Changing the World PowerPoint Project!

Hello Everyone,

After you have chosen a person who has done something to change the world and solve problems, you will make a PowerPoint presentation about them, and about how you are inspired to make change or solve problems of your own because of what you learned!

Here are the steps for the project:

  • Choose a person using the previous blog post of articles. Please let Ms. D know who you are doing.
  • Do research on the person, recording notes in your journal.
  • Create the slideshow per the instructions below, then present it to the class.
  • You may want to make index card notes for your presentation, because you can’t read off of the slides.
  • You must have a script for your presentation, and you need to practice before presenting.

Here are the slideshow requirements:

  • Slide One:  Title of your presentation, your name, the date, a picture of the person.
  • Slide Two-Three:  Introduction to your person. Where were they born, their education, their interests, job, birthdate, or any personal details you can find.
  • Slide Four:  What problem they solved and why? Why were they interested in this problem? How is it related to the UN Global Goals?
  • Slide Five:  What did they do to solve it? Did they invent something, innovate, or campaign to make change?
  • Slide Six:  How do you feel about what they did? What problem are you inspired to solve now as a result of the action they took?
  • Slide Seven:  What is your plan to solve the problem you have identified as something you want to take care of? (Your action plan)
  • Limit text on each slide and try to use pictures to illustrate your point. You will be talking to present it, so you do not need too much text.
  • Please do not use fonts that are smaller than size 12 font, and avoid scripty, cursive, capital letters (which indicate shouting), and microscopic, hard-to-read fonts.
  • Use one of the themes on PowerPoint for colours of backgrounds and format, rather than creating your own. You want to avoid using colours that make it hard to read what you have on the screen (such as white on black, yellow on red, etc.)
  • If you use a picture, do not put text directly on top of it, because it is hard to read. You can make a coloured box on top of a picture, such as a white, rectangle box, and then put text on top of that, if you want to create captions for your pictures.

This project will be due no later than February 8th, and then we will do presentations February 8th – 10th.