The document describes 7 ways that PowerPoint can be used for lessons beyond traditional presentations. These include using PowerPoint to create brochures, virtual museums, animations showing weather and life cycles, conversations in direct and indirect speech, and stop-motion videos. Each idea includes the source, skills practiced, and an example. Skills range from inserting and animating images, text, and audio to ordering slides and creating multi-slide animations. Overall, the document provides teachers with creative lesson ideas for using PowerPoint in engaging ways across various subjects and grades.

1. Seven more unexpected (and GREAT!)
ways to use PowerPoint in lessons
by Fiona Beal

2. 1. Use Powerpoint
as a brochure
This idea comes from a website
Oakdome

3. Side 1 of the brochure

4. Side 2 of the brochure

5. Skills used in this lesson
(Grade 5 Social Sciences –
heritage trail)
• Research Heritage sites to find one
in the assigned province
• Create the brochure
• Insert required information using
text boxes
• Add clipart or other images related
to task

6. An example

7. 2. Use Powerpoint
to make a 3D museum
This idea comes from a lovely
shared resource in Simple K12

13. Topic subheading (3 rooms)
Hyperlink to
a Word
document of
information
Add a sign to
next room
Insert a downloaded
video or an audio podcast
that you make yourself –
or two separate pictures
Change
colour of
walls and
texture of
floor in
each room
Add a
clipart
figure that
walks
across the
room
Picture

14. Skills used in this lesson
(Grade 6 Social Sciences – medicine)
• Follow instructions
• Insert video, MP3 audio and pictures into
shapes
• Change colour and texture of shapes
• Create an animated person
• Hyperlink to a word document of information

15. An example

16. 3. Use Powerpoint
to make an animation for
weather Grade 3
This idea comes from a lovely
TeachMeet presentation from East
London presented by Megan Skelly
from Hudson Primary School

20. Clipart
A great source of free, high resolution,
background-less clipart is
www.clker.com

21. Skills used in this lesson
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Moving shapes around
Create four slides relating to seasons
Create the scene from the clipart and add colour
Add a verbal recording about each page
“Bring to front” and “Send to back”
Inserting and animating WordArt
Animation: entrance and motion effects,
reordering

22. An example

23. 4. Use Powerpoint
to make an animation for
learning about the water cycle
in Grade 4
This idea comes from a lovely
TeachMeet presentation from East
London presented by Megan Skelly
from Hudson Primary School

24. Grade 4 - Photosynthesis

26. oxygen
Photosynthesis
sunlight
carbon dioxide
sugar
water

27. Photosynthesis
oxygen
sunlight
carbon dioxide
sugar
water

28. Skills learned in this lesson
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Slide transitions
Inserting, colouring and rotating shapes
Inserting and animating textboxes
Formatting the background
Ordering
Grouping
Animation: entrance effects, reordering

29. 5. Use Powerpoint
to reinforce learning about
Direct and indirect Speech
This idea is, I think, my own!

31. Skills used in this lesson
• Creating speech bubbles and characters
• Creating a conversation
• Using animations to make the speech bubbles
disappear as they are said.

32. 6. Use Powerpoint
to learn about life cycles
in Grade 5
This idea came from Mary Lou
Berndt from Stirling Primary in
East London who presented it at a
TeachMeet. This adaptation comes
from Oakdome.com

36. Skills used in this lesson (from
Oakdome)
• Learn about life cycles
• Use images, text boxes and
arrows to create a life cycle
• Arrange the life cycle in the
correct order
• Animate images
• Give a verbal run through as the
animation happens

37. 7. Use Powerpoint
to make stop animation
videos in PowerPoint
This idea came from Gaye Pieterse
a High School teacher from Durban
Girls College

38. How to do Stopframe Animations
in Powerpoint
By Gaye Pieterse

39. Step 1
Show the class the PPT on animations if
want to teach both animation &
transitions. Then get them to do the
animations as an exercise.

40. Step 2
Show the class the YouTube tutorial:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02A_-3ZwE6w

41. Step 3
Show the class how to add sound:
From file:

42. From clip audio:

43. From recording own sound file:

44. From recording whole slideshow – timing &
sound (best option) or can do a mixture of
all of the above

45. Step 4
Test sound and transition duration &
adjust
Voila!!

46. Skills used in these lessons
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Browsing internet & inserting images
Drawing images in PPT
Editing images in PPT
Grouping & ungrouping images in PPT
Copying & pasting slides in PPT
Using timing in PPT
Creating animations in PPT (with shapes)
Adding sound in PPT (from file, clip audio, own
recording)
• Recording slide show in PPT
• Trimming audio in PPT
• Creating a stopframe story

47. *Some of these will be
placed on the SchoolNet
blog as lesson ideas
*That’s all for today.
*Thank you.