Science learning often involves creating abstract representations and models of processes that we are unable to observe with the naked eye. Learn more about visualizing, representing, and modeling to aid struggling learners.
Information is presented on the role of visual aids in professional presentations. Article says "no more than six ideas should be presented on a single visual aid" and also gives time suggestions. Although this article is old and uses transparencies as examples, the rest of his advice is good.
Links to 31 lessons and activities that build student skills in standard SL.4.5: Add audio recordings and visual displays to presentations when appropriate to enhance to development of main ideas or themes.
In this alternative to the traditional book report, students create book trailers using Microsoft Photo Story 3, a free downloadable software program for digital storytelling.
In this alternative book report, students identify the elements of fiction in books they have read by creating glogs, interactive multimedia posters, and then share their glogs.
This site walks you through the benefits of visual organizers, and focuses on a variety of types: tables, charts, graphs, timelines, flowcharts, diagrams, and webs.
Contains plans for five lessons that ask students to create PowerPoint presentations about shared experiences like field trips or other activities. Students take pictures of what happen, and then explain the sequence of events in words and images. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the lessons as well as assessment and reflection activities.
A tutorial explaining how to use technology to create graphics and visuals to enhance documents and presentations. A brief audiovisual presentation identifies types of visuals, and another audiovisual presentation describes how and when to use nine types of graphics. Also includes a slideshow describing the technology needed to create graphics and a list of questions to help determine when to use graphics and visuals in documents or presentations. [19], [7:17] SL.9-10.5 Audio Visuals, SL.11-12.5 Audio Visuals
Excellent, clear guidelines to aid you in using visual aids in a presentation. Curser down to find the information. W.9-10.6 Techno, SL.11-12.5 Audio Visuals
In this lesson, students will examine mass media critically and become aware of how much advertising is around them. They will realize the impact media has on social equality, what people buy, and on culture.
Contains plans for six or seven lessons that teach students to create and present effective poster presentations. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to PDF handouts and sites used in the lessons as well as assessment and reflection activities. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.SL.5
Learn about Greek gods, heroes, and creatures through digital storytelling produced by students who have learned research techniques.
Online lesson which allows students to create a graphic in understanding a given story/piece of literature. Students create this graphic in groups and then present to the class, offering explanations as to their understanding of the literature.
The Smart Mobility Training Academy is a free eLearning module that will provide information on smart mobility and the DriveOhio Ambassador Program. These courses provide a self-paced resource for training DriveOhio Ambassador Program Advisors and Champions on how to fulfill their recruitment, training, and mentoring roles in the program. Modules include introductory information about the program, how to recruit students and advisors, and guidance on how to train and mentor students.
From Now On explains the purpose and advantages of graphic organizers such as converting complex information into meaningful displays, helping students plan their research, and sometimes acting as mind maps. There are several examples provided using both fiction and nonfiction.
A lesson plan for using the BookNook platform to create book trailers. The lesson includes step-by-step instructions for creating a book trailer and offers tips for making the trailer engaging and effective.
This site provides a checklist, especially helpful for teachers, that details the way to check media elements to be used in the classroom for biases. This site provides six questions to help evaluate the effectiveness of the media in conveying the intended message without any biases.
Making an infographic is a multistep process, so we'll break this tutorial into two parts. In this lesson, we'll walk you through the basics of making your own infographic, depending on the data at hand. [1:21] It also provides links to teacher materials.
Newspapers in Education and the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists publish simple, inventive lesson plans and ideas for classes in editorial cartooning, caption writing, and news analysis. Lessons include "cartoon blanks" that can be used as caption-writing activities, along with useful talking points and between-the-lines commentaries.
Guidelines on how to design presentations for web media. This is an old article and some of the information is outdated, but much is still relevant. SL.9-10.5 Audio Visuals, RI.11-12.7 Eval Different Media/format. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.SL.5, SL.11-12.5 Audio Visuals, SL.11-12.5 Audio Visuals