BASIC PRODUCTIVITY TOOLS: SPREADSHEETS

Name: Kristin Zupancic Grade Level: 2 Content Area: Math- Bar Graph Basic Productivity Tool Used: Microsoft Excel Standards Addressed: MCC2.MD.10 Draw a picture graph and a bar graph (with single-unit scale) to represent a data set with up to four categories. Solve simple put-together, take-apart, and compare problems using information presented in a bar graph. Blooms Level of Critical Thinking: Remembering Understanding

Applying

Analyzing

Evaluating

Creating

Description of how to implement in the class: Students will take a class survey of all of their classmates favorite color. With the results students will use Excel or Graph Club to make a bar graph of the information they received. Students will then compare their work with other students and write a paragraph stating what they learned about Excel, comparing results, and their classmates. Level of Technology Implementation (LoTi): This lesson is a LoTi level of 3. Students are at the analyizing level of Blooms Taxonomy and it is some what a discovery learning activity. Students do not have much input on the lesson and there is little real-world application. Description of the sample spreadsheet and graph/chart provided *:
Fruit Red Green Yellow Blue Purple Total 6 5 3 9 3

Red
Green Yellow Blue Purple

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Other comments about your proposed spreadsheet/graph/chart activity: Anything else you want to say. If you are using/adapting another persons lesson, cite the original source.