Slide Show Review

You can use this lesson plan with any subject or grade. I use it in my math class as a review before a test. I group the students in groups of three and each group creates a five question slide show which reviews the chapter or unit we have just completed in class.

A lesson plan for grade 7

By Marcie Bivens

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Learning outcomes

Students will:

• select appropriate data from a unit of study and develop multiple choice questions relevant to that data.
• develop a slide show to present the mini-quiz to the class to review the chosen data.

Teacher planning

Time required for lesson

3.00 hours

Materials/resources

A completed unit of study.

Technology resources

A computer with Aver Key capabilities in the classroom or computer lab setting

A computer lab with Slide Show capabilities

A set of disks, one for each group

Pre-activities

• The class should have completed a unit of study.
• The teacher should divide the class into groups of three students.

Activities

Day 1

1. The teacher should put the students into the groups of three.
2. The students should be instructed to come up with five original multiple choice questions per group. The teacher should probably go over reasonable wrong answers.
3. The teacher should see everyone’s multiple choice questions before the end of class.
4. If some students finish early, you may want them to go ahead and begin typing their questions into the computer and saving them on disks for the next day.

Day 2

1. The teacher should have the students take notes on how to create a slide show. I walk my kids through the exact steps that they will need to take in the computer lab. I even create a small slide show ahead of time to show to my students and then, while instructing them on how to do it, I create a small 2-3 page slide show in class.
2. Each group is responsible for making a slide show using the five questions that they developed the day before. I suggest that they do the basic typing before adding pictures or colors.
3. Each group will save their slide show before the end of class. I always stress to the students that they have to have the slide show finished that day.
4. Each group should turn in a hard copy of their slide show as well as an answer key.

Day 3

You can present the slide shows in several different ways:

1. Have the students get into their groups and let each group present its slide show to the class while the other groups are answering the questions. The group then gives the answers and I reward the group that got the most correct with candy. Every group presents, so all groups are working on a review for most of the class period. You need to decide how long you will allow the slide show to repeat, depending on how many groups you have to present.
2. Use the slide show as a game that you mediate. The students are in their groups and the teacher plays all slide shows or groups all slide shows into one slide show. The groups at the end of class with every question answered and work to back up each answer gets a prize.
3. The teacher can use the slide shows as a pretest before the real test. The students work individually to answer the questions.
4. The teacher can use the slide show, depending on how good the questions are, as the test for the chapter or unit.

Assessment

• I evaluate the slide shows on completeness and creativity.
• I evaluate the multiple choice questions on relativity and originality.
• I give a group grade combining each of these.
• I sometimes use the students’ or group’s performance on the presentation of the slide shows as a grade.

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Comments

This lesson can be implemented in any classroom, for a variety of uses in addition to review. I sometimes make slide shows to use in my class for vocabulary quizzes, presentation of notes or as a visual aid in presentations.