The document provides guidelines for creating effective PowerPoint presentations for school projects, noting that slides should focus on one clear idea, use simple visuals and formatting, and emphasize concise bullet points over dense blocks of text to maintain audience engagement. Examples demonstrate poor formatting choices that can make text difficult to read or cause visual overload. The guidelines stress simplicity, clarity, and readability in slide content and design.

1. Effective Power Points
for school presentations
6th Grade A
2016

2. Your goal
Get your message to the audience
It´s the most
Important
thing

3. Basic Guidelines
One idea per slide
You have to plan

4. Keep it simple
• Be creative with the tools and time you have!

5. Basic Guidelines  Text
• Title what you are talking about
• Limit your text complete sentences
 Bullets
• Text size so everyone can see
• Use color wisely a a a a
• Use no more than two types of fonts.

6. Basic Guidelines  Text
• Rule: six bullets and six words.
• More than tan that uses too much space.
• It gets boring too, can´t you see it in this
example?
• If you use too many words your audience is going
to spend too much time reading and not paying
attention to your ideas.
• Are you still reading this or are you bored already
• Should I keep on writing?

7. Why this doesn´t work Text
Hello my name is Peter. I am in sixth grade. I bet you can´t read this information, but really is it that important to read this if I am
talking about my investigation, my ideas, my feelings?
Hello my name is Peter. I am in sixth grade. I bet you can´t read this information, but really is it that important to read this if I am
talking about my investigation, my ideas, my feelings?
Hello my name is Peter. I am in sixth grade. I bet you can´t read this information, but really is it that important to read this if I am
talking about my investigation, my ideas, my feelings?
Hello my name is Peter. I am in sixth grade. I bet you can´t read this information, but really is it that important to read this if I am
talking about my investigation, my ideas, my feelings?
Hello my name is Peter. I am in sixth grade. I bet you can´t read this information, but really is it that important to read this if I am
talking about my investigation, my ideas, my feelings?
Hello my name is Peter. I am in sixth grade. I bet you can´t read this information, but really is it that important to read this if I am
talking about my investigation, my ideas, my feelings?
Hello my name is Peter. I am in sixth grade. I bet you can´t read this information, but really is it that important to read this if I am
talking about my investigation, my ideas, my feelings?
Hello my name is Peter. I am in sixth grade. I bet you can´t read this information, but really is it that important to read this if I am
talking about my investigation, my ideas, my feelings?
Hello my name is Peter. I am in sixth grade. I bet you can´t read this information, but really is it that important to read this if I am
talking about my investigation, my ideas, my feelings?

8. Basic Guidelines  Visuals

9. Basic Guidelines  Visuals
Endangered animals
-Biodiversity is the variety of life on Earth.
-Fauna & Flora International (FFI) works to protect
countless species through our conservation
programmes.
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10. Basic Guidelines Visuals

11. Basic Guidelines Visuals
Use High quality images / take your own pictures if
possible.

12. Basic Guidelines  Visuals

13. Basic Guidelines  Images

14. Basic Guidelines  Images
 Use adequate images
 Use high quality images
Image size: so everyone can see it.
Leave enough white space.

15. Basic Guidelines  Background

16. Basic Guidelines  Background
Background Background Background Background
Which one can you read best?

17. Basic Guidelines  Background
Cool colors work best for backgrounds.
- such as blue and green
Warm colors generally work best for objects in
the foreground like text.
- such as orange and red
 Contrast is very important
Which one can you read best?

18. Basic Guidelines  Background
Avoid :
noisy backgrounds
red-green combinations.
Choose:
A color that will compliment you font color.

19. Basic Guidelines  Images
 Use adequate images
 Use high quality images
Image size: so everyone can see it.
Leave enough white space.

20. Limit transitions and animations
Only use them if necessary.
 In this case less is more.

21. Videos and audio
Only use them if they are important for your
presentation.
Place video and audio file in the same in the
same folder as your ppt.
Make sure to attach them before your
presentation.

22. Title
Subtitles
 Text
 Text
 Text
 Visual

23. Now tell me… why doesn´t this work?

24. References
 http://www.ncsl.org/legislators-staff/legislative-
staff/legislative-staff-coordinating-committee/tips-for-
making-effective-powerpoint-presentations.aspx
 http://www.presentia.co.uk/the-10-20-30-presentation-rule-
for-designing-great-presentations/