The Greenwich Grid for Learning

PowerPoint Presentation Lesson Plan

Subject: ______Duration: ______

Group Details: ______

Aim: / To create an interactive PowerPoint presentation using the theme “Who am I” as the context?
In this context students are expected to think of a person or character that they want members of their group to identify from a number of clues…

Objectives

/ Create slides
Find information from sources including the Internet
Add text and graphics to slides
Create hyperlinks between slides and to the Internet
Animate presentation
Create an appropriate background
Add an appropriate slide transition
Test finished product
Show presentation to students in their group

Resources

/ Student guide sheet
Gifted and Talented / Students should be encouraged tackle this unit as an open ended challenge.

Differentiation

/ Students should be guided into restricted PowerPoint presentations and given more help with a structure of the presentation. Students should also be given more help with the operational aspects of PowerPoint.

Numeracy

/ Logical sequencing of events

Literacy

/ Researching Information
Selecting information
Amending information for an appropriate audience and style
Lesson sequence / Show PowerPoint presentation on Melvin Burgess
Illustrate the skills you want students to learn
Give all students time away from the computer to begin to develop ideas
Start students on PowerPoint if required
Hold tutorial sessions on different aspects of PowerPoint during the lesson sequence
Write tips and hints for students on their sheet
Give regular updates of the time remaining
Bring all students back for a plenary session to show their presentations.

The Greenwich Grid for Learning

Who am I?

You will be shown an example of a PowerPoint presentation where you have to guess the name of the person from the clues given.

You then have to create a PowerPoint presentation of your own about a person or character of your choice.

You will have to do the following:

Create a storyboard for presentation

Find information from sources including the Internet

Add text and graphics to slides

Create hyperlinks between slides and to the Internet

Animate your presentation

Create an appropriate background for your presentation

Add an appropriate slide transition to your presentation

Test finished presentation to show that all the hyperlinks work

Show your presentation to students in the group

Making a start

What or who is going to be your mystery person?

Sketch a storyboard for your presentation

(Ask your teacher for a copy of the storyboard for the Melvin Burgess presentation)

Create the WHOLE of your storyboard layout in PowerPoint

Find the information for your mystery person, this can include

text and graphics and

information from the Internet

Add the information to your slides by:

Typing in or Copying and pasting from the Internet or Inserting from clipart or digital photographs

Link your slides together as shown in your storyboard using Inset hyperlink

Test your links by running your presentation

Animate your presentation using Custom Animation, adding sound as you see fit

Experiment with slide backgrounds to enhance your presentation but not to obscure your message

Add a Slide Transition if you think it is needed

Test, test, test until you are happy that it works…..