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This rubric is meant to help guide in the creation of your PowerPoint presentation project. Each category in the far left column represents a component of the project that will be taken into consideration when calculating the final grade for this assignment. Review the rubric carefully before, during and after the creation of the PowerPoint presentation, to ensure that all intended elements of your powerpoint have been represented and all other criteria have been met.

Technology iMovie

Students will demonstrate their knowledge of the different operations of the computer.

Vocabulary Builder: Students will illustrate four Robust Vocabulary words and write a sentence for each.

Skills needed for a successful PBL classroom

Students are selecting an animal, researching and writing about their animal, and creating a slide show presentation using Kid Pix software. The presentation should tell about where their animal lives, what their animal eats, what their animal looks like, and any interesting facts about their animal. Students will write their report notes on pre-printed word webs and then create an individual word web using Kidspiration software.

Students are to create a timeline (can be horizontal, vertical, diagonal, etc) concerning important events pertaining to the development of the computer and transformation in to other technology devices from the 1800's to present and beyond. There should be no less than 15 items on the timeline. Students are to include pictures that they believe represent the events on their timeline, description of the event (its significance to tech world), as well as website url the sources were obtained from.

The student will create a short clip using Stop Motion techniques. That movie will be eligible to participate in the Stop Motion Awards 3 ceremony where some judges will choose the best videos. Stop motion (also known as stop frame) is an animation technique to make a physically manipulated object appear to move on its own. The object is moved in small increments between individually photographed frames, creating the illusion of movement when the series of frames is played as a continuous sequence. Dolls with movable joints or clay figures are often used in stop motion for their ease of repositioning. Stop motion animation using plasticine is called clay animation or "clay mation" and there are some other techniques.