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Brookfield High School: Lesnansky's Control Center: Internet Safety

For Students 9th - 10th
In this activity, students watch a video on staying safe online, then create a slide presentation using Google Slides (or other software, e.g., PowerPoint) that explains the four main points stated in the video. [5:02]
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: A Visual Dress Code

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Primarily designed for ESL students who need visual representations to reinforce the meanings of words, this lesson encourages ESL and native speaking students to extend their vocabulary and conversational skills as they create a...
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Interpreting Shakespeare's a Midsummer Night's Dream

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
After a study of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, learners working in small groups conduct research and create a slideshow presentation that emphasizes key aspects of the play and/or new ideas generated by the play.
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: You, Too, Can Be an Inventor!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
How have inventions changed the world? This unit focuses on the importance, the process and the creativity involved in inventing. Through the study of inventions and inventors, students learn how inventions are created and the...
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Symbols of Freedom

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Lesson where each student researches an American patriotic symbol, creates a slideshow, and presents it to the class.
Interactive
Association of Religion Data Archives

Association of Religion Data Archives: u.s. Population Density Map

For Students 9th - 10th
Interactive tool that lets you choose a map (Census or Religion), then choose demographic or religious profiles to create a slideshow.
PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Antithesis

For Students 9th - 10th
This slideshow lesson focuses on antithesis; it defines it and explains its uses: to acknowledge the complexity of the situation, to emphasize contrast, and to create a balance between opposites.
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: It's a Small, Small World

For Teachers 6th - 8th
As an introduction to the study of diversity of life, science students will use hands-on inquiry experiments to discover the microscopic world through a microscope. Students will use computers to create a brochure or slideshow...
PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Editing Techniques: Writing a Reverse Outline

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This slideshow lesson focuses on writing a reverse outline as a post writing strategy for assessing your paper for weak or missing aspects. It explains how to create the outline using a rubric if available and provides a skeletal example...
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Animals With Backbones

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students will learn about animals with backbones and then create a slideshow presentation that shows the characteristics of the different groups of vertebrates. They will also create a brochure explaining how a specific animal is adapted...
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Exploring the Culture of Europe

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this technology-based lesson, students will create a slideshow presentation or a travel brochure to highlight attractions in a chosen country and the historical significance of each attraction. Students will present their created...
Activity
Cynthia J. O'Hora

Mrs. O's House: School or Club Multimedia Presentation Project

For Teachers 1st - 2nd Standards
Boast about your school or a club you belong to by creating a video or slideshow. Guidelines for creation are offered.
PPT
Tom Richey

Slide Share: Shot Framing: Review of Basic Camera Composition and Framing

For Students 9th - 10th
A slideshow aimed at journalists to teach them the basic principles of framing a field of view and composing a shot.
Website
Other

Animoto

For Students 9th - 10th
Tired of slideshows? This powerful site will turn your photos, music and video clips into "beautifully orchestrated videos" in less than a minute! You will be able to narrate your pictures with text, send messages, and create event...
PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Adverb Clauses

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This slideshow focuses on adverb clauses; it reviews adverbs. It defines adverb clauses, explains how to create them using examples, and provides a list of subordinate conjunctions that often begin adverb clauses.
PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Outlines

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on outlining; it defines outlining and the two types, topic and sentence. It provides two slideshows: the first focuses on creating the outline including the 4 steps, structure, and importance of flexibility; the...
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: What's in Your Secret Garden?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
After reading F.H. Burnett's The Secret Garden, students create their own secret gardens and design a slideshow presentation of their gardens to share with the class.
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Figurative Language

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
This instructional activity used a slideshow presentation to explain the difference between similes and metaphors. Students are challenged to identify these figurative elements in literature and then create some themselves.
Unit Plan
Scholastic

Scholastic: Study Jams! Science: Weather & Climate: Clouds and Precipitation

For Students 3rd - 5th
A slideshow and a short multiple-choice quiz on the topic of clouds, how they form, the kinds of precipitation they can create, the main types of clouds, and cloud descriptor terms.
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Imagine Mars

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students will learn about Mars and what adaptations would be needed for people to live on Mars. They will develop a plan for the colonization of Mars. A slideshow presentation and brochure will be created to entice people to join this...
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Effective Interview Techniques

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The lesson will begin with a lecture on the importance of effective interview techniques. A technology-based project will be assigned for students to use the Internet to gather information and then create either a slideshow presentation,...
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Where Am I in Cyberspace?

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This activity allows students to utilize critical thinking skills and Internet research to develop a technology timeline. The timeline will assist students in developing a word processed sample list of items for a time capsule, which can...
Website
University of Maryland

University of Maryland: Kid Pix Slide Shows on the Web

For Students 3rd - 8th
This article shows how to convert a KidPix SlideShow created on a Macintosh into HTML format for publication on the Web. Using this method, each slide is shown full-size on a separate page, along with navigation buttons for moving...
Website
PBS

Art:21: Art in the Twenty First Century

For Students 9th - 10th
The online home of award-winning PBS television series "Art:21" opens a window into the world of contemporary art and artists. Includes a lessons library, downloadable educator guides, examples of student-created projects inspired by the...