Excel project for Year 5/6

[HodgeHi]

Hello,

I'm not sure if we have a section for this type of thing. If so please move it to where it belongs

I am after some ideas on how to build a spreadsheet project for some year 5/6 pupils for this afternoon. I was thinking about building a media company and having a group of pupils for each department. I was then going to give them a budget for each department. And throughout the lesson bring up some impromptu costs such as server failure resulting in new Controller card cost £xxx.xx etc. But I'm not sure how I can get this to work for a whole class.

Any ideas on how I can plan something like this?

TIA, its most appreciated.

[jstuttard]

I'm a big fan of Simon Haughton's resources, and his Excel lessons are excellent.

I recommend either "introducing spreadsheets" Simon Haughton's Blog: Introducing Spreadsheets
or his "Theme Park" Simon Haughton's Blog: Theme Park Spreadsheets