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.