Mr. Verlin South Philadelphia High School May 4-6, 2011

Preliminaries  Pre-class (20 classwork points): pretend that you’re a classroom teacher. One of a teacher’s responsibilities is to manage a grade book to track student grades. In your notebooks or in a Word document, make a list of things that teachers need to include in order to calculate grades.

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.

Excel Project (part #1)  Introduction  Due 5/6 for 30 project points  Objective: test your proficiency in spreadsheets for numerical calculations by creating a spreadsheet to facilitate the calculation of class grades.  Requirement: calculate a class grade based on the average of the following:  Grade components  Average of 2 tests  Average of 2 lab projects  1 final exam  Weights  Tests = 25%  Projects = 10%  Final exam = 65%

Rubric: Excel Project #1  For a “D” (up to 18 points):  Type in the data.  Make the layout attractive and easy to read.  Include a well defined header (your name, class, current date, etc.)  For a “C” (up to 21 points):  Include all of the above.  Include a straight average for all of the components.  For an “A” (up to 30 points):  Include all of the above.  Include a weighted average for all of the components using the weights stated on the project handout.  Enabling re-calculation of the final average whenever the weights change.