1. Seven more unexpected (and GREAT!)
ways to use PowerPoint in lessons
by Fiona Beal

2. 1. Use Powerpoint
as a brochure
This idea comes from a website
Oakdome

3. Side 1 of the brochure

4. Side 2 of the brochure

5. Skills used in this lesson
(Grade 5 Social Sciences –
heritage trail)
• Research Heritage sites to find one
in the assigned province
• Create the brochure
• Insert required information using
text boxes
• Add clipart or other images related
to task

6. An example

7. 2. Use Powerpoint
to make a 3D museum
This idea comes from a lovely
shared resource in Simple K12

13. Topic subheading (3 rooms)
Hyperlink to
a Word
document of
information
Add a sign to
next room
Insert a downloaded
video or an audio podcast
that you make yourself –
or two separate pictures
Change
colour of
walls and
texture of
floor in
each room
Add a
clipart
figure that
walks
across the
room
Picture

14. Skills used in this lesson
(Grade 6 Social Sciences – medicine)
• Follow instructions
• Insert video, MP3 audio and pictures into
shapes
• Change colour and texture of shapes
• Create an animated person
• Hyperlink to a word document of information

15. An example

16. 3. Use Powerpoint
to make an animation for
weather Grade 3
This idea comes from a lovely
TeachMeet presentation from East
London presented by Megan Skelly
from Hudson Primary School

20. Clipart
A great source of free, high resolution,
background-less clipart is
www.clker.com

21. Skills used in this lesson
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Moving shapes around
Create four slides relating to seasons
Create the scene from the clipart and add colour
Add a verbal recording about each page
“Bring to front” and “Send to back”
Inserting and animating WordArt
Animation: entrance and motion effects,
reordering

22. An example

23. 4. Use Powerpoint
to make an animation for
learning about the water cycle
in Grade 4
This idea comes from a lovely
TeachMeet presentation from East
London presented by Megan Skelly
from Hudson Primary School

24. Grade 4 - Photosynthesis

26. oxygen
Photosynthesis
sunlight
carbon dioxide
sugar
water

27. Photosynthesis
oxygen
sunlight
carbon dioxide
sugar
water

28. Skills learned in this lesson
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Slide transitions
Inserting, colouring and rotating shapes
Inserting and animating textboxes
Formatting the background
Ordering
Grouping
Animation: entrance effects, reordering

29. 5. Use Powerpoint
to reinforce learning about
Direct and indirect Speech
This idea is, I think, my own!

31. Skills used in this lesson
• Creating speech bubbles and characters
• Creating a conversation
• Using animations to make the speech bubbles
disappear as they are said.

32. 6. Use Powerpoint
to learn about life cycles
in Grade 5
This idea came from Mary Lou
Berndt from Stirling Primary in
East London who presented it at a
TeachMeet. This adaptation comes
from Oakdome.com

36. Skills used in this lesson (from
Oakdome)
• Learn about life cycles
• Use images, text boxes and
arrows to create a life cycle
• Arrange the life cycle in the
correct order
• Animate images
• Give a verbal run through as the
animation happens

37. 7. Use Powerpoint
to make stop animation
videos in PowerPoint
This idea came from Gaye Pieterse
a High School teacher from Durban
Girls College

38. How to do Stopframe Animations
in Powerpoint
By Gaye Pieterse

39. Step 1
Show the class the PPT on animations if
want to teach both animation &
transitions. Then get them to do the
animations as an exercise.

40. Step 2
Show the class the YouTube tutorial:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02A_-3ZwE6w

41. Step 3
Show the class how to add sound:
From file:

42. From clip audio:

43. From recording own sound file:

44. From recording whole slideshow – timing &
sound (best option) or can do a mixture of
all of the above

45. Step 4
Test sound and transition duration &
adjust
Voila!!

46. Skills used in these lessons
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Browsing internet & inserting images
Drawing images in PPT
Editing images in PPT
Grouping & ungrouping images in PPT
Copying & pasting slides in PPT
Using timing in PPT
Creating animations in PPT (with shapes)
Adding sound in PPT (from file, clip audio, own
recording)
• Recording slide show in PPT
• Trimming audio in PPT
• Creating a stopframe story

47. *Some of these will be
placed on the SchoolNet
blog as lesson ideas
*That’s all for today.
*Thank you.