PowerPoint For Teachers: Dynamic Presentations and Interactive Classroom Projects

Welcome to the PowerPoint for Teachers companion Web site. Here you'll find downloads of many of the presentations used in the book, as well as additional resources.

Downloads

Note: All downloads are in ZIP form. Please use WinZip or another decompression utility to extract the files.

Chapter 2

The Water Cycle.ppt

underwater_fish.jpg

Chapter 3

The Water Cycle with Thunder.ppt

Chapter 4

how do i use powerpoint to teach.ppt
Thanks to Patrick Crispen for this presentation

Chapter 5

Water Cycle Review.ppt

Water Cycle Review with buttons.ppt

Chapter 6

World Map image

World Geography.ppt

Map of Europe.ppt

Chapter 7

Animal Categories.ppt

Chapter 8

Memorization Game.ppt

Spelling Game.ppt

Whowantstobeamillionaire-like.ppt

Jeopardy-like.ppt

Chapter 9

Math Quiz.ppt

Math Quiz-no VBA.ppt

10-Question Math Quiz.ppt

Chapter 10

Our Zoo Trip.ppt

butterfly.wmf

butterflies.ppt

Chapter 11

Water Cycle Animation.ppt

Fractions with animation.ppt

Chapter 12

US Constitution.ppt

Torque.ppt

Chapter 13

The entire Chapter 13 with clickable links

Chapter 16

Algebra of Functions.ppt

Rational Functions Quiz.ppt
Thanks to Bob Mathews for these presentations.

Resources

Clip art and photos on-line

ClipArt.com Over 2.5 million clip art images, including some photos and lots of fonts. There is a fee per month or year to access the content.

DigitalJuice You can purchase a huge selection of PowerPoint backgrounds, photos, and animations.

Barry's Clipart Server Barry's offers an excellent selection of free clip art collections on a wide variety of topics. You can drag clip art directly onto your slide.

Photos.com Over 200,000 photos for a fixed fee per month or year.

iStockphoto Over 900,000 images, most costing from $1 to $3, contributed by site members.

Shutterstock Almost 900,000 photos for a fixed fee per month or year.

Fotolia Over 900,000 photos for $1 to $3 each, depending on the image size.

Indezine Photos collected from many excellent sources.

Stock.xchng Photographers upload their photos to share. You'll find many high-quality, free photos, with more than 200,000 available.

morgueFile Offers free image reference material for use in all creative pursuits.

Flickr A site that lets people contribute their own images. Many are simply personal photos, but there's a large selection.

ImageAfter contains free, untouched photos that you can use in your projects with or without editing. You can search by category or color.

PicFindr searches several sites containing free photos and then lets you access them from those sites.

Sound and music files

FindSounds is a search engine that specializes in sounds

The Freesound Project is a collection of sound effects.

A1 Free Sound Effects has many free sounds and also sells CDs of sounds. Find the sound you want, right-click, and choose Save Link As, Save Target As, or a similar option (depending on your browser).

GRSites' Absolute Sound Effects Archive has a large collection of sounds that you can download.

PacDV has free sound effects in 10 categories. The fire truck in the Transporation category is excellent!

MIDI & Music Technology Resources for Teachers lists many sites offering music that teachers can use

The Utah Education Network Multimedia Resources for Educators and Students is a list of resources for images, sounds, music, video and more.

Video files

Teachers.tv offers many videos that you can watch and download.

Video Placement Worldwide offers videos contributed by corporations and trade associations.

The Utah Education Network Multimedia Resources fof Educators and Students has a list of videos available for educational use.

Zen garden water fall.avi (1.5 MB)

Solar water fountain.avi (2 MB)

Contribute your own resources

Click here to go to a form where you can describe a resource for teachers. If it's a Web site, give us the URL. If it's a presentation of yours, describe it to us and we'll respond by e-mail.