Wednesday, April 26th- 7th Grade- Presentation Test and Start Spreadsheet Unit

Archdale-Trinity Middle School Lesson Plan
Date: 04-26-2017

Teacher:	Witkowski
Lesson/Unit Topic:	Spreadsheet- What are Spreadsheets? Careers?
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.	Students understand what a Spreadsheet is and can list different examples.

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

1. Open PowerPoint 4

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

Guided Lesson: @ Miss W will review Presentation Test instructions @  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. “Spreadsheet Vocabulary PowerPoint Presentation” describing uses of spreadsheets (slides 1-8) Independent Exercise: Students will take the open PowerPoint Presentation Test In pairs, list the different buttons (icons) for the Spreadsheet ribbon. 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.

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

Exit Activity #4: Test Review 10 steps create a picture game- must complete picture within 2 attempts http://www.quia.com/pp/279397.html Exit Activity #5:   Exit Activity #6: