Seven more unexpected (and great!) ways to use PowerPoint in your classroom
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Seven more unexpected (and GREAT!)
ways to use PowerPoint in lessons
by Fiona Beal
1. Use Powerpoint
as a brochure
This idea comes from a website
Oakdome
Side 1 of the brochure
Side 2 of the brochure
Skills used in this lesson
(Grade 5 Social Sciences –
heritage trail)
• Research Heritage sites to find one in the assigned province
• Create the brochure
• Insert required information using text boxes
• Add clipart or other images related to task
An example
2. Use Powerpoint
to make a 3D museum
This idea comes from a lovely
shared resource in Simple K12
Topic subheading (3 rooms)
Insert a downloaded video or an audio podcast that you make yourself – or two separate pictures
Hyperlink to a Word document of information
Picture
Add a sign to next room
Add a clipart figure that walks across the room
Change colour of walls and texture of floor in each room
Skills used in this lesson (Grade 6 Social Sciences – medicine)
• Follow instructions
• Insert video, MP3 audio and pictures into shapes
• Change colour and texture of shapes
• Create an animated person
• Hyperlink to a word document of information
An example
3. Use Powerpoint
to make an animation for
weather Grade 3
This idea comes from a lovely
TeachMeet presentation from East
London presented by Megan Skelly
from Hudson Primary School
Clipart A great source of free, high resolution,
background-less clipart is
www.clker.com
Skills used in this lesson
• Moving shapes around
• Create four slides relating to seasons
• Create the scene from the clipart and add colour
• Add a verbal recording about each page
• “Bring to front” and “Send to back”
• Inserting and animating WordArt
• Animation: entrance and motion effects, reordering
An example
4. Use Powerpoint
to make an animation for
learning about the water cycle
in Grade 4
This idea comes from a lovely
TeachMeet presentation from East
London presented by Megan Skelly
from Hudson Primary School
Grade 4 - Photosynthesis
Photosynthesis
sunlight
carbon dioxide
water
oxygen
sugar
Photosynthesis
sunlight
carbon dioxide
water
oxygen
sugar
Skills learned in this lesson
• Slide transitions
• Inserting, colouring and rotating shapes
• Inserting and animating textboxes
• Formatting the background
• Ordering
• Grouping
• Animation: entrance effects, reordering
5. Use Powerpoint
to reinforce learning about
Direct and indirect Speech
This idea is, I think, my own!
Skills used in this lesson
• Creating speech bubbles and characters
• Creating a conversation
• Using animations to make the speech bubbles disappear as they are said.
6. Use Powerpoint
to learn about life cycles
in Grade 5
This idea came from Mary Lou
Berndt from Stirling Primary in
East London who presented it at a
TeachMeet. This adaptation comes
from Oakdome.com
Skills used in this lesson (from
Oakdome)
• Learn about life cycles
• Use images, text boxes and arrows to create a life cycle
• Arrange the life cycle in the correct order
• Animate images
• Give a verbal run through as the animation happens
7. Use Powerpoint
to make stop animation
videos in PowerPoint
This idea came from Gaye Pieterse
a High School teacher from Durban
Girls College
How to do Stopframe Animations in Powerpoint
By Gaye Pieterse
Step 1
Show the class the PPT on animations if want to teach both animation &
transitions. Then get them to do the animations as an exercise.
Step 2
Show the class the YouTube tutorial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02A_-3ZwE6w
Step 3 Show the class how to add sound:
From file:
From clip audio:
From recording own sound file:
From recording whole slideshow – timing & sound (best option) or can do a mixture of
all of the above
Step 4
Test sound and transition duration & adjust
Voila!!
Skills used in these lessons • Browsing internet & inserting images • Drawing images in PPT • Editing images in PPT • Grouping & ungrouping images in PPT • Copying & pasting slides in PPT • Using timing in PPT • Creating animations in PPT (with shapes) • Adding sound in PPT (from file, clip audio, own
recording) • Recording slide show in PPT • Trimming audio in PPT • Creating a stopframe story
*Some of these will be
placed on the SchoolNet
blog as lesson ideas
*That’s all for today.
*Thank you.