Guess what my 12 yr old discovered.  Powerpoint!  I've often thought of teaching myself how to use this program but just hadn't done it yet.  Well he did.  I was really surprised at how easy it was to do.   He made up a short little slide presentation with pictures he made in our Paint program. 

Hmmmmmm this has definite possibilities. 

My sons have pretty much lost interest in notebooking.   I posted here before about that.  And this would be a pretty cool way for them to show what they are learning about.  Instead of a notebook page.  Get them to do a slide show.  

We are reading about WW1 right now. 

Step one- find some clip art related to the era.  I have Homeschool in the Woods Timeline figures that would probably work.  And I'm pretty sure they could do a search online. 

Step two- add text for each picture.

Step three - find some music for that era.  Hmm this one might be more difficult.  Any ideas? 

Step four- use powerpoint to put the slides and music together.

Ohhh I just thought of something.  There may be clips online of famous speeches that could be incorporated. However  as we are on dialup this one might not work for us. 

It is also possible to add narration. This could count for speech.  We'll have to get a microphone.  Ours is lost in lala land.(anyone else have a lala land at thier house?)

Another option is to get together pictures of trips or field trips.  (thinking Oregon here)  and put together a slide show of our trip.  Ohhh how about a family slide show for grandma at Christmas!

Yep definite possibilities.