The Lesson
The teacher will need to have their new PowerPoint presentation open
behind Internet Explorer at the beginning of the lesson.
Teacher explains that the students are going to create a quiz about schools
in Ancient Greece, using presentation software e.g. PowerPoint. Pupils
are going to select information from a website and books in order to create
a presentation consisting of no more than four pages of information, followed
by an interactive quiz.
Teacher demonstrates opening the website from the list of favourites.
http://www.angliacampus.com/public/pri/history/greeks/page22.htm
Q What are three important facts about schools in Ancient Greece that
I could include in my presentation from this page?
Aged 7-15, boys only, called a gymnasium
For each of the given facts the teacher asks the pupils which piece of
text they wish to copy to the presentation.
Q Which phrase would you copy and paste to indicate that only boys
attended schools in Ancient Greece?
If, for example, they suggested copying the following, "At 18 years
old the boy became a citizen of his state," the teacher would need
to reinforce the need to only include relevant text.
If pupils are not familiar with copying text and images from the Internet
the teacher should demonstrate this.
To copy text highlight the required text with the mouse,
click inside the selection with the right mouse button, and select copy
from the pop-up menu. Minimise Internet Explorer (IE), maximise
or restore PowerPoint, reinforcing the correct terminology all
the time. Paste the selected text into an appropriate text box.
Internet Explorer should still be on the task bar at the foot of the screen,
clicking it will restore it. If it is not, minimise PowerPoint to reveal
IE. Now demonstrate copying images in a similar way. Right click
the image of "A School" and select copy, minimise IE
then paste it into PowerPoint and save.
Now the teacher asks pupils to identify criteria that will be used to
assess their presentations at the end of the session.
Q What features would you expect to see in a successful presentation?
- short, relevant extracts of text only
- proof read with no spelling errors
- consistency of font,
- background and style throughout the pages
- graphics are carefully placed and not distorted
- the hyperlinks work and the quiz is historically accurate
Main Activity
Before pupils begin the process of creating their four page presentation
in pairs, they should be reminded to concentrate on the historical facts
at this stage. Specifically they should not spend time experimenting with
different fonts, animations, backgrounds etc.
The teacher's intervention needs to be to ensure that pupils are concentrating
on cutting and pasting relevant information only.
Q Why have you included that extract of text?
Q Can you explain why have you ordered your points in that way?
Remind pupils to save regularly.
Draw pupils back together to explain how they will now create their quiz.
Demonstrate how to create a hyperlink from a page containing a question
and a number of possible answers.
Q Can somebody suggest the first question to ask in our quiz?
For example, "What was a school in Ancient Greece called? A gymkhana,
a gymnasium, a gymslip."
Having entered the above text on a new page, insert two further slides,
one for the correct answers (Yes) and one for incorrect answers (No).
Return to the question slide and select one of the incorrect answers. From
the menu bar select insert and hyperlink and then choose to
link to place in this document. Choose the No page and then
select OK. Repeat this for all answers ensuring that the correct answer
goes to the Yes page. On the Yes and No pages you need
some text, hyperlinked to return to the question page. (See sample
file, Schools
in Ancient Greece for a model.)
In order to keep things simple, restrict the pupils to questions and answers
that can fit on one page as per example file.
Send pupils to create their quiz pages. Remind pupils to save their work
regularly.
Plenary
In the plenary, refer back to the criteria of a successful presentation
developed at the beginning of the session. Give pupils a brief opportunity
to try out another group's quiz and judge it against the criteria.
Finally:
Q Can you explain the differences between schools in Ancient Greece and
schools today?
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