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Choice Project C: Spreadsheet/Database

In this assignment, you'll use a spreadsheet &/or database. Both could be used for teacher utility needs or as part of instruction in your curriculum. Though spreadsheet sand databases are more often used by teachers in utilitarian ways, both lend themselves readily to curricular use: the focus of this assignment. Spreadsheets and databases let students organize data and look for patterns, check out hypotheses, examine for different conditions, etc., and are useful tools in higher level analysis of information.

Graphing (charting in ClarisWorks) is often available through spreadsheet programs and more elborately than in ClarisWorks too!.

Task
Create a spreadsheet with at least 5 rows. Add data for at least 10 columns of category. The topic will be instructional. Choose the topic which works best for your classroom needs. Some possibilities:

• comparisons of columns of figures
• planning expenses for a simulated trip
• budgeting for class picnic
• records for a set of events such as O'Farrell Olympics
• records of measurements: current level of achievement and goals showing differences
• examining and predicting patterns of weather (temperature, rain, etc.)
• surveys and data display

OR

Create a database with at least 5 fields. Add data for at least 10 records. The topic of the database will be instructional. Choose the topic which works best for your classroom needs. Some possibilities:

• A list of books read by students in your class, along with their ratings
• Building a collection of art works by adding records to "starter db" holding pictures, critiques, bios
• Survey results for analysis of trends: similarities and differences depending on how sorted/selected
• A list of interests/hobbies of your students
  

Deliverables


The printed reports should have your name, the sorted field should be identified and the first report should have a description of the criteria that you searched by.

Going beyond expectations....
Create a calculated field which will add the contents of one numerical field to another. It is in the define fields section of FMP (press the Options button and use the basic addition symbols).

This is an individual assignment; please work on your own.

This project is worth 15 points.

Due Date: December 12

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