August 2000 — Features

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Creating an Interactive PowerPoint Lesson for the Classroom

Dr. Lawrence Tomei and Margaret Balmert

 

The instructional system design model offered by Jerrold Kemp (See Figure 1) is used to create the interactive lesson.

 

Figure 1. The Kemp ISD Model

 

For each of Kemp’s Nine Elements, a practical, hands-on task is completed as evidence that the skill has been mastered. Here’s how it g'es:

 

Step 1: The Instructional Problem.

            Task: Select a topic for an interactive lesson

 

Step 2: Learner Characteristics. Task: Identify target learners for the lesson

 

Step 3: Subject Content. Task: Identify the specific behavior-based elements that students must master during this lesson

 

Step 4: Instructional Objectives. Task: Prepare the behavioral learning objectives providing the specific behavior, condition, and criteria for success

 

Step 5: Sequence the content of the instruction. Task: Lay out the instructional progression of your proposed lesson

 

Step 6: Instructional Strategies. Task: Create your assessment tools

 

Step 7: Delivery. Task: Create and prototype your PowerPoint interactive lesson

 

Step 8: Evaluation Instruments. Task: Conduct the assessment for your lesson

 

Step 9: Resources. Task: Locate additional resources for the lesson

Lesson design by the numbers: seems fairly simple, right? One teacher composed a presentation that exhibited the best that the interactive lesson has to offer. She called her lesson, “No Bones About It: the Human Skeleton.” How’s that for an exciting topic for Middle School students? If you have your Internet browser available, the complete PowerPoint presentation is available online at http://www.duq.edu/~tomei/skeleton. Click the NEXT button to sequence through the presentation.