SUBJECT: English, History

GRADE: Third

TECHNOLOGY: PowerPoint

BY: Kathleen Dumm, Laia Gresham, Erin Kerby, Leah Reyna

 

Jamestown Field Trip PowerPoint Presentation

 

 Target Grade and Subject

This lesson, designed for an accelerated third grade civics class, provides the students with the opportunity to become more acquainted with using computers and programs such as PowerPoint. This lesson also promotes creativity, student appreciation for historical knowledge, and acclimation with writing reports across a variety of different content areas. The activity gives students the opportunity to contribute and apply their knowledge to the intellectual and social atmosphere of the classroom. Also, students get the opportunity to learn in an active environment because they teach and learn from each other. Technology helps facilitate this activity by offering an intriguing, but efficient alternative to traditional methods of teaching about the settlement of Jamestown.

 

Virginia SOL Standards

  • ENGLISH SOL 3.2 The student will present brief oral reports.
    • Speak clearly
    • Use appropriate volume and pitch
    • Speak at an understandable rate
    • Organize ideas sequentially or around major points of information Use clear and specific vocabulary to communicate ideas

 

  • ENGLISH SOL 3.8 The student will write stories, letters, simple explanations and short reports across all content areas.
    • Use a variety of planning strategies
    • Organize information according to type of writing
    • Revise writing for specific vocabulary and information
    • Edit final copies for grammar, capitalization, punctuation and spelling

 

  • Use available technology

 

  • HISTORY SOL 3.3 The student will describe the settlement of Jamestown and the Virginia colony with emphasis on economic and other reasons that brought settlers to Virginia, the establishment of representative government, the economy, settler's interactions with American Indian and the introduction of slavery into Virginia.

 

Objectives

1. The student will orally and enthusiastically present their slide show presentation during class in front of their teacher and peers using a strong clear voice and speaking at an understandable rate. The students may read directly from their slide.

2. The student will write a fact-based report using their handout, which they completed during the field trip and in class, without grammatical, capitalization, punctuation and spelling errors.

3. The student will take notes by completely and accurately answering the worksheet questions from information given on the field trip and reviewed in class.

4. The student will create, on the computer using their handouts, a Power Point presentation which includes at least one picture from clip art, slide transitions from each slide, preset animations for each bullet and a total of six slides.

5. The students will create a Power Point presentation, follow the guidelines of the teacher's "slide show format" and will be evaluated by the extent to which they follow the teacher's guide.

 

Materials:

  • Pencils for writing notes and rough draft.
  • Field trip handout for taking notes on the field trip.
  • Clip boards for bearing down while taking notes on the field trip.
  • "Slide show format" for the student and teacher to follow
  • Ten Power Macintosh G3 computers and a printer to utilize Power Point and to print out copy of worksheet and "slide show format."
  • Power Point Projector system to present the Power Point presentation to the class.

 

Lesson Description

1. Inform the students that they will begin a PowerPoint project after their trip to Jamestown.

2. Show the skeleton model of the Jamestown Power Point project "Slide show format" saved in the teacher's computer folder (also attached to the back of this lesson plan).

3. Distribute handout that includes the information that the teacher expects them to apply to their Power Point Presentation.

4.  Explain the purpose of the worksheet:

5.  Assist the student in the planning of their Power Point presentation.

6. Guide the student's note taking in the direction of what the teacher expects them to learn on this field trip.

7. Explain how the student must utilize this worksheet.

8. Answer questions with factual knowledge gained on the trip.

9. After field trip, go over the questions, listed on the worksheet handed out before the trip, with the entire class.

10.  Give each student the printed out version of the "slide show format" (mentioned above in # 2) saved in the teacher's computer folder.

11. Ask the students to begin a rough draft of their Power Point slide show, using the answers on their worksheet and the given "slide show format."

12. Tell the students to write directly on the "Slide show format" handout.

13. Once the "slide show format" is completed, tell the students to transfer the handout to Power Point, using their previous knowledge and experience with Power Point.

14.  Ask the students to include:

a.      At least one picture from clip art

b.      Slide transitions for each slide

c.      Preset Animations for each bullet

d.      A total of six slides

15.  Have the students orally present their slide show to the class and inform them that they are expected to answer questions afterward.

 

Evaluation

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