Making a New Nation - PowerPoint
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Students Make a PowerPoint about "A New Nation"
Each student will choose a person to research and create six or seven PowerPoint slides about that person. Students locate information about their person on the internet such as their early life, interesting facts, and their effect on the revolutionary war. Students use the internet to find several pictures of their person and add captions about the pictures.
Grade 5
Example:
Slide One Title Slide - Martha Washington
Students create a title slide with multiple images of the person they chose to research.
Slide Two
Students create a slide about their persons early life.
Slide Three
Students add a slide with interesting facts about the person they are researching.
Slide Four
Students add a slide about what effect this person had on the revolutionary war.
Slide Five
Students create a slide with multiple pictures representing their person's life. Students add captions to the images.
Slide Six
Students add a bibliography with at least FOUR different sources for their research information.
Build the Presentation Using the Following Instructions:
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Introductory slide with the person's picture, name, and your name.
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A slide about the person's early life.
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Some interesting facts about the person.
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What effect did this person have on the Revolutionary War.
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Pictures of this person with captions.
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A bibliography.
Choose one of the following people to research:
Look up some information on several people before making your choice.
| Edmund Randolph | Roger Sherman | William Dawes |
| Samuel Adams | Paul Revere | George Washington |
| Benjamin Franklin | James Armistead | James Madison |
| Thomas Jefferson | Thomas Paine | Patrick Henry |
| John Hancock | John Adams | Marquis de Lafayette |
| Nathan Hale | John Dickinson | Mercy Otis Warren |
| Abigail Adams | Martha Washington | Mary Hays |
| Deborah Sampson | Anne Bailey | Sybil Ludington |
| Nancy Morgan Hart | Benedict Arnold | James Otis |
| Dr. Joseph Warren | Benjamin Lincoln | Robert Livingston |
| Admiral John Montague | King George III | George Grenville |
| William Pitt | Francis Bernard | Charles Cornwallis |