1. Susan Scheurer
Project 3
11/30/11
1. Instructional Need: Research a dream job, find skills, education required, salary facts, create budget of monthly and
planned expenses in Excel, research vacation and expenses, plan for vacation in expenses, graph savings progress in
Excel.
2. Objective: Given a tutorial movie and handout that lists the PowerPoint requirements, students will create a
PowerPoint shell that has the required slides and headings, with 90% accuracy.
3. Assessment: Rubric
Requirements Yes, 1 pt No, 2 pt
Slide 1: Name
Slide 2: Dream Job Title
Slide 3: Skills or
Education Required
Slide 4: Salary of Dream
Job
Slide 5: Budget
Slide 6: Savings
Progress for Vacation
Slide 7: References
Total_______ / 7
4. Learners: 6th grade, 18 students, 12 girls, 6 boys, 2 African American, 3 Asian, 5 Hispanic and 8 Caucasian students,
middle class, gifted learners, familiar with PPT, Excel and Snipping.

2. 5. LP for the minute:
Introduc[on Introduce Project Via Movie Assessment/Conclusion
students will create their own
Launch Microso_ PowerPoint PPT shell that includes the
Welcome, engage
2007 steps listed above with 90%
accuracy.
PPT: Slide 1 – Name
PPT: Slide 2 – Dream job –
explana[on
PPT: Slide 3 – Skills and/or
educa[on required for job
PPT: Slide 4 – Salary
PPT: Slide 5 – Budget of
monthly and planned
expenses, including planned
vaca[on expenses
PPT: Slide 6 – Graph made in
Excel with savings progress for
vaca[on
PPT: Slide 7 ‐ References
Script:
Hello 6th graders! To create your dream job PowerPoint, type your name and dream job on the first slide.
On the second slide include a title and description of your dream job.
On the third slide have information about what education is needed to do that job – a college degree, certification or
special training.
On the fourth slide include the annual salary that dream job can earn.
The fifth slide will include a screen shot of the monthly budget which you already created in Excel.
The sixth slide will show the graph you made in Excel that shows the savings progress for your dream vacation!
Slide 7 will reference where your information, pictures and music was retrieved from.
Thank you for listening! I look forward to seeing your creative presentations.