Tuesday, March 3, 2015

Wednesday, Mar 4th- 7th Grade- Spreadsheets -What if statements

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Archdale-Trinity Middle School
Lesson Plan
 
Date: 03-04-2015



Teacher:
Witkowski

Lesson/Unit Topic:
Spreadsheets

Standards:
SSB-1 Know the components of Spreadsheets



“I Can…” Statement
Criteria for Success-Formative/Summative Assessments
I can find and use different features of Excel.
Students use different features of Excel.


Literacy/Vocabulary Strategies (Word Wall)
Spreadsheet, Budget, Grades, Loans, Inventory, Ribbon, Tab, Group, Worksheet, What If Analysis
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Bell-Ringer/Connecting Strategy
On page 21, type lines 9 and 10.
Remember to use your thumb for the space bar.
We are using our RIGHT PINKY finger for the RIGHT SHIFT  key
Lesson-Instructional Strategies & Procedures for Teacher and Students
(Detailed Plans Including Best Practices, Researched Based Strategies)
Guided Practice:

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.


“Spreadsheet Vocabulary PowerPoint Presentation”
describing uses of worksheets and tabs (slide 10)

What if Analysis:
* Open Spreadsheet Vocabulary PowerPoint and go to slide 11 to 12.
* Students will open an new Excel file and type the 4 formulas on the green paper.
* Students will practice What if Analysis by changing the values in B7 and C7.
Independent Exercise:
Car lot exercise-  
1*Students will gather data to create a spreadsheet of dream cars that they would have in their own car lot business.
2*Students will go to http://www.carmax.com and find cars and write the information
(year, make(brand), model(name), miles, and price) on their worksheet.
3*Open the "car lot" file found in the student docs, Witkowski folder, Spreadsheet folder
and save to your lunch number
.

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 is What If analysis?
Student Technology/Differentiation
Students will use an Excel file to understand what is What if analysis
Closure Strategy

Exit Activity #6:

Exit Activity #7:
Choose home row and easy. Turn off sound.




Monday, March 2, 2015

Tuesday, March 3rd Short Cut Links

If you are a 7th Grade Student, click here: http://wclassroom.blogspot.com/2015/03/tuesday-march-3rd-7th-grade-beginning.html?_sm_au_=iVVlt4MZ3tTM3Fs7


If you are a 8th Grade Student, click here: http://wclassroom.blogspot.com/2015/03/tuesday-march-3rd-8th-grade-database.html?_sm_au_=iVVlt4MZ3tTM3Fs7

Tuesday, March 3rd- 8th Grade- Database Field Types

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Archdale-Trinity Middle School
Lesson Plan
 
Date: 03-03-2015



Teacher:
Witkowski

Lesson/Unit Topic:
Databases- Tables

Standards:
DB-1 Know the use and purpose of a database



“I Can…” Statement
Criteria for Success-Formative/Summative Assessments
I can understand why databases can have more than one table.
Students understand the use of tables in a database.


Literacy/Vocabulary Strategies (Word Wall)
Database Tables- building blocks of databases.
All databases have at least one table.
This example is showing a 2 table database.
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Bell-Ringer/Connecting Strategy
On page 20, type lines 5 and 6.
Remember to use your thumb for the space bar.
We are using our left INDEX finger for the V key.
Lesson-Instructional Strategies & Procedures for Teacher and Students
(Detailed Plans Including Best Practices, Researched Based Strategies)
Guided Lesson:

@ Students will open in the DATABASE folder
the 1 Database Fundamentals PowerPoint

@ What is your favorite movie?
We are going to look at the Internet Movie Database http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0240772/
as we watch the following video.
   start at 1:10 explains relationships to 5:30
@ Class will practice identifying tables and records, fields, and entries.
@ Class will discuss the difference between text and number data field types.

Independent Lesson:
@ Complete the IMDB worksheet

@ Students will open in the DATABASE folder
the 2 Data types and field properties PowerPoint

@ Start the Review of Database Tables worksheet.
Use slide 18 to help with the field type definitions.
Please remember you only use the Numbers field if you want to calculate something.
@ Complete the "What is a database?" question by copying the
ENTIRE definition from slide 1 at the beginning of the PowerPoint.

Students will start on airline database worksheet.
Miss W will walk through how to gather data for the first example.

Homework- Extra Credit for 3rd test:
Ask your parents if they have a business card or
have one in their wallets from a business or
have a friend with a business card or the next
time you go into a business or they go into a
business see if they have a business card or
at home go to Google and then images and type
"business card" then print a business card.
If you give Miss W a business card sometime
this week you will get 5 points extra credit on
the second test. MUST be appropriate for school-
no alcohol, guns or bad words on cards.
MUST BE IN BY MONDAY


Higher Order Thinking Questions
Explain how a multi-table online database works?
Student Technology/Differentiation
Students will study a multi-table online database
Closure Strategy
Exit Activity #8:

Exit Activity #9:

Exit Activity #10:
October Game- Choose home row and easy. Turn off sound.



Tuesday, March 3rd- 7th Grade- Beginning Spreadsheets

Archdale-Trinity Middle School
Lesson Plan
 
Date: 03-03-2015


Teacher:
Witkowski

Lesson/Unit Topic:
Presentation 10 Steps Test and
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
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Bell-Ringer/Connecting Strategy
On page 20, type lines 5 and 6.
Remember to use your thumb for the space bar.
We are using our left INDEX finger for the V key.
Lesson-Instructional Strategies & Procedures for Teacher and Students
(Detailed Plans Including Practices, Researched Based Strategies)
Guided Lesson:
@ Directions for test and after test pre-spreadsheet activity.
@  93,694 jobs require knowing how to use spreadsheets.
      2,628 jobs are in North Carolina that require spreadsheet skills.

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:
@ Students take Presentation 10 steps test and complete pre-spreadsheet activity

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 #4:
Practice on the beginner level (#1 home row keys) at http://www.freetypinggame.net/play11.asp
Choose beginner if you are in the beginner category
Choose intermediate if you are in the average category
Click to turn off the sound.

Exit Activity #5:  Ribbon Vocabulary words
review words and definitions here http://quizlet.com/3089570/flashcards
then play activity here http://quizlet.com/3089570/scatter

Exit Activity #6:
Choose home row and easy. Turn off sound.

Exit Activity #7:
We are practicing for accuracy not speed.
If you get less than 95% accuracy; retake practice.

Exit Activity #8: