Microsoft Excel

“Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet developed by Microsoft for Windows, macOS, Android and iOS. It features calculation, graphing tools, pivot tables, and a macro programming language called Visual Basic for Applications.” –Wikipedia

What we will learn:

1. Exploring Excel
       Finding and using commands
   Moving around a worksheet
   Navigating the workbook
2. Basic Workbook Skills
   Creating a workbook
   Selecting cells and ranges
   Opening, closing and saving workbooks
   Entering data into cells
   Entering values into ranges
3. Creating Simple Formulas
   Writing formulas in cells
   Using the Formula Bar
   AutoSum and other basic functions
   The Paste Function tool
   Automatic calculation
4. Copying and Moving Data
       Copying and cutting data
   Absolute cell references
   Filling cells
   Using drag-and-drop
   Undo and Redo
   Find and Replace
5. Managing Worksheets
   Naming worksheets
   Copying and moving worksheets
   Grouping worksheets
   Moving data between sheets
   Adding and deleting worksheets
   Creating 3-D formulas
6. Printing
   Choosing what to print
   Previewing and printing
   Page Setup
   Margins and page orientation
   Headers and footers
   Repeating column/row headings
   Page Break Preview
   Printing gridlines
7. Formatting Data and Cells
   Formatting numbers
   Formatting text
   Colouring data and cells
   Wrapping and shrinking text
   Merging cells
   Using indents
   Applying borders to cells
   The Format Painter
   Conditional formatting
8. Working with Columns and Rows
   Selecting columns and rows
   Changing column width and row height
   Hiding and unhiding
   Inserting and deleting
9. Using Large Spreadsheets
   Changing the magnification
   Full Screen view
   Splitting the window
   Using Freeze Panes
10. Named Ranges
    Naming a range of cells
    Jumping to a named range
    Using range names in formulas
    Re-defining and deleting range names
11. Working with Data Series
        Creating a linear series
    Working with Date series
    Using Autofill

Video’s:

 

Microsoft Excel Training Link

 

Formula’s Tutorial

Minerals

So for the rest of the this Trimester we will be covering Earth Science, specifically Rock Cycles.  In order to understand rocks we will begin with minerals.  Minerals are defined as a solid, naturally occurring inorganic substance.

As we started this sections we reviewed some of the classifications of a mineral and how to differential between a mineral and a rock.

Below are 3 videos that nicely outline minerals, and the connections between minerals and rocks.

Resources:

 

 

 

Worksheets:

Homework 2 – Minerals Intro

 

About Us

MISSION STATEMENT

The Young Scholars of Egypt are unswerving in their quest to discover the best in themselves while serving the world around them. The goal of the school is to nurture inquiring minds who understand the importance of balancing both physical and mental challenges. The school aims to cultivate a profound appreciation of the arts, to

embrace innovative technology as a means of individualizing the learning process, and to recognize that a deep faith is the path to honesty, respect and empathy.

 

VISION

Our vision aims to promote the role of education as the solution to Egypt’s rebirth and democratic future, establishing a community of high scholarship, developing responsible citizens who seek justice and goodness in all human kind.

 

EDUCATIONAL PHILOSOPHY

Young Scholars of Egypt is an academically rigorous, caring, and dynamic school that seeks to support the development of a learning community that values the acquisition of knowledge. We expect our students will use their talents for the betterment of their country with the courage to protect our cultural identity and resolve social problems.  We will prepare our students to thrive in and enjoy our highly technological and interconnected world.

YSE values honesty, empathy, creativity and scholarship. We believe that our students will learn to make educated choices, to develop a deep appreciation for the visual, as well as the performing arts; to value their athletic successes, as well as their intellectual endeavors; to build on their strengths and appreciate the worth of each individual.

Young Scholars of Egypt follows a conceptual integrated curriculum with special emphasis on the Humanities, the performing arts, and athletics.  Our program is based on a conceptual understanding of a wide body of knowledge. In addition, a high degree of emphasis is placed on inquiry, experimentation, making connections, research and analysis.

In our school, our main goal is to ensure that students really understand what they are asked to learn; to understand is to be able to wisely and effectively use what they know, in context; to apply knowledge and skill effectively.  Our challenge is never to reduce the understanding of a concept to a mere simplistic statement for recall. When students gain genuine understanding of a concept, they keep it for the rest of their lives.

One of our main objectives is to prepare our students to empathize, the ability to escape one’s own emotional reactions and to grasp another’s.

When we “try to understand” another person, people, or culture, we strive for empathy. It is the learned ability to grasp the world from someone else’s point of view. Unlike perspective, empathy involves seeing from inside another person’s worldview.

YSE HONOR CODE

The YSE honor code reads as follows:  “As a young scholar of Egypt, I promise to serve my community and myself with honesty, respect, and empathy.”

As the adults in the community, our role is not only to help the children learn and understand this honor code, but to aspire to consistently adhere to its principles ourselves.

The Scientific Method

Lesson Outline and Objectives:

For the first week of school we have covered the Scientific Method.  The scientific method can have many different versions.  The objective of this lesson is to allow our young scholars to test out their knowledge of how to use the “scientific method” on a daily basis when solving day to day dilemma’s.  The standard version we have studied is the following:

1. Observation/Problem
2. Question/Research/Inference
3. Hypothesis
4. Experiment
5. Analyze and Conclude
6. Share Results.

Resources:

 

 

Short-Cut Keys

In this lesson we will learn about the Short-Cut keys that we can use on our computer and for many applications that will make us more efficient digitally.

 

Below is a link to one site that presents all the short-cut keys that are very useful:

 

Click Here to go to the link.

Practicing Short-Cut Keys

At the bottom of this page you will find the a Word Document that you need to download.  Once you’ve downloaded it follow the below instructions.

INSTRUCTIONS:

1. Bold the text that starts each section (What is Lorem Ipsum – Where does it come from – Where can i get some), then change the font size to 14 pts and front style to Times New Roman.

2. Indent the start of each paragraph.

3. Search for the Word Count dialog box and write at the bottom of the text how many words are in this document, how many lines, and how many characters without spaces.

4. Save the document as a PDF named ICT Classwork 1.

5. Find the word, “de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum” and make it in italics.

6. Underline 2 sentences that thought were interesting in the passage.

7. Comment on this post a summary about the content in the document about Loreum Ipsum and what you think about it.

Download ICT Classwork 1 – Sample Document.