Browse All Lesson Plans |
Lesson Plan Name |
Grades |
SKYPE PALS Project Share NC |
4 to 12 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 2 ratings) Students studying Spanish as a foreign language collaborate to create digital presentations depicting everyday life and culture in North Carolina. Students establish friendships and exchange cultural and language information with students in Latin America via SKYPE and video sharing websites. Students create a SYPE PALS documentary which will be shared with the community at a special celebration in which students, parents, and the community come together to meet one another, to watch and discuss the documentary and to experience typical food and music from the Latin American country. |
I Have A Dream |
2 to 5 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 4 ratings) Fourth Grade and Second Grade Buddies will collaborate to write "I Have A Dream" poetry and record their poetry to share on the Internet. They will use the videos to assess the content and presentation. |
"I Believe..." Podcast Style |
10 to 11 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will read John F Kennedy's speech "I Believe in an America Where the Separation of Church and State is Absolute" and Martin Luther King's speech "I have a Dream." After comparing both speeches students will write their own speech about their personal beliefs, podcast their work and present their speeches to our local veterans at our Veteran's Day Celebration. |
"Marchen or Sagen" - A Digital Story Telling Experience |
10 to 12 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 2 ratings) Storytelling is as old as time itself! Every culture that exists or has ever existed had a strong storytelling aspect. Stories are used for entertainment, teaching and passing on knowledge and wisdom. Each of us has a story and it has been said, "We are the stories that we tell about ourselves." |
A Day in the Life of ... |
10 to 12 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 1 ratings) Overview: Evansville, IN offers many opportunities for students to experience high tech product creation.Students will video the life of a product being manufactured in Evansville at such companies like Mead Johnson Nutrition, Berry Plastics Corporation and AmeriQual Foods. |
Abstract to Concrete |
P-K to P-K |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 2 ratings) Students will utilize Apps in Ipads to draw illustrations of buildings in the communities such as; where they live, places they visit, or community helper facilities. Students will them use hands-on manipulative such as blocks, megatiles, or K'necs to construct their plans into a community. |
Building Vocabulary with Digital Fotos. |
8 to 12 |
Presents ways that students could use digital cameras to develop Spanish vocabulary. |
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. |
Celebrations Summative Project - Kindergarten |
P-K to K |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 1 ratings) (8 week lesson)After studying the holidays and traditions of autumn and winter throughout the world, kindergarten students are challenged to create their own unique holiday. While presenting their holiday, students will be digitally recorded to assess their understanding of holidays as a summative assessment.
*International Baccalaureate PYP* |
Character Counts in Action! |
K to 12 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will create documentaries based around the 6 Pillars of Character. Each group/individual, will highlight the pillars in a video that defines and provides examples of the pillar and problem solving solutions for difficult situations that arise in and around the school community. |
Claymation Metamorphosis in Butterflies |
3 to 8 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 1 ratings) This Claymation project will show the Butterfly Life Cycle. Starting with a storyboard plan our students will build characters ( young larvae, mature larvae, butterfly) and film their actions one frame at a time with a digital camera. |
Creating a Digital Portfolio |
9 to 12 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 1 ratings) Digital Portfolios encourage students to showcase their accomplishments, works in progress, or personal history when applying for a job or for college entrance. |
Digital Storytelling |
5 to 12 |
Students write more when they are inspired either by the topic or by the process. Using Movie Maker, students bring their creative stories to life and have a Windows Media Player as their final version of their work. |
Exploring Climate Change Using the Eyes In the Sky |
8 to 12 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 1 ratings) Using NEO (NASA Earth Observations) satellite images and NIH ImageJ to animate the images, students will explore various aspects of climate change. From the montage of images, students will write a report describing various areas of climate change.
Grade level: secondary |
Get a Job! |
6 to 12 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will learn how to prepare now for a successful career and explore how to choose a career. |
Going Green Collaboratively |
9 to 12 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 1 ratings) A collaborative effort from Technology, Science and Art teachers to focus on the environment. Students capture images and process photographic and digital
prints for display that depicts what the local community is doing toward saving the environment. |
I CAN DO IT: Shopping For Groceries |
9 to 12 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 1 ratings) Students with severe mental, physical, and communication disabilities will learn to make grocery lists and shop for groceries with the aid of digital photos. To encourage independence, students with mental, physical, and communication disabilities will control the activity by directing an assistant to follow each step, a digital photo, which must be performed in the correct order to make a successful purchase. |
Implementing an iPad Communication Device |
P-K to 12 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 1 ratings) Lesson in how to best implement the use of an iPad communication application, such as TouchChat or GoTalk with a non-verbal student for the first time and during inclusion. |
Jack and the Beanstalk |
2 to 3 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 1 ratings) - Students will be able to demonstrate appropriate use of login procedures and network printing.
- Students will be able to compose a document that applies intermediate formatting
- Students will use digital creativity tools to create original works.
- Students will use the Paint Application for designing
|
Life Skill Communication |
K to 12 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 1 ratings) Using digital camera to expand students with significant disabilities' communication methods. |
Many Hands Make Miraculous Mechanisms |
4 to 6 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (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! |
One L.E.S.S. (Partners in Education Campaign Initiative) |
9 to 12 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (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. |
Promoting Reading Posters |
9 to 12 |
Students are featured on large posters endorsing a novel for reading. Posters are student generated and posted throughout the school. |
Reading Blog Log |
6 to 12 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 2 ratings) Students will create blogs in which they will share ideas about literature we are reading in class - kind of online Socratic seminars. In addition they will create podcasted informational reports, and then open the forum up to others in the library media center during celebrations of READING WEEK. |
Self-Portrait |
6 to 7 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (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.
|
The Civil War Through the Eyes of Students |
7 to 8 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 1 ratings) I am working with the technology and art instructor to provide cross-curricular learning experiences for my 8th grade students. My students will research historical characters and their impact on the Civil War. |
Through Our Eyes |
9 to 9 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 1 ratings) “The House on Mango Street” by Sandra Cisneros is a novel that addresses many important themes, but none more important than poverty. But simply talking about a world problem does not teach my students as much as a hands-on problem solving project would! Upon completing the novel, my students will tackle the final project “Through Our Eyes.” |
Through the Eyes of a Lens |
3 to 5 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will use point and shoot camera to take pictures of the world around them. They will learn to edit, print, and sell pictures. |
Tiger EV Technology to Improve Sustainability and Petroleum Dependency |
6 to 12 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 1 ratings) The Tiger EV project involves research, design, and construction of an all-electric vehicle. This three-wheeled vehicle is powered advanced battery and electric motor technology. Electrathon America registered EV cars compete all across the country with the goal of traveling the farthest distance in a given time, with a limited energy source.
Our goals for this project are to: Increase students' and publics' awareness of the future of alternative energy transportation. Advancing the implementation of green technology in educational curriculums across the country using hands-on learning in the fields of electronics, aerodynamics, and materials usage, in a real life application.
|
Wanted - Dead or Alive |
3 to 6 |
After learning about trickster tales, students will create clay models of a trickster, create a mug shot which will be used on a life-size wanted poster. Students will also photograph and animate the trickster using the Claymation software in Whole Class Fresco. Finally, students will design games based on a trickster tale for younger students. |
We Have a Dream |
2 to 4 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 1 ratings) Students write their own "I Have a Dream" speech based on how they think they can make their world a better place. |
What Do You Put Stock Into? |
6 to 8 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 2 ratings) Overview: In this unit, students will learn basics about the stock market. Students will choose and “buy” stock in a company. He/she will check the price of the stock each day and record in a spreadsheet. At the end of the allotted time, students will create a graph depicting losses and gains. After evaluating their data, students will compose a summary report which will include their losses/ gains and possible reasons for the outcome. |
Writing Classroom Agreements using Inspiration & Word to Go |
3 to 8 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 1 ratings) At the beginning of the year, the class will create a "Classroom Constitution" using Inspiration software and, as an option for classrooms w/ Palm Pilots, Word to Go. Students will brainstorm as a class a list of behaviors that they think will help the classroom environment be conducive to learning & to show how they can become better citizens in their class. |