the top and middle questions on page 2

Please remember you only use the Numbers field if you want to calculate something.
Use slide 18 to help with the questions on the bottom of page 2.
 

Go to http://www.expedia.com/
Students will start on airline database worksheet.
Miss W will walk through how to gather data for the first example.

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