Excel+for+the+Elementary+Classroom

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//**Introduction**//

 This professional development is designed to help elementary teachers become familiar and comfortable with the Microsoft Office Spreadsheet (Excel) application.

This Microsoft Office Excel training course is designed for teachers new to working with Excel. Participants will learn the basics of creating, editing, and saving Excel worksheets. They will work with formulas to calculate and return values and will learn to change the appearance of a page, including adding headers and footers, formatting data, and creating charts. We will discuss uses, possible integrations, and best practices of Excel into the elementary curriculum.

Class Goals  Learn to identify basic worksheet and workbook concepts and terms.  Learn to enter and edit data.  Learn to modify worksheets and templates.  Learn to use formulas to calculate and return values.  Learn to format cells to enhance the appearance of a worksheet.  Learn to change the page setup to define how the printed worksheet appears.

** Professional Development Standards for This Training **
ISTE NETS 2008 for Teachers

** 1. Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity ** Teachers use their knowledge of subject matter, teaching and learning, and technology to facilitate experiences that advance student learning, creativity, and innovation in both face-to-face and virtual environments. Teachers: a. promote, support, and model creative and innovative thinking and inventiveness. b. engage students in exploring real-world issues and solving authentic problems using digital tools and resources.

Teachers exhibit knowledge, skills, and work processes representative of an innovative professional in a global and digital society. Teachers: a. demonstrate fluency in technology systems and the transfer of current knowledge to new technologies and situations.
 * 3. Model Digital-Age Work and Learning **


 * Why use Spreadsheets?**
 * Students make charts and graphs from spreadsheet records, learning to organize their ideas and present information to an audience. Charts add meaning to information, helping students to analyze and interpret data, as they identify the maximum and minimum, mean, median and mode of a data set.. The computer can generate bar graphs, line graphs and pie charts. Pie charts reinforce the idea of percentages as these are represented visually, and help students compare ratios. Students can make their own Bar Graphs by filling cells with color. **


 * All student computer resources in K-5 will have Microsoft Office installed, which contains Excel. **




 * Some examples of relevant spreadsheet usage:**
 * Spreadsheets act like a calculator by automatically doing calculations. **


 * Spreadsheets are used for tracking personal investments, budgeting, invoices, inventory tracking, statistical analysis, numerical modeling, address books, telephone books, printing labels, etc. **


 * Spreadsheets are used in almost every profession to calculate, graph, analyze and store information. **

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 * Spreadsheets are used for What-if calculations. Change one number in a spreadsheet and all the calculations in a large spreadsheet will re-calculate, will automatically change. **
 * Teachers will also have Microsoft Office installed on their Teacher Laptop...but be aware the teacher machines may have a newer version of Office installed than the students. If this is the case, you may want to utilize a student computer when modeling Excel for you students. (This may call for an additional adapter for the student computer to be used with the Teacher Station. **


 * Example of Teacher Lesson Plan**

**Example of Entering Data and Making a Basic Graph** Images for use:

How to Make a Pictograph

**Example of Entering Formulas** Directions for students to make a multiplication table. Also includes higher ordered thinking skills to make other tables using formulas.

**Tips for Entering Formulas** 1. Formulas are just equations. Instead of adding or subtracting numbers you are adding and subtracting the contents of a cell. 2. Excel includes a number of predefined functions to use as well. You can combine the predefined functions into your own formula. 3. When you type in formulas, the order of operations must be correct. The correct order is: parentheses, exponents, multiplication, division, addition, then subtraction. 4. Remember if you use formulas with equations in the numerator and denominator, you need to use parenthesis to force the spreadsheet to calculate them properly. 5. Make sure when copying a formula that you are copying the formula and not the results.

**Example Using the Average Temperature lesson to model inputting data and using various toolbars to manipulate data**.  [|Temperature Data] Inserting a Chart
 * 1) Select columns that you want to graph (make sure that you include the titles).
 * 2) Click the Insert - Chart icon on the Function Toolbar. (Or Click __I__nsert > Ch__a__rt... The "Chart Wizard" window appears.)
 * 3) Select the type of graph (chart) that you would like to create (bar, pie, linear, etc.).
 * 4) Then select Next>> three times.
 * 5) Type in the Title and a Subtitle, if desired.
 * 6) Then select Finish.
 * 7) You then can cut and paste the graph to put into the 3rd page labeled Charts.




 * Templates and Tutorials**

EconEd Link
 * Real Time Data**

Spreadsheet ideas from Linking Technology with Teaching Landmarks for Schools Raw Data