This lesson is an introduction to spreadsheets. It focusses on using a spreadsheet to create a bar graph.
Emphasis is placed on producing the desired chart.
This lesson will introduce students to spreadsheets and have them create a simple spreadsheet and chart themselves. This lesson fits into a Grade 10 Computer Studies course in a unit on Computer Applications. This lesson is introduced in this unit, along with word processors and other applications, to make students aware of uses for computers and to give them some basic skills in using these applications. This lesson is a very hands-on one, where the students are using a spreadsheet and making a chart themselves, because it is important that the students learn the skills necessary to use such a program. As an introduction, the steps to follow are quite explicit, although it would be expected that students would develop the ability to do similar tasks without having to refer to the instructions.