PowerPoint (Terrific)

For SEDU 183 we needed to create a lesson using PowerPoint. The lesson was based on what level and subject we are concentrating in to teach when we graduate. My expereience with PowerPoint was great because I use PowerPoint for almost everything. So, I was able to do some creative things with my lesson based on what I knew and what I learned in class.

 

 

I did a lesson geared toward Eighth-graders on the political differences between Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson and how that led to the creation of the First Party System in American politics. I was able to begin with just a simple overview of each person's background and the ideology adopted by the Federalist and Democratic-Republican parties. I even added a video in the PowerPoint illustrating the feud between Jefferson and Hamilton. Here's a link if you're interested in the video. Some of the animation I used I learned in another class. I also included a review lesson comparing and contrasting the two figures of American history. This can be used to test the students knowledge of what they have learned. Here's my PowerPoint.

I felt that presenting to my peers was good way of presenting what we will teach and how we all feel about using PowerPoint. It was also a solid way of presenting our lesson and explain how we would teach it to a class. I thought the other projects in our group were well done. Each person made the PowerPoint fun and had a lesson set up that students would be interested in. The key with a PowerPoint is to find a way to keep your students interested, so they can get something out of it. You want a student to see the importance of the lesson, not the "oh, not another PowerPoint" feeling.