Time Management for Students

Task: Create a spreadsheet to allow students to see how they spend their time. Create an area for students to
list the tasks they perform in a day and the amount of time it takes to complete them. Then, chart
the time using a pie chart.

Activity Time Spent

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or students to
 Learning to Save
Tracking Allowance Money

Task: Create a spreadsheet to allow students to track their allowance money over time. How much money will
they have if they save for a year? Set up the application to add up the money they make every week
for a year.

Date Saved Total

w much money will
ake every week
 Understanding Population Numbers
Task: Students many times have difficulty understanding (fathoming) numbers in a practical way.
Create a chart to illustrate the "meaning" and reality of these numbers.

Country Population
China 1,335,962,133
India 1,161,620,000
USA 306,168,000
 Understanding Large Numbers
How Many Seconds Have I Been Alive?

Task: How large is a million, or a billion? What do these numbers really mean? Let's bring these numbers down
to the students' level by showing them in terms they will understand what these numbers mean.
Enter formulas to determine how long a student has been alive.

Enter age:

days
hours
minutes
seconds
e numbers down
 Using Spreadsheets to Change Lives
Task: Students hear words of advice from many sources, but it doesn't necessarily motivate them to modify
their behavior. Look how effective this spreadsheet can be to gain attention and show relevance and
importance of this subject to learners. Enter a formula in F21 to calculate money spent.

Every cigarette smoked cuts at least five minutes of life on average - about the time

Packs of cigarettes smoked:

Total cigarettes: 0 Lifetime Smokin

Amount of time lost from life: 0.0 minutes Packs per day:
0.0 hours Years smoking:
0.0 days
0.0 years

Price per pack of cigarettes:

Money spent on cigarettes: $0.00

m to modify

age - about the time taken to smoke it.

Lifetime Smoking Calculator

Packs per day:

Years smoking:

0 packs per year

0 total packs
 Distances from Earth to Planets
Task: Astronomical distances are difficult to calculate. Calculate the amount of time it would take to travel from
Earth to the various planets in a car.

Jetliner Car
Planet Miles from Earth hours days years hours days years
Sun 92,957,100 161,664.5 6,736.0 18.45
Mercury 56,973,490 99,084.3 4,128.5 11.31
Venus 25,724,740 44,738.7 1,864.1 5.11
Earth 0 0.0 0.0 0.00
Moon 238,857 415.4 17.3 0.05
Mars 48,678,200 84,657.7 3,527.4 9.66
Jupiter 390,674,900 679,434.6 28,309.8 77.56
Saturn 795,230,900 1,383,010.3 57,625.4 157.88
Uranus 1,690,992,900 2,940,857.2 122,535.7 335.71
Neptune 2,705,884,900 4,705,886.8 196,078.6 537.20

jetliner 575 mph (500 knots; 1 knot = 1.15 mph)

car 65 mph

Explore more:
Video of Planetary Distances
Visual Distances if Planets Were Pixels
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