State+Report

I can remember doing state reports in the second grade. We just had to find the basic information, like state tree and state flower. This PowerPoint is designed to give students a model to follow while putting their reports together. A teacher could use this for the entire report, or it could be used to do a short oral presentation from a longer report. In addition to learning about a state, this PowerPoint will give students a chance to begin learning about using PowerPoint. While the starter provides all of the text boxes and more complicated set-up issues, it allows students to learn about where to click to be able to type in the boxes and how to copy and paste pictures. For this age group, I have included reliable, good-quality websites to assist in their research. This starter can easily be adapted for different states, but it can also be adapted for any report that requires pictures. For example, creating an animal report is easy by just changing the questions and the suggested websites. One of the websites I have included, http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/clipart/default.aspx, has a license that needs to be accepted, but only once, so it would be possible to make sure that each computer already has the license accepted.

This is my original starter and two examples:

This is my starter adapted for a report on animals and one example: