Grade 5 · Technology · Lesson 17

Slide Presentations: Design Basics

A slide deck is a stack of slides that helps you tell a story to an audience. The best decks look clean, read easily, and keep the focus on you — the speaker. Good design is not about decoration. It is about making your message clear from across the room.

What this lesson teaches

1Identify the parts of a well-designed slide
2Tell good slide design from bad slide design
3Match design rules to the reasons they help an audience
4Apply the less-is-more rule to a single slide

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