| Description | Investigating the services provided by the local council and creating a board game in Microsoft Excel to explore council budgets and expenditure. |
| Potential Year Groups | 5 & 6 |
| Approx time | 2 x 1 hour |
| Software |
Microsoft Excel |
| Difficulty level | 4 |
| Skills | Key Stage 2 Introduction to spreadsheets enter a formula to add the contents of two cells. enter data into spreadsheet cells. use a spreadsheet to explore what happens when values are changed. use SUM to add up numbers in a column or row. Spreadsheet modelling copy formulae to create tables of results. enter formulae, change data and predict the results. Using the Internet print or skim-read web pages, and check the quality of the information. select keywords / AND function to narrow down a search. use a search engine to find information. |
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