In this activity, you will open, view, and edit a presentation. You will find that some of the slides are not complete and many of the slides contain too much information. Use the information below to complete the presentation.
- First you need to view the presentation.
- Click the Symbols of America presentation icon and choose "Save".
- Save the file to your desktop.
- After the file is saved, open the file from your desktop.
- Add your name to the title slide in the subtitle placeholder.
- View slides 2, 3, and 4. They are complete.
- Slide 5 has too much text. You want to keep this information but you need to make this one slide into two slides.
- Click Insert from the menu and add a new slide to the presentation.
- Click on Slide 5, and select the last bullet. Cut it and paste it into the text placeholder on your new Slide 6.
- Edit Slide 6. There is too much information so please cut text so that the slide format looks like this:
Three reasons the population of Bald Eagles has dropped:
- Captured for getting too close to poultry or fishing nets
- Captured for falconry
- Poisoned by pesticides
In 1967, the bald eagle was included on the Endangered Species List.
- Add the title "Number of Bald Eagles" to the title placeholder on Slide 6.
- Go back to Slide 5, select the remaining paragraphs and change the font to size 20.
- Change the slide layout to include a bulleted list and graphic. On the last slide of the presentation is a beautiful picture of a Bald Eagle. Cut that picture from the last slide and paste it to Slide 5.
- Slide 8 is the first slide about the Great Seal. It is complete.
- Move to Slide 9. Type the following text into the text placeholder on the slide.
Do you see a pattern of thirteen in the Great Seal?
- 13 stars in the crest above the eagle
- 13 stripes in the shield upon the eagle's breast
- 13 arrows in the eagle's left claw
- 13 olives and leaves in the eagles' right claw
- 13 letters in the motto carried by the eagle, E Pluribus Unum
Thirteen represents the first thirteen states.
- On Slide 10 type the words, "Where is the seal and when is it used?" into the title placeholder.
- Change the slide layout on Slide 11 to include a picture of the Liberty Bell. Insert the picture of the bell from the last slide in the presentation.
- On Slide 12 you need to correct the spelling errors.
- Slide 13 is complete.
- Since you have used the graphics from Slide 14, delete that slide.
- Add animation and transitions to the slides.
- Save the presentation using a new file name to your floppy disk.
- Print the presentation as handouts with 6 slides per page, if your teacher says you can.
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