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Archdale-Trinity Middle School
Lesson Plan
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Date: 10-20-2015
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Teacher:
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Witkowski
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Lesson/Unit Topic:
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Spreadsheets-
Functions- built in calculation shortcuts | |
Standards:
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SSB-1 Know the components of spreadsheets
SSB-3 Know spreadsheet operations
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“I Can…” Statement
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Criteria for Success-Formative/Summative Assessments
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I can use a function.
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Students use functions to get answers.
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Literacy/Vocabulary Strategies (Word Wall)
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What if we had 30 years of data and we wanted to find the
highest or MAXIMUM number in the data? We could look at
thousands of numbers or we could use the MAX function.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_maximum
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Bell-Ringer/Connecting Strategy
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Lesson-Instructional Strategies & Procedures for Teacher and Students
(Detailed Plans Including Best Practices, Researched Based Strategies)
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Guided Lesson:
=F2+F3+F4+F5
=Sum(F2:F5)
Finish the payroll file
It is important to understand the parts of a function (equals sign, function name, parentheses, beginning of the range, colon, ending of the range and parentheses).
Open the Understanding Functions Word document
Open up the "Functions goes with youtube" file.
Excel 2010 Tutorial- Functions
1 min to 3 min Functions
3 mins to 4:30 mins Range
4:30 mins to 8:30 mins Practice
Stop at Count function at 8:30 mins
Open the Spreadsheet Vocabulary file
Slides 35 through 41 (functions)
Open up the Hurricane file.
Class practice of Hurricane sheet using functions
We are going to practice inserting the following FUNCTIONS or shortcuts:
Sum- adds all of the numbers in a range
Max- finds the largest number in a range
Min- finds the lowest number in a range
Average- calculates the average of a range of numbers
Count- counts the numbers of entries in a range
Independent Activity:
@ Spreadsheet flashcard 32 calculates averages
@ Additional function practice as needed.
@ Students will critique Educational PowerPoint presentations.
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Higher Order Thinking Questions
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When and how should you use a function?
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Student Technology/Differentiation
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Students will use Excel to understand functions.
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Closure Strategy
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Exit Activity #10:
Work with partners.
You may use the Spreadsheet Vocabulary PowerPoint.
Play until you have won a million dollars
Exit Activity#11:
Working in pairs and using the PINK Study Guide answer the questions.
These will be the next test questions.
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