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Plans For Excel Charts

This lesson plan teaches students how to create charts and graphs in Excel by having them conduct a survey of their classmates, collect and interpret the data, and display it visually. The students will choose a question to survey their peers on, collect the answers, and then work in pairs to create a chart or graph in Excel to illustrate the results. The teacher will observe the students as they work to assess their understanding. At the end of the lesson, students may print one of their charts or graphs.

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Plans For Excel Charts

This lesson plan teaches students how to create charts and graphs in Excel by having them conduct a survey of their classmates, collect and interpret the data, and display it visually. The students will choose a question to survey their peers on, collect the answers, and then work in pairs to create a chart or graph in Excel to illustrate the results. The teacher will observe the students as they work to assess their understanding. At the end of the lesson, students may print one of their charts or graphs.

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Lesson Planning

Waynesburg University

Writing the lesson plan:


EDU 505

** Excel Charts
PA Standard(s)
• 4.7 Threatened, Endangered and Extinct Species
• 3.6 Technology Education – Create a chart or graph through media presentations.
• 4.1 Understand life cycle of living things
• 2.7 Interpret data and display using a chart or graph

Lesson Objectives:
• The students will view formulate a question and survey the class.
• The students will interpret the data and create a graph or chart using Excel.

Assessment:

• Observation
• View completed Excel chart or graph for creativity and accuracy

Materials:

• about three parent volunteers


• computer lab

Inclusion:

• Redirection and close proximity are the only needed techniques for students with
special needs.

Enrichment:

• Students will be encouraged to create and survey the class on ways to help
endangered animals. Then, the students will display their data in another way
using Excel.
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Lesson Presentation:

Introduction/Motivational Activities:

• Students will create a list of questions that they would like to know about
caterpillars.
• Students will view teacher’s completed charts and/or graphs.

Teaching Sequence:

• Take students to computer lab.


• We will vote on a question and then survey the class.
• Partner up students
• Briefly introduce Excel and tell the students that they are going to use it to show
the data collected in the survey.
• Introduce the three parent volunteers.
• Have students begin to create their charts/graphs.

Guided Practice/Independent Practice/Assessment Activities:

• Have students work on their assignments with their partners.


• Circulate room and encourage students to raise their hand for questions.
• Observe student’s work to assess their activity, accuracy of information, and their
creativity.

Closure:

• Give students a five-minute warning before stopping.


• Students may print one of their charts/graphs in black in white.
• Close down computers.

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