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| Lesson Plan Name |
Grades |
| Color Poem Collage |
3 to 6 |
 (0 stars, 2 ratings) Students are engaged in poetry writing and creating an accompanying collage using technology. This lesson is great for helping students use more descriptive writing. |
| Photo Transfer Mixed Media Collage |
8 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students create a mixed media collage incorporating a digital image. Design must be created from a memory or tell a story about the students life. Composition must be created in layers. Students may create a background that is abstract or a background that emphasizes a message or story by use of imagery, pattern or words. |
| Magnificent Metamorphosis: A Podcasting Lesson |
P-K to 2 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This lesson incorporates podcasting and the use of technology (iPads) to teach students about complete and incomplete metamorphosis. This lesson was designed for Kindergarten, but could be used with Pre-K-2. |
| Modified Digital Photo |
6 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will learn how to take a digital image of a standing object, such as a tree or building, and modify the image using different collage techniques to create a series of four different images of the one photo. |
| Vocabulary Building Through Visualization Of Word Meanings To Create Digital Art |
7 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Vocabulary enhancement came to the forefront with acquired skills of manipulating photographs ... utilizing various tools and filters within the software … and this cognitive and creative process placed the students in a new environment of hands-on with photo software and the requirement of researching the "real" meanings of words, then translating these "realities" into "creative" ones through visualization. |
| La Casa de Mis Sueños/My Dream House |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will use present tense conjugation and learn vocabulary that describes a house. Students will create visual representation of their dream house using presentation tool of their choice. Students will “walk us through” their houses in small group presentations (6 students + teacher) while we roll a dice to ask questions about each presentation and providing verbal feedback, all in Spanish.
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| "A Picture Is Worth A Million Words" |
7 to 8 |
(0 stars, 4 ratings) This project is a photography, poetry, and bookmaking unit utilizing three artists-in-residence who teach photography, poetry, and bookmaking. |
| A Picture of Dreams |
11 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will merge photography; gel transfer pictures, writing, and their plan
for their future to result in a multi dimensional visual art project
that supports digital skills, education and career development, and the
arts, poetry and English language. |
| A Year to Remember |
K to 3 |
(0 stars, 12 ratings) As the New Year approached my class began to prepare calendars to present to our parents. Using the digital camera we created a personalized collage on the front of each calendar sharing activities the child had participated in. This calendar certainly was a "year to remember"! |
| Biography Report - Learning Microsoft Word |
5 to 7 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will learn about Microsoft Word features while creating an autobiographical report. |
| Bringing Young Architects to Surface |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) The town of Gastonia is full of architectural history. Many students are unaware of all the architectural details in old buildings. The goal of this project is to introduce the students to past architectural design and have them bring some of these design elements into their own scale model buildings |
| Capturing Animals through Technology |
2 to 5 |
| Students will use digital recoding photograpgy equipment to take pictures of animals at our local zoo. They will then insert the photography into a variety of audio-visual technology -based reports featuring thier animals. |
| 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. |
| Come Meet Us at the Zoo |
P-K to P-K |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Come Meet Us at the Zoo is a project theme lesson plan that incorporates technology with life science, literacy, writing skills, and creativity. Children will identify animals, research them online and with books and magazines, then write a book about the animal of their choice. |
| Dazzling Digital Poem Project ¨C 7th grade |
7 to 10 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) 7th grade students will take one of their original poems and create a digital poem on PowerPoint. This poem will include a student narration of poem, a collage of pictures representing their poem's ideas and background music. |
| Digital Dreams |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This lesson connects students' experiences with short stories, poems, speeches and newspaper articles in a thematic unit on "Dreams." Students take images that best reflect the pieces read as well as take photos for pieces of writing students create. |
| Essential to Autumn: Line, Shape, Color, Texture, Pattern, Rhythm, Emphasis, Movement, Balance, and Unity |
3 to 5 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will observe their natural environment to experience the changes that occur when Autumn arrives.
Students will create artworks based on personal observations and experiences with their environment in Autumn. |
| From Future Flight to Past Flight |
5 to 8 |
| By integrating a virtual learning environment with a real-world, hands-on experience, students experience a higher level of understanding. Furthermore, by teaching others, students exercise their own creativity and long term recognition. |
| GRAMMAR SHOTS |
K to 8 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Have fun creating a progressive grammar portfolio. |
| Introduction to Coding |
5 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will be able to establish a positive attitude towards building and not just consuming technology.
Students will be able to perform using logical reasoning while learning the fundamentals of coding.
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| La Presencia Escondida: Spanish Speakers in Our Community |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Using skills learned in Spanish class and technology students will venture out into the community to become more familiar with native Spanish in the area and how they have come to live and work locally. |
| Living / Non-living |
1 to 1 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) An easy lesson in which students can use a camera to identify living / non-living items in the school envioronment. |
| Me, My Digital Self, and Eye |
11 to 12 |
| Self-portraits are a traditional art project for many high school art classes. This self-portrait assignment is an autobiographical assignment. The purpose of this assignment is for students to show who they are and to tell their own stories, while learning to use technology to express themselves creatively. |
| Our Family Histories |
2 to 6 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will research their own histories by interviewing family members (their elders, and extended relatives), collect information, pictures, etc...The students will put their information together using creativity and technology and at the same time apply their knowledge of language arts, math, and social studies. |
| Paint the States - 50 & D.C. |
3 to 12 |
| Help the students learn about each state by painting a large scale (or small scale, your choice) of the United States. |
| 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. |
| Piet Mondrian Unit |
K to 2 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) A four day art unit dedicated to exploring the concept of modern art. Includes lessons in artist appreciation, art appreciation, problem solving, collaboration, technology, and creation. |
| Reflective Decoupage |
7 to 12 |
| Cameras and art go hand and hand way beyond pictures and portraits, right? In this project, the cameras are going to help our students produce their reflective art through decoupage! |
| Self-Portrait |
6 to 7 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) For students in middle school, the self-portrait is timely, as it is during these years, between the ages of 11-14, that young people are immersed in “the self”-exploring identity, finding his or her place in the world, building perception of self in relation to others. In the lesson plan, students delve into these artistic qualities as they first explore famous artists’ portraits, which grounds them in a range of styles and art history, all of which students reflect on as they design their self-portraits, which they will create using Photoshop using both the standard desktop computer and the WACOM tablet to compare/contrast the impact of the different technologies on the design process and final product.
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| Stop Animation, Art history and Literacy |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students work in teams of two to create a short Stop Animation Film for pre-K through 1st graders to learn about the Masters of Art History. |
| The Power of Images |
9 to 12 |
| A 2 minute Multi-media presentation using colors, textures,images,drawings, photographs, video clips, etc. To portray a political or social issue in the school, community or country. |
| Treasure Hunt with cameras |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) The students will take pictures of the items on the treasure hunt list. Then they will create a collage and use technology to edit the photography. |
| Video Haiku |
5 to 6 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) The students will learn about forms of poetry. They will write a Haiku poem that is stylistically correct and to understand the nature of haiku poetry. The students will use the digital or video cameras find or create a small video clip or series of images to illustrate the haiku. To incorporate poetry and video or images into a Windows movie maker or photo story presentation. |
| Wild Flower Project |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will have to go out into the community to photograph and collect samples of various types of texas wild flowers for taxonomic identification and dissecction. |
