Lab 12: Integrating PowerPoint into Curriculum

Description: PowerPoint can be used independently by students in the classroom for a number of different curriculum activities. Students can create their own presentations as part of projects, book reports, science lab reports, and more.

There are a number of educators who have created PowerPoint lesson plans across a variety of subjects and often post their students' PowerPoint presentations. We're going to look at a a few of them and then develop a lesson plan that has students creating their own PowerPoint presentations as part of a curricular goal.

Reading: Integrating Technology for Meaningful Learning, pp. 242 – 270.
Applications/Equipment Used: Windows OS, Microsoft PowerPoint, Web Browser.

Links:

Microsoft Education Lesson Plans - Search for PowerPoint Lesson Plans.
Student PowerPoint Projects - from social studies teacher Mr. Michael Hutchinson at Vincennes Lincoln High School, Vincennes, Indiana.
PowerPoint: Creating Classroom Presentations - by Education World.
Evaluating Student PowerPoint Presentations - from Claremont McKenna College.

Lab Procedure:

1. You will create a lesson plan that integrates PowerPoint into the curriculum. When developing the lesson it will be important to include the following:

• Set a clear task for the student to accomplish.
• Create a process, in list format, describing how to accomplish the task. EX: (number slides, the title slide requirements, the number pictures, animation necessary or not, uniform background necessary or not, etc.)
• Define how the student will present and share his/her work.

2. Save your lesson plan as a Word document appropriately named (EX: jones_lab12.doc) with your last name, email address, and the lab number at the top of the document.
3. Send your word document to my AC230 Digital Dropbox on York’s Blackboard. The subject line should give your name and the lab number (Frank Jones Lab 12).