How to get the MOST out of PowerPoint Lessons

A Professional Development Lesson by Clarissa Lynn

Aim: How do we construct ppt lessons that build skills and content

knowledge?

• Theme: Profession Development YOU can Use!

What do YOU think makes a good Powerpoint lesson?

• In your teacher groups, create a checklist for ppts across the content areas.

• WHY did you select these criteria?

• You will use this checklist to evaluate the following Powerpoint.

Aim: Did the changes in the colonies 1763-1776 make the American Revolution

Inevitable?

Theme: Change

Categorize each cause in your notes:

Causes of the American Revolution

Social Political Economic

Taxation without Representation

When the stamp tax was to go into effect, there wasn’t a single stamp commissioner left in the colonies.

What was the CAUSE of the colonists’ anger?

1.2.To what extent does this

cartoon show a change in the colonies?

This cartoon shows a tax collector being tarred and feathered by a mob of colonists.

The Proclamation of 1763

1. For what reasons was land important to colonists?

2. Why did this Act of Parliament anger colonists?

3. What is the change that occurred between England and the colonies at this point?

Map of England’s possessions in N.A. in 1763.

The Quartering Act 1765

• The Quartering Act was an indirect tax for the colonist. Under the law, the colonist had to give quarters, food, and transportation to the British soldiers. 

1. Who is helping the British troops get to land?

2. Why do you think the colonists were angered by this Act?

3. Why do you think the British moved more and more troops to America?

4. What change in the relationship of England and its colonies does this show?

Mercantilism Threatened…

Smuggling was a threat to the English economic system – more goods were smuggled into the colonies than came from England!!!

1. What time of day is it in the picture?

2. Why are these people unloading the boat at this time?

3. How could this be a threatening activity? To whom is it threatening? Why?

4. What change does this exemplify between colony and mother country?

Declaratory Act 1766 1766 March 18.

Stamp Act repealed, but on the same day parliament passes the Declaratory Act asserting its right to make laws on the colonies.

1. What symbols do you see in the above drawing?2. Why would the colonists be happy and mad on March 18, 1766?3. Why would England issue the Declaratory Act? What was its purpose?4. To what extent was the Declaratory Act a change in Empire policy?

The Repeal Or the Funeral of Miss America Stamp

Intolerable Acts 1774

• After the Boston Tea Party, Britain closed Massachusetts Bay, and restricted the Massachusetts Legislature, giving the governor powers of a dictator.

The First Continental Congress, 1774 12 colonies send representatives.

1.Why would British Parliament do that?2. How did the colonists respond?3. How is this a major change in the relationship of the colonies to each other? 4.Why is this a turning point in the formation of the United States of America?

Classwork and Homework

1. How did the colonists’ reactions to the Parliamentary Acts 1763-1776 support and/or challenge democracy in the young nation? Explain your answer using specific examples.

2. Your homework is to expand your ideas on the above question into a 5 paragraph essay. You may wish to include information from previous classes. Suggestions include: Enlightenment philosophy, slavery, voting rights, English democratic traditions, etc.

How did this Powerpoint measure up on your checklists?

Did you include any of the following on your list?- Focused on one theme?- Focused on one skill set?- Uses documents/images to interpret?- Asks students to use critical thinking?- Interactive? Didn’t have too much writing on any

one slide?- State standards addressed?- Students collaborate with each other?