Sheets to go - (lesson plan)

§ Lesson Title: Tracking your service hours
§ Designed By: Tara Farmer
§ Content Area (S): Service Learning
§ Grade Level: 6-8
§ SC Curriculum Standards: none available

§ Overview: Each student will be assigned a handheld with which to track their wervice hours during a class project.

§ Handheld Software: Documents to go (sheets to go)

§ Other materials or technology needed: Handhelds

Essential Questions: 1) How many hours did you work each day? 2) Was there any day that students worked more than others? 3) How many total hours went into the project?

§ Curricular Objectives or Goals: 1) Students will learn how to set up a spreadsheet in Excel. 2) Students will become proficient in hotsync their information to a computer. 3)

§ Procedures: 1) Students will design a spreadsheet to track their hours of service for a class project. Each student will be assigned to a line in the spreadsheet. 2) Each day students will their hours to their own spreadsheet. 3) Handhelds will be “synched” each day and the class totals will be available.

§ Assessment: 1) Each student will be able to complete a successful hotsync operation. 2) Each student will complete the required number of hours for the given project.