EXCEL: If I Had a Million $: Technology: Grades 5-8

This lesson plan includes directions, a sample to show to get students started, and rubric for grading.

STANDARDS YOU CAN ADDRESS WITH THIS PROJECT:
Reading Informational Text
Writing with Technology
Finance-Money
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>Research/Create a spreadsheet budget with real items to purchase with a million dollars. (I allowed my students to modify this to a billion.)
>Use the auto sum function for adding the budget
>Split the funds of the $1,000,000.00 into at least 5 different categories
>Subtotal all categories
Create and personalize a chart/graph of the data