This document provides instructions for creating a 3 slide PowerPoint presentation about an animal. Students will add a title slide with the animal name, a second slide describing where the animal lives, and a third slide listing 3 amazing facts. The directions guide students through adding text, clip art images, formatting, and saving the completed presentation.

1. Animal PowerPoint
Objectives:
Students will learn how to use PowerPoint to write expository text in a different
format, and use clip art to insert pictures.
Instructions:
1. Open PowerPoint. Start: All Programs: Microsoft Office: PowerPoint.
2. Click on “add title”
3. Type the name of your animal
4. Click outside the dotted box
5. Click on “subtitle”
6. Type Your name
2nd Grade-January 11, 2012
Barkstall
7. Click outside the dotted box
8. Click on the “Home” tab at the top
9. Click on the words “New Slide.”
10. Scroll down and click on the slide that says “Title and Content”.
11. Move your curser over the six icons in the middle of the page.
12. Select the middle icon in the bottom row.
13. Search your animal in the Clip art and click on GO
14. Search for picture you want and double click on it.
15. If needed - resize picture to fit your slide.

2. 16.Click on the “Home” tab at the top
17. then click on the words “New Slide.”
18.Scroll down and click on the slide that says “Title and Content”.
19. Take your cursor and click on the words “Click to add Title”.
20. Type the words “Where my animal lives”
21. Click on the words “Click to add text”
22. In the box type where your animal lives
23.Click on the “Home” tab at the top
24. Then click on the picture above the words “New Slide.”
25.Take your cursor and click on the words “Click to add Title”.
26. Type the words “What my animal eats”
27. Take your cursor and click on the words “Click to add text”
28. In the box type what your animal eats.
29. Click on the “Home” tab at the top
30.Then click on the picture above the words “New Slide.”
31.Take your cursor and click on the words “Click to add Title”.
32. Type in the words “3 amazing facts”
33. Take your cursor and click on the words “click to add text”
34. Click on the “Home” tab at the top

3. 35. Take your cursor and scroll over to the right and click on the numbering
box that shows numbers 1,2,3. (You should see the number 1 pop up in
that box after you have clicked on the numbering box)
36. Type in your first amazing fact next to the number 1.
37. Press Enter on your keyboard (You should see the number 2 pop up in the
box).
38. After the number 2 type your second amazing fact.
39. Press Enter on your keyboard (You should see the number 3 pop up in the
box).
40. Write your third amazing fact about your animal
41. Click on the “Design” tab at the top.
42. Explore the different Themes and pick a theme, font, color, and
background.
43. Click on Animations tab at the top. This area will allow you to customize
your slides.
Click on custom animations toward the left and play with the different affects.
This area should take some time and make your slides “pop.”
44. Save your presentation by going to the windows icon at the top left and
click once. Go down to Save As. Go to the H drive – it should have your
name by it. Click on that part of the server. Type the name of your animal
and click on save.