Famous Explorers—PowerPoint
4th Grade
2 Six Weeks
nd
Lesson Name: Famous Explorers--PowerPoint
TEKS: 4.02B
Technology TEKS: 1A, 1B, 1C, 2A, 2B, 2C, 2D, 2E, 3A, 7A, 7B, 10A, 11A, and 11B
Objective: The student will create an acrostic poem about a famous explorer that has
been discussed in class.
Cabezade de Vaca
Christopher Columbus
Francisco Coronado
Rene Robert Cavelier
Sieur de LaSalle
Getting Started:
 Choose the explorer that you will use.
Creating a Slide in PowerPoint:
 Open PowerPoint.
 From the drawing toolbar, select the Word Art icon.
 In the Word Art window, select a text that is vertical.
 Make the text the length of the slide.
 Move it to the far left of the slide.
 From the drawing toolbar, select the text box icon.
 Click and drag a box beside the first letter of your vertical word.
 Enter a fact about your explorer that begins with that letter.
 Repeat for each letter of the vertical word.
 Print.
Sample:
This is an acrostic for the word “Indian”
I
N
D
I
A
N
nnovative
ever gave up
anced
maginative
lways on alert
eeded help from other tribe members
S moked pipe