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12th grade critical thinking 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.
Grades:
7th - 12th
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Also included in: Microsoft EXCEL Activities - 6 PROJECTS!
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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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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Physics Project: Create a Resistors Color Code Reader Using Google sheet
Improve your students' understanding of resistors and develop their Excel skills. The project aims to create a complete understanding of resistor color codes and enhance students' technological skills in a fun and engaging way by integrating hands-on resistor analysis, Excel competence, and interactive learning. You can use this activity for Middle and High school students.This project is made up of two Google sheets that serve two objectives.The first sheet is a 'resistor color code reader,' in
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Grades:
9th - 12th
Also included in: Electric Circuits and Resistors Activities and Worksheets Bundle
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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Data Analysis for Data Integrity – A Team Exercise
This exercise is designed to show students how to approach a new set of data – always with skepticism. The process includes reviewing the incoming data using various techniques. The data is fraught with errors, some obvious and some obscure. The result is a dataset which can be used for further work.
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12th
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
Grades:
PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Also included in: Behaviour Management Tools/Trigger Identification Trackers
Binary Dot Cards - Randomly Generated!
THE GOALTo familiarize students with the most basic computer language (binary), done in the most basic way! Simple, easy-to-understand, visuals make it fun for all students to learn!WHAT IT ISThis is a program (and Excel program) that randomly generates binary cards AND answers!! All you need to do is hit “Enter” and then the cards randomly shuffle! This is so fun to play as a review game, or speed challenge!FITS ANY LESSON!Great as an introductory lesson, review, assessment, or a whole class ga
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2nd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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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
AVID College Fair Project
I have created and implemented this project in my middle school AVID classroom. It gives students the opportunity to research and explore all different types of colleges while exposing them to college terminology. It supports all components of WICOR and allows students to learn a their own pace. I implemented this project as their semester exam after being introduces to high school and college terminology. This resource can be implemented in many different ways. However, I had my students work o
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6th - 12th
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AICE Thinking Skills Score Sheets
Provide students real-time breakdown of their practice exams for AICE Thinking Skills AS.Teachers need to look up the grade thresholds for the particular exam they are using as a practice test, and input that in the top portion.Teachers can then input individual students below, type their breakdown, and receive their component score.It is my suggestion to duplicate the tabs for each practice exam given in the classroom in order to use the long range data when submitting score projections prior t
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9th - 12th
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Work Ethic Rubric
I developed this rubric to score students' work ethic and for them to self-monitor their behaviors and efforts. I used this instead of a participation grade, although participation is one of the elements in the rubric.
Grades:
6th - 12th
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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
Grades:
8th - 12th
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Gifted Identification and Service Areas for WEP and EMIS
This Excel sheet will help you organize from what assessment (OLSAT, Stanford, GATES, and/or COGAT), when tested/identified (date) and in what gifted areas (superior cognitive, specific academic,and/or creative thinking) children were identified in. It also includes many gifted service options for the high school level (AP/DE etc.). This will help classroom teachers, gifted cooridnators, counselors, and EMIS secretaries. You may edit everything to fit your needs!
Grades:
9th - 12th, Staff
Planning Documents for Reality Check
Starting package for the Reality Check- Budget Experience Bundle.This package includes all of the planning templates you need to run your own experience. It includes timelines, tasks, planner pages and useful documents.
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7th - 12th
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Also included in: Reality Check- Budgeting Experience
Character Adjectives Word List (Excel Spreadsheet)
This is a list of 254 carefully selected character adjectives (formatted as a 10-page Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet) that I have used in the following ways:
1. During the first week of class, I have assigned students the project of researching and typing brief definitions of each word, and completing the column that says "This word describes me because ...". The projects are submitted electronically.
2. On the first day of class, I have used Microsoft Excel's filter function to select a shorter
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Using a Spreadsheet to Track Your Budget
This advanced spreadsheet activity uses functions like payments and goal seek to track their expenses. Students research jobs, homes, cars and estimate other expenses. Task cards are included to help break the project down into manageable sections.
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9th - 12th
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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.
Grades:
6th - 12th
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How Big is a Byte? - Using Formulas in Excel
Students are guided through step-by-step directions to configure formulas. They can use the process to connect general technology to the program, and to learn how a spreadsheet references cells with a formula.
I usually project the document for the students to see as I go over each step. To easily access the links and have the directions at the children's fingertips, I also open the document on each screen and minimize it until I have introduced the lesson.
Grades:
6th - 12th
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!
Grades:
9th - 12th
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PERSIA (Political Economic Religious Social Intellectual Area) Graphic Organizer
Provide students with an opportunity to categorize facts, vocabulary terms, images, statistics, etc. in the Social Studies themes of PERSIA (political, economic, religious, social, intellectual, and area-related) - can be used as assessment, note-taking tool, or pre-writing
Grades:
4th - 12th
Suffocation Survival Challenge
Need a lab to challenge students' measurement and significant digits skills?
Grades:
9th - 12th
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