Let's Build Stellar Presentations!

Activity 1: The Power of Pictures

Teach through photographs. Explore the following resources. Create a 1-5 slide presentation that teaches through photographs. Use the notes area for teaching ideas.

• Google Images
• Public Domain / Copyright Free Media

Activity 2: Search for Existing Presentations

Use Google to locate online presentations.

• Search for your topic and add .ppt such as tornado + .ppt
• Search for your topic and add powerpoint project such as sixth grade + powerpoint project
• Teacher Workshop Examples
• Lincoln High Staff Projects
• Multimedia Projects - Grade 3
• Dysart Teacher Resources
• Discover
• A+ Rubric
• UK Projects
• All About Me
• PowerPoint Projects and Resources

Activity 3: Digital Storytelling and Simple Activities

Provide students with:

• One side of a debate (dams & salmon) - they provide the other side
• A story starter (ladybug) - they provide story
• Question slides - they provide answer slides
• Pictures - they provide word, definition, reasoning, poem, sentence

Activity 4: Questioning

Create a slide(s) that focuses on many answers for a single question:

• Essential Questions (reading; deforestation) - Asks a how/why question. What would have to happen? How has my thinking changed?
• Connection Questions (ag & art) - Asks students to connect prior knowledge to new ideas, what do you think of when?
• Active Questions (math) What if?, how would you? why would you?
• Focusing Questions (holidays) - What are some examples? What could happen if? How are things alike/different? What would you predict? What made you think of that?
• Divergent Questions (role playing) - What's a different way? What about the other side? If you were a... what would you do?
• Expanding Questions (pros, cons, clones) - What do you think is most important? Why?
  How does this relate to…? How?

Activity 5: Examples

Create a slide that focuses on:

• example
• non-example
• many examples
• expository-based (statement, then examples)
• inquiry-based (examples, then statement)
• visual
• auditory - search Google such as I Have A Dream + .wav
  • Multimedia Seeds: Audio Clips
• motion - search Google such as Tornado + .mov
  • Multimedia Seeds: Video Clips
  • American Memories - History
  • Hinterland Who's Who - Animal Videos

Activity 6: Variety

Use variety in presentation:

• Use Google to locate:
  • Sayings
  • Question & Answer
  • Quotations - nature, leadership, dream
  • Excerpts
  • Humor
  • Cartoons

   

Activity 7: Practice and Interaction

• Create a game.
• Use a template.
  • Jeopardy Template - Download the Jeeparty PowerPoint Template by Cary Harr - PPT file
  • Mississippi River Jeeparty Game using Cary Harr's template - PPT file
• Build an interactive story.
• Design a practice environment.
• Build a PowerQuest

Activity 8: Step-by-Step Instruction

Add a screen dump to your presentation.

• Select the screen you wish to copy.
• If you're copying a website, enlarge the text first.
• Press Control-Apple-Shift-4.
• Select the area of the screen using the cross-hares.
• Go to your presentation.
• Pull down the Edit menu, select Paste.

PowerPoint Resources for Purchase

FTC Publishing Materials - PowerPack, Templates