Reinforce the use of Hot Keys and tool bar options while covering new areas such as pasting data from the internet and keeping back-ups of their work.

Using Microsoft Office to explore the use of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

• Students develop a personal portfolio that involves:
  • a salary which they paired with a job description.
  • using these to experience the impact of personal expenditures in maintaining a budget.
  • buying stocks and/or commodities tracking investments profits and losses throught Stock Market surges and pull backs in Excel.
  • utilize the internet to gather information and do graphing written in Excel to show investment activity.
  • determine the impact of the 2019 Tax Plan on projected savings.
• Student assignments which help the students work on their keyboarding skills and developing a project by following the assignments's detailed instructions.
  • Students in 6th Grade design and complete PowerPoint presentations using verses of one of their favorite songs.
  • Students in 6th Grade build a spreadsheet in Excel on the 'cost' of the 12 Days of Christmas if every item had a monetary value.
  • Students in 7 and 8 explore Probability and Statistics in Excel to try and predict number trend in the Massachusetts Mass Cash Lottery. Are the numbers truly random or do some repeat more than others.