Thursday, March 5, 2015

Friday, March 6th- 7th Grade- Creating a Spreadsheet

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Archdale-Trinity Middle School
Lesson Plan
 
Date: 03-06-2015



Teacher:
Witkowski

Lesson/Unit Topic:
Spreadsheets- Gathering Data

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)
Tab, Pie graph, Worksheets
of Canada Pie Chart.png
Bell-Ringer/Connecting Strategy
On page 24, type lines 5 and 6.
Remember to use your thumb for the space bar.
We are using our left RING finger for the W key.
Make sure you use the shift keys to capitalize the words!
Lesson-Instructional Strategies & Procedures for Teacher and Students
(Detailed Plans Including Best Practices, Researched Based Strategies)
Guided Lesson:
1. Open the Spreadsheet Vocabulary file
Slides 21 through 25   Parts of a Spreadsheet  In the Witkowski folder then the Spreadsheet folder
@ Go to the SS flash card folder and open up 23 change color of tabs
This is an example of a workbook with 12 worksheets.
@  Open up 22 Pie Chart.
     This is an example of the Insert tab and then the Design tab (chart layouts)
@ What if you make a mistake choosing the chart?
Open up 9 Chart Types and Styles
    --click on the chart
    --On the Design tab, click on the Change Chart button --Select a column chart
   --On the Design tab, click on the Chart Styles arrow and find the orange/black choice.

Independent Activity:
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* Students will enter information into their car lot file.
If time:
SS Flash cards file
Open 7 Format Table    (format as table button)
SS Flash cards file  (conditional formatting button)
Open 13 Data Bars

SS Flash cards file   (border button and percent button)
Open 31 Formatting Cells

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
Which tab will be used for the different formatting activity and why?
Student Technology/Differentiation
Students continue to create a car lot spreadsheet.
Closure Strategy

Exit Activity #6:

Exit Activity #7:

Exit Activity #8:
Choose home row and easy. Turn off sound.

Exit Activity #9:  Ribbon Vocabulary words
review words and definitions here http://quizlet.com/3089570/flashcards
then play activity here http://quizlet.com/3089570/scatter




Wednesday, March 4, 2015

Thursday, March 5th Short Cut Links

If you are a 7th Grade Student, click here: http://wclassroom.blogspot.com/2015/03/thursday-march-5th-7th-grade.html?_sm_au_=iVVv5J1rMMVjZqsV


If you are a 8th Grade Student, click here:  http://wclassroom.blogspot.com/2015/03/thursday-march-5th-8th-grade-databases.html?_sm_au_=iVVv5J1rMMVjZqsV

Thursday, March 5th- 8th Grade- Databases- Field types

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Archdale-Trinity Middle School
Lesson Plan
 
Date: 03-05-2015


Teacher:
Witkowski

Lesson/Unit Topic:
Databases- Gathering Data for a Database

Standards:
DB-2 Know the data types associated with a database


“I Can…” Statement
Criteria for Success-Formative/Summative Assessments
I can gather data for a database.
TEST ON TUESDAY
Students can collect information for a database.

Literacy/Vocabulary Strategies (Word Wall)
Here is an example of another student database.
There are 3 records (Shanaka, Shanika, and Billy)
There are 3 fields you can see (Title, Address, Age) and 1 field that is cut off
The field type is text for Title and Address.
If they are going to do math (find averages) with the Age field they should use the number field type.
If they are not going to math with the Age field they should use the text field type.
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/indi/27936551/
Bell-Ringer/Connecting Strategy
On page 21, type lines 13 and 14.
Remember to use your thumb for the space bar.
We are using our right RING finger for the . (PERIOD) key.
Make sure you use the shift keys to capitalize the words!
Lesson-Instructional Strategies & Procedures for Teacher and Students
(Detailed Plans Including Best Practices, Researched Based Strategies)
Guided Practice:
@ Why do businesses use databases? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeVHLTkIXB8
  to minute 3:45
@ Miss W will explain about different field types for the vacation database.

Independent Lesson:
@ Students will start on airline database worksheet.
@ Miss W will review how to gather data for the first example.

    GSO- Greensboro
    RDU- Raleigh
    CLT- Charlotte      
Flight #


Airline
Departure City


Arrival City
Departure Time


Arrival Time
Length of Flight


Date Leaving
# of Stopovers


Cost of Trip
Independent Activity:
@Students will complete all 8 vacation spots on the airline database worksheet.
@ Students will create their vacation database.

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
How do I know which type of data goes into which field?
Student Technology/Differentiation
Students will use expedia.com to gather information for a database.
Closure Strategy
Exit Activity #8:

Exit Activity #9:


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

Exit Activity #11: Database Test Questions
The first database test will be on these questions.
There are some questions we have not covered yet.
To put data in a particular order is to sort.
Ascending is small to large, A-Z order.
Descending is large to small, Z-A order.
Two examples of connector words are OR and AND.
A feature that displays records that meet one or more specific
criteria is a filter/query.


Exit Activity #12: Database terms

Exit Activity #13: Database terms