This WebQuest is connected to the following standards:
Kentucky Academic Expectations:
1.1 Students use reference tools such as dictionaries, almanacs, encyclopedias, and computer reference programs and research tools such as interviews and surveys to find the information they need to meet specific demands, explore interests, or solve specific problems.
1.16 Students use computers and other kinds of technology to collect, organize, and communicate information and ideas.
1.11 Students write using appropriate forms, conventions, and styles to communicate ideas and information to different audiences for different purposes.
1.2 Students make sense of the variety of materials they read.
5.2 Students use creative thinking skills to develop or invent novel, constructive ideas or products.
Core Content for Assessment:
PL-H-4.4.1 Life-long earning potential, job options, and job satisfaction are
generally related to the amount and kind of educational training of the worker.
KY Skill Standards:
OF Demonstrate basic computer skills
OF004 Design forms
OF015 Match software to work on hand
OF017 Prepare document using spreadsheet software package
SCANS Standards:
C8 Uses Computers to Process Information
C18 Selects Technology
C19 Applies Technology to a Task
F9 Problem Solving
F12 Reasoning
NBEA Standard
ISS 8 Select and use word processing, desktop publishing, database, spreadsheet,
presentation graphics, multimedia, and imaging software and industry-and subject-specific
software.
To complete this WebQuest, students must be able to:
- Create multiple worksheets within a spreadsheet
- Enter data into a spreadsheet
- Use the SUM() function
- Create a chart in Excel
- Perform simple calculations in Excel
- Interpret a chart
- Make inferences between a chart and written facts
- Compose a full-block business letter in Word