Leadership
PowerPoint
You will be creating a slide show for one
of the following leaders: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln,
or Martin Luther King Jr. Choose one. Your intended audience is elementary
school students, so make your information and vocabulary level appropriate.
1. Gather the information listed below about your person
using the World Book software.
2. Create a slide show with at least eight slides.
3. The show should run automatically. All animation should
be “after previous” and timed with no mouse clicks, try using an Animation
Scheme. Set the slide transitions to go after 5 seconds.
4. It should have an interesting look with appropriate
graphics. There should be good contrast between the text and the background.
Animations should be interesting, but not over-used!
Slide 1 - Title: Introduction
Title
and your name
Picture
Graphic
Slide 2 – Title: Background
A
short introduction to your person
Slide 3 – Title: Early Life
Pick
2 to 3 things that happened early on in their life and provide a brief
description of each.
Slides 4 – 6 Title: Choose your own titles.
Make
3 slides that portray important events in this person’s life. Add clip art,
sounds, movies, and photos
Slide 7 – Title: The Pen is
Mightier than the Sword
Each of these men were great orators, create a slide about
the following speech.
·
George
Washington: Farewell Address
·
Thomas Jefferson:
Declaration of Independence
·
Martin Luther
King, Jr.: I Have a Dream Speech
·
Abraham Lincoln:
The
Slide 8 – Credits
·
Give credit to
World Book in this format: Contributors Last, First Name. “Title of Article”. Name
of Program. Copyright and Copyright Date. See example below.
Ardaugh, John. "
·
Give credit for any
media (pictures, movies, sound files) that you use from the internet.
"Title
of the Web Page." Author or Institution.
Date Published. Date you viewed it <web address in brackets>.
·
Give credit to
yourself as the author of the PowerPoint