BASIC

PRODUCTIVITY TOOLS: SPREADSHEETS, WORD TEMPLATE, NARRATED POWERPOINT

Name: Madeline Ensley

Grade Level: 9-12
Content Area: American Government
Basic Productivity Tool Used: (Microsoft Excel, Google Spreadsheet, NCES Create-A-Graph, a
narrated PowerPoint saves as an .MWV, etc.)
PowerPoint (narrated)
Standards Addressed: (Example: MCCK.CC.1 Count to 100 by ones and tens
See https://www.georgiastandards.org/Pages/Default.aspx)

SSCG12 The student will analyze the various roles played by the President of the
United States; include Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, chief executive, chief agenda setter,
representative of the nation, chief of state, foreign policy leader, and party leader.

ISTE-S 3. Knowledge Constructor: Students critically curate a variety of resources using digital tools to
construct knowledge, produce creative artifacts and make meaningful learning experiences for
themselves and others

3c. Students curate information from digital resources using a variety of tools and methods to create
collections of artifacts that demonstrate meaningful connections or conclusions.

Blooms Level of Critical Thinking:
Remembering Understanding Applying Analyzing Evaluating Creating
Description of how to implement in the class: Describe what students will be doing with
spreadsheets and chart/graphs and how the learning activity will help them learn. Overview should
be a minimum of 2 paragraphs.
Students will use PowerPoint to create mini-movie presentations on the Roles of the President. These
roles are: Commander in Chief, Chief Executive, Chief of Party, Chief Agenda Setter (sometimes
referred to as Chief Legislator), Chief Diplomat, and Chief of State. Students will research each role
using either their textbook or internet resources. Students will give a brief overview of each of these
roles, and will then state in the last slide which role they believe is the most important and why.
Students will use the narration feature in PowerPoint to complete this project.

This project will help students in mastering the content because there will be a research component
as well as application of the role to an actual event. Students will be required to find an example of
how this role is used (i.e. leading the military or campaigning for a candidate of his/her party). It will
also have an element of real world connectedness because the President actually uses these roles. By
having to choose and defend the role that they feel is most important, students will have to use and
apply their knowledge of each role while using persuasive language.
Level of Technology Implementation (LoTi): What LoTi best describes this learning experience
and Why.
This activity would fall under LoTi level 3- infusion. Students are engaged in standards-based
activities that use technology. They also create persuasive presentations and are involved in a small
amount of research.

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Description of the sample spreadsheet and graph/chart provided *: Describe what viewers will
see and how this spreadsheet will be used in class as an example of what students will create or as a
template they will complete. If you are attaching an Excel file or an online spreadsheet/graphing
program such as Google Spreadsheet, you will also want to attach a .pdf so that those without the
software can access the file.
In this example, you will notice that I have included a slide per role. Each slide contains s brief
description of the role and how it is used. Most slides have pictures as well. The last slide of the
presentation will state which role is the most important (answers will vary) and why. I will not
include this slide because I do not want to influence students choices. You will also notice that I
included transitions and that the PowerPoint is narrated. This will be used in class as an example for
students to use as a guide. I would also upload this to their class notebook on OneNote for easy access
for the students.

An exemplar is attached in the link below:

ITEC roles of pres.mov

Other comments about your proposed spreadsheet/graph/chart activity: Anything else you
want to say. If you are using/adapting another persons lesson, cite the original source.
To further extend this activity, you can have students debate their choice of the most important role
in small groups.