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Critical thinking activities for Microsoft Excel
Excel Spreadsheets Pixel Art - Halloween and Fall Activities
Students will need to use the “FILL TOOL” to color certain cells in the spreadsheet to reveal a hidden Halloween picture. This resource is for both students beginning to learn Microsoft Excel and for experienced users. This resource includes 6 excel files – hidden mystery pictures with instructions on how the image can be revealed. ❁❁ Click Here to Follow Me❁❁ Read The BlogBenefits for you:Rating this product allows you to collect credits for money off towards your next TPT purchase.Follow me fo
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Also included in: Excel Spreadsheets Seasonal Pixel Art Mystery Pictures Fill Color Bundle
5 Projects to Teach Problem Solving with Technology
What's included in the Problem Solving bundle: * Five step-by-step lessons, including reproducibles, grading rubrics, sample projects, extensions for advanced students and troubleshooting tips where relevant * A brief summary of each project, including suggested grade level and prior knowledge, time required, software required * Higher-order thinking skills addressed * Technology-specific skills taught (including ISTE)Projects include: Clarify with Excel, We are all Problem-solvers,
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Example Spreadsheet Budget with Formulas
This is a simple Excel spreadsheet with formulas to create a budget and graphs. Perfect for middle school and can be used in high school.
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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.
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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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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
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4th - 6th
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
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Also included in: Behaviour Management Tools/Trigger Identification Trackers
Wants and Needs to Prioritize shopping list
This is an excel file, which is editable, to take a list of items and discuss and learn how to prioritize and budget into shopping list. The first tab is a list to determine if each specific item is a want or a need. Then the next tab is to start discussing how much each item costs by first guessing the price and then looking up the prices. The third tab then sets a shopping budget and prompts the individual to write the prices again and then order the items in priority to buy.
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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
Magic Squares in Excel
This is a technology lesson you can use to create a table using autosum. It is meant for intermediate Excel users.
The first sheet shows you three different magic squares that have already been created. If you click inside of the empty cells in the table, you should see the formula I used in the formula bar. This sheet also has simple directions for students for trying to solve the magic square.
The second sheet shows you one way to complete each magic square correctly.
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3rd - 6th
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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.
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2nd - 8th
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Is It Stealing?
This is a worksheet to discuss what stealing is by looking at different scenarios and answering yes, no questions to determine if it is stealing or not. Can be a great conversation starter when discussing stealing.
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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
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8th - 12th
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Excel Tutorial - Charts
This is an Excel tutorial covering step by step in creation of charts within Excel 2013. The steps review three different charts, covering title, axes, data labels.This overview is using Excel 2013, and may look a bit different if you are using a different version of Microsoft office. However, it will work in all versions.$2 through TPT or $1.00 from my main site: http://www.mattcole.us/shop/
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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.
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6th - 8th
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Data Set: Animals Around the World
Students categorize and create stories using these themed cards. Once they have put the cards into categories they explain their rationale for their groups OR if they created a story using the cards, they share their story. Then they mix up the cards and start agin; creating new categories or stories.
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K - 2nd
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Word Puzzles
Play on words/ word puzzles
Great for challenging students and team work
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2nd - 6th
Simple Monthly Budget
Here is a simple template for a monthly budget. Students can practice this essential life skill by filling in the template. They can choose their job or the instructor may create a scenario for their future including their job and their monthly income. Students must figure out how to make this number be enough to pay for all of their bills and meet their needs for the month. I have included the formulas in the chart so that when students input their numbers, the total will be affected. They may
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4th - 7th
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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.
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6th - 12th
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Lord of the Flies Feelings Chart
To get students to think about the characters in a novel more, a character feelings chart can be helpful. In this file, I have a Lord of the Flies feeling chart exercise set up for the novel’s most important characters and when they feel frustration, anger, relief, loneliness, fear, humiliation, and pride. The column for Piggy has an example for each feeling. X's in some of the other boxes for other characters indicates students do not need to fill in those boxes because there are no examples
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8th - 10th
Create a Bingo Card
In this activity, Students will use MS Excel to create a bingo card following specific instructions, but also allows creative editing (Word Document format).
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Early Learner Spreadsheets (Using Colors) Cell References
Use these activities to help early learners of spreadsheets understand Rows and Columns and where intersection of Cells occur. Also helps with using fill and colors, and adding images to a spreadsheet worksheet.Instructions include working with Google Sheets, Excel, and Numbers.A corresponding Easel Activity is included.Great activities that are sub-ready.
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K - 4th
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Create a Basic Excel Poster
This is a project for Excel unit in a computer course. I use this with my secondary students and they love it!
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9th - 12th
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Ticket Out
Tape this form to your Ticket Out Journals. Requires them to write about their day using sentences starters that include Bloom's Taxonomy Words.
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3rd - 5th
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