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Lesson Plan 5

General Information
Title: Globe Raider: Part III     
Subject Area: Spanish
Grade Level: 4th and 5th
Teacher: Michelle Arden
School: Fort Mill Elementary

Summary of Lesson:  The students will create PowerPoint slide shows to 
present information about a Spanish speaking country to their class.

Lesson Details

Objectives: 
TSWBAT: Use PowerPoint to create a presentation about a Spanish speaking 
country.

TSWBAT: Evaluate their knowledge of a Spanish speaking country. 

Setting:  computer lab– 40 minute Related Arts class

Procedures: Time:

When students enter lab, have them sit at their own computer, not in groups.

Review PowerPoint with students by demonstrating basic functions, including creating new slide, adding text, and inserting clip art, etc.

Allow students time to create a practice slide, answering any of their questions.

Have students move into their groups, using one computer per group.

Students will then take turns creating their slides using the designs they created last week.  Remind them to save their work to their disk!!

Hand out self-evaluation sheets and allow students to complete them while waiting to add their slide to the presentation.

Take up labeled disks as they leave. 





10 mi




30 min.

Total Time: 40 min.

Technology Specific Activity/Project Description:

The teacher uses a projector to demonstrate using PowerPoint.  The students
then work in groups to create a 6 slide presentation, using rough drafts that they 
had previously written. 

Assessment:  Student participation is assessed by evaluating participation
within the group, completion of their individual slide and their own self-
evaluation. 

Foreign Language Standards: 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 5.2

Materials

Resources: Information previously gathered from:  encyclopedias, books and
periodicals for each country, www.lonelyplanet.com, www.mapquest.com
Software:
PowerPoint
Hardware:
computer and projector

See Globe Raider: Part III worksheet

 

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