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Let's Keep Track of Grades

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Students participate in a technology project. This lesson is a hands-on spreadsheet project where students are responsible for keeping track of their grades for class. The students learn to enter data into a spreadsheet, create formulas to calculate the values, and constantly save and retrieve the information.

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Grade
7th - 8th
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STEM
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Database & Spreadsheet

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