Picture-Perfect PowerPoint

Megan Bermond
Content Area/ Topic: Language Arts
Grade Level: K NETS-S: 1, 6
Description: Students need to pick a letter from the alphabet that they would like to do. They can find pictures from coloring books, or even pictures that are on the internet. Once they find pictures they will build a PowerPoint to showcase the letter and images, and sound of the image. For example: You can pick the letter H, so students can pick up to four images of animals. They can use horses, hamster, hog, hound and once there they can find the sound of them, and put it in their slide.
Teacher Preparation: The teacher needs to show students, who have low vision the accessibility feature, which changes the display to a larger higher contrast, so students who have that problem can see much better. Another way they can prepare is showing students the magnifier button in the feature, so students can see pictures much bigger. Also, teachers need to prepare students, who have a mild hearing impairment, the windows accessibility feature such as the Sound Sentry, so when students are finding sound for their assignment they can hear the sound.
Active Preparation: Beforehand, teachers need to already teach the students the letters of the alphabet, and as well as objects that start with that letter of the name. The teacher should use sounds to help relate the sound to the object. After the students are finished with their project it will be showcased for the parent-teacher conference.