Excel Documentation

Claire Hires
IT 3210
Microsoft Excel Project

Literacy in over 40 Countries

I used an Atlas of World Politics and for this particular subject they named over 200 countries. I picked some of the most talked about countries and one’s that interacted with the reading list that has been the theme of all my projects. An Example would be Lebanon, because on of the books write about immigrants from Lebanon.

Description of Learning Goals and Standards

Students should be learning different literacy rates in different countries. Students should be aware of the differences in literacy between male and females. Hopefully through this observation they will discovery correlations between they the government puts into education versus the output of their population that is literate. This goal is important for them so they can see how much they could make a difference and be ahead in the world.

Grade 7:

Topic: Cultural Geography
Standard: Identifies various ethnic groups in the Middle East, Asia, and Africa, and describes their impact on the development of the regions (e.g., linguistic patterns and cultural contributions).

Topic: Cultural Geography
Standard: Assesses cultural expressions of art, music, and literature.

Topic: Cultural Geography
Standard: Explains how social institutions (religion, government, and economics) influence the attitudes and behaviors of people.

Topic: Productivity
Standard: Creates, modifies, and edits documents using word processing and desktop publishing tools.

Topic: Productivity
Standard: Creates, manages, and utilizes information using spreadsheet tools and applications.

Rationale for Technology

I skewed the data for chart 2 to see if the children would notice. This would also be a retroactive lesson to show that data can be manipulated to let the reader think something than what the truth really portrays. When using graphs it demonstrates the extremes and shows the countries that stand out. If you were judging or making decisions it organizes the information to make it more useful to the reader.

Description of Lesson Implementation

I would, for any collection of data, sort through the most important or shocking data to do the chart. A suggestion would be starting out on a broad note and with technology implementation have the students focus in and do their own graphs and charts. Analysis is obvious to this curriculum, but also to understand how to read charts and graphs is imperative.

Assessment

I would have a series of questions awaiting the students that hopefully with the right guidance would not be hard. I would definitely give them the graphs and then require, as part of the assignment, have them choose their own data to do their graphs. It is imperative that they know how to produce simple charts and graphs for future assignments in all subjects.

Other Places to Use this Solution

There are many other places to use this technique of presentation of information. In the work place, when presenting a topic, or convincing higher management of your ideas this would be appropriate to convey your judgments. Another suggestion would be in advertisement of a particular product. Any one could easily dismannerly skewed the data also the results are in the product producer’s favor

What I Learned and What I would improve it Next Time

Hopefully next time the data will be less and more precise. I felt that unless you saw the GNP’s for each country that the reader will be comparing it to America

References/Resources Used: Student Atlas of World Politics. 5th Edition. By John L. Allen