Week of May 2- May 6 (Week A)

Monday, May 2

Create a simple survey question and ask your classmates. It can be a yes/no question, a preference question, or a question with a few possible answers.

Ask everyone in the room your question and record their answers.

In the last 10-15 minutes of class, take what you learned and your survey to create YOUR OWN spread sheet and chart (of your choice)

Independent Work Period

1. Organize the information you gathered

2. Turn that information into a chart

3. Customize your chart with a title, color and extra information

4. Copy your chart into MS Word, add your name to the top of the page and email it to me.

Tuesday, May 3

We have used excel to keep track of survey data, but we can also use excel to organize other types of information. For example, I can use excel to keep track of the gifts I am buying for people:

Independent Work Period

Today we’re going shopping (everyone’s favorite activity, I know)

1. You are going to start creating a DETAILED Excel spreadsheet of ALL the items YOU want for holidays, your birthday, or just because, this year.

2. Details should include size, color, where it can be bought, cost and the category it is (clothes, technology, books etc) You can choose your OWN categories.

Email your work at the end of the period... we will continue working with it tomorrow...

Wednesday, May 4

Open your gift spreadsheet from yesterday.
Some Vocabulary:

Word wrapping is making the words appear in the same cell on multiple lines

Data sorting is organizing the information in your spreadsheet after you have already typed it.

Independent Work Period

Your list of 20 items you want for the holidays is DUE today at the end of the class.

1.Word Wrap your words

2.Make sure it’s organized alphabetically by item! (use Data sort for this)

3.Email your work to me.

Thursday, May 5

Independent Work Period

1. Open up your gift wishlist spreadsheet and Add up the COST of all the gifts you want

2. Create a spread sheet of your grades and then figure out your average using the averaging tool

3. Email your work to me.

Friday 5/6
Blogging Day
Creating Pages in an existing Blog
The post for May 6th is up above this post... scroll up up up... it's before Monday, May 2.