The Impact of Slavery Report
Powerpoint Lesson Plan
by Colleen Crandall
Topic:
Slavery
Grade Level:
5th
Objective:
Students will create a Powerpoint presentation using computer technology
from written reports they have completed about the impact slavery had on people
of North America utilizing a rubric to guide them through to meet 5th grade
standards. See lesson plan folder.
Curriculum Connections to Standards:
Social Studies 5.4.5 Introduction of slavery into America, the ongoing struggle
between the proponents and opponents of slavery.
Writing a report: 1.2 Create multi-paragraph expository compositions
Listening and Speaking: 1.0 Students give focused, coherent presentations
that convey clearly and relate to the interests of the audience through an oral
presentation of Powerpoint to their class
Reading Comprehension 2.3 Discern main ideas and concepts presented in
texts, identifying and assessing evidence that supports those ideas.
Technology:1.3 Use organizational features of printed text - bibliography
1.4 Create simple documents by using electronic media and employing organizational
features: entry, pull-down menus, spell check)
Time: 40 minutes
Materials needed: “The Impact of Slavery” Reports, computers,
pencils, Powerpoint software, Rubric for the Powerpoint Presentation, Student
direction worksheets for students to access directions as they work independently
at computers, and Bibliography worksheet directions.
Activate Prior Knowledge:
Think about some of the things we have written this year on the computer.
For example, the limerick poems with the drawings you just created, and earlier
in the school year you wrote the state reports as a newsletter. Today, I would
like to teach you a powerful way to present your slavery report. It is what
many people in business use to persuade people to think about their ideas. Please
look up at the TV and watch carefully as I walk you through the various screens
so you can create your own presentation when it is your turn at the computer
during center rotations. You will be using this model as you create your own
presentation.
Lesson Plan:
1. Click on the Macintosh HD icon on your desktop.
2. Go to Microsoft Office 98 and click to open the file.
3. Click on Powerpoint to open this application.
4. Using the research gathered on the topic of slavery, you will be creating
4 slides to share with your audience what you learned about while researching
this topic. When you get to the Powerpoint slide screen choose the center icon,
Template and after you highlight that button, click OK and you can select which
design you would like to use as a background for all four of your slides.
5. To create the design on your slide, check out the various icons to preview
the design you would like to use an all 4 of your slides in this presentation.
When you decide, go over to the right side of the screen and click the OK button.
6. Go up to the main menu bar at the top of your screen and choose file - open.
Scroll down to SAVE AS in order to save the work you will be doing as you create
each of the slides. You will save this document as Slavery Powerpoint # ______.
Be sure you are saving this to your own folder in the student server.
7. Slide One: When the new slide screen comes up, you will see a bold
frame around the first slide on the left side of your screen. Go over to the
OK button and click 2x to create this slide.
8. Type in the tile of your report in the top text box and your name and today’s
date in the bottom text box. Save your work by going to the file heading on
the main menu and scroll down to SAVE - click to save.
9. Slide Two: Go up to the INSERT heading on the main menu and choose
new slide from the pull down menu. If the bold frame is around the 2nd slide
click the OK button. (If it isn’t, use the cursor to move to the 2nd slide
click on it then, click the OK button.)
10. Type in Facts About Slavery in the top text box. Type in 4 facts from the
research report you are using about slavery that you want your audience to be
aware of. Choose information you think they might not have known.
11. Slide Three: Go back up to INSERT on the main menu bar and pull down
the menu to click on New Slide. When your choices come up, place the cursor
on the slide that has the little man on one side, and a text box on the other
side of the slide. When you make your selection, click on the OK button.
12. Type Ways a Slave Suffered as the title of this slide in the top text box.
In the text box below, write 3 different ways you read about that the slaves
suffered from your research.
13. Bring in a picture from the internet site used to gather information on
your topic. To do this, use the Main Menu bar and to to the APPLE. Scroll down
until you see the words, Internet Explorer and let go of the mouse. The internet
will open. Do a search to find the web site you used for your research gathering
on this topic. When you find a picture you want to use in your Powerpoint, click
on that picture and hold down the mouse until a menu opens. When the menu opens,
click on the word, COPY.
14. Go back to the Powerpoint slide 3 and click on the little man picture. Then,
go up to the word, EDIT, on the main menu bar. Scroll down to the word, PASTE.
You should see the picture you chose over the top of the little man. If it is
too small or too large, use the diamond shapes on the outside box around the
picture to move it and make it larger or smaller.
15. Slide Four: Go back to the main menu bar to INSERT and create your
final slide. This slide will be the same slide as slide #2. It is the second
slide at the top of your box. Click OK after you have moved the cursor on this
slide.
16. Title this slide Bibliography in the top text box. In the box below, use
the guide for bibliography attached to your rubric to type in where you found
your research information. You must have one internet site listed and one other
resource. You can use your textbook as an additional resource if you choose
to use 3 resources. Check the bibliography requirements carefully to get credit
for this page.
Guided Practice:
Teacher will walk around and check to see if students need assistance
as they work through this set of instructions. Students will work in small groups
during center rotations and teacher will assess for understanding and make sure
students have a grasp of the instructions given in class time as well as the
worksheet directions.
Independent Practice:
Students will work on the computers during center rotation time to complete
4 slides for a Powerpoint presentation on slavery.
Conclusion:
Students will do a power write activity where they will write about how
they felt while they shared their presentation orally as a Powerpoint Slide
Presentation to the whole class.
Assessment:
Teacher will assess the presentation based upon a rubric given to students
prior to the Powerpoint lesson.
Home Activity Extension:
Students will share their oral presentation of copied slides from the Powerpoint
presentation that they created with parents to check to see if their presentation
makes sense to share orally with an audience.
Name___________________
Date_____________
Bibliography Directions
by Heather Sullivan
Use this format if you found something in Magazines
“English, French, and Dutch Explore America.” USA
Studies Weekly. October, 2000, Vol. 2, p.2-3.
Use this format if you found something in Books
Gallagher, Jim. Ferdinand Magellan and the First
Voyage Around the World. Philadelphia: Chelsea
House Publishers, 2000.
Use this format if you found something in Encyclopedias
“Magellan.” World Book encyclopedia. 1926
Use this format if you found something in Web sites
“Magellan.” www.mariner.org/age/magellan.html