Google Spreadsheet

Now that you have had time to work with Google Docs, it's time to try a different app offered in Google Drive called Google Spreadsheet. 

The Google Spreadsheet app is useful for organizing information and understanding data. The Microsoft Office program Excel is what many businesses use to keep track of all of their information, and this app is a simple form of Excel.

1. Watch this video introduction to Google Spreadsheet
(If you have trouble playing the video, open youtube from your Google Apps, then copy and paste this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwyM2np54oU )

2. Look up words you don't know below in the first blog post for vocabulary. 

3. Create a new spreadsheet from Google Drive

4. Across the top, leave one cell empty, then write the days of the week in each cell going to the right

5. Write the names of 10 students down the first column

6. In each cell under the days of the week, write how much time each student spends reading on each day

7. Center ALL the data in the spreadsheet

8. Make the titles BOLD

9. Name the spreadsheet Reading Times

10. Compare your sheet with mine, make sure it matches

11. Share the sheet with me