Students use the $1000 Windfall example in their handout, and create their own data set of Items and Costs – must have between 6 and 8 items. Use the charts options in MS Excel to generate a 3D PIE chart based on the data in the handout. Students must show data value by using the “labels” option from their “Toolbox”.

They then copy and paste the chart to an MS Word file (shown in the example). They need to use standard reporting page set-up with a header, title and indented paragraphs with 1.5-2 line spacing. They must write an introductory paragraph, show the data table, and write a summary paragraph that extrapolates and describes at least 2 pieces of data shown in the table.

The finished piece is saved as a MS Word .docx file and a .pdf file – the .pdf file is uploaded to their Tech Lit page on their ePortfolio and displayed in the standard format of naming the assignment (title), giving the assignment description (can be copied from above here), showing the assignment (link to the .pdf file with an accurate link name), and a reflection statement (restate the assignment task (WHAT), tell steps taken to complete the assignment (HOW), and what the student thinks of their effort and work quality (SELF-EVALUATION).

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Reflection:

What we did was we created a chart to show what we would spend $1000 dollars on. How we did it was we went to Google sheets and created a chart with column A as the item and Column B as the cost. After that we created a 3D pie chart with the data, screen shotted it, cropped it, and labeled the 3D pie chart with the amounts. We made a Google doc that explained the $1000 Windfall pie chart. Lastly we made that a PDF and we placed on our ePortfolio. I liked this project cause you never really think about what you would use $1000 on.