Friday, October 17, 2014

intro to excel

Objectives:  

Students will be able to
open excel
be able to label and explain the major parts of the excel interface
create a basic excel document
enter, select and format data
insert and resize rows and columns
sort information in a list
sort by several columns at once
filter a list by custom criteria and reset filters


Today's Agenda 

A.  Answer the following questions, on the blog.

1.  What is Excel?
2.  What do you think you, as a student, can use Excel for?
3.  Have you used Excel before?
4.  If yes, how have you used it.

B.  Label and discuss the Excel interface, shared with you electronically but also have hard copies for anyone interested)

C.  Complete some guided practice and tutorials in Excel, creating a new document, formatting, and sorting and filtering.

7 comments:

  1. 1. Excel is a program that you can organize things in cells.
    2. I think i can use it for science and math.
    3. No i have never used excel before
    4.

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  2. 1i think is where you can graph numbers
    2 student could use excel to graph
    3 no

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  3. 1. Excel is a site where you organize information.
    2. I think i can use it for science
    3. Yes.
    4. I once used it in science in 8th grade to make graphs

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  4. 1. Excel is a spreadsheet where you can organize data and create charts.
    2. I can use excel for lab reports, projects, and organization.
    3. Yes.
    4. For lab reports creating charts and graphs and for projects making models.

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  5. Excel is when you organize things in a cell
    I think i can use it for science
    No

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  6. 1. Excel is a program you can use to organize multiple sets of data into one easy to read sheet.
    2. a student could use excel for a science and math data collection or if they were keeping track survey responses.
    3. No, i have never used excel before but i hope to learn how to use it.

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  7. 1.Excel is a program to help make graphs and charts.
    2. I can use it to graph data
    3.yes, I have used it
    4. I used it in science to graph

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