Final+PowerPoint

1. Explain your project and the reason you selected it. I chose to do my final project on health for the second grade level. I chose to do health because I feel it's a very important topic, especially at a young age, so students can learn how to live a healthy life and all the aspects that incorporate into being healthy. 2. Describe how you are going to use it in the classroom and what students will learn. I could use this powerpoint in the classroom at the beginning of the year, that way students learn to cover their mouths while coughing or washing their hands after using the restroom. This would help to keep less germs out of the classroom and keep more students in class instead of at home, sick. Also, students will learn the importance of eating good foods and exercise and this can become a challenge throughout the school year for the kids to eat and exercise appropriatly.

3. Explain the benefits of using an interactive power point for creating lessons. The benefits of using an interactive powerpoint for creating lessons is that the different images, slides and videos can keep the attention of students better and it makes learning more fun and relateable to their technology based generation. 4. What concepts did you learn that will help you when incorporating power point in your teaching? I learned in more detail how to create a powerpoint, I figured out how to place a youtube video into the slides. I learned how to find corresponding images for the related topic and to figure out how to keep the attention span of a second grade class through inserting interractive activities throughout the presentation.

5. What worked well? I think I did well with creating an informative, yet fun and interractive powerpoint. I had fun inserting images and creating animations for them to appear onto the slides. 6. What did not work well? I had a more difficult time figuring out how to insert a youtube video into my powerpooint. After some playing around and searching for information on google, I was able to figure out how to incorporate a video straight into my slide rather than just having a link. (The video does take a second to start once you click play, but it works!) 7. Name 3 new things you learned to do in PowerPoint for this project. Three new things that I learned to do in a powerpoint presentation are how to insert a youtube video and not just a URL, how to insert graphic charts and fun ways for images to appear, and how to get a full song to play on one slide and not throughout the whole presentation (The song is on the hand washing slide where students can practice washing their hands at their desks along with the song and step by step image).