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8th grade critical thinking resources for Microsoft Excel
My Dream Car: A Microsoft Excel Project
I found that my students really enjoyed doing this Excel project in Computer Applications. Students will use Excel and its capabilities, to apply formulas and charts to a subject which they find fun and interesting, their dream car. They will choose several cars and will then do a cost analysis of their selected cars. To do this project, they have to select several cars, find cost and fuel economy information on those cars, download pictures of the cars and use Excel to do a cost analysis.
Grades:
7th - 12th
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Also included in: Microsoft EXCEL Activities - 6 PROJECTS!
Excel 2010 - Let's Plan a Party/Budget
TSW create an excel spreadsheet to prepare a budget for a birthday party. The budget is $1,000 for a Sweet 16 or Finally 16 (for the boys) party. The students will determine amount of supplies needed for 20 guests and create formulas to calculate expenses and stay within the budget.
Grades:
7th - 12th
AICE Thinking Skills - Curriculum and Exam Breakdowns
(This product had originally been mistakenly uploaded incorrectly and then fixed but the negative review has never been taken down)This product includes a day-by-day breakdown of an entire First Semester, which covers all skills involved for AS level except the writing application needed in questions #2 and #5 on Paper 2. It includes all AS level Problem Solving Skills for Paper 1, as well as the AS level skills needed for questions #1, #3 and #4 (RAVEN, Main Conclusion, Intermediate Conclusion,
Grades:
8th - 12th, Higher Education
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Solve Systems by Substitution | Set-Up Practice | Google Sheets and Excel MAZE
Do your students need help with substituting an integer, term or expression BEFORE actually solving a system? If so, this self-checking/self-guiding MAZE is for you!!A self-checking digital maze made on Google Sheets and Excel is a fun and interactive way for students to practice substituting an integer, term, and expression before actually solving a system of equations. This type of activity is especially helpful for students who struggle with algebraic concepts or who may make common mistakes
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Grades:
7th - 10th
Project Football in Excel
Students will research a favorite sports team and create an Excel spreadsheet listing players name, age, hometown, weight and height. Students will use the FUNCTION button in Excel to calculate the average age, weight and height of players on their team. Students will also write a one page summary on their data analysis and team information and can also create a PowerPoint presentation that includes Excel charts to analyze the team data.
Grades:
7th - 11th
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Group Discussion Rubric
Use this rubric whenever you have a class discussion. It provides a tangible way of grading these discussion, it teachers discussion behavior/skills, and it helps manage the discussion time. Students rate themselves and are rated by each other and the teacher completes a rating. Points are awarded for synchronicity of ratings. Repeated use of this rubric reinforces dicussion skills and solidifies the application of these skills. Students who do not choose to verbally contribute in the discussion
Grades:
6th - 12th, Higher Education
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Internet Scavenger Hunt Collection, Volume 1 (Biography, Reference & More!)
This is collection of 5 online scavenger hunts (WITH KEYS). These exercises use powerful, compelling contexts that develop research, literacy, and analytic skills.
The collection includes ...
Biography 1 & 2 (Online biographies of leaders, educators, musicians, and more!)
Reference 1 (Online reference sites like the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, CIA World FactBook, RhymeZone Rhyming Dictionary, etc.)
Schoolhouse Rock 1 (Introduce your students to classics like "Interjection!", "I'm Just A
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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AICE Thinking Skills Exam Breakdown 2020-2022
This resource is two excel files that have categorized all of the questions on Papers 1 and 2 for the last three years (since the exam update). The Problem Solving Matrix has 9 different types of problems that have been used over the past 3 years as well as how many points they were on the exam. The Critical Thinking Matrix has the topics for the 11 past exams as well.
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Grades:
8th - 12th, Higher Education
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The PIT-STOP CHECK-IN Goal Folder System for School Administrators:
At times it appears that we are always in a race to master rigorous content standards at every grade-level. As administrators we must actively monitor our classrooms to ensure that adequate progress is occurring school-wide. In an effort to ensure that our teachers are continuously improving academically, I designed a check-in goal folder system for teachers to confirm that as a campus we are maintaining our goal focus towards continuous improvement. In order to do so, we are having every inst
Grades:
PreK - 8th
Social Studies Project: Family Reunion Mail Merge Word & Excel Computer Unit
Yep, that's right, you get to learn 2 programs for less than the cost of buying them separately in this Project!! Welcome to my Family Reunion Project in Word and Excel. If any of you know anything about mail merge, it's totally okay if you don't, you know that to do mail merge, you have to have a data source to work with. That's where the Excel part comes in. We are gong to create spreadsheets in Excel about our extended family. That is project #1. You will learn all about how to make spreadshe
Grades:
3rd - 8th
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Excel - Risk Management Plan: Student Behaviour
This resource is an editable resource created in Excel which provides both teachers, SEND workers, support staff and parents a pro forma to identify potential behaviours which may put students at risk of injury to themselves or others, identify the context and highlight the elimination or control measures that need to be put in place to resolve the issue. This resource has been used extensively through my years of teaching (Over 12+ years) and never fails to be a clear record of the behaviours a
Grades:
PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Also included in: Behaviour Management Tools/Trigger Identification Trackers
Binary Dot Cards - Randomly Generated!
THE GOALTo familiarize students with the most basic computer language (binary), done in the most basic way! Simple, easy-to-understand, visuals make it fun for all students to learn!WHAT IT ISThis is a program (and Excel program) that randomly generates binary cards AND answers!! All you need to do is hit “Enter” and then the cards randomly shuffle! This is so fun to play as a review game, or speed challenge!FITS ANY LESSON!Great as an introductory lesson, review, assessment, or a whole class ga
Grades:
2nd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Excel Dino Park
Teach your students how to use Excel through Dino Park! Students have been given a budget of £100,000,000 to build their park. They need to consider what dinosaurs they want to buy, how much space they will need, what facilities they require, staffing costs and ticket price.Excel Dino Park teaches you how to use functions and formulas through a series of engaging and interactive tasks which are differentiated to support a range of abilities.Skills that you will learn include:Add Raw dataCreate a
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6th - 12th, Adult Education
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Also included in: Excel Bundle
AVID College Fair Project
I have created and implemented this project in my middle school AVID classroom. It gives students the opportunity to research and explore all different types of colleges while exposing them to college terminology. It supports all components of WICOR and allows students to learn a their own pace. I implemented this project as their semester exam after being introduces to high school and college terminology. This resource can be implemented in many different ways. However, I had my students work o
Grades:
6th - 12th
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Auto Evaluation sheet for Teachers - Design Projects
This excel file will help teachers to evaluate, calculate marks and comment design project documentation of the students based on predefined strands. Teachers needs to select appropriate keywords and marks from the dropdown which define the student's performance and quality. This will automatically calculate the total marks and ease the documentation process for the teachers. Comments for strands, criterion based marks and total marks are kept organized and this will help in effective analyzing
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Grades:
4th - 10th
Work Ethic Rubric
I developed this rubric to score students' work ethic and for them to self-monitor their behaviors and efforts. I used this instead of a participation grade, although participation is one of the elements in the rubric.
Grades:
6th - 12th
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Partner Evaluation 4 Cs Classroom
Encourage team accountability! Have teammates write in scores for attention, participation, cooperation, and listening. Fold back each partner's scores before the next. Made for a group of 5, edit this to your liking! Use the partner average total and divide by 100. Use this with the group grade you assign to come up with individual grades.
Grades:
2nd - 8th
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The Ultimate Trivia Card Generator
This is the product of many more hours of testing and tweaking the original version to create Trivial Pursuit cards.This one allows you to add images to the categories, the question and answer sides are more clearly defined and easier to read and there is a secret spot on the bottom to identify the date or version.It consists of four pages allowing for 36 total questions and answers. On pages one and two based on the color enter the question on one side of the table and the answer on the second
Grades:
8th - 12th
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Planning Documents for Reality Check
Starting package for the Reality Check- Budget Experience Bundle.This package includes all of the planning templates you need to run your own experience. It includes timelines, tasks, planner pages and useful documents.
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7th - 12th
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Also included in: Reality Check- Budgeting Experience
Character Adjectives Word List (Excel Spreadsheet)
This is a list of 254 carefully selected character adjectives (formatted as a 10-page Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet) that I have used in the following ways:
1. During the first week of class, I have assigned students the project of researching and typing brief definitions of each word, and completing the column that says "This word describes me because ...". The projects are submitted electronically.
2. On the first day of class, I have used Microsoft Excel's filter function to select a shorter
Grades:
6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Game of Life Template
This excel sheet is combined with my game of life packet and is set up to follow the packet page by page and allows students to use excel to do the math caluclations and add pictures of their dream life. My middle school students really enjoy looking for houses and cars, and then it allows us to discuss a lot of different financial vocabulary words and real life scenarios.
Grades:
6th - 8th
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March Math Puzzle Bulletin Board
This seasonal bulletin board design offers a math puzzle that can be set on St. Patrick's day clovers. I like to have seasonal bulletin boards to offer a little change but because I teach math, I want to make sure it's math related. I write the names of the students that successfully completed the puzzle on a shamrock and post on the board as the month goes on. Many students are very motivated by getting their name on the board. When its time for a new board and I have to take the names down
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7th - 8th
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The Rescue Game
A fun game that uses critical thinking and teamwork. Each player or team draws a scenario card and a number of random resource cards. The number of cards depends on the number of players. Use the resource cards to talk about what you would do in that scenario in terms of survival.
Grades:
6th - 12th
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How Big is a Byte? - Using Formulas in Excel
Students are guided through step-by-step directions to configure formulas. They can use the process to connect general technology to the program, and to learn how a spreadsheet references cells with a formula.
I usually project the document for the students to see as I go over each step. To easily access the links and have the directions at the children's fingertips, I also open the document on each screen and minimize it until I have introduced the lesson.
Grades:
6th - 12th
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