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| Lesson Plan Name |
Grades |
| GoPro MakerStory |
3 to 6 |
 (0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will share their MakerSpace exploration process using GoPro video. Students will plan out their basic scenario with the MakerSpace tools, wear the camera, and discuss the process while working with the tools. They will view their video and edit for public viewing on the school YouTube page. |
| The Robotics Obstacle Course Challenge |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) The Robotics Obstacle Course Challenge is a comprehensive instructional unit that exposes middle school students to various engineering domains/colleges, enhances student motivation and engagement, provides authentic avenues for research, and challenges all students to excel in a robotics obstacle course challenge. |
| 30 Ways In 30 days |
5 to 6 |
| Learners are challenged with the essential question, "How can I make a significant difference in the world in just 30 days?" To highlight their experience, the learners must keep a log book, create a documentary, and publish an original book. |
| A Simple Chocolate Bar Global Project |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Discuss and Investigate the many parts from different countries that are needed in order to make a product in this case a Chocolate Bar. Understand all the environmental effects that impact this product and the people and the environmental involved. |
| An Explorer's Virtual Sea Chest |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Students will be assigned an Explorer to study. They will create a photo story depicting the voyage as a crewmember of a ship that belonged to a famous explorer. One aspect of the job required that they document the voyage and create a virtual sea chest to document the explorer’s findings in the new land.
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| Animation Station |
4 to 6 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students create clay animated videos. These videos are based on idioms or short stories the students write. |
| Architecture: Re-Designing our School |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Architecture is the catalyst for teaching students to be curious, informed, and empowered to positively impact the built environment around them. Our students have the unique opportunity to correspond with real architect mentors from across the nation to re-design an area of their school. We need Samsung Google Chromebooks and 3D printers to bring their projects to life. |
| Collaborating with Robots |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students in the Behavior Support Program will practice communication, collaborative and pro-social skills to create and program a classroom robot using Lego Mindstorms technology. |
| Collaborative learning through technology assisted projects |
K to 6 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) My class is a computer literacy class at an arts integrated charter school. Elementary students form Kindergarden to 6th grade will learn computer skills and Google's collaborative tools through project based learning. Problem solving, teamwork and critical thinking skills will be required to complete projects successfully. |
| Compare/Contrast Animal Kingdom Characteristics from Informational Texts |
P-K to P-K |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will compare and contrast the various animal kingdoms. Students will take this knowledge and complete a compare/contrast essay after researching the animal kingdoms. |
| Cubelets Challenge Beginner |
P-K to 5 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) The challenges are aimed at thinking about building something to meet a need, solve a problem or make something that that can help us to understand or do something. |
| Dietrich Bonhoeffer Unit |
7 to 8 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) We will spend 2-3 weeks reading the biography of Dietrich Bonhoeffer in 7th and 8th grade History class. |
| Flippin for Valley View Scavenger Hunt |
K to 6 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This is a lesson for including an outdoor nature preserve onsite at our school and using it to teach state standards while incorporating technology into a classroom where nature can't come inside. |
| Getting to Know the Characters in The Tempest |
P-K to P-K |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This lesson is about characterization and Shakespear's play, The Tempest |
| HMS Book Review Podcast |
4 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students in 8th grade reading will create podcasts to recommend books for other students to read. The book is one that they really enjoyed during the semester in reading. |
| How Does Your Garden Grow? |
9 to 12 |
| Students will design, plant, and maintain a native plant garden on campus. The garden will serve as an outdoor classroom for lessons in ecology, soil science, and botany. |
| IPad Literacy: Engage and Enrich 21st Century Learners |
2 to 3 |
| Students will use the iPads as literature and reading response resources during partner or listen to reading. The teacher will use the iPad to formatively assess and keep track of student progress. |
| It's Challenging Being Green! |
3 to 5 |
| Students will delve into botany by planting a seed and watching it grow or die based on what they do to take care of it. Prior knowledge of human anatomy and physiology will be the entry point as students connect these two very different areas of biology. By the end of the unit, students will be able to defend plant conservation the way they could any other organism they study. Ultimately, students should have increased awareness of the lack of green spaces in urban areas and the need for more parks and gardens |
| iZOO |
3 to 5 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This is the cumlinating project for a unit on animal adaptations and habitats. Students will complete a WebQuest, create a slideshow or animated movie, and a podcast. |
| Light Sport Aircraft Design Challenge |
7 to 10 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students in 7th grade Physical Science will be assigned the challenge to design a new Light Sport Aircraft or modify an existing one using aircraft design software to meet the demands of a customer. |
| Little Owl Press Report/Newspaper and Newscast Project |
3 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will take digital photos to produce “The Little Owl Press,” an elementary newspaper, which will summarize important events and programs at our school for each trimester. This newspaper will be transformed into “The Little Owl Press Report,” a newscast that will incorporate digital video, digital photos, music, and voice recordings. This production will be broadcast to ours and surrounding communities through our local access station. The newscast will promote education in our schools and allow people who are not part of our school community an inside view of the highlights of each trimester. |
| Living History--Documenting our Senior Citizens Lives |
7 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will interview senior citizens in the community and make a short documentary about their lives. students will research the history of the neighborhood we are living in and find correlations between the research and the interviews with the senior citizens. |
| Many Hands Make Miraculous Mechanisms |
4 to 6 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) e-NABLE is a global online community of 3000 individuals (and growing daily!) who are using 3D printing technology to create free 3D printed hands and arms for those in need. Volunteers from all religious and political backgrounds, races, ages, occupations, cultures and educational levels from around the world are coming together to work for the greater good and make a difference in the lives of many by using their talents, creativity and ideas to produce assistive devices for underserved populations and individuals who were born missing portions of their upper limbs or have lost fingers and arms due to war, disease or natural disaster. Our class wants to build these devices to Make a Difference! |
| Meeting a Real World Need: Textbooks |
2 to 5 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This lesson focuses on students using technology to solve a need in the classroom. Students will seek to gain funding for a classroom library. |
| Not so Simple Machines |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students create a machine, using a combination of simple machines, to solve a problem. Students produce a podcast commercial, a photo story, and digital presentation to 'sell' their invention. |
| One L.E.S.S. (Partners in Education Campaign Initiative) |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Through this social marketing campaign - One L.E.S.S., the students will assume the role of a business professionals using different types of marketing media. The students’ initiative will increase collaborations between community leaders, the school, and youth. The concept is simple - One Leader Engaged in Student Success (L.E.S.S.) equals one less youth involved in juvenile delinquency and other destructive decision making. |
| Photography 1: Seen through your eyes |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) In introducing a new art elective option of Photography, I can enhance the importance of the arts in everyday education, and also give students another way to express their views. It's essential that all students have opportunities to create works that reflect what they see and believe in all disciplines. |
| Save the Rainforest in South America |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) 7th Graders: Geography affects the characteristics of a country. Natural resources can determine
the success or failure of a country. Each country is rich in culture, even if they are a
poor country. Each student will appreciate his or her life‐styles, and opportunities
compared to poverty stricken countries. Global issues are complex, and the student
will explain the challenges the rainforest ecosystem is facing, and will develop a plan
of action they can do to help
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| Save Trees, Use the Mini to Complete Our Assignment! |
2 to 2 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will learn that by using technology in the classroom, they will be saving trees from destruction to create our textbooks and workbooks and how we can stop filling our landfills with mounds of paper. With our reading program online, students will have access to the program and will be able to complete assignments directed by the teacher and have immediate feedback on their performance. |
| Sea Scallop Data Mining Research Project |
10 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students develop a research question and then gather the data to answer that question using the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Sea Scallop Survey database. Students present the results in a formal classroom presentation and a scientific poster session which is open to the public. |
| Short Film Project: Architecture In My Community |
11 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will create short videos featuring the unique architecture in Sacramento, CA. They will work in teams to write, film, and publish short films that will persuade people to visit buildings here in our own community. |
| Silent Films with a Flip Cam |
4 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will analyze a variety of silent films, the roles and responsibilities of film careers and work together to create a film that demonstrates the basic storytelling concepts of conflict and resolution. |
| Skyscrapers |
3 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) In this lesson, students learn about skyscrapers and explore various factors considered when building them. This lesson was part of a two-day thematic unit on architecture for middle school students. |
| Social Skills |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will read a text at their reading level depicting a challenge faced in middle school. They will discuss the relevant issue and collaborate about how to solve the problem through role-play and practice. |
| Stop Motion Animation with Photographs |
5 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Have students move objects in a scene and take a series of photographs that create the illusion of movement of said objects. The students will then put the photos in a video editing program to make a short video of their characters in action. |
| Studio Photography |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This project involves shooting long exposure photography in the school portrait lighting studio. |
| The Algebra of Angry Birds© |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Angry Birds is a popular application (app) that features birds that are launched from a slingshot at green pigs. Students will explore algebraic and physics content that is embedded in the game. |
| The Emerald Ash is taking over! |
K to 6 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students research the problem of the invasive Emerald Ash Borer and how it is impacting Vermont's environment. Students then design and engineer a solution that can stop the damage being done by the Emerald Ash Borer. |
| This Is Our Town |
10 to 12 |
| Students document life in their small Iowa town by photographing, writing and creating art about the experiences and architecture of our community. These finished products will then be shared with the community. |
| Thorne Comm |
6 to 8 |
| Technology can help teachers communicate more effectively with parents. Photographic evidence of student's performance is very effective! |
| Waste Water Research |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will engage in a year long study of the impacts of waste water and its impacts on the local community and the Hudson River. Students will evaluate the impacts that various green technology can have on improving the quality of runoff waste water. |
| Welcome Back To School -- You Map It |
2 to 5 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) As a welcome back-to-school project for your late elementary or early middle school math students, we will work on measurement, scale, and technology by measuring portions of the school and then using Tool Factory Math Draw to make a scale project with perimeter and area. |
| Where We Come From—A Culturally Responsive Writing Lesson |
4 to 5 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Goals: (1) Students will communicate and collaborate listing details that represent their learning group; (2) Students will write a “We Come From” poem that represents their learning group; (3) Students will create a Wordle that represents their learning group. |
| Who's Who in the Art World |
2 to 5 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students study famous artist and their works, through Internet resource using social bookmarking. The create biographies and recreate famous works then create online portfolios of their final project. |
| Wishing for Wells |
2 to 2 |
| Students of all ability levels will learn about the water crisis in Africa. They will use iPads to conduct research, make PSAs to broadcast on the morning announcements, and complete other technology-infused projects to raise awareness (such as an interactive QR code exhibit about a region in Africa). The unit will culminate in a fundraiser to try to fund the construction of a well in Africa. |
| Yes We Can! Students with Autism & Downs-Syndrome on the Drums! |
K to 12 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Students with profound special needs, such as autism, Downs-syndrome, CP, & medically fragile conditions, will participate in a variety of exciting experiential activities, including adaptive percussion & drumming, Karaoke type music, and using American Sign Language to express themselves to music. Project will be documented via video and digital pictures and shown to the school body in a music video format. |
