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Mesopotamia-The Land Between the Rivers
Presentation Project
Using Microsoft PowerPoint
Presenting the Cultures of Ancient Mesopotamia
• Overview
PowerPoint Presentations provide an engaging method for collecting,
summarizing, and organizing information. This Project Based activity
integrates technology with the Social Studies Curriculum. Presentations
may be used for student projects to demonstrate understanding of
curriculum in a wide variety of disciplines.
Creating PowerPoint Presentations give students a chance to be engaged
and creatively involved in their learning. Motivated by the allure of
computers, students’ focus and involvement increases.
Students may work in teams or as individuals to complete this project.
• Grade level- 6th Grade
• California State Standards addressed
6.2 Students analyze the geographic, political, economic, religious, and
social structures of the early civilizations of Mesopotamia, Egypt, and
Kush.
• NET-S Standards addressed
3.0 Technology productivity tools
ß Students use technology tools to enhance learning, increase
productivity, and promote creativity.
ß Students use productivity tools to collaborate in constructing
technology-enhanced models, prepare publications, and
produce other creative works.
IMPORTANT: Before starting this project, all students should have an
accessible folder dedicated to this project either on an individual
computer or a server.
Guide for designing a non-linear PowerPoint presentation
A. Creating Backgrounds
B. Inserting Pictures
C. Inserting Text Boxes
D. Creating Hyperlinks
E. Creating the Presentation
First
Launch PowerPoint and begin with a Blank Document
Many versions of PowerPoint are used in schools. There may be some slight
variation in the presentation of menus and options. The techniques remain consistent.
The key is to read the screen and explore.
A. Create Backgrounds
1. Right click on background for options> Slide Background
Move to
Slide Background
and let go
Click Here Then try these
1. Get creative. Read the screen and explore the Fill Effects.
Check out the Tabs
Try the controls
For initial attempts, it helps to keep it simple.
B. Insert Pictures
Before inserting pictures, you need pictures to insert.
Many pictures can be saved to your folder from the
Internet. A Google Image search can be fruitful.
PLEASE NOTE: Be sure to set the preferences for Google
Images to the "strict filtering " setting.
Right Click on the
picture for options
Add pictures to your slide two ways:
1. You can Copy and Paste a picture directly from the Internet
2. Insert Picture from file
3. Drag picture to desired position
4. Add and arrange pictures to create the desired effect
Right Click on
picture for options
5. For this presentation, import, size, and place 5 pictures along a
map of the Ancient Mesopotamian region. Pictures represent
specific cultural aspects. Examples: Government, Religion,
Technology, Writing, Architecture, Jobs, and Trade.
C. Insert Text Boxes
Titles and captions are created with Text Boxes
1. Use Insert > Text Box
2. Design titles and captions with text tools, then place.
Titles
Captions
D. Create Hyperlinks
Connecting slides to make an interactive presentation
1. Insert 5 new Slides. Insert > New Slide
2. Select a captioned picture on the first slide to use as a link to
another slide. Right Click on the picture > Choose Action Setting
Right Click on
picture for options
3. Select Hyperlink to: , view options, choose Slide
1. Select Hyperlink to:
2. Click triangles to view options
3. Choose Slide
4. Select slide to be linked to the chosen picture. When showing
Presentation, click on the picture to display the chosen slide.
1. Choose Slide number
(slides may be named)
2. Click OK
E. Creating the Presentation
Putting research, design, and technology together
1. Design and create the first slide with Hyperlinks from
captioned pictures to each of the remaining five slides.
a. Background
b. Map
c. Title
d. Five captioned pictures Hyperlinked to other slides
Title
Map
Background
Hyperlinked Pictures
with captions
2. Using the techniques from Parts A-D, create Slides to
illustrate the cultural aspects of Ancient Mesopotamia.
* Provide a Hyperlink that returns to the first Slide
Text Boxes
Example: GOVERNMENT SLIDE
* Picture with Hyperlink to first Slide Picture from File
Text Box
Required for running a non-linear presentation
Before running the PowerPoint presentation, you must disable the
mouse click slide advance feature
Slide Show > Slide Transition > Disable On mouse click
On mouse click
box is not checked
