Power Point Tips

Advice on making a Power Point presentation

Get your written info on the slide first

Add animations, transitions and graphics later on

Make sure that the font color

and size is easily read against the

background color that you

choose.

Make sure that the font color

and size is easily read against the

background color that you

choose.

Consider Font SizeThis is 12 point font size

This is 20 point font size

This is 40 point font size

also…

Consider Font Style

This can be difficult to read from a distance

This is a better font Choice

Use bullets, lists or pictures instead Use bullets, lists or pictures instead of paragraphs or sentencesof paragraphs or sentences

Steps of the Scientific Method

1. Observation

2. Hypothesis

3. Experiment

4. Conclusion

The 4 basic steps of the scientific method

are observation -which uses the 5 senses,

hypothesis-which is a proposed result,

experiment-which tests the hypothesis,

and conclusion- which states the results.

Avoid the following:

Too many distracting animations

and sounds

Use the 7 X 7 Rule

No more than :

7 bulleted points

7 words per bulletThis prevents paragraphs and

sentences !

Citations

Give credit where credit is due.

Use websites such as www.citationmachine.net