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4th and 5th Grade PowerPoint Presentation
In Media, 4th- and 5th-grade students at Maple Elementary School learned some of the basics of PowerPoint, including designing a background, searching for and inserting public-domain images, and using animations for slide transitions. We combined a research and PowerPoint project in Media to supplement the program they presented alongside their D.A.R.E. (Drug Awareness and Resistance Education) graduation ceremony at the end of the school year.

Each student in the program took on the role of a historical figure. The student researched his or her figure and created a slide for that important person. During the program, the PowerPoint slide show played in the background while the students spoke the lines they had memorized and sang the songs they had diligently rehearsed. The slide show helped the audience understand who certain historical figures were. Even adults were unfamiliar with some of them! (Can you honestly tell me who Juan Bautista de Anza was?) Some of the slides are duplicates because the slides were displayed as each character spoke, and some characters spoke multiple times throughout the play. The students were very excited about the way the PowerPoint presentation turned out, and I was very proud of them. They worked hard, expressed their individuality and creativity, and did a wonderful job! To see the presentation that they created, please click on the link below. Please select the Slide Show tab and view the presentation from the beginning to get the full effect.