Wednesday, November 19, 2014

Thursday, Nov 20th- 7th Grade- Spreadsheet- Date functions

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Archdale-Trinity Middle School
Lesson Plan
 
Date: 11-20-2014



Teacher:
Witkowski

Lesson/Unit Topic:
Spreadsheet- Date functions

Standards:
SSB-1 Know the components of Spreadsheets
SSB-2 Know Spreadsheet operations



“I Can…” Statement
Criteria for Success-Formative/Summative Assessments
I can create a DATE function.
Students can create date functions.


Literacy/Vocabulary Strategies (Word Wall)

The DATE functions are important for businesses because they can do all types of sales analysis.

Why is the Friday after Thanksgiving called Black Friday?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dashboard_(business)
Dashboard (business)

Bell-Ringer/Connecting Strategy

On page 91, type lines 6 and 7.
We are using our LEFT INDEX finger for the 5  key.

Lesson-Instructional Strategies & Procedures for Teacher and Students
(Detailed Plans Including Best Practices, Researched Based Strategies)

Guided Lesson:
@ Miss W will start to explain more advance Spreadsheet functions like:
    Date, Now, Days360
@ Open a new Spreadsheet
@ In cell B7 insert the Now function
@ In cell B10 insert the Date function and enter 2015 for year, 6 for month and 9 for day.
@ We are now going to see how many days until the end of school!
@ In cell D12 insert the Days360 function Start date is B7 and End Date is B10
@ This will give you how many days before your next Student Day Off.

@ Lets find how many days until Christmas.
@ Change the number in B10 to  2015 for year, 12 for month and 25 for day.

@ Lets find how many days until your birthday. :)
@ Change the number in B10 to your birthday.

 
Independent Exercise:
@ WRITE your NAME on the top of the Advanced Functions Notes Worksheet.
@ Students will start the Overview of Advanced Functions Notes Worksheet by
completing the notes (copying the information in Function, Use and Example)     
for IF, Date, Now and Days360

If time:
@ Students will answer questions about on the spreadsheet crossword puzzle.



Higher Order Thinking Questions

What is the difference between the Date function, the Now function and the Days360 function?

Student Technology/Differentiation

Students will use Excel to create Date, Now and Days360 functions.

Closure Strategy

Exit Activity 11: Spreadsheet Review
2 items you may have forgotten:
Absolute value- is when you need cells to remain the same when copied
# means the column is too narrow and you need to make it wider to see the data






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