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6th grade simulations for Microsoft Excel
Budget Spreadsheet Project (personal finance & math skills)
A step-by-step project with detailed instructions on how to set up an Excel spreadsheet budget. Students will apply math skills in context of a real-life budgeting situation.
Students will create a budget:
-Based on their future career choice.
-Independently by following the instructions using an Excel Spreadsheet.
-Over the course of at least 2 class periods (typically students take at least 2.5 hours to complete this project).
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Grades:
6th - 12th
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CCSS:
Financial Literacy Checking Assignment (check writing)
This is an assignment to teach students how to write checks and balance a checkbook. It is an interactive Excel Spreadsheet and self scores if the student completes it on the computer.
There are two parts to the assignment. The first part has the students correctly fill out 8 checks based on prompts given to them. The 2nd part uses those 8 checks and other non-check transactions to teach them how to fill out and balance a check register.
Also included is a .pdf printable version of the ass
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Grades:
6th - 12th, Adult Education
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Cookie Mining-Natural Resources Google App Sheet
In this Google Sheet simulation students mine "ore," chocolate chips from a chocolate chip cookie to demonstrate real mining operations and the environmental price. Students complete the cost analysis google sheet choosing mining equipment, mining operation time, and reclamation methods. The google sheet can be used as is with the included formulas, or students can create the formulas using computer application skills. Two short essay responses are included. STEM ReadyReal-World ApplicationG
Grades:
6th - 9th
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Personal Finance Project: Final Budget Excel Sheet
Final budget excel sheet
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Grades:
6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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CCSS:
Also included in:Â Personal Finance Project: Complete Budget Project
Life Simulation Spreadsheet
Some of your students may spend hours tinkering with this macro-assisted, life-simulating Excel spreadsheet to study and appreciate ecology, and to see how the spreadsheet program achieves complex purposes. The product is best used as an exploration opportunity for single students or pairs of students. Mathematician John Conway’s simple rules for simulating a life form (1970) are the starting point for the spreadsheet. Multiple enhancements let the student create, compare, and contrast up to f
Grades:
6th - 12th
Mock 2012 Presidential Election Voting Booth
This is a great mock presidential election program written in Excel. It notifies the voter that they have voted so the students can be sure their vote registered. It has a separate tab showing the voting tallies that can be easily reset if it being used for multiple classes. A final tab displays a 3D bar graph of the results. Both the tally tab and the graph tab can be toggled to at anytime. This is very user friendly and I am excited about using it in my classroom on Super Tuesday to let m
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Grades:
2nd - 12th
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Credit Card Interest Example Excel Spreadsheet
An easy to understand and simple way to introduce students to how credit card interest can works and how quickly debt can build up. Simply fill in the two highlighted cells with the credit card rate and how much was spent on the card and the spreadsheet will self populate to show the first 12 months, two years, three years, four years, five years, ten years, 10 years, 20 years and 25 years. A must see for all future credit card owners and a great way to show the real-life application of decimals
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Grades:
6th - 12th
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Also included in:Â Pre-Algebra Real-Life Applications
Demonstrate Ordering Numbers with an Animated Excel File
Simple to use animated Excel file for in class demonstration of Ordering Numbers from whole numbers, integers, positive rational, rational, and real numbers. Self-correcting quiz format that automatically generates a new set of numbers. Move scroll bars, select option buttons, type numbers, and watch these mathematical concepts come alive. You must use Microsoft Excel that is capable of opening file formats in either .xlsx or .xlsm.
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Grades:
4th - 12th
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Election Graphs
Hold elections in your classroom and use these graphs to show results of presidential and local elections. All you have to do is fill in the names of the candidates and decide how many electoral votes each class will have!
Students will be able to compare popular and electoral votes and see how many votes each candidate receives! This spreadsheet is great as a supplement to a lesson on elections.
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Grades:
6th - 12th
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Interactive Power Pole Understanding Positive and Negative Numbers
This interactive exercise allows students to see in real time the logic of positive and negative numbers. It is a real life scenario as a new employee of a power company, they must learn how to set a power pole. By entering the length of the pole in the first column, and how deep of a hole the pole must be placed in as a negative number, the resulting amount is populated in the third column which represents the amont of the pole that will remain above ground. In the chart to the right, studen
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Grades:
PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Demonstrate Basic Statistics Plots with an Animated Excel File
Simple to use animated Excel file for in class demonstration of Basic Stem-n-Leaf plot, Box and Whisker plot, and Frequency plot. Move scroll bars, select option buttons, type numbers, and watch these mathematical concepts come alive. You must use Microsoft Excel that is capable of opening file formats in either .xlsx or .xlsm.
Grades:
6th - 12th
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Demonstrate Compare Basic Statistical Graphs with an Animated Excel File
Simple to use animated Excel file for in class demonstration of comparing basic statistical graphs such as XY-scatter, Line, Column, Bar/Histogram, Area, and Pie, with the ability to select Ribbon, 3-d Column, 3-d Bar, 3-d Area, or 3-d Pie. Move scroll bars, select option buttons, type numbers, and watch these mathematical concepts come alive. You must use Microsoft Excel that is capable of opening file formats in either .xlsx or .xlsm.
Grades:
6th - 12th
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Personal Finance Project: Estimated Budget Excel Sheet
Section Two Excel Sheet
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Grades:
6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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CCSS:
Also included in:Â Personal Finance Project: Complete Budget Project
Demonstrate the Creation of a Pie Chart with an Animated Excel File
Simple to use animated Excel file for in class demonstration of creating a Pie chart from start to finish. Move scroll bars, select option buttons, type numbers, and watch these mathematical concepts come alive. You must use Microsoft Excel that is capable of opening file formats in either .xlsx or .xlsm.
Grades:
6th - 12th
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Digital Yahtzee
This digital version of Yahtzee is a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet and is an easy way to integrate ICT and fun into any maths classroom!Scorecards can automatically calculate totals, or students can calculate manually themselves. The spreadsheet contains the 5 dice, hold functions and calculations all within the sheet. The digital dice themselves can be used for any activity beyond Yahtzee, and you can even use this sheet to teach students about the capabilities of Excel using macros. Give it a wh
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Grades:
4th - 10th
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For Here or To Go?
This is a spreadsheet activity in which the students create and test a usable customer order form to be used at a diner. Sheet 2 displays the formulas to be used. Sheet 3 has printable student directions and teaching suggestions.
Grades:
5th - 12th
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Payroll Spreadsheet
This spreadsheet was used as a payroll system for students in my career class. I used this to record their classroom performance by putting in 8 hours worked for a good day down to 1 hour worked for not a good day. A 0 was used as absent. At the end of the week, the 'hours' worked were added up and then multiplied by their hourly wage (column B). Every two weeks, I would give out their 'check stub' to show them how much they earned (i.e. how well they performed in class). Also included
Grades:
6th - 12th
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Demonstrate Acute, Right, Obtuse, Straight Angles with an Animated Excel File
Simple to use animated Excel file for in class demonstration of acute, right, obtuse, and straight angles. Move scroll bars, select option buttons, type numbers, and watch these mathematical concepts come alive. You must use Microsoft Excel that is capable of opening file formats in either .xlsx or .xlsm.
Grades:
6th - 12th
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The Cow Game - Classroom Management Farm Simulation
(This is the advanced version of the Cow Game. I recommend teachers start with the free basic version, which is a fully functional version only missing the advanced features. Downloading the preview file will give you the complete basic version including a demonstration video that will show you how the Cow Game works.)
The Cow Game is an easy to run classroom management dairy farm simulation game in which students work in teams to raise cows. In the simulation, turning in homework and working
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Grades:
3rd - 8th
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