All About Me

Create a 6-slide PowerPoint presentation to provide information about yourself to your classmates. Save your presentation with the following filename: Last Name First Initial Green5 AboutMe.ppt (i.e. WernerD Green5 AboutMe.ppt) in your computer folder.

1. Slide One: Your name and your digital picture inserted into the presentation.

2. Slide Two: Your birthday and two significant events that occurred on that day in history. Use the following site to discover the significant events:

The Day I Was Born

http://www.historychannel.com/today/

3. Slide Three: Your first name and its meaning. If your name is unusual and/or no information is available, ask your family to explain the origin of your name and include its meaning on this slide. Look at the Etymology of Names web site to find out what your name means.

What's In A Name? http://www.behindthename.com/
Name Origin Site http://www.babynamesorigins.com/

4. Slide Four: Your favorite meal. List your favorite meal including the main course, two side dishes, a dessert, and a beverage. Include a picture for each food item, too. Use the AltaVista Image Search to locate images of your favorite foods.

http://www.altavista.com/sites/search/simage

5. Slide Five: Your family photo scanned into the presentation. Use text boxes and arrows to identify each person and his/her relationship to you.

6. Slide Six: Your choice. Tell and show a hobby, zodiac symbol, talent or significant aspect of your culture to share with your audience.

7. Save your slide presentation to your COMPUTER folder of MY DOCUMENTS.

8. Then, save another copy for grading to the Grade 6 Drop Folder titled About Me. Please check carefully that you are saving your presentation to the correct folder. Print one copy of your presentation with 6 slides per page, staple to rubric and hand in for grading.

ALL ABOUT ME RUBRIC

Directions- Before submitting this assignment for grading, please check your work with this rubric to ensure that you have met the criteria of this assignment. I expect you to find your own mistakes and fix them before allowing me to grade this assignment. Remember the goal here is for you to be accurate, find your own errors, correct the errors and hand in quality work.

**Please staple this rubric to your 6-slide per page hard copy and hand in to the box for grading. Remember to save a copy of this file to the shared folder too!

Criteria for Success	Points
Slide 1: Title page slide introducing yourself with your name and a digital photograph	2
Slide 2: Your birth date and 2 significant events that occurred on that date in history (add the year of each event)	3
Side 3: Your name and the meaning of your name	2
Slide 4: Description of your favorite meal, including a main course, 2 side dishes, dessert & beverage with photographs of each food type	5
Slide 5: Scanned family photograph with identification of each member	5
Slide 6: Your choice - Description of hobby, zodiac symbol, talent or other with pictures of each	3
Attractive and complimentary background maintained throughout (one background template)	2
Animation of text and/or clipart on each slide. Animation occurs in a logical order (e.g. title first, then text).	3
Transitions on each slide	2
Correct spelling and grammar	3
Your name in the footer on the master slide	2
Copy of your presentation file saved to the shared folder	3
TOTAL	35