8th Grade Assignments for Week 7

by Dr. Data


    Daily Typing warmups: 10 minutes: http://www.sense-lang.org/typing and/or All The Type software application for 10 minutes.

    Typing tests in All The Right type with tests 3D and 3E.

    Finish up Internet assignments from last week (Map It, Weather, Virtual Body and Whitehouse Visits).

    This week we are going to handle the business of running a business: "A Business Financial Management Plan." The software that will be used will be a word processor and a spreadsheet. You are required to do the following assignments that emulate how a business does business.

    1. Due Monday with the Learning Objective: need produce/create an ad for a local newspaper. Must include logo, business name, who, what when and why statements and look professional with its formatting. Here's a sample to view at: http://www.kuzmich.com/carmody/business/Print_Ad.pdf. This is to be done in a word processor or Microsoft Publisher.
    2. Due Tuesday with the Learning Objective: need to compile and print a customer list. Must include customer's name, address, phone number and personal notes about each customer. Here's a sample to view at: http://www.kuzmich.com/carmody/business/Customer.pdf. This is to be done in a word processor.
    3. Due Wednesday with the Learning Objective: when customer respond to the advertising, you need to agreed about the work to be done by creating/printing a contract. Here's a sample view at: http://www.kuzmich.com/carmody/business/Contract.pdf. It is to be done in a word processor. Most important: must keep the formatting identical and use Word Art graphical title.
    4. Due Thursday with the Learning Objective: before doing the work under contract, you need to create/print a letter of intent notifying the customer when and how the work will be done. Here's a sample view at: http://www.kuzmich.com/carmody/business/Letter.pdf. It is to be done in a word processor.
    5. For Friday there are three choices: pick one of the following sporeadsheets belows: Two of which are worth 300 points and one is worth 200 points.
    • Learning Objective: after the work is completed, you need create/print a bill to submit to the customer. Here's a sample view at: http://www.kuzmich.com/carmody/business/Invoice.pdf. This is to be done in a spreadsheet such as Microsoft Excel. Must add the totals of expenses and display a formula. No formula, no grade. To create a formula, go to the cell that needs to add up all the columns. Type =SUM(. Then click onthe first cell to be added and drag to the last one and close with right parenthesis ). Hit return key and you have answer displayed. After completing the spreadsheet, here's how to display a formula so you get credit for the spreadsheet. Normally, you would print it out, but today without printing capabilities, just show the formula to Dr. Data for a grade.
      • Go to the Tools pull down menu
      • Select Options
      • Click on the box that says formula and all formulas will be displayed.
      • Grid box should also be displayed.
    • For 300 points, construct a business model spreadsheet based on the ingredients given at: http://www.kuzmich.com/carmody/Final_Spreadsheet2.html
    • For 200 points, construct a spreadsheet for other topics based on the same ingredients give at: http://www.kuzmich.com/carmody/Final_Spreadsheet2.html

    Business Financial Management Ruberic:

    Creatively and carefully design a document following the outline in each template posted above. flyer by outlining what you want on the flyer from the following below.

    1. Print Ad: 100 points
    2. Customer List: 100 points
    3. Contract: 100 points
    4. Letter of Intent: 100 points
    5. Invoice: 100 points
    6. Account Summary: 100 points

    Total 600 points can be earn for successfully completing the six steps in the Business Financial Management Plan plus 200 points for the typing tests on Friday..