Lesson Four- Working Out A Budget Monday 19/09/11

Author: Kirsty Dowling
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Lesson Four

Welcome back - I hope you all had a great weekend! I know I needed a rest!

Learning Intention:

  • To create a budget in an Excel spreadsheet.

Success Criteria:

  • Research all of the items listed and find out what they would cost.
  • Put all of the items in the 'A' column in Excel and the costs in the 'B' column and use your skills to add them up!
  • Checking your spelling.

Habits of Mind:

  • Applying past knowledge to new situations - using Excel.
  • Striving for accuracy - 'that will do' won't do!

Activity #1: Working out a budget

Information:

You have been using Excel for quite a few weeks now - and are quite good at it!!

You need to apply those skills again and conduct some research. Here the your activity for today:

Instructions:

You are to work individually on this activity - but please help other out if they cannot find the cost of something! Please follow all of the instructions on the handout and when you have created your budget save it into Student Work --> Dowling --> 7D China Expedition.