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Middle school critical thinking writing-essays 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.
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7th - 12th
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Go-To Grading Rubrics
A collection of eight ready-to-use grading rubrics to fit nearly any writing or speaking assignment, including expository, persuasive, narrative, research, and literary analysis.
Every time I design a new writing assignment for my students, I have to come up with a fitting grading rubric so my students know what I expect and so I can grade the students' work objectively. Frankly, it's a pain in the behind! So I drew up a set of standard rubrics that will work for any essay to save myself some t
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7th - 12th
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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,
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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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7th - 10th
(Writing) Formal, Five-Paragraph Essay Basic Writing Checklist + Rubric
This "(Writing) Formal, Five-Paragraph Essay Basic Writing Checklist + Rubric" provides a visual aid to introduce, model, and reference during skill-based instruction of the target skills:- developing a thesis statement that maps out a five-paragraph essay- developing strong introductory and conclusion paragraphs- developing three body paragraphs that introduce a strong claim and support the claim with relevant facts and details - effectively utilizing MLA format- utilizing proper spelling, capi
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5th - 8th
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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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Personal Narrative Rubric for Middle School
Use this rubric to grade middle school level personal narrative writing.
Grades:
6th - 8th
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
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6th - 12th, Higher Education
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Research Organizer Spreadsheet
This is a spreadsheet designed to help teachers or students organize and process research for essays, dissertations and more. The Top row and left column are frozen so they can be seen no matter where you are in the document. The file will require you to copy the information in order to be sent to you. Enjoy!
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Frequently Misspelled Word List
This is a blank word list that can be filled in with your student's own frequently misspelled words. It can be utilized in any type of writing, as well as during revising and editing. It can be individualized for each student or you can simply use a Dolch list for your grade and fill it in. It is a more user friendly version of the traditional frequently misspelled word list.
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K - 12th
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3-5 Common Core Writing Lesson Plan Template
This editable Excel Worksheet allows you to plan systematically by allowing you to see all of the Writing Language Arts Strands in one place and simply clicking the check box to reflect what you will be teaching. It also contains the format for Writer’s Workshop. If you need the lesson plan altered in any way after you have purchased it, please send an email and we will be glad to edit the template to fit your needs.
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
Essay Rubric - Literary Analysis, Beginner
Grading essays objectively can be difficult - a student may write well but miss the point, or have terrible style but excellent content. Use this rubric to assign 1-4 points in each of the covered areas; add up the points when you're done, divide by the total possible points (40) and you'll have your percentage grade, confident that you have taken into consideration all the areas that need grading!
Suitable for grading essays for beginner essay writers - approximately Grades 7-9 but can be use
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Six Traits of Writing Progress Tracker
This Excel spreadsheets allows the teacher to track student progress on the Six Traits of Writing. The teacher enters a class goal and students' names and ID numbers. Then, after scoring any assignment using 6 Traits, the teacher enters the score for any/all traits scored. The tracker automatically calculates the class average on each trait for an assignment, a student's average over time, the highest score a student has earned, how many students are achieving the goal, and more. Color codin
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K - 12th
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Academic Writing Data Tracker
This AWESOME master writing tracker has completely changed my life. It enables me to teach writing in a wholly new, targeted way that pinpoints each students' strengths and areas for growth to most effectively improve his or her writing craft.
Using a series of formulas, the tracker enables you to:
1) Use one consistent writing rubric to assess student writing growth (you can download my FREE Academic Writing Rubric here);
2) Easily compare an individual's growth from one essay to the next
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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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8th - 12th, Higher Education
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Google Sheets Coding for Beginners | Tech Challenges
PURPOSE: This activity provides students with fifteen different coding-related challenges in Google Sheets. It is designed as a self-paced set of tasks to be completed through exploration of the vast library of built-in functions within Google Sheets. Not only will students be problem solving to figure out the tasks, they will also be developing skills in using the Google Suite along the way.WHAT’S INCLUDED:This product contains:✏️ 15 increasingly difficult challenges using functions for Google
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4th - 7th
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The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe - Parallels between Narnia and the Bible
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"But there I have another name. You must learn to know me by that name. This was the very reason why you were brought to Narnia, that by knowing me here for a little, you may know me better there.”
A student read this to me from Voyage of the Dawn Treader and then asked, "Do we ever find out who Aslan is?"
I incorrectly assumed it was clear that C.S. Lewis' Aslan was, in type, Jesus. I read The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe to the students and created this activity
Grades:
4th - 6th
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
Writing Rubric Short Form
This is a small rubric (one fourth of a page - 4 on the page) that gives the basic outline of the Scoring Rubric for Kentucky On-Demand Writing for fifth-grade. It is an excel document with the four main components (Audience/Purpose, Idea Development, Structure, and Conventions) and brief descriptors of those components. It includes a scoring column that allows for either the 4 point scale or traditional percentage scoring as well as a total average score/grade. There are also a few lines for co
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3rd - 12th
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Microsoft Excel and Word MEGA Yearly Bundle Digital
Puzzles, games and designs create a fun way to learn Excel and Word.This provides 22 individual Lesson Plans for Excel and Word to be used throughout the Year. Excel Lessons- Turn Excel lessons into a game as Students solve puzzles.- Students get to create Jack-o-Lanterns, Christmas Trees and Snowmen by following directions.- Learning to graph, sort, filter and create sums.- Excel Quizzes to test the skill set of Students.Word Lessons- Challenge Students to solve puzzles in Word. Learning Word c
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3rd - 6th
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Writing Rubric for Expository
Rubric to help grade expository, explanatory, and opinion writing. This is an easy 100 point rubric and describes what teachers are looking for.
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3rd - 12th
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Auto Comment Instant Rubric : Five Criteria Version
Instant Comment Two Criteria Auto RubricFirst and foremost, this is an unbelievable time saver! As an educator, I often find myself giving similar feedback based on the rubric I provide my students. For example, a satisfactory result on “presentation” in a personal essay, often has stylistically adequate choices but word choice could be stronger. Wouldn’t it be great if you could automatically include this feedback simply by assigning a grade to each criterion in the rubric? That is exactly
Grades:
7th - 12th
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