Lesson Plans for February 22-26, 2016

Monday-

Topics:  Amusement Park project

Activities: Students to create a flyer for their amusement park for a certain night.  Must fill an entire sheet in Word.

Tuesday-

Topics:  Amusement park project

Activities:  Students to design a T-shirt for their park.    Should contain the following:  name of park, slogan, appropriate picture, any other relevant info you might want to include.

Wednesday-

Topics:  Amusement park project

Activities:  In Excel, create a chart using any information relevant to your park information, rides, etc.  As a group you should be able to come up with something. Be sure to:  1.  Chart must be a vertical bar chart 2.  Must contain a title, x-axis title, and y-axis title 3.  contain a legend  4.  bars must be black and white represented by PATTERNS, not colors (as we don’t have a color printer).  Put group members name in header.  Print chart.

Thursday-Friday

Topics:  Amusement park project

Activities:  Wrap up any unfinished part of project.  Completed project will count as a daily grade AND a test grade so make sure that you include everything listed on criteria sheet.  Begin to prepare to present your project as a group to class.  You may want to add your flyer, T-shirt design and chart to your PowerPoint or print off to give to other class members. Present project to class on Monday!

 

Lesson Plans for February 8-12, 2016

Monday-

Teacher inservice.  No class for students!

Tuesday-

Topics:  Review PowerPoint basics

Activities:  Students to finish About Me project

Wednesday-

Topics:  Presenting to an audience

Activities:  Students to present their “About Me” PowerPoint projects to the class.

Thursday-

Topics:  Amusement Park project

Activities:  Discuss Amusement Park project and requirements.  Students to choose groups of two then brainstorm ideas for their theme park.

Friday-

Topics:  Amusement park project

Activities:  Students to begin working on PowerPoint portion of amusement park project.  Completed project will be due next Friday.

 

 

 

 

January 25-29, 2016

Monday-

Topics:  Review information for next test (Advanced functions in Excel)

Activities:  Students will have the opportunity to correct their test review questions and ask questions as needed.

Wednesday-

Topics:  Advanced functions in Excel

Activities:  Students will participate in Kahoot.it test review game in class (BIM II Advanced Excel functions).  Top 2 scorers will receive bonus points on their test.

Thursday-Friday

Topics: Advanced functions in Excel

Activities:  Test over advanced functions in Excel

Lesson Plans for January 18-22, 2016

Monday-

Holiday!

Tuesday-

Topics:  Discuss working with PivotTables and PivotCharts

Activities:  Students will take notes and practice new skills as we go through the Lesson 36 Try-Its on pp. 621-626 together. They will need to save their work into practice folder on their flash drive.

Wednesday-

Topics:  PivotTables and PivotCharts

Activities:  Students will reinforce yesterday’s learning by completing the Lesson 36 practice and Apply on pp. 626-629 on the computer.  Students will need to save work to Excel folder on flash drive and print when complete.

Thursday- Friday

Topics:  Test review over using advanced functions in Excel

Activities:  Students to complete Test review questions using notes, book, and computer.

 

Lesson Plans for January 11-15, 2016

Monday

Topics:  Using advanced functions for Data Analysis

Activities:  Students will reinforce yesterday’s learning b y completing the Lesson 34 Practice and Apply on pp. 611-613 on the computer.  Students will need to save to Excel folder on flash drive and print when complete.

Tuesday-Wednesday

Topics:  Using Lookup functions in Excel

Activities:  Students will take notes and practice new skills as we go through the Lesson 35 Try-Its on p. 615 together.  (Save work into Practice folder).  They will then complete Job 91 to reinforce the Vertical Lookup function. Students will need to save work into Excel folder on flash drive then print where indicated.

Thursday-Friday

Topics:  Review HLookup function in Excel

Activities:  Students to complete Job 92 over HLookup function on the computer.  Students will need to save work into Excel folder on flash drive then print where indicated.

 

 

 

 

Lesson Plans for January 4-8, 2016

Monday-

Topics:  Exam results; objectives for next chapter (advanced functions)

Activities:  Students to define the vocabulary for the next section in Excel over Advanced functions from pp. 596, 603-4, 614, 620 (21 words).  If students type words on computer, they will need to save work as Advanced Excel functions into the Excel folder of their flash drive and print.

Tuesday-

Topics:  Using advanced functions to predict trends

Activities:  Students will practice new skills on the computer as we go through the Lesson 33 Try-Its on pp. 597-600 together.  Students will need to save their work into their Practice folder on their flash drive.

Wednesday-

Topics:  Using advanced functions to predict trends

Activities:  Students will reinforce yesterday’s learning by completing the Lesson 33 Practice and Apply on pp. 600-602 on the computer.  Students will need to save to Excel folder on flash drive and print when complete.

Thursday-

Topics:  Using Advanced Functions for Data Analysis

Activities:  Students will practice new skills on the computer as we go through the Lesson 34 Try-Its on pp. 604-610 together.  Students will need to save their work into their Practice folder on their flash drive.

Friday-

Topics:  Using Advanced functions for Data Analysis

Activities:  Students will reinforce yesterday’s learning by completing the Lesson 34 Practice and Apply on pp. 611-613 on the computer.  Students will need to save to Excel folder on flash drive and print when complete.

 

Lesson Plans for December 7-11, 2015

Monday-

Topics:  Test results; objectives for next section

Activities:  Students to define the vocabulary for the next section (Excel Charts) on pp. 506-507, 520, 526, & 530 (20 words total).

Tuesday

Topics:  Review creating charts in Excel.

Activities:   Students to take notes over creating charts in Excel, practice skills, then complete Job 58 over column charts on the computer.  Students will save into Excel folder on flash drive and print work when complete.

Wednesday

Topics:  Creating pie charts in Excel

Activities:  Students to take notes over creating a pie chart in Excel, practice skills, then complete Jobs 13 & 60 on the computer.  Students will save into Excel folder on flash drive and print work when complete.

Thursday-

Topics:  Reinforce skills dealing with creating charts in Excel

Activities:  Students will complete Jobs 61 & 62 over creating different types of chart in Excel.  Students will save into Excel folder on flash drive and print work when complete.

Friday-

Activities:  Students will be given time to finish any unfinished computer work from this week.

 

Lesson Plans for Nov. 30-Dec. 4, 2015

Monday-Tuesday

Topics:  Reinforcement of PMT function in Excel and other personal business topics

Activities:  Students are to find two vehicles that they would like to purchase.  Must find cost of vehicle on Internet and note website where found.  Students are to then figure out monthly payments on their vehicles given different criteria.  Save and print when complete.

Wednesday-

Topics:  Review of formulas and functions

Activities:  Students will complete semester exam review over formulas and functions in Excel.  If don’t finish in class, for homework.

Thursday-

Topics: Review of formulas and functions

Activities:  Students to participate in Test review game over formulas and functions.  Winning team will receive 5 bonus points on their test grade.

Friday-

Activities:  Test over formulas and functions

Lesson Plans for November 16-20, 2015

Monday-

Topics:  Reinforcement of Excel formulas

Activities:  Students to complete Job 14 over formulas on the computer.  Save into Excel folder on flash drive and print when complete.

Tuesday

Topics:  Review of Excel functions;  SUM function

Activities:  Students to take notes, then complete Job 29 over the SUM function on the computer.  Save and print when complete.

Wednesday

Topics:  Review of other common functions (SUM, AVERAGE, MAX, MIN, COUNT)

Activities:  Students to take notes, practice functions with teacher, then complete function review on computer (Class Grades).  Must use functions, not regular formulas.  Save and print when complete.

Thursday-

Topics:  IF function

Activities:  Students to take notes, practice functions with teacher, then complete the “No jacket needed” exercise over the IF function on the computer.  Save and print when complete.

Friday-

Topics:  PMT function

Activities:  Students to take notes, practice functions with teacher, then complete exercise over PMT function on computer (COMP).  Save and print when complete.