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5th Grade - 50 States Project

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 * [|NETS.1.6-8:] Students demonstrate creative thinking, construct knowledge, and develop innovative products and processes using technology.
 * [|NETS.1.6-9:] Students demonstrate creative thinking, construct knowledge, and develop innovative products and processes using technology.
 * [|NETS.2.6-8:] Students use digital media and environments to communicate and work collaboratively, including at a distance, to support individual learning and contribute to the learning of others.
 * [|NETS.3.6-8:] Students apply digital tools to gather, evaluate, and use information.
 * [|NETS.6.6-8:] Students demonstrate a sound understanding of technology concepts, systems and operations.

__Objectives__-
 * 1) Students will understand and utilize different Presentation tools to keep the attention of their audience.
 * * Working with tool bars
 * Using the Formatting Palette
 * Using different presentation views
 * Working with text blocks
 * Navigating through slides
 * Deleting a slide || * Moving slides
 * Moving slides between presentations
 * Navigating to a specific slide
 * Changing the slide show color scheme
 * Customizing the color scheme
 * Setting slide transitions || * Working with bulleted lists
 * Working with numbered lists
 * Inserting image files from the hard drive
 * Resizing graphic objects
 * Hiding a slide in a slide show
 * Adding a slide
 * include animations
 * changing backgrounds ||

__Warm up__ –Each class I will introduce a skill previous taught or new skills needed for project and demonstrate how to use it with the proper software.

__Tech lab__ #9 - Presentation

__Evidence of best practice__ – students will be able to refer to the video and helpful tips on my wiki at anytime they get stuck as well as students watching a demo of the project before they can begin

**Activity** - Students will research their assigned state. They need to find out about the questions listed below. With their researched facts they will create a power point including transitions, 1 animation per page and a clear picture.

You can google anything, but I recommend www.50states.com


 * Slide one**
 * Your name Rm #
 * State name
 * picture of state flag


 * Slide 2** - Capitol
 * State Capitol name and picture


 * Slide 3** - Became a State
 * When admitted to Statehood (quick Facts)
 * picture of old state map


 * Slide 4** -State Bird
 * Name of State bird with picture


 * Slide 5** - State Flower
 * State flower (name and picture)


 * Slide 6** - Nick name
 * The nickname is __________.
 * picture (Google your state and the nickname)


 * Slide 7** - about (states name)
 * Largest Cities (3)
 * picture of the largest city


 * Slide 8** - State tree
 * State tree (name and picture)

**Slide 9** - Economy of (State name)
 * What is the agriculture or industry (under //industry// on 50states)
 * a picture that goes with what your wrote


 * Slide 10** - Visiting (state Name) - you probably need to google this or look under Attractions on 50 states
 * If you visited there, what would you visit - 2 places - (google - popular tourist attractions)
 * picture


 * Slide 11** - Interesting facts - //make them really interesting or no credit// (find them on 50 states under **//fast facts//**)
 * Interesting Facts - 2 please (things not included in this presentation)

Each Slide is worth 10 POINTS
 * Scoring...**
 * transitions - 1
 * animation - 1
 * facts - 4
 * clear, relevant picture - 2
 * effort - 2

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 * *Alabama
 * Alaska -
 * Arizona
 * Arkansas
 * California
 * Colorado
 * Connecticut
 * Delaware
 * Florida
 * Georgia
 * Hawaii
 * Idaho
 * Illinois
 * Indiana
 * Iowa
 * Kansas
 * Kentucky
 * Louisiana
 * Maine
 * Maryland
 * Massachusetts
 * Michigan
 * Minnesota
 * Mississippi
 * Missouri
 * Montana ||  || * Nebraska
 * Nevada
 * New Hampshire
 * New Jersey
 * New Mexico
 * New York
 * North Carolina
 * North Dakota
 * Ohio
 * Oklahoma
 * Oregon
 * Pennsylvania
 * Rhode Island
 * South Carolina
 * South Dakota
 * Tennessee
 * Texas
 * Utah
 * Vermont
 * Virginia
 * Washington
 * West Virginia
 * Wisconsin
 * Wyoming ||
 * *Alabama
 * Alaska -
 * Arizona
 * Arkansas
 * California
 * Colorado
 * Connecticut
 * Delaware
 * Florida
 * Georgia
 * Hawaii
 * Idaho
 * Illinois
 * Indiana
 * Iowa
 * Kansas
 * Kentucky
 * Louisiana
 * Maine
 * Maryland
 * Massachusetts
 * Michigan
 * Minnesota
 * Mississippi
 * Missouri
 * Montana ||  || * Nebraska
 * Nevada
 * New Hampshire
 * New Jersey
 * New Mexico
 * New York
 * North Carolina
 * North Dakota
 * Ohio
 * Oklahoma
 * Oregon
 * Pennsylvania
 * Rhode Island
 * South Carolina
 * South Dakota
 * Tennessee
 * Texas
 * Utah
 * Vermont
 * Virginia
 * Washington
 * West Virginia
 * Wisconsin
 * Wyoming ||