Teacher Name: Claire Wingstedt

Room Number: 211

Course Name: BTE 100 – Computer Applications
School Year: 09-10
Lesson Topic: My Favorite Band PowerPoint Project
Stage 1 – Desired Results

Established Goals:
• Creating Slide Backgrounds, Inserting Pictures, Inserting WordArt, Inserting
Animations, Creating Animations, Slide Transitions, Presenting In front of Peers

Enduring Understandings: Guiding Questions:

Students will understand. . . • How do I want my PowerPoint to come
• Creating a comprehensive slide show across?
• Attention to detail is necessary • How will I make it a cohesive
• Students might miss certain details or presentation?
not understand how to create their own • What do I want to focus on in my oral
animations presentation?

Students will know. . . Students will be able to. . .

• Key knowledge and skills- creating a PowerPoint presentation on a topic with
animations and attention to details
• Students will eventually be able to- present presentations to future classes or coworkers
on a topic that will get the audience’s attention.

Stage 2 – Assessment Evidence

Performance Tasks: Other Evidence:

• 12 slides, appropriate music, pictures • Daily quizzes on certain PowerPoint
(1 animated) and text on each slide, elements: animation, transitions,
entrance, emphasis, and exit for each emphasis, original animation, pictures,
element, slide transitions, 2 original impromptu speeches
animations, 5 minute speech • Reflection paper on the project will be
• Presentation must have a cohesive due the day after presenting.
feeling from text and color, as well as
the animations. Speech should cover
one band’s history, musical style, and
fun facts.
Stage 3 – Learning Plan

Learning Activities (Constructing/Processing/Modeling):

Indicate the time allocation for each learning activity.

W = Help the students know Where the unit is going and What is expected? Help the teacher
know Where the students are coming from (prior knowledge, interests)?
(Connection Review)
 Day 1: Ask who has used PowerPoint previously. Hand out Rubric and discuss
expectations. Have students troubleshoot and create a 5 slide presentation to show to a
peer. (40 minutes)
H = Hook all students and Hold their interest? (Anticipatory Set)
Day 2: Introduce an example PowerPoint. (5 minutes)
E = Equip students, help them Experience the key ideas and Explore the issues
Day 2/3: Introduce key aspects of project: adding pictures, adding transitions, adding
emphasis, exit, and entrance. (15 minutes each)
Day 3: Allow students to experiment with each key element, making a second 5 slide
presentation to show to a peer. (40 minutes)
R = Provide opportunities to Rethink and Revise their understandings and work?
(Monitoring Student Understanding of the Content)
Day 4: Provide a quiz covering each key element (30 minutes)
E = Allow students to Evaluate their work and its implications?
Day 5/6: Allow students to critique and offer guidance to other students presentations (40
Minutes
T = Be Tailored (personalized) to the different needs, interests, and abilities of learners?
(Multiple Intelligences)
All Days: Allow students to choose their own topics for the slides, as well as offer after
school opportunities to come in and work on a slide show.
O = Be Organized to maximize initial and sustained engagement as well as effective learning?
(Closure to the Lesson)
Provide students with recourses (YouTube video), student help, guidelines and rubrics.
Resources Needed:
Computers, PowerPoint, Music, Internet, 3 Notecards