Gemma Crowell

September 23, 2015

Artifact Description: Utilizing Microsoft Excel in creating a spreadsheet for McDonald's
products and its stock price.
What you learned: I have learned to enter data in cells and columns, find out its sum, average, or
percentage, and make an accompanying bar graph, line graph, and pie chart. I have also tapped
into what I have learned from previous assignments, like adding color or text. It feels a little
easier navigating through a software other than Word. I know that next time, and with more
practice, I can be better and faster in creating a spreadsheet for anything.
National Educational Standards for Students (NETS)S Addressed: Standard #4 Students use
critical thinking skills to plan and conduct research, manage projects, solve problems, and make
informed decisions using appropriate digital tools and resources. Found at
http://www.iste.org/standards/iste-standards/standards-for-students.
Application of Skills Learned for the Future: In schools, students can use spreadsheets to
supplement their assignments or projects. For a math class, the children can do surveys of their
classmates' favorite food, colors, activities, etc. They can use multi-colored candies, crayons, or
blocks to count, sort by color, and write the number in the columns when using Excel. When
they study history, they can make graphs of the population, number of wars or presidents, and
make a chart of people's choice of transportation. In science, they can also track weather
temperatures and create graphs of the weather, record the growth of plants, the number of stars
they see each night, or compare the sizes of the planets and create bar or line graphs for it. So,
these are just some of the ways for using the technology in creating a spreadsheet when it is
included in any class project or assignment. Its uses is as limitless and varied as a man's
imagination.