Lesson Plan- Creating a Multimedia Presentation

Component                                                                                                                                                

Student will effectively use multimedia and technology in presentations.

Objectives

  1. Divide students into small groups, with each student have a specific job to complete data collection and produce multimedia project: writer, editor, graphics, digital photos, scanner, layout, and typist.
  2. Have students use a variety of electronic media, such as the Internet  Yahooligans Wild Weather, NOAA Weather and NOAA News, information services, desktop publishing, software programs to create, revise, retrieve and verify information.
  3. Students can use Kid Pix, PowerPoint, HyperStudio or other multimedia programs to present information.
  4. At the start of the Weather Watchers Unit, have students design a weather cover for their weather unit. Teachers can use Rubistar for assessment purposes. Students should place all information collected and work completed into this portfolio. Portfolio can also contain disks with work, saved URL's of weather web sites and digital photos. This information can all be used in the student-created multimedia presentation.
  5. Vocabulary: clouds, water droplets, water vapor, atmosphere

How to Make a Kid Pix Slide Show (Watch How to Make a Slide Show on demonstration disk)

  1. Have students pick their topic
  2. Write down eight to ten main points
  3. Use a Script Worksheet to write ideas
  4. Create a new folder to store text, clip art and graphics
  5. Save work and name it
  6. Number pictures in the order they will appear in the slide show
  7. Make a title screen
  8. Make pictures for the slide show
  9. You can draw pictures, use stamps or import pictures
  10. After creating pictures, load pictures on slide show moving vans
  11. Remember to save
  12. You can add sound by clicking sound icon
  13. Add transitions using transition icon
  14. Save
  15. Show your work to classmates.

 

SCRIPT WORKSHEET
Subject
Slide 1
Slide 2
Slide 3
Slide 4
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7
Slide 8
Slide 9
Slide 10

Competency 

                                                                                                                                                           Students will use weather data collected to create and organize a Multimedia Presentation. 

Homework

Classify cloud types: cirrus, cumulus, stratus and nimbus and draw illustrations of each or print out cloud pictures from weather web sites