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Travel Through Time with a Family Member and Me

Lesson 4

Create a Slide Presentation

Teacher preparation:  Download these files
Creating a Slide Presentation.pdf
Storyboard.pdf 
Final Project.pdf 
Multimedia.pdf

Creating a Slide Presentation 

This warm-up activity will allow students to create an autobiographical 6 slide presentation by following the format on the "Creating a Slide Presentation.pdf." The sequence is easy to follow and the type of slide layout follows the sequence. The use of clip art and word art is encouraged and you can introduce the use of transitions, sounds and background fill effects.

Click here to see students' work

Once the students complete their interview with their family member, you will need to go over how they can pull out the most important points of their narrative to include in their PowerPointŪ presentation. They do not need to put the entire interview in their presentation. So the important part now is teaching them how to synthesize the information. This can include a mini-lesson using the "Storyboard.pdf." 

At this point students can decide how many slides they will need to use and how much information to include on each slide to make the legibility and readability appropriate. If you can make the connection that the use of a storyboard is economical in the respect that planning out the presentation saves time and if they in the real world "money." You can also make the connection on how they can use the same skills they are using here to pull important points when researching a topic for a paper.

For the final project, have students refer to this sheet as a guideline:  FinalProject.pdf

Tips to Guide Students

For tutorials on using PowerPoint please go to:

http://oregonstate.edu/instruction/
ed596/ppoint/pphome.htm 

To turn PowerPoint presentations into web pages go to:

http://curriculum.calstatela.edu/courses/
builders/lessons/tutorials/pp_
to_webpages.html 

 

Checklist of Elements to Include in the Final Presentation

Download now Multimedia.pdf

This checklist was created using http://4teachers.org. You can create your own checklist by going to the following URL.

http://pblchecklist.4teachers.org/checklist.shtml

2004 TeachNet Curriculum Project created by Robin  R. Donovan