Recently in the Google Doc’s Help Forum a user inquired about creating a progression bar. Up until now I never really thought about using progression bars in Slide Presentations. Thanks to this question I now understand there are times when a student or teacher may want to include a progression bar.
What Does a Progression Bar Do?
- It helps narrow down steps into small digestible chunks.
- Maintains order of the directions steps
- Provides a timeline
- May be used for social studies
- Example:
- Timeline for Mayflower travels
- Historic figure timeline (from birth to death)
- Example:
- May be used in Science
- Examples:
- Life Cycles:
- Frog
- Butterfly
- Plant
- Part of science lab writeup
- Students take photos of lab steps
- Place the photos on a Slide Progression
- Explain what they see happen in photos
- May use arrows to point out changes
- Place the photos on a Slide Progression
- Students take photos of lab steps
- Life Cycles:
- Examples:
- Uses for Math
- A way for students to share the steps used for solving an equation
- Show small chunks of the steps used to solve a math word problem
- May be used for social studies
How to Create a Progression Bar
Progression bars may be simple or as complex. It all depends upon the point the creator is trying to make. Following is an example of a simple three slide progression bar where footsteps were used as the progression line.
Please click here for the above template
Following is the steps for creating the template:
- Create a slide include a shape with a number
- Duplicate the slide, duplicate the shape w/number
- Move the second shape to a new location
- Repeat as often as you need to complete the timeline
- Publish the Slide to the web
