1. Mr. Verlin South Philadelphia High School May 9, 2011

2. Preliminaries  Pre-class (10 classwork points): identify the type of chart you might use (pie, line or bar) for each of the following situations:  The total number of baseball cards which belong to you out of a pooled set of 100  The money which you’ve put away for savings over time  Your total expenses for each month last year  Your cumulative G.P.A. each quarter throughout your 4 years in high school  The different types of books (non-fiction, sci-fi, computer, etc.) in your personal library

3. Excel Review  Be able to freeze the top row of a workbook.  Be able to add a graphic.  Be able to add formulas to a worksheet to calculate sums over defined ranges of values (by rows and columns).  Be able to copy values from one range of cells to another.  Be able to draw attention to certain cells by adding borders around them.  Be able to apply certain formatting attributes to ranges of cells which meet certain criteria.  Be able to construct headers and footers.  Be able to implement filters.  Be able to count a range of items in filtered cells using the =COUNTIF function.  Be able to sort data on at least one column.

4. Focus Lesson: Charts & Graphs  Be able to create a chart in a spreadsheet.  Define the columns and rows.  Input the data.  Time function along “X” axis  Magnitude along “Y” axis  Decide upon the appropriate chart type.  Run the chart wizard.  Format the chart.

5. Focus Lesson: Activity  Create at least 3 charts from the following scenarios (30 classwork pts.):  The total number of baseball cards which belong to you out of a pooled set of 100  The money which you’ve put away for savings over time  Your total expenses for each month last year  Your cumulative G.P.A. each quarter throughout your 4 years in high school  The different types of books (non-fiction, sci-fi, computer, etc.) in your personal library