Thursday, February 18th- 7th Grade- Beginning Spreadsheets

Archdale-Trinity Middle School Lesson Plan
Date: 02-18-2016

Teacher:	Witkowski
Lesson/Unit Topic:	Beginning Spreadsheets
Standards:	SSB-1 Know the components of Spreadsheets

“I Can…” Statement	Criteria for Success-Formative/Summative Assessments
I can explain what a spreadsheet is. I can list examples of spreadsheets

Literacy/Vocabulary Strategies (Word Wall)

Spreadsheet, Budget, Grades, Loans, Inventory- items a business owns, that they sell to make money https://www.flickr.com/photos/microsoftsweden/5395284268/

Bell-Ringer/Connecting Strategy

Go to wclassroom.blogspot.com If you did not FINISH FLASHCARDS GO TO https://quizlet.com/

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

@ We will watch 5 narrative presentations each day. Guided Lesson: @  93,694 jobs require knowing how to use spreadsheets.       2,628 jobs are in North Carolina that require spreadsheet skills. 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 Vocabulary PowerPoint Presentation” describing uses of spreadsheets (slides 1-8) Independent Exercise: 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.   Homework: Students need to decide for which ACADEMIC topic (Typing Posture/Technique, Language Arts, Science, Social Studies, or Math) they will create a PowerPoint presentation soon. We will be using the PowerPoint you create to learn different old and new features of PowerPoint 2010.

Higher Order Thinking Questions

What type of activities benefit from using a spreadsheet?

Student Technology/Differentiation

Students will use http://www.simplyhired.com/a/jobs/list/q-spreadsheet to review careers that require spreadsheet knowledge.

Closure Strategy

@ Students will complete online flashcards for the test items they missed. Students will create online flashcards at http://quizlet.com/ Exit Activity #1:  Ribbon Vocabulary words review words and definitions here http://quizlet.com/3089570/flashcards then play activity here http://quizlet.com/3089570/scatter