This project incorporates the learning of specific technology skills including:

My Family

This project incorporates the learning of specific technology skills including:Open, name, and save a presentationSelect a background appropriate to the topicUse minimal text on the page but narrate with complete sentences read from a script (see notes view)Scan and insert photos and original artwork and retrieve it from a saved locationAdd new slides appropriate for the contentSize and position text for visual appealOptional for students who work more quickly:TransitionsTimingsEffectsCaptions for the photosMap page showing where each was born*This slide is for teacher information only. The student sample begins on slide three and continues to the end. In the View tab, select Notes Pages for directions (bottom half in that screen) to produce each slide. Also, please note: there are two closing slides, based on similar writing prompts. Students will choose one or the other (their choice) to use as their closing, but I have included a sample based on each.*When finished, student copies will be set to play automatically, but this sample needs to be kept manual for instructional purposes.

Professionally Significant Project: This student project will incorporate social studies GLCES, CCSS from reading and writing, language, and technology skills for my students. It will be shared with my grade level teammates to use in their classrooms if they choose to do so. 1Standards and skills practiced with this projectSocial StudiesCCSS WritingCCSS ReadingCCSS Listening/ SpeakingCCSS LanguageThink like a historianUnderstand the passage of time using events from family Understand events beyond their own lifetimeDevelop simple narratives of the history of family6. With guidance and support from adults, use a variety of digital tools to produce and publish writing, including in collaboration with peers.

7. Use the illustrations and details in a text to describe its key ideas.

4. Describe people, places, things, and events with relevant details, expressing ideas and feelings clearly.1. Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.

1-H2.0.1 Chronological thinking8. With guidance and support from adults, recall information from experiences or gather information from provided sources to answer a question.

4. Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.b. Read on-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.5. Add drawings or other visual displays to descriptions when appropriate to clarify ideas, thoughts, and feelings.

b. Use common, proper, and possessive nouns.1-H2.0.3 Investigate family history for at least two generations, identifying various members and their connections in order to tell a narrative about family life. 2. Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.a. Capitalize dates and names of people.1-H2.0.6 Compare life today with life in the past using the criteria of family. 2Three Generations of My Family By: Deb

Open a new presentation. Select the Design tab. Select a style and if you want to change the color scheme, do so. Write the title in the largest box and author in the smallest box.

Go to the Animations tab. Select Add Animation. Select the top box on your page and then select Float In. Select the bottom box and select Float In.

Next select the Insert tab. On the right of your screen select the down arrow next to Audio. Then Clip ArtAudio. Type in music" in the top Search for: box, and select Visions music. Click your save disk (2nd button in the very top left of your screen)

Now, go back to the Animatins tab, select Animation Pane. On the right of your screen a box will pop up. The music file will be at the bottom, slide it up to just below the title. Select the down arrow to its right and select Start with Previous. Now listen to make sure the music comes in . 3My family is important to me. They are my history. I look like them and act like them. The best thing about my family is that they will love me forever.

On the Home tab, select the down arrow next to the New Slide and select Blank. Next, go to Insert and select Text Box. Stretch it across your page.

In the text box, type your introduction . Make sure to use all complete sentences that start with a capital letter and end with punctuation. Read it aloud to yourself when you are finished to make sure all the sentences sound good.

Once you have practiced you will narrate and save the narration on this slide. Select Insert, then Audio, then Record Audio. Make sure your microphone is positioned by your mouth. Record your writing. Listen. If it sounds like you want it to, save and go to your next slide. If it does not, make sure you go out of the slide, without saving, then go back in and repeat the process again. 4Three Generations of My Family

Title: either Two Generations of My Family or Three Generations of My Family or another appropriate title.

In the large lower box, select Smart Art using the upper right hand icon.

Select the top circle, go to Insert, select Picture, then Pictures (in left column under Libraries) . Find the picture (see silde above) and insert it. In the placeholder to the right, correctly spell the first and last name of this person. Repeat with the second and third places.

Once you have practiced you will narrate and save the narration on this slide. Select Insert, then Audio, then Record Audio. Make sure your microphone is positioned by your mouth. Record your writing. Listen. If it sounds like you want it to, save and go to your next slide. If it does not, make sure you go out of the slide, without saving, then go back in and repeat the process again.

Narration example: Here are pictures of three generations of my family. The top picture is my grandmother, Verna Romzek. In the middle is my mom, Joann Messing, and at the bottom is me!5The Life of VernaBorn 1920Two sisters and five brothersHas lived on a farm her entire lifeWas married for 36 years before her husband diedHas lived as a widow since Grandpa died in 1977

-Insert a new slide that includes a title and two portrait oriented boxes below. -In the top title box, type : The Life of Verna. -In the lower left box, begin a bulleted list based on your interview of this person. Take your script and type only the key words that include factual information that we highlighted, but not the whole sentence. Each bullet must contain only one fact. You must include between four and eight facts for each person. -Select the lower right box, go to the Insert tab, select Picture, then in the left pane under Libraries, Pictures. Find the picture of this person as a baby and insert it. -Once you have practiced you will narrate and save the narration on this slide. Select Insert, then Audio, then Record Audio. Make sure your microphone is positioned by your mouth. Record your writing. Listen. If it sounds like you want it to, save and go to your next slide. If it does not, make sure you go out of the slide, without saving, then go back in and repeat the process again. - Sample Narration: The Life of VernaVerna was the fourth child in her family, born in August of 1920 and her parents named her Veronica Nowiski. Eventually her siblings included two sisters and five brothers.Verna was raised on a farm and then married a farmer, so she has lived on a farm her entire life. She married Louis Romzek in 1940 and they lived together on their Parisville, Michigan farm until he died 36 years later. Grandma Verna has lived as a widow since then, playing cards with friends, visiting family, and tending to her flowers and yard. - SaveOptional: insert a text box below and do a caption explaining what is happening in this picture.

6The Life of JoannBorn 1949Three brothers and one sisterMarried my dad in 1961Retired in 2011Enjoys family, friends, community, dancing and flowers

Insert a new slide that includes a title and two portrait oriented boxes below.

In the top title box, type : The Life of Joann

In the lower left box, begin a bulleted list based on your interview of this person. Take your script and type only the key words that include factual information that we highlighted, but not the whole sentence. Each bullet must contain only one fact. You must include between four and eight facts for each person.

Select the lower right box, go to the Insert tab, select Picture, then in the left pane under Libraries, Pictures. Find the picture of this person as a baby and insert it.

Optional: insert a text box below and do a caption explaining what is happening in this picture.

7The Life of DebBorn 1963Two brothers and two sistersMarried to Kirt in 1985Has two grown sonsTeaching since 2000

Insert a new slide that includes a title and two portrait oriented boxes below.

In the top title box, type : The Life of Deb

In the lower left box, begin a bulleted list based on your interview of this person. Take your script and type only the key words that include factual information that we highlighted, but not the whole sentence. Each bullet must contain only one fact. You must include between four and eight facts for each person.

Select the lower right box, go to the Insert tab, select Picture, then in the left pane under Libraries, Pictures. Find the picture of this person as a baby and insert it.

Optional: insert a text box below and do a caption explaining what is happening in this picture.

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We Are the Same and DifferentOne thing I have in common with my grandma is that we both have a way with plants. Something that is different between us is that she hates to cook and I love to cook.

Something my mom and I have in common is that we are both organized. A difference is that she had a large family of five children, and I had a small family with just two boys.

Closing option #1Tell one thing that is the same and one thing that is different between you and each generational person in your presentation. Use complete sentences. Type them on this page in paragraph form then narrate.

Insert the picture of you and your family that you did in art class and scanned to your pictures file.

9Time Changes Some ThingsOne thing my grandma did as a girl that I do not do is milk cows. Something we both did as girls is grow plants.My mom took care of her younger siblings as a girl, I did not take care of mine. We both wore dresses to school as girls.

This is closing possibility #2- Writing prompt:Tell one thing that is the same and one thing that is different between you and each generational person in your presentation. Use complete sentences. Type them on this page in paragraph form then narrate.

Insert the picture of you and your family that you did in art class and scanned to your pictures file. 10SourcesImages for this presentation are scanned photos from (or original drawings) our family collection.A secondary source was __________ who gave me information about ____________. Primary sources included ________ who gave me the information about her ________________. Insert a new page

In the top box, type the word Sources.

Type the information from your sources draft. Make sure to re-read it aloud to yourself when you finish and to check that your sentence starts with a capital letter and ends with punctuation. 11