Curriculum Strands - The Student as Analyst

Goals

Students will create a spreadsheet to enter, organize, and analyze data.
Students will create a graph, table or chart to organize and analyze data.
Students will use the calculator to enter, organize, and analyze data.
Students will create a database to enter, organize, classify and analyze data.

Objectives
Spreadsheet

Students will:

• enter and edit labels and numbers into cells.
• format cells.
• insert and delete cells and rows.
• lock and unlock cell data.
• sort cell data.
• replicate data.
• modify a spreadsheet by changing the display options.
• enter formulas to perform calculations.
• utilize functions to perform calculations.
• move data from initial column/row position.
• modify printing by determining print range.
• determine appropriate type of graph to represent data.
• modify a graph/chart.
• integrate spreadsheet, graph, chart, and table into other documents.

Objectives
Calculator/Graphing Calculator

Students will:

• use a calculator to explore concepts and solve problems.

Objectives
Database

Students will:

• navigate within the database by tabbing.
• enter the data into the field(s).
• add new records to the database.
• change the view of the database.
• organize the database by sorting and selecting/finding data.
• determine database fields, field type and field size necessary to analyze data.
• create the field and specify its type.
• modify the record layout by moving fields.

Instructional Strategies

Technology in Practice (TIPs) Database
Technology Templates

MSIP Correlation

Goal 1
Students in Missouri public schools will acquire the knowledge and skills to gather, analyze and apply information and ideas.

Students will demonstrate within and integrate across content areas the ability to

1. develop questions and ideas to initiate and refine research
4. use technological tools and other resources to locate, select and organize information

6. discover and evaluate patterns and relationships in information, ideas and structures

7. evaluate the accuracy of information and the reliability of its sources

8. organize data, information and ideas into useful forms (including charts, graphs, outlines) for analysis or presentation

Goal 3
Students in Missouri public schools will acquire the knowledge and skills to recognize and solve problems.

Students will demonstrate within and integrate across all content areas the ability to

8. assess costs, benefits and other consequences of proposed solutions

Vocabulary