Day you were born Assignment

You will be creating a PowerPoint that presents the information that you have learned from the Internet research you completed on the day you were born.

General Requirements:

Title Slide

The Day I was Born

Created by: Your Name

Introduction Slide

What the slide show is about.

Personal Statistics
A. Name/grade/meaning of name
B. Birthday (Month dd, yyyy--ex: February 28, 1989)
C. Age in years & days
D. Moon phase on date of birth--drawing
E. Viking name

Shared Birthdays
A. Literary figure
1. Name/year born
2. Occupation/Accomplishment
B. Historical or popular figure
1. Name/year born
2. Occupation/ Accomplishments

Events Occurring on Your Birthday
A. Year/place
B. Description

Entertainment
A. Television--Top Shows
1. Name of show
2. Plot/setting/characters
3. Years on TV--How long?
B. Movies
1. Name of popular movie

2. plot/setting/characters
C. Music

1. Name of popular song

2. Name of Band

Nostalgia

A. Cost of things: house, car, gas, stamp, etc.
B. President then
C. Vice-president then
D. 3 Toys
1. name of each
2. description of each

Summary/Evaluation


A. Did you enjoy working on this project? Why? Why not?
B. Most interesting things learned by doing this project.
C. Additional comments.

Ending Slide,

THE END, I hope you enjoyed……

Specific Requirements:

·  10 card minimum, prefer 15

·  Consistent background or design on all slides

·  animation/effect: example your title “fly’s in from the bottom right”

·  1 sound or background music

·  2 or more pictures from Clip Art

·  3 pictures saved from the WWW. Example: a picture of the t.v. guide from the week you were born.

·  1 or more digital images (either scanned or taken w/ digital camera)

·  Slide Transitions

·  1 or more Hyperlinks to a WWW sites that correlates with your information

Extra Credit Ideas (5 points for each) (Maximum 10)

·  Table of Contents with Action buttons to each slide

·  Music from that era playing in the background

Evaluation: 100 Points (See Rubric)

A Exceptionally creative development of the presentation.

B Well crafted development of the presentation.

C Inclusion of at least one example of each of the development elements covered.

D Poorly conceived presentation, many elements missing.

F Unacceptable development.