Learning to Give, Curriculum Division of The LEAGUE

The LEAGUE

My Promise
Lesson 4:
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Philanthropy Framework

Purpose:

Students will identify their civic responsibility to their community by creating their own Microsoft PowerPoint (or similar presentation software) slide show depicting their past, present and future actions.

Duration:

Three Forty-Five Minute Class Periods

Objectives:

The learner will:
  • distinguish between volunteerism and paid labor.

  • evaluate his/her past philanthropic acts, determine his/her current civic responsibility, and predict his/her future philanthropic actions.

  • construct a PowerPoint© (or similar presentation software) slide depicting his/her own philanthropic timeline.

Materials:

  • Digital camera (take a photo of each student)

  • Computer disk with the Power Point slide template for each student (Attachment Two: Slide Template Worksheet) and the digital photos

  • Computer lab

  • Venn Diagram worksheet (Attachment One) for each student.

  • Copy of Slide Template Worksheet (Attachment Two) for each student

  • Step-by-Step Directions (Attachment Three) for each student

  • Checklist for Slide Template (Attachment Four) for each student

  • PowerPoint© Slide Show Instructions (Attachment Five)

  • Parental Photo Release for each student (Check with your administrator for any parental permission forms on file.)
Handout 1
Venn Diagram
Handout 2
Slide Template Worksheet
Handout 3
Step-by-Step Directions for Completing Individual PowerPoint© Slides
Handout 4
Checklist for Slide Template
Handout 5
PowerPoint© Slide-Show Instructions

Instructional Procedure(s):

Anticipatory Set:
Read aloud an article from your local newspaper that honors or recognizes a volunteer from your community. Ask the students why this person is being recognized.

  • Write the word volunteer on the board. Ask students what volunteer means. Refer back to the article and ask students why this person is referred to as a volunteer. Does this person volunteer for any other organizations in the community? Review the meaning of civic virtue.

  • Distribute the Venn Diagram (Attachment One) to the students. Write the name of a person who has a paid position in the school above one circle in the diagram. Write the name of the volunteer in the article above the other circle. The students fill in the diagram to compare and contrast the two workers. It is important to recognize that volunteering requires a freedom of choice. Volunteers may choose to donate their services whereas a paid laborer is required to provide services on a regular basis. Students keep their Venn Diagram worksheet for future reference.

    Day Two:

  • Distribute Attachment Two: Slide Template Worksheet to all students. The teacher will generate a discussion focusing on volunteerism and the right to choose to volunteer. Ask students to brainstorm a list of places or organizations within the community where individuals could volunteer. Ask the students if they have ever volunteered in the past at any of these places. If not, ask students what type of volunteering they have experienced in the past.

  • Using one or two complete sentences, each student should write where or how they have volunteered in the box located underneath the Past part of the timeline.

  • Next, students decide where or how they might volunteer at the present time. Each student writes this down in the Present part of the timeline. Remind students to use one or two complete sentences. The Future part of the timeline should be completed once the students have decided where they would like to volunteer in future years (5-10 years in the future).

  • Next, ask students to draw a line through the word “Your” at the top of the slide. Students should write their own name, with an ’s above this to personalize his or her slide.

  • The last section to complete on this template is the bottom, right-hand section. Ask students, “How did you feel when you helped your community by volunteering?” It is also important to ask students why they feel this way. Did they make a change? Did they make someone’s day easier? Did they make someone happier? Students fill out this sentence at this time. Once the students have completed all directions for this template, the worksheets should all be collected by the teacher.

    Teacher Prep: Take a digital photo of each student and put the photos on 3-½ floppy diskettes with each student’s name on one. The photos should be taken at close range, generating a photo of the student’s head and face. These 3-½ floppy diskettes should also have the blank slide template for the PowerPoint program. Teachers should keep all of the disks for the next day’s activities.

    Day Three:

  • Distribute the diskettes, completed template worksheets and instructions for creating the Power Point slide. (See Attachment Three: Step-by-Step Instructions for Completing Individual PowerPoint Slides, and Attachment Four: Checklist for Slide Template.) Inform the students that they will be creating a slide show of themselves for a class and community presentation. Remind the students that they should do their best work. Teachers should read through the step-by-step directions before going to the computer lab.

  • Students may begin their projects using the disk with their own name on it. Teachers should check each student’s final slide before the student logs off of the computer. Remind the students to review their checklist before exiting the PowerPoint slide. All papers should be turned back in to the teacher once the project is complete.
    Teacher Note: To complete the PowerPoint slide presentation, teachers should follow Attachment Five: PowerPoint© Slide Show Instructions.

Assessment:

Teachers will evaluate the students understanding of the terms volunteer and paid labor by reviewing each student’s Venn diagram (Attachment One). The PowerPoint slides will be evaluated when the diskettes are turned in to the teacher and reviewed. The Checklist for Slide Template (Attachment Four) can be used as a rubric for evaluating each student’s slide.

Extension:

Show the finished slide show to other classes or parents.

Lesson Developed and Piloted by:

Anne Zachery
Rush County Schools
Rushville Elementary School
Rushville, IN 46173

Handouts:

Handout 1Print Handout 1

Venn Diagram

Handout 2Print Handout 2

Slide Template Worksheet

Handout 3Print Handout 3

Step-by-Step Directions for Completing Individual PowerPoint© Slides

  • After the computer has been turned on and you are looking at the Windows display, place the 3-½ floppy disk (with your name on it) into the “A” drive.
  • Starting in the lower left hand corner, click once on the word Start.
  • Using the mouse, move your cursor up to the word Programs. Move the cursor over to the next menu that pops up and find the program titled Microsoft PowerPoint. Click once on this program name.
  • Once the PowerPoint program has opened, click once on the word File and move your cursor down to the word Open. Click once on Open.
  • At this time, the Open window will pop up on your screen. Near the top left of this window, you will find the words Look In and an arrow pointing downward. Click once on the arrow pointing downward.
  • Now move your cursor down to the 3-½ Floppy (A:) entry. Click once on this entry.
  • In the box under the words 3-½ Floppy (A:), look for the file titled slide template. Double click on this.
  • At this time, the slide template for this lesson should appear on the screen.
  • Near the top of the screen, you will find the title Your Philanthropic Timeline. Click once on this title until a shaded box appears around this title. Once the box has appeared, you are free to edit this and insert your own name in place of the word Your. To do this, you can first highlight the word Your and then begin typing your first name. (Don’t forget to add an apostrophe and an s to make it possessive.) Once you are finished with your name, click outside the shaded box to see how it looks. If you have problems, repeat this step.
  • The next step is to complete the three boxes located on the timeline. To do this, you must click inside the first box labeled “Past.” Begin typing your 1-2 complete sentences. When you are finished, you may click on the next box labeled “Present.” Finish this box and the last one labeled “Future” just as you completed the first box. If you find that you need more room in the boxes, you may widen or lengthen the boxes by clicking and dragging the bubbles on the edge of the box. You may also highlight your typed words and change the font size on the toolbar above your slide.
  • Once the boxes are complete, you will need to decide which one of the philanthropy icons best matches your act of philanthropy. Your next job is to copy and paste the icons next to the appropriate times on the timeline. For example, if you gave your time in the past, you will want to copy and paste the time icon next to the word Past.
  • Copying and Pasting Icons: To do this, simply right click on the appropriate icon until a menu appears next to the picture. Move your cursor over to the word “Copy.” Click once on copy. You won’t notice a change on your computer screen right now. You will need to right click again on the same icon, only move your cursor up to the word “Paste.” Click once on “Paste.” Now your computer screen should look like you have two of the same icons, almost on top of one another.
  • The newest icon that you just created will be the one found on top of the two. Without lifting your finger, left click on the picture and drag it to the left side of the name of the appropriate time in your timeline (whether it be Past, Present or Future). Each time in your timeline will require an icon next to it. You may use icons more than once, depending on your act of philanthropy.
  • Next, click on the lower right hand corner of the slide, near or on the words “When I help my community…” until a shaded box appears around it. Using your worksheet, fill in the appropriate words after “feel” and “because I.” Once these words are inserted, you may delete the underlined marks by highlighting and deleting them. Once you are finished, click once outside the box to see that it looks appropriate.
  • The last step will be to insert your picture in the top right hand box of your slide. To do this, click once on the box until the bubbles appear on the edge of the box. Move your cursor to the word “Insert” on the toolbox at the top of the screen. Click once on “Insert,” move down to the word “Picture,” click once, move the cursor over to the word “From File,” and click once.
  • The “Insert Picture” window will appear in the middle of the screen. Again, click on the arrow pointing downward and look for the listing 3-½ Floppy (A:). Click once on this. Now you should see a file listed with your own name on it. Double click on that file.
  • At this time, you should see a picture of your face where the green box used to be. To enlarge this photo, click once on the photo until you see the bubbles on the edge of it. You can enlarge the photo by clicking and dragging on one of the corner bubbles.
  • Once this has been completed, you are ready to save your slide template to your disk. To do this, click on the word “File” in the top right hand corner of the screen. Click once on the word “Save” with the picture of the floppy disk. At this time, the computer will save your work to your disk.
    • If, at any time, a small window pops up in the middle of your screen and asks you if you want to save your work, you should.
    • Once your work has been saved, you may exit the PowerPoint program by clicking on the “x” at the top right hand corner of the computer screen.
      When you are back to the Windows screen, you may release your disk from the disk drive.

Handout 4Print Handout 4

Checklist for Slide Template

Checklist for Slide Template


Does the disk with your slide have your name on it?
Does your timeline have your name in the title? Does your name end with an ’s to make it possessive?
Is your picture large enough to cover the green box underneath?
Does your timeline progress from left to right with the words, Past, Present and Future?
Do your boxes for Past, Present and Future contain complete sentences?
Did you remember to copy and paste the philanthropy icons next to the words Past, Present and Future?
When you completed the bottom right-hand box about how you feel, did you remember to delete all of the underline marks?
Did you remember to make that sentence in the lower right hand corner a complete sentence?
Does your timeline look clean?
Did you check for misspellings?
Are all of your words typed in an Arial font?
Did you save all of your changes?
Is your slide template saved to your disk? (3-½ Floppy (A:)
Did you remember to give your disk to your teacher?

Handout 5Print Handout 5

PowerPoint© Slide-Show Instructions

  • Beginning at the start menu, proceed to opening the PowerPoint© program. Once opened, the teacher should click once under New Presentation on the words, From a Design Template. Under the available templates for use, choose the template Capsules. The title slide for this template will appear on the screen. You may add a title and subtitle to your presentation by clicking on the appropriate areas. Once you have clicked on one area, you may highlight and type your own title/subtitle.
  • Now you should be ready to begin inserting the student’s slides. Insert the first student disk into the disk drive. Click once on the word Insert at the top of the screen. Next, click once on Slides from Files. A window will appear in the middle of your computer titled Slide Finder. Browse the (A:) drive for your first student’s slide on disk. Double click on the correct slide file and the student’s slide should appear. To insert the next student’s slide, you must first release the disk out of the disk drive and replace it with another disk. Repeat the directions for inserting all of these slides by reviewing these directions.
  • Once the last student slide has been inserted, Click once on the words Slide Show, and then once on the words View Show. To advance the slides, you must hit the Enter key on your keyboard until you have adjusted the manual timings. This can be done by searching and printing these instructions under the Help Menu. To return to the PowerPoint workstation, you may press the Escape key in the top left-hand corner of the keyboard.


    ** It is important to save your work periodically. Remember to save your entire slide show when you are completed with the project.

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