Lesson Plan

Date: Class/Group: Time: 11am

29 March 2017 EDUC5481 Professional Practice Room: G10

Topic: Pivot table essentials

Curriculum links: Specific Objectives/Learning Goals:
Not applicable Students will learn how to:
1. Create a pivot table in Excel using sample data
General Capabilities: 2. Manipulate the pivot table to make the data meaningful
Literacy
Numeracy
ICT Capability
Critical & Creative Thinking

Skills Student Diversity:

Basic Excel
Using a PC
Collecting, managing and analysing
data
Prior Learning:
No prior knowledge of Excel is
required but it is expected that
most students will have used
Excel at some stage.
Be prepared to give some students close attention as
some will not have used Excel before
Resources/Materials required:
http://educ5481.weebly.com/ Sample Data
Video http://educ5481mt.weebly.com/
BYOD laptops
My Laptop and wireless mouse
Spare laptop
Internet via WiFi
PowerPoint
MS Excel

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Lesson Steps
Time: Procedure Comment
1. Pre-Lesson
Arrive early to check that the WIFI is working (note that
10 the previous class will still be in the room so do this
mins outside in the hall).

Find group and ask them to open their BYODs. If they Make sure each person in the
dont have one, then pair up with some who does. group has access to a laptop

Set up my Laptop and mouse

Open PowerPoint presentation

2. Introduction + Motivation/Engagement
2 Q: Has anyone created a Pivot table before? Take note and be prepared to help
mins inexperienced students or use the
student who has used pivot tables
Show Video http://educ5481mt.weebly.com/ to help.

Introduce the lesson and explain the learning

objectives:
1. Create a pivot table in Excel
2. Manipulate the pivot table

3. Teacher Input
Explain what a pivot table is - A pivot table allows
1 min you to extract the significance from a large,
detailed data set.

4. Student Activity
Step students through each step, pausing until each
7 student is finished. Students can download Excel free
mins at
1) Open Excel on your notebooks http://www.bits.uwa.edu.au/service-
2) Download the sample data set from catalogue/software/office-365
http://educ5481.weebly.com/resources.html

This data is a very small set of labour hours worked on

a large resources company project. We will be working
on 10,000 rows (originally 300,000).
Walk around group and observe
3) Open data set in Excel. Save to Documents. and help as needed.

Q: Have a quick look at the data. Very hard to analyse

isnt it? How do we quickly understand the data?

4) Highlight all columns A-M

5) Click in Menu item Insert
6) Click on Pivot Table
7) Click OK creates a new worksheet
Q: Everybody Okay so far?
8) Drag the Function field into Rows
9) Drag the Total Quantity Demonstrate on screen here if
10) Make sure it is set to Sum and not Count needed
a) Right click on Total Quantity and set to Sum
11) Drag Name down below Function in Rows

5. Feedback
Q: Can you see how powerful a Pivot table is for
2 making sense from the data?

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Time: Procedure Comment
mins

6. Conclusion & Assessment

In this lesson we wanted to learning how to:
Use Excel to create a Pivot Table
3 Use the Pivot table to analyse large quantities
mins of data quickly.
Q: Was this lesson helpful in explaining Pivot Tables? Make sure that all students have
Q: Any questions? grasped the lesson objectives.

Quick class quiz

Q: How many hours did Business Services

work? A: 86
Ask each student to answer and
Q; How many hours did Aaron work under
record the level of understanding.
Engineering? A: 59
Q: How many hours in total did Aaron work? A:
7661 HINT: need to remove the Function field.

Evaluation of Student Learning:

1. Were the students engaged during the lesson?
2. Were the objectives met? If not, why not?
3. Were they able to successfully create their own Excel spreadsheet?
4. Was there sufficient scaffolding leading up to the lesson, i.e. were the students in the ZPD?
5. What was the feedback from the students? Did they enjoy it - was it fun?

Self-Evaluation/Reflection:
1. How did the overall lesson seem to go?
2. Did I stay on time?
3. What was the feedback from the students? Did they enjoy it - was it fun?
4. Did any students struggle to meet the objectives?
5. What would I do differently next time?

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