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Lesson Plan Name |
Grades |
Clip Art Builds Readers |
P-K to 1 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 1 ratings) Using clipartstation our class will make digital books about our school and community to help students who are English language learners better able to succeed. |
Creating Presentations With Clip Art |
3 to 12 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will utilize clip art and various other picture and sound resources to create a presentation featuring a favorite animal from researched habitat. |
"Coming to a Library Near You!" - Book Trailer Grant |
9 to 12 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will read their chosen books and create book trailers using clip art and sound bites. These book trailers will be played on the district's television channel to share with all students. Book trailers will entice other students to read more books! |
Clip Me |
P-K to 2 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 2 ratings) This lesson involves my second graders using clip art for their Power Point presentations. They will decide on an endangered species they would like to learn more about, write a report, and last make a power point presentation to present to our third grade classes. |
Computer and Technology Lab Projects |
1 to 8 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 1 ratings) Students develop significant projects in our Computer and Technology Lab, and we require a safe, easily accessible repository of digital images and audio for student use. These various projects are theme related and correspond to specific grade levels. |
I Spy With My Little Eye |
1 to 1 |
This is a lesson I used with first grade students. It focuses on color identification, inserting graphics in Word, and word processing. |
Scanning Pictures |
2 to 5 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will scan a picture from home and edit it! |
Student Generated Science Digital Presentations |
8 to 8 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will create Power Point Presentations of various science concepts to present
at the end of the year in a student led review for the class. |
"Blood on the River" Reading Project |
6 to 8 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 1 ratings) These are activities for both Lanugage Arts and Social Studies after reading the Book " Blood on the River" |
(G.I.F) Graphics Integrates Fun |
7 to 8 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 1 ratings) (G.I.F) Graphics Integrates Fun is a lesson plan that will enhance 7th and 8th grade graphic arts class projects by sharpening the students' kinesthetic graphic design skills through the technology of a Wacom Graphire 3 Classic graphics tablet and digital cameras. It will also instill lifelong learning that is fun while the lessons relate to other subjects. |
A Math Twist |
3 to 6 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 1 ratings) Students create mathematical problems using computer applications such as Microsoft Word and clearly explain in writing how the problem is solved. |
A Trip to the Mall... Washington D.C. |
3 to 5 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 2 ratings) This project incorporate our Nation's Capital into a board game that integrates curriculum not only across subjects, but grade levels. |
All about "Me" autobiography!! |
3 to 5 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 1 ratings) Student will make powerpoints and turn them into movies. These movies will be autobiographies about them!! |
All about me |
6 to 8 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 2 ratings) Getting to know all the students. An all about me project for grades 6-8. |
Animal Trading Cards |
2 to 4 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 1 ratings) This is a collaborative unite in which students research an animal and create a trading card like a baseball trading card using Microsoft Word or other word processing software. |
Author Study - Tomie de Paola |
K to 2 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 2 ratings) Students use Tomie de Paola books to explore different themes and ideas as well as make connections between Tomie de Paola's books and connections to real world scenarios and situations. |
Book Report: Movie Trailer (Elements of Narration) |
P-K to P-K |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 1 ratings) Instead of the old "write a summary" book report, students will tell the parts of the plot by writing an interactive movie trailer. |
Can You See What I See? |
5 to 8 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 3 ratings) In this lesson, students will take digital pictures to represent various forms of energy and the steps involved in energy transfers and transformations. They will then create a Rebus story that can be solved using these pictures. This activity will bring to life a science concept that is usually difficult to see and understand. |
Celebration of Cultures |
K to 5 |
In the CELEBRATION OF CULTURES unit, students study one country related to their family heritage and complete multiple assignments to illustrate their understanding of that culture. They also create "family legacy books" in which they put Family Trees, Interviews with relatives and personal "Snapshot" Writings about important incidents and remembrances in their own lives. |
China-Contributions Made During the Ming Dynasty-7.26 |
6 to 7 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 1 ratings) The students will draw evidence from informational texts, including their textbook and at least two online sources, to create a powerpoint presentation detailing the contributions made during the Ming Dynasty. |
Christmas Around the World |
P-K to 2 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 1 ratings) Christmas Around the World |
Class Book |
1 to 1 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will write four sentences describing themselves. They will need to make sure each sentence has a verb, noun and an adjective. Use of clip art station to illustrate these sentences. |
Community Based Instruction |
P-K to 12 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 1 ratings) Community Based Instruction involves functional academics, independent living , self-help, interpersonal as well as speech and language development/skills. Most activities require the student to demonstrate learning through a hands on approach assessed with measurable goals in which a rubric or percentage is obtained. The best part of CBI is that the activities allow students with various abilities, skill levels, and various learning styles an opportunity to be successful. |
Creating a Digital Newspaper |
P-K to 5 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 1 ratings) Lesson plan for creating a digital school newspaper. This includes some modifications for students with disabilities. |
Creating Videos for Teachers |
7 to 8 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 1 ratings) Students created videos for teachers based on an interview with the teacher. The video included specific skills that the teacher requested. |
Creation Stories |
6 to 12 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 1 ratings) Provide an authentic approach to improve understanding the foundation of American Literature and improve literacy skills of all the students. This project will allow students to research, create, and demonstrate, via podcasts and discussion boards, their knowledge of the origins of American literature. |
Cuentitos para niņos...Childrens Stories |
10 to 12 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 2 ratings) Students need materials to produce childrens stories in Spanish. Students will write children stories, illustrate them in powerpoint, move them to Moviemaker and then narrate them. |
Digitial Picture Water Source Hunt |
K to 2 |
Students will create a Power Point and book that will show an in-depth understanding of where water comes from and how we use water in our everyday lives. |
Enhancing Social Skills and Vocabulary through Photography |
K to 5 |
Students with Autism Spectrum Disorders will use photography to visualize, practice and evaluate their communicative exchanges.Younger students will use pictures to build their vocabulary. |
Excel Proability with Dice |
3 to 5 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 1 ratings) This project is a 3rd grade excel project about proability and patterns using an Excel spreadsheet and dice. |
Favorite Holidays |
2 to 6 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 2 ratings) The students will discuss their favorite holidays. Then they will take a class survey to determine which holiday; Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, or Easter, the class liked best. |
From Flannel Board to Interactive Board |
P-K to 2 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 1 ratings) It is so simple, even a "techno- phob" can use this! Use "good ole" flannel board stories in a new and exciting way. Keep digital kids engaged telling stories using an interactive board. |
Germ Busters! |
P-K to 5 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 1 ratings) This lesson is for health education and involves the application of learned material and allows for peer teaching. Students will create podcasts about germs, the ways they are spread, and how to keep everyone safe! |
Giving a Voice to Literature |
4 to 4 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 2 ratings) The students in my class have been working in reading groups called book clubs. This project will allow students to act out their favorite scene, give interviews as a character from the book, make a promotional commercial for the book, or give a book review as a famous reviewer.
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Goddard Gazette Web Site |
7 to 8 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 1 ratings) My students will create a school news web site from the ground up, updating it every two weeks with news and events at our middle school. |
Input and Output and Processing...Oh My!!! |
2 to 5 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will go on a Scavenger Hunt with the digital camera to find input, output, and processing devices. This allows them to learn how to, not only learn about computer devices, but digital photography and multimedia presentations as well...all while having FUN! |
Inspiring Young Authors with Scholastic Keys |
1 to 5 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 1 ratings) Students completed story prompts using Scholastic Keys and then illustrated their work either by using the paint tool or inserting clip art. Students' work was then displayed for all to see and read. |
Internet Safety Presentation |
7 to 12 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will create a presentation using a web-based presentation program focusing on one or more aspects of internet safety. |
It's Fun to Learn! |
K to 6 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 2 ratings) Learning should be fun, and nothing can be better than using Music and Technology together to enhance learning. |
JOB POD Career Podcasting Project |
7 to 12 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 2 ratings) The purpose of this project is to provide students with an opportunity to demonstrate the knowledge gained and maturity achieved during their high school career so far. This project gives students the chance to choose an area of study, to combine different disciplines, to satisfy specialized curiosity, and to utilize talents in a productive way. The project gives them the chance to make their high school experience a more meaningful and practical one. |
Job Transition--The Great Adventure |
9 to 12 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 2 ratings) Help your students go out into your community and prepare themselves for life after high school by supporting their learning of essential job skills. Use digital pictures and the students' writing to create portfolios of their adventure! |
Johnny Appleseed or John Chapman: Which Character is Your Favorite? |
2 to 3 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 1 ratings) Johnny Appleseed or John Chapman: Which Character is Your Favorite? Students will learn about Johnny Appleseed's fictional character and real life character and write about it. |
Keynote Digital Parts of Speech |
9 to 12 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 1 ratings) We use Keynote from iLife '09 to write a super powerpoint for a parts of speech video |
Learning Character Concepts and Living With Character |
P-K to 5 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 1 ratings) Military towns have plenty to be proud of particularly of the members of the community that have shown responsibility, trustworthiness, fairness, respect, caring and citizenship. Students will share fiction books they have read through their favorite characters and connect those characters to pillar character concepts for favorite people in their lives who have some connection to the military. |
Let's Party like its 1849 |
4 to 6 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 1 ratings) This lesson puts student on the Oregon trail. Students write a daily diary and take pictures on the trail. |
Life Map |
11 to 12 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 1 ratings) This is a lesson plan that helps you to get to know your students and also helps you determine their computer/writing skills. For this lesson students use a computer that has Adobe Illustrator to design a life map. Then they need to submit a one page typed paper that explains their life map, I suggest using Microsoft Word. |
Meeting a Real World Need: Textbooks |
2 to 5 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (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. |
My Add on Sentence Story. |
K to 3 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 1 ratings) Everyday have students write/type one sentence in their journal. Daily, students will be asked to write/type an additional sentence to the previous one to eventually have a weekly short story. |
Our Town |
1 to 3 |
A walk through our town will unveil several reasons for reading and the culture and history of our town. Students will photograph signs and scenes from the downtown area and create a digital scrapbook detailing the experience. |
Patchwork Quilt Class Project Thematic Unit |
3 to 3 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 1 ratings) This is a thematic unit that integrates social studies, math, reading, and writing. |
Persistence of Vision: Animation I |
10 to 12 |
Students will study the early history of moving pictures as an introduction to the concept of persistence of vision and animation. Students will develop a final animation which utilizes a variety of animation sequences: computer drawn, stop motion, hand drawn, with a 6.0 megapixel Olympus digital camera and the Tool Factory software MultiMedia Lab V. |
Plot and Conflict |
6 to 12 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will analyze the concept of plot development and conflict resolution using their novel from the Summer Reading List. Teacher will tell the students their assessment will be based on their concept map they will create at the end of the unit. Students will Create a Concept Map using the Kidspiration software that includes the interactive graphic organizers. |
Podcasting About Our World |
1 to 5 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will combine learning about the world around them through our 21st Century lesson about Flat Stanley with technology to create podcasts about their flat adventures. |
Recipes and Recollections |
10 to 12 |
Students interview their families to gather stories and to garner recipes. Many literary stories have their origins in family recipes, even the novels we study in English class. Each student compiled five family recipes and related stories for personal cookbooks. We also made a class cookbook. |
S.C.A.N.M.E. |
P-K to 12 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 1 ratings) Students Creating A New Method of Evaluation |
Short Vowel Discrimination |
P-K to 5 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 1 ratings) The integration of Dr. Seuss rhymes creates an engaging study of onsets and rimes. Students will discover patterns in words, sort words based on their vowel patterns, and apply their knowledge in reading and writing activities. Using a Promethean Board and Active Inspire software will add educational technology to the lesson.
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Similarities and Differences Across Cultures - In Modern Times and Throughout History |
1 to 1 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will use technology and literature to research past cultures and modern cultures. The objective of the lesson is for the students to recognize and define the similarities and differences between past cultures and modern cultures in areas related to daily living, food, art and music.
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Spring, Summer, Winter, Fall: Dress and Play for Them All |
2 to 5 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 1 ratings) This activity will engage students to work in pairs to make up short stories about activities they can do during each of the four seasons. They will also focus on identifying clothes and activities which are appropriate for each season. |
Super Science Slueths Explain It All: Circumnavigating the Circulatory System |
6 to 8 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 2 ratings) Students work in pairs to develop podcasts about the circulatory system as a capstone unit project to display what they have learned. The podcasts can take the form of dramas, sports casts, etc. requiring the students to do more than just memorize information. |
Tech Savvy Naturalists |
P-K to 8 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 1 ratings) While technology is the way of the future, the future of endangered plants and animals are our responsibility. Students will learn about ecology and biology of animals and plants in our community and create movies and picture books as their culminating projects. |
Telling Time through Digital Devices and Photo Story Telling in the Classroom |
K to 5 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 1 ratings) To engage learners physically, mentally, digitally and help them to develop the following time telling skills through an array of digital devices and human interactions |
Thanksgiving Feast |
6 to 8 |
Every year the students in our Life Skills Support class at Beaty Warren Middle School take on the huge task of planning and preparing a Thanksgiving dinner for approximately 80 family, faculty, and staff. Under the direction of the special education teachers and classroom aides, the students decide who to invite, develop a menu, find recipes, make grocery lists, and begin to shop at the local grocery store. The students make placemats, decorations, signs, and a place card for each guest. |
Videographies |
4 to 5 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 2 ratings) Students will create a presentation about a person who is famous for being an honest individual, a risk-taker, a helper to others, or a promoter of freedom using podcasting or vodcasting tools. |
Visual Dictionary for Root/Prefix/Suffix Meanings |
4 to 8 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will Define the meaning of common prefixes, suffixes, and roots. They will then find clip art to serve as a visual reminder of these meanings. |
We Are Authors! |
2 to 2 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will use Clip Art Station and Microsoft Word to create a book. |
Welcome Back To School -- You Map It |
2 to 5 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (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. |
Writers are Explorers |
1 to 2 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will use the internet to research information about their favorite animal using Discovery Learning and National Geographic Kids. Students will use the information found online to write an Informational Text that will be presented to parents at a
Writers Celebration. |
Writing Prompt "Living With Fame!" |
4 to 4 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 1 ratings) Writing Prompt "Living With Fame!" |