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4th Grade Winter hunt

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PA Standards
 * 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.
 * 2) The following skills should be introduced at the designated grade levels. By the end of each designated grade level students should be proficient in those Presentation Skills.
 * * Working with toolbars
 * Using the Formatting Palette
 * Using different presentation views
 * Working with text blocks
 * Navigating through slides
 * Adding a slide
 * Deleting a slide
 * Moving slides
 * Moving slides betweew presentations
 * Navigating to a specific slide
 * Changing the slideshow color scheme || * Customizing the color scheme
 * Saving a design template
 * Setting slide transitions
 * Checking your spelling
 * Changing font styles
 * Aligning text
 * Working with bulleted lists
 * Working with numbered lists
 * Inserting image files from the hard drive
 * Resizing graphic objects
 * Cropping graphics ||

__Warm up__ –Each class I will introduce a skill listed in the vocab section and demonstrate how to use it in PowerPoint

__Evidence of best practice__ – students will be able to refer to the video and helpful tips on my wiki at anytime they get stuck and Model lesson before students are allowed to complete task.

__Activity__ - After researching interesting facts about the winter students will create a power point presentation about winter.

Directions: Use the links provided to find the answers to the questions. TAG your facts !!!!

slide 1
 * Winter facts
 * your name

slide 2 - winter facts
 * 1) What is the coldest temperature ever recorded in America?
 * 2) Where was the coldest temperature? use link above (#1) Brrr.....

Slide 3 - Snow
 * 1) Is snow edible? (What does [|edible mean]?)
 * 2) What is a snowburst? (go to 2nd paragraph and start with the word LARGE) How can they be dangerous?
 * 3) If the wind speed is 20 MPH and the temperature is 5° Fahrenheit what is the wind chill?

Slide 4 - Winter activities
 * 1) When did people [|first skate]?
 * 2) One form of sledding is the luge. [|What natural force slows the luge]?
 * 3) What are the people who [|control a dog sled] called?

Slide 5 - Skeletons in the Winter
 * 1) What is the winter sport of [|Skeleton]?
 * 2) How fast do they (skeleton) go? //Use your online research skills to find the answer - google//.

Slide 6 - Winter Solstice
 * 1) What is the [|winter solstice]?

Slide 7 - Ice age
 * 1) What is an ice age?
 * 2) When was the most recent ice age in North America?

Slide 8 - Winter geography
 * 1) Name [|one step to take if you are caught in an avalanche.]
 * 2) Winter is a good time to study glaciology. What is [|glaciology]?

Scoring Guide
 * 9 slides - 11 points each slide
 * transitions - 2
 * clear pictures on each slide - 4
 * theme on presentation - 1
 * Neat presentation - effort - 2
 * each slide give a clear / correct fact - 2

The start of a sample PP - this is missing pictures & transitions media type="file" key="4th winter sample.mov" width="300" height="300"