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Learning Experience/Unit

Student Created Math PowerPoint Review by St. Lawrence-Lewis BOCES

Subject

Math, Science & Technology

Grade Levels

Intermediate, 7th Grade

Assessment

The whole class will use these presentations on the last day of the learning experience. Each student will work through as many presentations as possible during this period. While working through the other student’s presentations, they will fill out a checklist to see if each project met the Power Point requirements set forth at the beginning of the learning experience. There will also be a comments section at the bottom of the page to write comments about what they liked or what could be changed to possibly improve the presentation.

The presentations will also be graded for the math content based on a rubric, which I have created.

Learning Context/ Introduction

The students will create an Interactive PowerPoint presentation to help their classmates review for the chapter test. The project will consist of the students creating 10 questions, with one question corresponding to each section of the chapter. When the whole class is finished, there will be 120 (dependent on the size of your class) questions from the chapter for the students to use for review.

Requirements for the project include each student creating 10 questions with 9 of the questions being arithmetic and 1 of the questions being a word problem. Each question will also have a hint slide to go along with them. The students will have to make the presentation interactive so that the rest of the class can work through the presentation by answering each question correctly. If the question is answered incorrectly, the student will be sent to a hint slide that will help them to solve the question correctly the second time. They will then have to go back to the question and try again. There will also have to be five graphics and three animations in the presentation.

Duration

This learning experience should last 4-5 days.

Essential Question

How can you use Power Point to help review for a test?

Instructional/Environment Modifications

You may use a computer lab or portable laptops to have the students create their presentation.

Special Education students may need extended time in order to finish this project.

Procedure

Day 1: 42 minutes (In the classroom)

The first day of the learning experience will be used to explain the project and requirements to the students as well as creating the questions they will use.

I have created a sample PowerPoint presentation to show the students what is expected.

Each student will then be asked to create ten questions that correspond to the chapter they have been working on. One of these questions will have to be created as a word problem. For each of these questions, they will also need to create a hint that would allow anyone trying to solve the problem to be able to have a better chance of answering the question correctly.

Give the students the rest of the class time to work on creating their questions and their hints. As they are working, you can circulate the room and make sure the questions and hints they are creating are of acceptable difficulty for the level you are teaching. Once the students are finished creating the questions and hints, have them hand them in so that you can then review them one more time to o.k. them for the rest of the learning experience.

If the students have not finished the questions and hints in class, I will assign that as their homework for the night.

Day 2: 42 minutes (In the computer lab)

Today you will need to have access to a computer lab or laptops with PowerPoint, which the students will be able to use to create their presentations.

Depending on how well versed your students are with PowerPoint, you may need to teach them different aspects of creating their presentation. My students are going to have very limited experience with PowerPoint so I will teach them on this day the basics of creating a new slide, entering text on a slide, inserting a graphic and applying an animation.

Once I am finished with the instruction, I will then have the students continue to enter their questions for the remainder of the class period.

Day 3: 42 minutes (In the computer lab)

Today, I will instruct the students on how to create the links they will need to make their presentation interactive. Once I have finished with instruction, the students will have the rest of the time available to them to finish their presentation.

Day 4: 42 minutes (In the computer lab)

Today the students will have their presentations available for each of the other students to work through. When they are finished working through each presentation they will have a checklist to go through to see if requirements of the project have been met.

Sample PowerPoint

Reflections and Feedback

Working through this experience was a change of pace for both the students and myself. The students enjoyed being able to work on the computers and I enjoyed being able to teach in a different style than I normally due. The students really liked having other students work on their projects when they were finished. They wanted to show them off to each other. Just remember, this was an accelerated group of student I chose to work with first. Overall, I thought the experience went well.