Twenty Common Elements 

 LEARNING RESOURCES

• Rader's Chem4Kids!
• Chemical Elements.com
• WebElements.com

PowerPoint Resources

• PowerPoint 2000 Online Learning Center - Irwin McGraw-Hill

• PowerPoint Tutorials - from Electric Teacher

• PowerPoint in the Classroom

• PowerPoint 2000 Skills

• Internet4Classrooms

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My Five Elements

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Task:  Each student will find selected physical properties of five of twenty common elements on the periodic table of elements.  Your teacher will assign you a group.

Process:  Using Microsoft PowerPoint, create seven (7) slides:  a Title slide as well as a slide for each of your five elements that your teacher assigns to you, and an ending slide.

Project Organization:  

1. Have the physical properties of each of your five elements ready to place in your presentation.  They will include:  solid, liquid or gas; the symbol; whether it is a metal or non-metal; and the group and period in which each of your elements is found.

2. Make sure you use the proper spelling of each of your elements.  Also bring your assignment notebook which contains the periodic table for easy reference.

3. Then start PowerPoint and follow the detailed instructions below.

How to start:

20 Common Elements – Save your show under “The Elements – your name” in the “The Elements” folder on your desktop or on your disk.  SAVE FREQUENTLY!

1. Start PowerPoint
2. Choose a design template
3. Type title “20 Common Elements” press Enter, type “My 5 Elements”
4. Type sub-title “By” press Enter, type “Your Name” press Enter, type the month and year
5. Click New Slide button
6. Choose Title Only layout
7. On the drawing toolbar, click on the Text Box button and click on the lower portion of the slide to begin typing the sub-heading for one of the four categories of your elements – type in “Solid, Liquid or Gas” – press Enter twice
8. Repeat step 7 three more times typing in “Symbol”, “Metal/Non-Metal”, and “Group – Period” – press Enter twice
9. Format each of these sub-headings to centered, bold, 36 points, and choose a font color on the drawing toolbar that is complementary to your color scheme
10. Format the blank lines to centered, bold, 32 points
11. To set animation effects, right click on the title border and choose Custom Animation
12. Choose Fly from Left, with a timing of automatically 1 second after previous event
13. Right click on the border of the upper left text box and choose Custom Animation
14. Choose Peek from left, grouped by 1^st level paragraphs, timing set for automatically 2 seconds after previous event
15. Do the same for the last three text boxes choosing automatically 1 second after previous event
16. Now that all effects and their timings have been set as well as formatting, we can copy this slide – click the button in the lower left corner of the screen for slide sorter view
17. Click on the second slide to select it then press ctrl + c to copy the slide
18. Click to the right of the slide to place the line to the right of the second slide and press ctrl + v to copy the slide – Do this four more time, one for each of five elements
19. Click on the title slide and press ctrl + c to copy, place the insertion point after the last slide and press ctrl + v to copy (you will have a total of 7 slides)
20. Double click on the second slide and start adding the information for your first element – type the name of the element in the title area and type the characteristics in the appropriate text box for each of your five elements
21. Add music to the first slide by choosing Insert movies and sounds, sound from file and choose “The Elements 2.wav” from your “The Elements” folder on your desktop
22. Right click on the music icon and choose Custom Animation
23. Choose Play using animation order, Continue slide show, After 7 slides, Hide while not playing – click the timing tab and choose Automatically 0 seconds after previous event – and move it up to the first position
24. Next choose Slide Transition from the Slide Show menu – choose Cut through black for a transition and choose Automatically after 12 seconds and click the Apply to All button
25. Switch to slide sorter view and right click on the title slide and choose slide transition – change the time to 8 seconds – and click the Apply button
26. Now you are ready to run the show – click the Slide Show button in the lower left corner of your screen.  Check out your timings and see if any adjustments need to be made.

 To copy and paste text:

To copy – highlight the text you wish to copy, then use Ctrl + C on the keyboard to copy to the clipboard

To paste – place your insertion point on the slide where you want to paste, then use Ctrl + V on the keyboard

To copy a picture from the Internet:

1. Right-click on the picture and choose Save Image As.  

2. The Save As dialog box opens.  

3. Choose 3 1/2 floppy A: from the Save in drop down box, then double-click on the your folder.  

4. In the File Name box, choose to leave the name the same or give it a new name.  Then click Save or press Enter.  

5. You can then use the Insert/Picture/From File command in PowerPoint to insert the picture into your presentation.  

Keep these things in mind when creating your PowerPoint presentation:

v     Keep it short.  You will have a title slide in addition to one slide for each of your five elements in addition to an ending slide.

v     Save your presentation in a new folder on your floppy disk.  Name the folder Your Name. 

v     Be concise – too much information on a slide will bore your audience.  Only list the main points you are trying to make.  You can elaborate when you give your presentation.

v     Use special effects only when they will enhance your presentation.  They can be too distracting to your audience.

v     Copy any and all graphics (pictures) and sounds (music)  into your folder where you saved your presentation and insert them into PowerPoint from that folder.  This means that you will have to plan ahead.  

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