Making Fruit Salad

Using MaxShow you are going to write about how you make fruit salad.

The skills you will use:

Math Skills – Fractions: whole, half, third and fourth. Technology Skills – Inserting, drawing, editing and copying pictures. Creating and saving a

presentation.

Getting Started:

1. Open MaxShow.

2. Click the New button on the Home tab.

3. Click the Blank button. 4. Click OK.

Steps in making fruit salad:

1. Washing your hands. 2. Reading the recipe. 3. Getting out your utensils. 4. Getting the ingredients listed on your recipe. 5. Washing and peeling the fruit 6. Cutting and mixing the fruit.

Max’s Toolbox Tips:

Using Clipart in MaxPaint to create pictures

Max’s Toolbox Demo: The Using Clipart in MaxPaint to create pictures demo shows you how to combine pictures from Max’s Toolbox to create your own picture in MaxPaint.

Applying Transitions and Animations to your slides

Max’s Toolbox Demo: The Applying Transitions and Animations to your slides demo shows you how to apply transitions to your slides and animations to text, shapes and pictures.

Max’s Toolbox Instructions: The Applying Transitions and Animations to your slides

instruction sheet provides you with step by step instructions on how to apply transitions to your slides and animations to text, shapes and pictures.

Making Fruit Salad Activity Worksheet

Your title page

In addition to typing the title for your presentation you may like to create your own

picture of fruit and insert it on the title page. Below is an example of combining

fruit found in Max’s Toolbox clipart and using MaxPaint to create a new picture. Watch the

Using Clipart in MaxPaint to create pictures demo to see how to create this picture.

Page 2

Type the recipe below and include pictures of the correct number of whole fruit needed from

the recipe.

¼ of a pineapple 1 and 1/3 bananas 1 and ½ apples 1 pear ¾ of an orange 3 cherries

Page 3

The utensils you will need to make the fruit salad. Use clipart or draw the utensils in MaxPaint.

Making Fruit Salad Activity Worksheet

Page 4

The ingredients you will be using to make your fruit salad. Copy the fruit from page two. Then use MaxPaint to create the correct fraction of the fruit to be used. For example:

Page 5

Is there any other fruit you would like to add to your fruit salad?

Adding other slides

Add any other slides you need to show how you make fruit salad.

Being creative

Explore MaxShow and use features such as:

Bullets

Sound

Animations to text and pictures

Slide Transitions

Colour to create an exciting presentation.