POWERPOINT IN THE CLASSROOM

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Classroom Activities | Examples | Tutorials | PowerPoint Templates

All "Jeopardy" PowerPoint files and associated handouts have been
removed from this site at the request of Sony Pictures, Inc.

A+ PowerPoint rubric for grading student projects / presentations

Focus on Content: Using a Word Outline to Build a PowerPoint presentation. Too often a PowerPoint show is all about glitzy graphics and fancy animation. The procedure outlined on this page puts the emphasis squarely on content.

Jamie MacKenzie's "Scoring PowerPoints": Are your PowerPoint presentations "compelling and persuasive" or studies in "PowerPointlessness?" If you are thinking about assigning a PowerPoint project to your students, read this article first! An excellent scoring rubric is included here as well.

Games: Mark Damon offers PowerPoint versions of various well-known games. Download them, then unzip them and add your own questions.

Internet4Classrooms: MS PowerPoint

Multi-Q: A Question & Answer Review Game Designed for Use in the Classroom

Periodic Table of the Elements: This common chemistry tool is presented as an interactive PowerPoint page with web links to pages about each element. Invisible buttons are used on slide 2. There are 109 invisible buttons on one slide.

Tech Learning Centers: Teachers can also use PowerPoint to organize and build learning activities. Students work individually or in small groups to complete activities in these tech-learning centers. Keep students accountable by providing handouts that require them to find and record specific information, or ask them to produce a final project based on what they learned. Try using the Project Poster to create student reports on the Web!

Undercover is based on a very simple concept, similar to Concentration, in which the students test their ability to identify an event, person, place, or any image as it is uncovered.

 

 

 

EXAMPLES

Cyber Exchange for Educators: A collection of education-related PowerPoint presentations that may be viewed on the web or are zipped files. This page includes PowerPoint presentenations for both elementary and secondary classrooms.

Oswego City School District: over 200 elementary & secondary teacher-created examples of instructional PowerPoint presentations

 

 

 

 

TEMPLATES

Templates: Tired of the same old PowerPoint templates? Try these site for free template downloads:

Microsoft's Template Gallery contains some cool PowerPoint stuff just for teachers!

Presenters' Resource: Free PowerPoint templates and presentation resources.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  Tech Learning Center Sample:
  Our Solar System
 

Download: PowerPoint 2000 or PowerPoint 97
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Activity Summary (including some sample handouts):
     
Tour The Solar System. Students are provided with a hyperlink to an animated cartoon at BrainPop.com. This movie gives students a brief overview of our solar system. A transcript of the movie text is available
here.

Destination Planet. Each student is assigned to find out more about one of the planets in our solar system. Hyperlinks are provided for each planet. Each student is provided with a series of questions that he/she must answer based on that reading. The following students handouts are available: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, Uranus, Pluto.
Space Trivia. Students click on a hyperlink for a self-grading online quiz. This multiple-choice quiz was developed with Hot Potatoes, a software package that is free for educators. Each time the quiz is loaded, the questions and the answer choices appear in a different order. Click here to play the game yourself!
Space Words. Students use an online glossary to write definitions of space-related words. Click here to view a sample student handout.
Be An Astronaut. Students read about what it takes to be an astronaut.
Dogs in Space. Students read about the dogs that went to space in the early days of the Russian space program. Find out what happened to Laika, the first space dog! And how did President John F. Kennedy get a "space puppy?"
Space Wardrobe. Read about what astronauts wear while they are in space! Did you know that space suits have interchangeable parts, like a Lego system? And what do astronauts do when they need to go to the bathroom anyhow? Find out here!
Links to Explore on Your Own. Additional resource links for students and teachers.

Check out a new PowerPoint "Tech Center" sample: The American Presidents
(NETA 2002 Workshop Sample File)