Thursday 14 May 2015

Modelling - Lesson 5 - Assessment

Modelling - Lesson 5 - Assessment!
What you need to do

1.  Go to Learning Computing - Lesson 5 - Assessment.

2.  Click on the link to the assessment task presentation.

3.  Work through each Task in turn.  Task 1 (Level 4) written work should be written directly on to your new Blog post for this lesson.

4.  For Tasks 2 - 4 involve creating a spreadsheet (Google Sheet) to set out the data given on slide 3 and to add formulas and formatting to it.

Hint: Remember to format cells for currency (use Format menu) where appropriate and you'll also find conditional formatting in there for Task 3.

Minimum values can be found using =min(highlight cells in the range you are using to find this out) and then Enter.

5.  Task 5 answers should be written underneath your table on your spreadsheet.  Think about the variables you could change on your Lemonade simulation and how those ideas could apply to this scenario.

6.  Check out the mark scheme on the last slide and compare your work to this to make sure you can get the best marks possible.

7.  Share your spreadsheet correctly and copy/paste the link to your Blog post under your written work for Task 4.

8.  Click Publish!
If you do not finish this lesson, please finish it at the weekend, ready for me to mark on Monday!  Thank you

Wednesday 6 May 2015

Modelling - Unit 8 - Lesson 4

Modelling lesson 4
Your tasks for this lesson!

1.  Go to Learning Computing - Modelling Unit 8 - Lesson 4

2.  Watch the teacher presentation

3.  Click on the spreadsheet link in Activity 1.

4.  Make a copy of the spreadsheet.

5.  Do the tasks on the spreadsheet - there are tabs at the bottom of the sheet for each task.

6.  Open a new post on your Blog.  Title it the same as this Blog post.

7.  Once complete, share the spreadsheet - Click Share - Advanced and then change it from Private to Anyone with the Link.  Copy the weblink and paste it to today's post.

8.  Under the link on your Blog post, explain how spreadsheets can be used in Computer Modelling.  Keywords to use are "cells", "variables", "formulas" and "rules".  Hint - open the teacher's presentation and have another look at it for help.

9.  Click 'Publish' when you've done all this