Excel Activity 1: Fast Food Fun

Activity
Overview
Activity Overview:
Students will learn to open and navigate
through an excel spreadsheet. As the
activity progresses, students will learn
to auto-fill cells and use formulas and
formatting to create a useful data charts
with distinguishable data.

New
Skill

New Skills/Reinforced Skills:

Copy & Paste multiple

Create New Sheet
cells
Format Cells
Insert Header
Merge Cells
Use Keyboard Shortcuts Using Auto-fill feature
Cut, copy, paste, undo
Auto-Sizing Cells
Insert a formula
Create Bar & Pie Charts
Print Preview for Layout Saving/Saving As
Formatting Number Categories:
% & in
decimal
o Save
other format
places

Instructions:
1. Create a New Spreadsheet (Open the program and click the file dropdown menu
and then click New- choose blank worksheet on the right sidebar)

2. Name the Spreadsheet by clicking File & Save (First Name Last Name Fast Food
Fun)
-be sure to save it as an Excel Workbook to your Google Drive Folder.
3. Select Cells A1-C1 and then click on the Merge Icon (or right click and click the
check-box next to merge cells under the alignment tab.) Also: E1-F1
4. Type in Your First and Last name in the 1st, Block # in 2nd and Date in 3rd Cell
5. Select and merge cells A2 through F2 and type the name of the first restaurant
you chose
6. Merge the cells A12 through F12 and type the name of the second restaurant you
chose.
7. In the cells A3 through F3, type the headers: Name of Food,Calories,
Fat(g),Calories from Fat, Non-Fat Calories,Percentage of Fat
8. Select the header cells and give them BOLD formatting (using the B icon, the
keyboard shortcut of CTRL & B or by right-clicking the mouse and selecting bold
on the formatting tab.)
9. Select all cells on the active worksheet (by clicking the empty cell above line 1
and to the left of Heading A) and change the font to Arial 10 pt text.
10. Select Cells B3-F9and center the text. Do the same for Cells B14-F19.
11. Write the word Total in Cells A9 and A19
12. Fill in the data for the Names, Calories and Grams of Fat, which you have
collected from your research on the internet.
-Do NOT fill in the data for the other columns.
13. Select A1-F19 and add a solid border to it (by clicking the border icon or by right
clicking and going to the border tab.)
14. Select A3-F9 and A13-F19 and add an inside border to all of the cells
15. Add a header with your full name, block number and the date (to the left, center
and right sections) by clicking view/ header/footer / custom header

Formula for fat calories is: =SUM(C4 *9)

C4 is equal to the grams of fat

Formula for Non-Fat Calories is: =SUM(B4-D4)

Total Fat - Fat Calories

Formula for Percent of Fat is: =SUM(D4/B4)

Total Fat - Fat Calories

Formula for Total is =SUM(B4:B6)

using the ":" adds all the cells together

16. Using the formulas above, fill in the correct formula for B4-F4
17. Use the auto-fill (drag handle) to fill in the formulas in the adjacent cells below
each.
18. Do the same for cells B14-F14 and the cells below them.
19. Be sure to double-check the math and formulas for F9 and F19 (its tricky)
20. Create a Bar Graph- View video for instructions. (Make sure to only select one
line of data.
21. Create a Pie Chart to compare two items fat contents. Be sure to select the
header AND the values. (Use Control Button while clicking cells to select nonadjacent cells.)
22. Save As (to your shared Google Drive folder) a Microsoft Office Excel Work
Book.
23. Save As (again) but this time as a CSV file.