Name: ____________________________________________
Graphing Temperatures
1. For this activity you will use the 3 Capitals you chose in the previous
spreadsheet activity.
2. Open Internet Explorer and type in www.weather.com
3. You are going to find the high and low temperatures for each city for the next
7 days.
4. In the box at the top, type in the name of the city and country (city, country)
5. Click the “10 Day” option for that city
6. Write down the high and low temperatures for the next 7 days.
7. Repeat for the other 2 cities
8. Close the internet
9. In the productivity folder, open Excel
10. SAVE the new document as Temperatures in your Home Directory
11. Create a spreadsheet that looks like this (use the actual name of the city, not
the word Capital):
12. Enter the temperatures for each city’s high and low temperatures
13. Girls will graph the high temps and boys will graph the low temps
14. Hold down the CTRL key and click the number of each row you need (girls
2,4,6 and boys 3,5,7)
15. Click the Chart Wizard icon in the tool bar
16. Select the type of graph that will display
results over time (line). Next
17. Series in: Rows. Next
18. Give the chart a title
19. Label the X axis as “Days”
20. Label the Y axis as “Temperature”.
21. Click the Gridlines tab. Click “Major Gridlines” for the X axis. Next
22. Accept “As object in: Sheet 1”. Click Finish.
23. Click inside the chart and drag it under your data
24. Click on the bottom, center handle and drag down until you see temperature
numbers 0 – 100 (or higher) by tens 0, 10, 20, 30…..
25. Click outside the chart.
Name: ____________________________________________
26. Click in cell I2. This is where you want to find the Average temperature for
the week. You may do this manually, OR, you may use the Autosum tool.
Click the arrow beside the icon Σ and select “Average”. This will
automatically find the average of the 7 temperatures in cells B2-H2. Press
Enter to move down to the next cell.
27. Autosum (or Average) will now try to average any numbers above it, so we
need to make an adjustment for the other temperature averages. Instead of
using the Autosum tool, we are going to copy the formula (calculation
process) Autosum used to find the average of cells B2-H2.
28. Click in cell I2 again. Put your mouse over the lower, left corner until you see
a + sign. Drag down to cell I7 and click in an empty cell. This told Excel to
find the average of the 7 cells to the left. SAVE
29. Click on the Print Preview icon
30. Click Setup (top of screen)
31. Click on the Header / Footer
tab
32. Click Custom Header
33. Choose where to put your
name (left, center, right) – click
OK
34. Click Sheet and put a check
beside “Gridlines”
35. Click OK again to see a preview
of the whole page
36. Raise your hand to let a
teacher see your page and then click Print.
37. Click Close (top of screen)
38. SAVE
Use your graph and spreadsheet data to answer the following:
Which city had the highest temperature on the third day? ____________________
Which city had the lowest temperature on the sixth day? ____________________
Was there a day that any cities had the same temperature? If so, which cities and
what was the temperature? ____________________________________ _______
Which city had the highest AVERAGE temperature for the week? _______________
Which city had the lowest AVERAGE temperature for the week? _______________