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| Lesson Plan Name |
Grades |
| Cell Community |
7 to 7 |
 (0 stars, 1 ratings) Students design a "cell community" as a visual analogy of the structure and function of a cell. |
| Community Based Instruction |
P-K to 12 |
(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. |
| Community Based Instruction |
6 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) The student will learn where items are located in the local drugstore. They will find items on their list, purchase items at the checkout system and use real money to pay for their items. Students will use money skills, social skills and personal skills and be assessed using a rubric. |
| Community Connections |
6 to 8 |
| How can students with disabilities learn to connect with their communities? The program described below takes instruction into the community and helps students make important community connections. |
| Community Helpers in our School and Town |
P-K to K |
(0 stars, 3 ratings) This lesson correlates with our Reading Unit on Neighborhood Helpers |
| Community Outings |
6 to 12 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Our non-verbal students go on Community outings every day. These young inviduals experience shopping in a grocery store, ordering food at local restaurants and attending community functions. |
| Community Problem Solvers |
6 to 6 |
(0 stars, 3 ratings) Students collaborate in teams to conduct research and solve real community problems using science and engineering. This is applied to the ECybermission Challenge. |
| Community Words |
K to 2 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Students will use digital cameras to photograph words in their community. They will then make a poster or a book to display the words. This will be used to aid them in writing their own works. |
| FlipVideo Poetry: Teaching Narrative Poems Through Community Service Learning |
7 to 8 |
(0 stars, 3 ratings) In order to promote literacy as part of our district improvement plan, 7th grade students will work in pairs to draft, write and illustrate a narrative poem to be presented on National Read Across America Day to primary school students as part of a 'Seussical". Performances will be videotaped so that teachers can show the presentations over and over to varied classes for instructional purposes. |
| 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. |
| Reading for Life: Preparing Students to Function in Educational and Community Settings |
K to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Building confidence through literacy. Children are provided with 1:1 and small group support while navigating an online curriculum to boost overall fluency, assessment outcomes and success in community. |
| 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. |
| T-shirts build school and community pride |
6 to 8 |
| This lesson is designed to bring a sense of community to a very diverse team of students in a large, urban middle school. It is also designed to bring a sense of pride in a community struck down with poverty. In this lesson, students will go out into their community and homes and take pictures of what they most identify with to be eventually placed on a T-shirt. |
| "The ABC's of Sunshine" |
K to 1 |
(0 stars, 3 ratings) Kindergarten students will photograph things around our school. Focus on the ABC's and publish a book for the library. |
| "To Be, or Not To Be, A Digital Citizen? That is the Question! |
4 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will become active participants in understanding what it means to be a digital citizen. The students will become aware of the importance of online responsibilities. |
| Abstract to Concrete |
P-K to P-K |
(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. |
| City's 50th Anniversary: A Snap Shot in Time |
K to 12 |
| Walnut is celebrating its 50th anniversary. The project would have students from all age levels taking picture and creating a living snap shot of the community regardless of age, sex, or beliefs. This would be put on display in City Hall and used as a video for the local Cable Network. |
| Collaborating Living Moments |
6 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students who are incarcerated experience very little positive influences, have created substantial challenges, and show little ability to make beneficial, character building decisions. which incapacitate them to progress academically, socially, vocationally, etc., and ensure continued failure . We wish to utilize the Seminole County Dividend Speakers to influence these students, however, due to incarceration and facility regulations, students are unable to participate in their presentations. Therefore, we would request technology, in the form of DVD video camera and digital programming, to bring speaker presentations in house. We would tape initial speaker performances at Eugene Gregory and later present to other students at John Polk and the Juvenile Detention Facility. |
| Creating Our Own Newscast |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Through effective delivery of the morning announcements, and adding creative visual headings for each, it is possible to share news on the school web page with students, staff, and parents, as well as archive the events of the year. |
| Digital Time Capsule |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) In this lesson students use digital cameras to create a time capsule of digital images of their communities and families. They will use higher-order thinking skills to contemplate how digital images will be stored in the future and how we can present our life and time to people living 50 years from now. |
| Digital Video Interviews |
6 to 12 |
| Students will create a video interview. They will interview a business leader from our community and then a Movie Night will invite the community members, families, and students to view the final products. |
| Glad to Meet You, Newfane |
2 to 5 |
| This project takes a look at the resources, businesses and services within a community. At each location, the children get an abbreviated look at how that location benefits the community. |
| Global Views |
K to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will create a short video about our community to share with other students around the world via the web site www.nextvista.org. We will also share our videos with a school in Turkey where I have personal connections with another teacher. |
| Grade 2 Air Show |
2 to 3 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This is a science and math lesson using paper airplanes. The students develop a hypothesis on what makes a paper airplane fly far and test their hypothesis. They utilize measurement skills & estimation in math. It also includes our school's General Learner Outcomes- "GLO's" |
| Growing STEM Minds Through the Growing Gardens |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) The nexus of our STEM activities revolves around our urban gardening center surrounding the school. The STEM activities will reach across all the subject areas including English, History, Science, Engineering, Technology and Math classes at our school. |
| Growing up in Las Vegas: Memories of Childhood in the Neon City |
9 to 12 |
| In this project students will use digital voice recorders to interview older members of the Las Vegas community who grew up here, students will then communicate their oral history interviews with the community through the use of blogs, websites, a book and a documentary movie. |
| How Does Your Garden Grow? |
K to 4 |
| With the help of technology the children will be amazed witnessing the school garden change before their eyes! The work and dedication put into a garden will surely pay off when the digital presentation is viewed. |
| In Our Own Voice |
4 to 5 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) The purpose of this lesson is to help students learn about poetry and apply it to real-world settings. |
| Island Adoption |
P-K to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) The Neari school has adopted a strip of land from the city in a very low socioeconomic area, and has begun a beautification project. We will be working on community awareness while using STEM work as our base. |
| Kids with Cameras make a difference |
1 to 4 |
| 1-4th grade students create a photography exhibit titled "Sense of Place" about their community and then use the exhibit to collect donations to support international Kids with cameras programs. |
| Learning "safety comes first" through video modeling opportunities. |
5 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) What a great way to learn new skills while reinforcing important safety skills! This lesson will help students with Autism in learning appropriate and safe skills for transitioning in and around school. Kids will enjoy modeling, videotaping and watching their own videos. |
| Making A Difference |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Students from Tiffin Columbian High School’s Commercial Art class would like to make a difference by helping local business or organization prosper in this sluggish economy by offering free advertisement design. The students enrolled in commercial art, would like to lend their talents and creativity in designing products that company would find useful such as business cards, poster, flyers, etc. |
| My Town/ My School |
3 to 6 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students groups will gather information on their town or school. They will research the city website, or school website to find important facts, history, and landmarks. Student groups will create a presentation to share with others. |
| New School Mural |
P-K to 12 |
| Students will use digital images to create a mural for one of the walls next to the breezeway doors. |
| News Broadcasts |
3 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) After writing and practicing a script, the students present a news broadcast about a topic in the news. This is made with a Flip camera and sent to other classrooms. |
| Notre monde - Our world |
7 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will share their way of life with their French-speaking pen pals by making a video about them in their community. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| School Motto/School Expectations |
3 to 5 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Students in GATE, grades 3-5, will teach and demonstrate the school rules and expectations to students in grade PreK-2. They will also, help model the expectations of our newly implemented school motto through the use of video and technology. |
| Social "art"ivism - Computers in art to breed creativity and critical thinking |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Students will create websites that house their digital portfolios. Students will also use platforms in order to collaborate with other students, community members, and local and world wide artists. |
| Student Voice/Service Learning |
1 to 4 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Giving students ownership, a voice, & group decision making in service learning.
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| Tech Savvy Naturalists |
P-K to 8 |
(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. |
| The Wonder of Seeing the Best in Ourselves- A+ Attitude |
6 to 6 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will read the novel Wonder by RJ Palacio, learn about theme, character, perspective and the steps of writing a research paper. The students will then create a research paper, an oral presentation and a citizenship project that promotes compassion. |
| 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. |
| We have a dream.... |
4 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will use the Flip ULTRA 120-minute Camcorders to recreate Martin Luther King Jr.'s famous "I have a dream..." speech with a little twist! |
| What Firemen Read |
9 to 12 |
| Armed with digital cameras, iPods with recorders, and great attitutdes, students will interview community members and find out what their favorite books are and why. Students will compile the results in both print and web formats and share their findings with the world. |
| When I Grow Up |
P-K to 1 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) You often hear young children say, "When I grow up I wanna be a__." Here is a meaningful story prompt and a great opportuntiy to teach community helpers. |
| You'll Flip Over Forces & Motion |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) This hands-on, culminating lesson engages learners and reinforces terminology related to forces and motion learned earlier during the intensive, week-long course.. Essentially, the scavenger hunt was used as a formative assessment to determine students' understanding in a creative and thought-provoking way. |
| A Ripple of Hope-Using History¡¦s Powerful Stories to Teach Tolerance |
3 to 8 |
(0 stars, 5 ratings) The overarching goal of this project is to develop conscious and responsible citizens of society.The culminating project will be a student created DVD. Students will select a role such as a journalist, history detective, or author and will record their reflections through genres such as poetry, interviews, stories, and plays. After obtaining parental approval for students to be videotaped, DVD copies of the student¡¦s performances will be shared with colleagues. |
| "I Believe..." Podcast Style |
10 to 11 |
(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. |
| "In the News!" |
2 to 8 |
(0 stars, 3 ratings) A newscast that can be writen, produced and created by elementary or middle school students. Co-Authored with Stacy Bodin |
| "Let's Make Some Money" |
4 to 6 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) The economic troubles of the past year prompted me to develop a project that would help my class understand economic concepts and the types of decisions made by consumers and business owners in our country. The students will study economics and then become entrepreneurs themselves. During the final activity they will pick a product, advertise, and then sell to our Kindergarten class. |
| "The Five Life Zone Research Project" |
7 to 8 |
(0 stars, 3 ratings) Students in grade 7 and 8 will travel from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to the Grand Canyon in Williams, Arizona to investigate and measure the soil and water quality (if water can be found) for each of five life zones. The five life zones are the Lower Sonoran or low hot desert; the Upper Sonoran or desert steppe; the Transition or open woodlands; the Canadian or fir forest; and the Hudsonian or spruce forest. This is equivalent to studying the life zones found from Mexico to Canada. The latest technology will be used to complete the field studies and record and communicate their findings. |
| 1920's Personalities Podcasting Project |
7 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students research people of the 1920's create a written report. Next students create a podcast finished with pictures and music if it enhances the "personality of the 1920s" that will be posted on the school website. |
| 21 century pen pals |
3 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) These lessons are for the students to show what they've learned about specific topics to an international school. |
| A Cleaner Today for a Greener Tomorrow |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students become environmentalists through community activities. |
| A Digital Walk Through Chatham |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Our project is a digital storytelling activity using MultiMedia Lab V and digital cameras. Students will photograph important landmarks in town, write descriptive articles, and share them with other students through the school newspaper and web site. |
| A Genre-riffic Thanksgiving |
12 to 7 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Using different genres in literature, have sutdents explore and discuss the characters, take the characters out of the book and place them into a modern day Thanksgiving celebration. The characters from the books need to retain their personalities and traits. (Time to completion of activities: 3 weeks) |
| A Trip to the Mall... Washington D.C. |
3 to 5 |
(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. |
| Adding Creativity to Science Inquiry |
6 to 12 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Students create flip videos that enhance scientific investigations performed in class by having students think metacognitively while fusing the fun of creativity with the science of analytical thinking. |
| American Indian Digital Storytelling |
9 to 12 |
| Robeson County is the home of the Lumbee tribe, the largest American Indian tribe east of the Mississippi River. After learning the general history of the Lumbee people, students will select a specific feature of Lumbee history or culture to create a "digital story." |
| Amusement Park LegoWeDo Engineering Challenge |
P-K to 5 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) LegoWeDo Challenge K-5. Parents and community can support this event in the school yard. |
| And Today's Guest Star Is... |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Students photograph each other using appropriate behaviors in classroom, whole -school, and community environments for social stories. |
| Animals of Florida |
K to 3 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Journey with us as students discover Native Florida Wildlife. |
| Animation |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Through the exploration of animation techniques, students will be able to describe and depict emotions and expressions with processes, traditional tools, and modern technologies used in the arts. |
| Animation Festival |
5 to 6 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) 5th and 6th grade students will create claymation and object animation shorts to be produced as a short film festival. This lesson is actually a unit on animation comprised of several weeks of group work and filming. |
| AP Biology & Inquiry-Based Labs |
11 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Instead of carrying around an encyclopedic textbook, students will have their text downloaded onto an iPad where they can highlight, bookmark, and find definitions instantly without ruining the book next year. Students will also be using their iPad for creating, reviewing, and sharing their own labs. |
| AP Chemistry Video Lab Book |
10 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) The AP Chemistry Test is quickly approaching! Students need to review laboratory techniques and descriptive chemistry. The "solution"? Go to our AP Chemistry wiki page that contains a video scrapbook of the labs we have done throughout the year. |
| 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. |
| Around the World in 180 Days |
P-K to 8 |
(0 stars, 4 ratings) To kick-off our Global Cultures curriculum we are implementing a year-long interdisciplinary school project titled, Around the World in 180 Days. Teachers and students will use digital cameras, smart board technology, Web Cams, Kidspiration software, and partnerships with schools around the world. |
| Around Town |
K to 2 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Objective: Apply organizational writing strategy of sequencing to write about a trip around town. allow students to experience the being the illustrator/photographer for their own writing/book. |
| At the Movies |
1 to 2 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students respond to books, poems and literary genres by using flip cameras to make movie trailers, "behind-the-scene-clips", never before seen footage, movie reviews and commercials as the use imagination, innovations and 21st century digital tools to show their understanding. |
| At the Movies |
1 to 2 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This lesson plan attempts at creating a framework for creativity, innovation and global collaboration while allowing students to create different movies as they respond to books and poems from different literary genres. The lesson plan allows for student-driven learning, with choices and project-based learning. |
| Behind the Camera |
5 to 8 |
| Students create a documentary-style video that speaks to an organization within the community. |
| Bilingual Books for Home and School |
K to 8 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) These lessons will allow students to create books that they can take home and share with their families. The books will integrate concepts in Language Arts with Science and Social Studies. |
| Black History Month Menu/Choice Boards |
5 to 12 |
| •Students will write and create podcasts for a variety of purposes.
•Students will make choices about their learning, using a menu/choice board as a guide.
•Students will conduct guided research to create a variety of podcast projects to communicate their understanding of their research.
•Students will work collaboratively with other researchers in creating interesting podcasts.
•Students will explore literature, music and the lives of people associated with black history month.
•Students will engage in differentiated learning activities based on their interest and their ability. |
| BLANKETING THE WORLD WITH LEARNING ANDLOVE |
K to 4 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) We used the Flip Camera to capture all classes' interpretations and lessons related to reading the Book "The Lady in the Box" by Anne McGovern. We compiled videos of 12 classes into a movie and culminated the project with a blanket drive. |
| Bringing STEM to the Elementary Classroom Through 3D Printing |
4 to 5 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Utilize a project based approach to STEM by providing students an education in CAD software and 3D printing. The software utilized will be Google SketchUp |
| Building a School Archives: The First Twenty Years |
3 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) History can be close at hand and relevant to students! My students will improve their literacy, critical thinking, and collaboration skills as they become historians and create an online school archives of the first twenty years.
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| Caching in Pine's Treasures |
6 to 12 |
| Project ‘Caching in Pine’s Treasures” was designed to increase student knowledge of Social Studies’ topics in a non-traditional way. Students will use digital cameras and GPS units to learn historical information outside the classroom walls increasing student motivation, content knowledge, and knowledge of “technology-based gadgets.” |
| Capturing Conic Sections with Digital Cameras |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) This project will help students to make connections between math and the real world by having them identify conic sections in art and architecture in their communities. Students will photograph these examples of circles, ellipses, parabolas, and hyperbolas in the real world with digital cameras and then write the equations for the graphs. |
| Capturing History |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) This lesson allows for students to gain an appreciation for local history and preservation through the use of photography and art. |
| Career Creation |
5 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will do career investigations based upon personal interests, skills assessments, counselor recommendations, dreams, parental guidance, etc. and develop a "Build Your Own Destiny" Google Form. Included in the Form will be pictures, videos, and links. |
| Career Portfolio |
7 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) I am giving you the opportunity to explore a career of your choice and this will help you a great deal in the future. WORK HARD!!!! But most importantly have fun!!!! |
| Caught Being Good - Spread the Word! |
K to 5 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Share positive behavior and learn character traits! |
| 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 |
(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* |
| Cemetery Restoration Project |
K to 8 |
| An old abandoned cemetery is given the opportunity for new "life" through the efforts of its new owners, a Catholic school, and a new parish in the beautiful Frederick Valley near the foot of the Catoctin Mountains. |
| Character Counts in Action! |
K to 12 |
(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. |
| Character Education Podcasts |
4 to 6 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Each month a different character trait will be focused on. Students will create and record a podcast highlighting the character trait. |
| Claymation Video Lessons |
5 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will create simple 3D oil-based clay characters, which will move through 2D student-created environments(stop-action videography). Students will narrate the stories thus created. |
| Climate Change in Context |
8 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students predict and review the effects of climate change by reviewing text and writing hypotheses. Groups then present the information to the class in a jigsaw/spider web format. |
| Clocking in and out for work |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Student’s will use Time Station to log in and out daily for our job sites in order to help keep track of the number of hours worked toward the required hours set by the State of NC. Student's participate in multiple non-paid work based (community-based) activities to complete the 300, 240, and 360 hours required for the Occupational Course of Study. |
| CO2 Dragster Challange |
7 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This is a new twist on an old unit. Many Technology Education teachers have been doing CO2 cars for several years now but this lesson will include creating pod-casts, video, and pictures to post and in a sense create an interactive data-bank!! |
| Cochlear Implants-Flip camera |
6 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will create a movie explaining if they support or oppose on Cochlear Implants. |
| 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. |
| Commonwealth Connections |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will make historical connections with Famous African-Americans from Virginia by learning and teaching others through this hands-on project. Students will research, write, film, edit, and publish videos about these important historical figures in order to promote tourism in Virginia. |
| Create a News Program |
3 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will create their very own news program complete with commercials. They will explore writing, reporting, operating a video camera, and using digital tools such as chroma-key. This lesson will spark their interest in reporting facts and writing for a purpose. |
| Creating A School News Network |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will create a TV Network where they will produce programming for the school and the school's website. This programming will include daily announcements, video shorts regarding special programs, projects, and events at the school. |
| Creating a TV Commercial to Air on Morning Announcements |
6 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Focused advertising is everywhere; and the goal is to make the student more aware of how they are targeted negatively and/or positively and the choices they have as consumers. Students learn about various types of media and advertising tactics, create their own commercial, and learn how they fit into our economy as consumers. |
| 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. |
| Cultural Awareness in Omaha: Entering the Golden Door |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) The Jr. High students at Holy Name School will develop their cultural awareness through a technology project using tablet computers. The tablets will be used to record interviews with community members of a minimum of 8 different cultures and to develop an innovative presentation about their discoveries and incites based on those conversations. |
| Cultural Celebrations |
K to 12 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Students research and study cultures throughout the world through the use of the internet, email, and voice over internet technology, and by completing a webquest . |
| Custodial Video Modeling |
12 to 12 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Utlizing video modeling for training students with cognitive impairments to learn how to be a successful custodian. |
| Cyberbullying |
4 to 5 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Teach students how to prevent cyberbullying |
| Dakota Pipeline Lesson |
11 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This is an a unit that is geared towards students understanding the components of the Regents exam. The argumentative essay will focus on students reading and analyzing 4 different texts that examine multiple sides about the Dakota Access Pipeline debate. The essay will extend in students participating in a socratic seminar with their peers using respectful and accountable talk and fostering productive peer to peer discussion. |
| Design Team Challenge |
4 to 8 |
| Students use technology and engineering skills to create robots. These robots are used to test various math applications, and data tables are used to compare data. |
| Digital Art Show |
P-K to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will take pictures using digital cameras, download and print the pictures. The pictures will be displayed in an art show for people in the community to view at a local business. |
| Digital Biography Project for African American History |
3 to 5 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will answer questions on an important person during African American History month. They will type, voice record, and upload photographs/drawings to create a biographical digital story about their person. |
| Digital Journaling in the Outdoor Classroom |
P-K to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Watch the progression of seeds, plants and animals from late winter till June through journaling, discussions, photography music and poetry. |
| Digital Pen Pal |
K to 8 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Partnering with Spanish students in our local area, the students at my school will be exchanging video messages, emails, and performances with each other to create a language learning community. |
| Digital Portfolio |
K to 6 |
| Students in kindergarten and sixth grade will document their field trips using digital photography in order to share the experiences. |
| Digital Portfolio and the Green School Act of Michigan |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will be able to document "Project Green" for the life of the project in following their acceptance to becoming a Michigan Green School through a digital portfolio. They will be able to share this information in getting more schools on board by making powerpoints to ship or present to schools other local school districts. |
| Digital Storytelling |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will be challenged to create a digital story using digital cameras and powerpoint. |
| 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. |
| Discovering Your Hometown |
7 to 8 |
| Inspired by the "Hometown America" writing contest by "Junior Scholastic," this lesson will allow all 7th and 8th grade students to explore and document the geography, history, culture and traditions of Folsom, New Jersey and the surrounding areas. |
| Dot and Dash Global Ambassadors |
3 to 6 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Combining communication , collaboration, critical thinking , computer coding, real world writing, geography, research skills and creativity. |
| DROP BY DROP WE CAN CHANGE THE WORLD |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) The purpose of the unit is for students to acquire information and knowledge about water, its structure, its properties, its usage, and its importance as a resource. Many students inherently know about water because they consume and use it every day. Many students however think there is an infinite supply of fresh water and all they have to do to get fresh water is to turn on the faucet. To acquire water usage statistics and appreciate the unique properties of water will help student accomplish their final task. |
| E-Portfolios |
4 to 6 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students use their devices (phones, ipods, ipads) to create video reflections, take picture of work (evidence) of their learning. When done, they will either bump, email or transfer their material to their laptop and add to their Google Site (E-portfolio) |
| Earth Editing: Increasing Environmental Awareness with Student Created Public Service Announcements |
3 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students create a Public Service Announcement video on issues concerning the environment, which will “air” on the school website and at an Earth Day Assembly. Each video will focus on a single strategy that students and community members can do to help protect our planet Earth. |
| El menú fabuloso! |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Everyone loves food! Now we are making food an interactive project. In this project students are to make their very own menu in Spanish, pictures included. |
| Enhancing Our Outdoor Classroom Studies through Technology |
K to 5 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Students will make and collect scientific observations in our outdoor classroom. In addition to traditional observations, video recordings and digital photographic records will be collected as well. |
| Exploring Climate Change Using the Eyes In the Sky |
8 to 12 |
(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 |
| Farewell to Manzanar Introduction Activity; Racism and Point of View |
8 to 11 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) In this multi-day lesson students will be introduced to the racism and predjudice that Japanese Americans faced after the bombing of Pearl Harbor and that Middle Eastern Americans faced after 9/11. By showing the parralel between the two events, one in a history book, one they remember, it will provide a framework for them to understand better the point of view of Jeanne, the narrator of Farewell To Manzanar. |
| Finding Solutions to Hunger |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This is a project plan more than a lesson plan. It is a 10-week project using a wonderful online collaboration tool designed to be used by educators. Besides teaching the curriculum objectives—the goal is to open the students’ eyes to hunger in the world. |
| Finding the Tipping Point |
11 to 12 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Students will read and analyze Malcolm Gladwell's Tipping Point and then apply their understanding of the book to their school. |
| Flip and Soar |
P-K to 3 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) My special education (Cognitively/Emotionally Impaired) classroom has incorporated the school-wide Positive Behavior Interventions and Support (PBIS) system. Our goal is to teach safe, respectful & responsible behavior in a variety of locations ( bathroom, lunchroom, classroom, playground,etc.). Most of our students have very poor body awareness and lack the ability to “see” themselves as others do. Video could be the perfect tool to ‘open their eyes’. |
| Flip for Family History |
8 to 12 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Students would interview use the flip cameras in order to conduct oral family history interviews. The students would also create a short film about their experience in finding out their family history. |
| Flip Out Over Weather |
4 to 9 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Students will investigate will be assigned aspects of weather study and write a report. They will use Flip Video cameras to film each other reading their report. Students will gather photos and video clips to use in a video project that utilizes their weather report. And finally, they will work in groups to create a video script derived from their report. |
| FLIP, FLOP AND FLY YOUR WAY THROUGH ADJECTIVAL ENDINGS |
9 to 12 |
| A fun, yet creative way of learning the German adjectival endings adjecives following "the" and "a". Using a flip recorder, a group is selected to write and act out a skit designed specifically to teach the usually boring concept of adjectival endings. |
| Flipping the Science Classroom: iEnergy |
4 to 5 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) What if homework was done in the classroom and the teacher lesson was watched at home? With the help of this grant I plan to flip my classroom as I engage students in creativity and interactive learning. |
| From Athena to Zeus: Digital Stories Through the Eyes of Greek Gods and Goddesses |
5 to 6 |
| Students will use digital technology to create digital storybooks of a Greek God or Goddess. |
| 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. |
| Geographical Literacy through Building: A Minecraft Project |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will use Minecraft for Education to build a community from a specific geographical area and understand how land forms, resources and spatial organization can affect human settlement
patterns and housing.
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| Germ Busters! |
P-K to 5 |
(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! |
| Get Inspired in Kindergarten! |
K to K |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Incorporating the Inspired Classroom approach in a Kindergarten Classroom
For more information about the Inspired Classroom model see
http://inspiredclassrooms.wikispaces.com/
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| Going Green Collaboratively |
9 to 12 |
(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. |
| GPS Treasure Hunt for Knowledge |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Working in groups, students will walk around the school community and stop off at 10 areas to complete a task related to what is being taught in the classroom. |
| Grade 7 Science Vocabulary Building Through Visualization of Word Meanings To Make Digital Art |
7 to 7 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) The meanings of Grade 7 Science words were visualized through acquisition of photo software skills to make digital art for retention of these word meanings. |
| Great Depression Gallery Walk |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Students will analyze the impact of the Great Depression on U.S. society and populations by analyzing primary source images from the Library of Congress website. |
| Gumby Rules! |
5 to 6 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Using Responsive Classroom ideas, students will brainstorm classroom rules, examples of those rules, ways to apologize when rules are broken, and possible consequences. Each student will then pick one part to animate with the software. |
| Historical Scavenger Hunts |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Students explore the history of their community by paying attention to the details of architecture, monuments and area artifacts. This is a multi-step lesson that allows students to practice historical fieldwork, pre-reading strategies, acting skills, research skills, writing skills and public speaking skills. |
| Holocaust background-Jewish Life Photo Project |
P-K to P-K |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) To understand Jewish Life Pre-WWII by examining photographs and biographies through the US Holocaust Memorial Museum website |
| Human Impact Video Project |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Using Flip cameras and Pinnacle video editing software, the student task was to create a 1-2 minutes video on human impact on the globe. The video was take the form of a news broadcast as if they were filming "on location". |
| Immigration and the Economy |
8 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will learn how immigration impacts the economy of small towns like ours. |
| IMPROVING SUSTAINABILITY THROUGH THERMAL IMAGING |
6 to 12 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Students will use a thermal imaging camera and advance digital technology to analyze homes and business structures and provide them with an energy efficiency assessment. Students will also leave a dvd on how to do home energy improvements and follow up with a survey of property owners energy saving. |
| In the Days of our People: Shageluk, Alaska |
K to 12 |
| Archiving Athabaskan Memories from Shageluk: Student projects |
| In the Field with Salamanders |
5 to 5 |
| 5th grade students will collect and monitor the diversity of salamanders in their community. They will produce a field guide to share with other local students that will include both quantitative and qualitative data collected over time. |
| In Touch with Nature |
K to 5 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Ipod touches will be used in conjunction with our Nature Space/Bird Habitat, on school grounds, community programs, local businesses, Cornell University, and volunteers. These members will aid in constructing a Bird Watch and Feeder program to collect data to be analyzed through the touches, student interaction, and Cornell Labs. |
| Inspiring a Bigger Picture! A 4th Grade Global Newspaper! |
4 to 4 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) My students have created a vision to develop a Global Newspaper for our classroom, community, and other students around the world via a web based publication. They have developed a list of jobs, ideas, and supplies needed and are excited to work to make this vision a reality. |
| Inspiring Change in Our World: One Photograph at a Time |
9 to 12 |
| Students will experience the power of images created by great photographers in history. They will document the destruction of their environment and communicate their values and beliefs with a community photography show at a local gallery. |
| Integrated Curriculum, student- led Environmental Project |
P-K to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) A student-led environmental project based on cooperative learning with a cross-curricular base in order to address many subject areas and work towards the goal of creating positive change. This is an amazing project that empowers the children, helps them to discover and utilize their gifts to create change in the world. |
| Interview with Benjamin Franklin |
7 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This is a cross curricular ELA / History lesson wherein students will create a mock-interview with Benjamin Franklin (and/or other historical figure from the American Revolution Era) and then post that podcast on to an established Google Classroom website. |
| Introduction to Programming the Recon Rover 6.0 |
2 to 3 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This lesson will demonstrate to the students how to begin programming the Recon Rover 6.0 from SMART Lab as well as introduce them to the online program code.org as they begin to explore coding in the classroom |
| Invasion of the Germs: We Fight Back! |
3 to 4 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) The news today can be scary for our children hearing the stories of the H1N1 virus. This unit will teach common, quality health practices to serve our community and remove fear and uncertainty out of this disease. Personal hygiene, scientific investigation and fun will mesh in this unit for 4th grade students entitled “Invasion of the Germ: We fight back”. The students will investigate hygiene and determine what habits will help their bodies fight infections. They will create clay animation videos with podcasts to teach younger students and our community how to fight germs and the H1N1 virus. |
| Invasive Species |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Invasive species can disrupt and use natural resources that are necessary for endemic species to survive. Students will conduct a field study of an invasive plant species to learn how their community and the endemic species have been affected. |
| iPad Ecology |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This "iPad Ecology" lesson will incorporate pressing ecological issues that students will investigate through an ecology app, watch a video on how people are "up-cycling" used items, blog about local environmental issues, and read and take a short quiz on an online current issue article. |
| It's a Bird...It's a Plane...It's a Digital Citizen Superhero! |
1 to 6 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will learn about what it means to be a Digital Citizen in the 21st Century by coming up with some cyber safety concerns. They will then create a Digital Citizen Superhero who's job it will be to promote cyber safety and digital citizenship. |
| It's Fun to Learn! |
K to 6 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Learning should be fun, and nothing can be better than using Music and Technology together to enhance learning. |
| iTeach iLearn |
6 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) The iTeach iLearn Project is the artful mixing of video, narratives, images, music, sound and special effects into a digital story teaching about any concept. These digital stories reflect the student’s understanding of the themes of science. Science is a way of learning about the natural world, science has built a vast body of changing and increasing knowledge described by physical, mathematical, and conceptual models, and science’s effect on technology and society. |
| Jack and the Beanstalk |
2 to 3 |
(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
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| JOB POD Career Podcasting Project |
7 to 12 |
(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 |
(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! |
| Jobs I Can Do : Electronic Portfolio |
12 to 12 |
| This lesson will explain how to use digital photos to create electronic portfolio when working with 19 to 21 year olds with cognitive deficits. |
| Kindergarten Memories |
P-K to K |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) We will create a Kindergarten Memory Book. Each month we will create a monthly memory page regarding our experiences during the month and world happenings. |
| Learning with Cubelet Robot Blocks |
K to 5 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will integrate core subject areas with a hands on approach of coding and constructing tiny robot blocks. Students will design and create a way for these tiny robot cubes to interact with their learning in Social Studies, Reading Writing and Math. |
| Legacy Project: Using Flip Cameras to Connect Generations |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This lesson will enable students in Ms. Barb Ressler's English classroom at Wahlert High School to capture insights from senior citizens by utilizing flip cameras. As a result, the students will be able to learn many important life lessons and build important connections with senior citizens. |
| Les Petits Chefs |
10 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Using a flipcam, students created a proposal to offer French cooking and language lessons for children in our community. They submitted their video to the "Francophone Youth in Action" contest sponsored by the Francophone Centre of the Americas, and won a $2500 grant to realize their project. |
| Let Us Grow Lettuce! |
P-K to P-K |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Middle School students will be responsible for cultivating and documenting the growth of lettuce plants from seed. Digital cameras will be used to create a photo journal which will be incorporated into a multimedia presentation. |
| Let's Rock and Roll |
K to 5 |
| Photograph rock formations in the area and how the land was formed through erosion, land upheavals, and sediment building. |
| Life Skill Communication |
K to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Using digital camera to expand students with significant disabilities' communication methods. |
| 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. |
| Lights! Camera! Action! |
5 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) In this lesson, students will use resources to explore the functions of digital cameras. Students will then use a digital camera to take photos which will utilize simple photography configuration principles. Students use their photos to share ideas and information in the community and with peers, both in person and online. |
| Lights, Camera, Action! A Filmed Chemistry Demonstration. |
10 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) In this authentic high school chemistry assessment, students use FLIP cameras to write, film, and edit a chemical reaction demonstration. Students will practice using safe lab practices and include a discussion of the chemical reaction theory. This lesson is designed to take place during a 90-minute block period with the subsequent 45-minute period used to edit the films. |
| Lincoln Bicentennial Celebration |
5 to 12 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Students will use a variety of primary sources to compose an informational video on Abraham Lincoln. Though this is written for Middle School, 5th grade to high school could actually use the same plans. |
| Literacy through Photography |
4 to 5 |
| Literacy through Photography encourages children to find their unique voice through original photographs and written text. Students photograph scenes from their lives, and these images drive related writing activities. |
| Literacy Through Photography |
K to 5 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This project based lesson integrates reading, writing, and social studies skills on an elementary level. |
| 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. |
| Live Lit/Arts Magazine |
P-K to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) The Live Lit/Arts Magazine is an evolving showplace for student writing and art. While traditional Literary magazines have been used as a once-a-year printed edition usually produced at a great expense and only purchased by participants, their parents, and their teachers, an electronic magazine will allow constant revisions and additions as students continue to produce new written and fine arts contributions. |
| Living History Video Project |
5 to 5 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Students record an interview that they have with a senior in the community. This video is then edited by the students and turned into a short documentary. |
| Living Legends Video Griot Project |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) The purpose of this lesson is to physically connect students to history.This is a project based lesson that will culminate in students creatively gathering and telling the life story of significant community elders with a relationship to the school. |
| Living Wax Museum |
5 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will complete a biography about a person of their choice. This project includes a written paper, a slideshow, and creating a poster board that will be displayed throughout the school. |
| Local Cemeteries Prove to be Learning Grounds |
6 to 12 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Mr. Osborne a Science Teacher at Observation and Assessment (O & A) has put together a cross curricular activity that involves a field trip to two of Salt Lake City’s local cemeteries. |
| Long Beach History Digital Scrapbook |
3 to 4 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Students create digital scrapbooks for their city's local history, including the Tongva Native Americans, settlers and newcomers to the land, and how the city was created. Students attend field trips to local historical sites and current landmarks, documenting their visit and reporting on it in a scrapbook. |
| 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! |
| Maui Podcast |
6 to 12 |
| Maui is an island under siege from invasive species and ecological damage brought upon by humans. Teach your students about Maui's beauty and the importance of conservation through this scientific activist podcast. |
| 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. |
| Meteorologist For a Day! |
4 to 7 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will use their knowledge of meteorology, weather forecasting, and weather maps to become meteorologists for a day! |
| Mondrian - Primary/Secondary Color Study |
7 to 12 |
| Students will use photoshop to create a painting similar to Mondrian's with primary and secondary colors. Students must create the secondary colors from the primary colors and not select them from the color palette |
| Motivating Readers through 21st Century Multiple Intelligences |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Students will read books and use online tech tools to engage with and express their learning based on their identified learning style. |
| Multi Media Urban Stories: "This is who I am" |
1 to 12 |
| Students will take pictures of their community, home, friends and family and provide written captions for an artistic display in the City Heights Mid City Building as well as publish their work to our classroom website and provide podcast audio captions that express description, sentiment, opinion, questions, and facts. |
| Mystery Word Wall Vocabulary |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This lesson will be used to introduce high students to new vocabulary and words commonly found on assessments (OGT, SAT, ACT). Students will learn and use the words in a fun and engaging way. |
| Never Forget (Memorial Day or Veterans' Day Pre-Activity) |
5 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This activity encourages students to record and think about the words people use as they recall their experiences in defending our country. Student will create word art from their interviews and the teacher will run a discussion on the words and how they tie into the freedom we enjoy in America. |
| 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. |
| Of Mice and Men, Migration, and Photography |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Over the course of the month of December, students will read the novel, Of Mice and Men, and explore the concept of the American Dream through the migrant experience of the 1930s. Students will then take the classroom outside in the community and document the migrant experience and concept of the American Dream in their own neighborhood to juxtapose the possible changes of the dream since the 30's. |
| Online - On Stage - and ACTION! |
P-K to 5 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This year-long 4th grade project integrates information literacy skills with the arts, character education, and social studies. |
| Our Brand of Segregation - West Texas |
6 to 12 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Students create video documentation of the African American experience in West Texas. |
| Our Past is our Future: We will repeat it if we don't learn from it |
8 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Purpose and Overview: Create a multimedia social science project where students collect the oral history from elder volunteers who live in the surrounding neighborhoods. The purpose is to prepare students with severe emotional and behavioral disabilities for transition into the community and work world after graduation from high school. |
| Our Place In The Rio Grande Rift Valley Watershed |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) An arroyo that bisects our campus is the setting for student groups to explore the influence of flora, fauna, humans, land, water, and weather in this watershed environment. Students will use flip cameras and digital still cameras to document their observations and create digital presentations. |
| Our Video Adventure: Traveling Through Blair County |
3 to 3 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Third grade studetns are learning about the county in which they live. They are studying local geography and history. Students research an establishment in Blair County, write a report about the site, and build a model. This project is videoed in stages and then will be compiled into a complete project. |
| Our World With Maps! |
K to 1 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Our World With Maps! Computer Lessons |
| Penguin Pals |
1 to 3 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Utilizing a cross curricular theme based lesson, this multi-sensory approach will allow my second grade struggling readers to experience activities in reading,writing,speaking,listening,science,technology, and integrated art. |
| Photo-Based Reading Projects |
K to 12 |
| Special Education students use digital cameras and word processing software to enhance reading and writing skills. |
| 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. |
| Photography Portrait Art Mural |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will use cameras to take portraits of each other, create a mural, and paint the mural within the school community within the leadership and social justice theme. |
| Picture This - Stars over Hoke /Imaginarse - Estrellas sobre de Hoke |
5 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) My grant request is to enable my middle school ESL students to better communicate and participate in classes by using digital cameraas and software to publish their own personal bilingual dictionaries, story books and PowerPoint presentations for the SMARTboards in their classes. |
| Picture This: A Book Full of Patterns! |
P-K to 8 |
| My students will use various hands-on manipulatives while making different types of patterns (ab, abc, aabb, aabbcc, etc.) Students will use the digital camera to take a picture and write what they did! |
| Pictures of Health |
K to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Taking pictures of health activities in our school nutrition clubs. Promoting Nutrition with pictures of students involved in activities. |
| Planet Protectors |
7 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) The goal of this project is bring awareness to how humans are impacting our planet. We can all make small changes in our every day lives that can have a huge impact on the environment. Every person truly has the power to make a difference, and help protect planet Earth. |
| Plant, Point and Record the Life Cycles of Plants |
1 to 6 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will photograph the life cycles of growing plants. Using continuous photographs, they will monitor the scientific data collection of their plants' growth for online photo journals that they will posted on their student-created website. |
| PLTW APP CREATOR |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will learn to code apps using Android Tablets. Using the knowledge of coding, students will create games and apps to submit to the Google Play Store. |
| Podcasting Challenge |
P-K to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students take ownership under the direction of their teacher to be trained and train others in the school to the use of Podcasting equipment. The final product results in monthly or bi-monthly podcast reports. |
| Podcasting Parabolas |
7 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) After an introductory lesson on parabolas, students will research parabolas, the general equation of a parabola from three points and photograph pictures of parabolas found in everyday life. Students will then organize the data to create and publish a podcast to be share with their peers in the classroom, as well as, around the world. (This is a 3-day lesson for the block schedule) |
| Poetic Podcasting |
P-K to 5 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students write their own poetry and create a podcast with their own work. |
| Postcards from Somewhere |
6 to 12 |
| The students will learn about another culture and the region of the world where their e-pal is located. They will then create a postcard with a picture from that region. They will also research and get details about our region of the country and create a postcard to send to their e-pal. |
| PRESCOTT, PHOTOGRAPH AND MODERN ART |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) STUDENTS WILL LEARN ABOUT THE STYLES OF MODERN ART, THE WORKINGS OF A DIGITAL CAMERA AND THE TECHNIQUES AND SKILLS OF OIL PAINTING. THEY WILL ACHIEVE THIS BY BY USING A DIGITAL CAMERA TO CAPTURE A LOCAL LANDSCAPE BRINGING IT INTO THE CLASSROOM AND PAINT IT IN OILS. |
| Preserving Living Legacies |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This is an oral history lesson which engages students to research a top of United States History as related to the actual life experience of a senior member of our town community. Students will research, prepare interview questions, interview a senior, videotape their interview, and publish their findings in book form. |
| Pride in Diversity - Our Similarities and Differences Make Us Strong |
K to 8 |
| This project gives students experience with digital cameras and web design tools while showcasing the ways our similarities and differences make us stronger as a community of learning. |
| PROJECT H.O.P.E. (Highlighting Opportunities for Potential Employment) |
4 to 5 |
| This is an exciting Career Exploration Unit that allows students to integrate technology skills while researching various careers. |
| Public Service Announcements |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) The students will be researching a topic chosen from a list of items covered in the driver's education class. From that research, they will design, map, film and create a public service announcement that is informative and accurate. |
| Publishing With Photos! |
K to 5 |
| Students will create their own books using photographs for illustrations. |
| Reading Blog Log |
6 to 12 |
(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. |
| Reading Rainbow for Second Graders |
2 to 2 |
| Students will collaborate to develop a multimedia presentation based on a theme using a Reading Rainbow format consisting of book summaries, a team documentary, and original writing with illustrations. Teams of students with similar interests would be selected to work together on an eight to nine week project which will allow for differentiated learning opportunities. |
| Respect yourself and others! |
2 to 2 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students learn about cooperation and respect. Respecting yourself and others and why/how we do it. |
| River Reflections |
3 to 11 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students have been conducting river studies for over five years in 6th grade. A true reflection of the experience is necessary for true learning. Writing advocacy projects and sharing them through podcasting helps to reflect on the experience. |
| Rocky Point Recycler's |
P-K to P-K |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Our students will be learning about how to save and protect our Earth. Students will use ipad's to reseach and present information to the other grade levels in our district. |
| Scale Model |
7 to 7 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Use of proportions and scale using Google Sketchup and building a model house. Students reflect on the use of scales and scale factors. |
| School News Videos |
9 to 9 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Use FLIP cameras to tape word of the day segments, happy birthday shoutouts, this day in history, school commercials, sporting events, community service, and other random clips from around the school. |
| Schoolwide Math Competition |
K to 6 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Using the online math product, Mangahigh, we would create an excitement over mathematics in our school. Students would work the math lessons to earn as many points as possible for their classroom. |
| Science and Art Museum |
6 to 8 |
| Middle School students create works of art inspired by document experiments in science. Digital cameras record SCIENCE AS ART, in action! |
| Science Claymation - Which Came First, the Chicken or the Egg? |
3 to 6 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Students in 3rd - 6th could use the Tool Factory Movie Maker, Stop Motion Pro Software to make Claymation videos about science topics such as life cycles, natural cycles, phyics, and space phenomena. These lesson plans are integrated cross-curricula and incorporate multiple 21st Century skills. |
| Science Safety Bots |
2 to 5 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will create a bot using Cubelets and Legos to demonstrate a Science Lab classroom safety rule. They will then create an action card so others can recreate the bot while assigned to Cubelets station as a free choice activity on Robotic Day (scheduled robotics days at end of each science unit). |
| Signs Signs - Everywhere Signs |
10 to 12 |
| Outdoor advertising is everywhere and it is important to be able to understand what the advertisements mean. This will introduce students to visual advertisements in their communities and enhance their consumer awareness. |
| Sim's Cities - 5th grade (would work wonderful at the middle school level) |
P-K to P-K |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Creating with Visual Arts through the 21st Century -Core Curriculum Skills |
| Similarities and Differences Across Cultures - In Modern Times and Throughout History |
1 to 1 |
(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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| SKYPE PALS Project Share NC |
4 to 12 |
(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. |
| Smart Board Challenge |
5 to 6 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Using Problem-Based Learning (PBL) in using the problem of knowing what a Smart Board is (how it operates, its uses, etc.) as the starting point for the acquisition of new student knowledge. |
| Solutions to Real World Economic Problems in the Classroom |
6 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will investigate real world American economic issues that are effecting the average family. In this project, students will conduct research to identify the causes of the struggling United States economy. They will examine the effect it has on the average American citizen. They will create strategies to help the struggling American family. The final product of this project will be a documentary about the direct effect of the struggling economy on the DuPage county community. |
| Song Creation: Of Mice and Men vs. The Greatest Game Ever Played |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) After reading Of Mice and Men and watching The Greatest Game Ever Played, compare and contrast George Milton and Francis Ouimet and Lennie Small and Eddie Lowery in a song to be written and recorded. |
| Stain Glass |
P-K to 12 |
| This is 5 lesson plans in sequence from introduction through Glass History to the current methods applied in Glass Forms: lesson 1, stain glass history; lesson 2, community impressions; lesson 3, stain glass design; lesson 4, color theory; lesson 5, form and application. Wrap up includes reflection. |
| Statistics Newscast in Math Class |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) This lesson incorporates video for students to create videos about the statistics data and sports information that have been analyzing. |
| Stem Cell Research Unit |
10 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Stem Cells are remarkable cells found in humans and scientists claim that they have the potential to treat a variety of diseases and help humans have a better way of life. In this lesson students are going to learn about stem cells and what makes them so unique. |
| Stop Cyberbullying Today! |
8 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Eighth grade students in my Computer 8 course will create a 60 second video about how to prevent Cyberbullying. |
| 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. |
| Student Solutions- Saving Our Surroundings |
4 to 8 |
| Students will investigate plants, animals and their habitats creating several products to educate and share their fellow classmates. During the process of research, students will also develop ideas to help solve the problem of endangered habitats, animals and plants. |
| Students will FLIP for the News |
4 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Incorporating technology skills with both written and verbal communication skills, students will create news programs to be shared on School Tube. |
| Subtle Conversations |
6 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Subtle Conversations is design to give 60 students an opportunity to research current events and teen issues. Students will select various news, entertainment, sports, or locate events and teen topics to research and create a weekly talk show. Each group will design a production company to write, video, edit and prepare for broadcast. |
| Super Science Slueths Explain It All: Circumnavigating the Circulatory System |
6 to 8 |
(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. |
| Sustainability & Systems-Seven Generations |
5 to 6 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This is a lesson meant to teach about sustainability while introducing students to a variety of new technologies. They will use Wordle, Google, and view You Tube video to help their understanding of the concept of sustainability |
| Take a Picture, It will last longer! |
3 to 5 |
| Begin a Camera Club after school hours that will enhance learning through cameras and technology. Students should be able to express themselves creatively with technology and gain a curiosity of the world around them through photography. |
| Target the Question! Daily Math Problem Solving (Smartboard) |
1 to 5 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students utilize Smartboard software daily to experience, plan, strategize, communicate & evaluate applied math problem solving. Through integrated technology, students develop flexible & efficient math problem solving skills and make connections to their everyday world. |
| Teaching Digital Citizenship through Stories of Immigration and Diversity |
K to 2 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This is Cross-Curricular Unit that addresses the Social Studies Big Ideas of diversity, and our personal connections to immigration in our community. These lessons plan to increase awareness and understanding about our diverse, ethnic and racial backgrounds from specific underrepresented minorities (who speak Nepali, Khmer, Chinese, and Spanish), through innovative uses of technology. Using Smartboards, interactive language-learning websites (in various languages), and developing cyber pen-pals between like-minded schools in our neighborhood and abroad, we will acquire more sensitivity to cultural and linguistic diversity in our community, and become better-equipped global citizens for the 21st century. |
| Technology as a Tool of Science |
9 to 12 |
| Digital cameras and Tool Factory will be used in a variety of projects in several classes. The objective is to show students the tools that can assist them in the recording, cataloging and sharing of science information. |
| Technology for the Likes of Shakespeare and Poe |
7 to 12 |
(0 stars, 3 ratings) Digital Storytelling, a wonderful way to incorporate technology and other disciplines into the Language Arts classroom, despite endorsement from the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), is not a priority for most schools. I believe that to incorporate digital storytelling, you must have the technology necessary to enable the teacher to adjust her pedagogy and see her role as story coach instead of technology teacher, allowing digital storytelling to enable students to represent their voices in a manner rarely addressed by state and district curriculum while practicing the digital literacy skills that will be important to their 21st century futures while supporting whole language literacy practices. . |
| Technology Lesson Plan: Pre-K Photography for Geography |
P-K to P-K |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) To get the children familiar with pictures of people and places in their community.
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| Technology-Assisted "7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens" |
9 to 10 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This unit teaches teens the underlying principles that are essential to achieving their goals and personal success. The activities, described in detail below, support an understanding of each of the 7 Habits along with any important terms and the application of those habits into the daily lives of the students through the implementation of “baby steps” that will be monitored twice a week by the students’ personal mentor and supplemented with a wide range of technological hardware and applications. |
| 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 Battle of the Ancient Civilizations |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Sixth grade students will create persuasive movie maker presentations on their Ancient Civilization and present them eighth graders who will choose their favorite. Students will use digital cameras, microphones, and computers to help them create the best power point. |
| The Bird's Word Video Podcast |
K to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students collaborate in small groups to write a script which explains, demonstrates, and gives examples of a specific part of a large topic (for example, one part of the water cycle). Each group films themselves using Flip Video Cameras and then the parts are assembled into one video which explains the large topic. |
| The Differences Among Us |
5 to 8 |
| In this beginning of the year activity, students will get to know each other by sharing cultural differences which make their families unique. Students will experience the personal stories of their peers, understand that all families are different, and accept that it's okay to be different. |
| The Flip Side |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will use their Flip cameras to chronicle their experience at a local food pantry and share their experience with the rest of the school and local community organizations. |
| The Flip Side: A Multi-Genre Occupational Research Project |
7 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This lesson will provide students with the authority of the "naked eye" to give way towards finding their own truth, place, and ability to communicate efficiently in a global community. |
| The Greatest Generation: Capturing Their Stories with Digital Images |
K to K |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Digital Storytelling with the Greatest Generation is the focus of this basic primary source recording of extended family members. |
| 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. |
| The stoichiometry behind pollution |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) In many grammar schools, students are made aware of the need to recycle and be earth conscious citizens. However, they have no concept of the amount of how much they save in their efforts. Through this lesson, students will be able to quantize the amount of pollution they are preventing through stoichiometry. Students will then create posterboards with their research to convince the school and local community that pollution is a problem and carpooling is a simple solution. |
| Their Side Of The Story |
3 to 5 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students use Flip cameras as a way to look at and understand school life from others' point of view. |
| 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! |
| Through Our Eyes |
9 to 9 |
(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 |
(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 |
(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.
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| Time Warp Interview |
3 to 5 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) With the aid of technology and a bit of creativity students will travel back in time and interview leaders of early America. Students will then be paired up to conduct interviews to portray the qualities of a great leader.
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| Tour Guide of WIllow Bend |
K to 6 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Second language learners (ELL) will create a tour of Willow Bend School reflecting on what a newcomer would need to know. Students will use their past experiences to compare and contrast Willow Bend to other schools around the world. The video will include all aspects of school; teachers, support staff, locations, activities, etc. |
| Toy Inventor’s Workshop |
11 to 11 |
| Students work in small groups to develop a toy for preschool age children. |
| Tracing the World |
P-K to 5 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Using an interactive white board in Social Studies so students can label places on a map and show how maps changed through the years. |
| Transition Social Stories for Students with Autism |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Students have a difficult time transitioning from elementary school to middle school. This lesson will help the students learn the expectations and will help them later transition into the "real world" |
| Traveling Abroad to Dine! |
3 to 4 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students incorporate the communication skills they have learned in Spanish class during the restaurant unit to produce a mini-drama. They show their advancement in the second language in an authentic setting. |
| Trees For Trout! |
4 to 4 |
| Classroom project that incorporates forestry and fish to investigate the lifecycle of trout and the effects of forest practices on them. |
| Trout Fishing in the Connoquenessing Watershed |
7 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This project involves allowing our students the capabilities to produce a trout fishing travel brochure for use by our local tourism board. |
| Tutorial Videos |
K to 5 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Videos created for school and community access to impact student learning. Students use videos to review concepts, work at their own pace, and gain confidence. |
| Understanding Interactions Among Local Species and the Local Environment |
11 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will use digital cameras to observe and investigate a variety of species in the schoolyard ecosystem. Students will research the species and construct food chains and food webs from their photos. Students will use their observations to write hypothesis and develop experiments. |
| Using Our Senses |
1 to 1 |
| We will go on a nature walk and use digital cameras to capture the things we learn about using our five senses. |
| Using Podcasts to teach about the Constitutional Convention |
7 to 8 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Using Netbooks with webcams and a Smartboard to create and share Podcasts. Students will participate in discussions and the creation of Podcasts by taking advantage of the interactive nature of table Netbooks and a classroom Smartboard. |
| Using Repeat Photography to Map Environmental Hazards |
6 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will collect historical photos from libraries, newspapers and family collections for comparison to recent photos to be taken by the class. Students will compare photos to assess changes in landscape, industry and neighborhoods and blog their results. |
| Utopian Society |
7 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will research, design, and present a Utopian society in conjunction with reading the novel THE GIVER. |
| Virtual Field Guide |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will discover and photograph wildlife around campus. Students will create a field guide to be published on the school website. |
| 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. |
| Voice of Democracy |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Record your original 3 to 5 minute (+ or - 5 seconds) essay on a standard cassette tape or CD on the 2010-11 theme "Does My Generation Have a Role In America's Future" Label your cassette or CD and neatly typed essay with your name and completed entry form. |
| Wacky Vocabulary |
6 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will seek out or create silly situations that illustrate their vocabulary words. |
| 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. |
| Water Conservation |
6 to 6 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) The students will collect data on water usage, graph the information, and compare/contrast the results. |
| Water Conservation Video Lab |
8 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This lesson plan was created in an effort to have students become advocates for the world they live in. Students are asked to creating a Public Service Announcement Video for Water Conservation. |
| WCCS News 78 Investigative Report |
K to 8 |
| Several television stations in the St. Louis metropolitan area feature a news investigative reporter who acts on tips received from local viewers. The West County Christian School seventh/eighth grade students will research/investigate a news tip, send their own news investigative team to the site to document digitally their findings, write the script to produce a news report, and then videotape that presentation. |
| We are the World |
9 to 12 |
| Creating a student lead Video and Podcast news organization. |
| Weather Watchers |
2 to 5 |
| Students will observe weather collecting data from hand made and scientific instruments and the internet weather resources. They will correspond with weather professionals and devise their own weather forecasting video using their knowledge and vocabulary. |
| Web 2.0 - Video Sharing |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Create a video to share on a Video Sharing Site (Youtube, Flickr, etc.). Through this lesson, the student will become proficient at sharing files online using the various Video Sharing Sites. Students will use Tool Factory Movie Maker to edit and produce the video.
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| Weekly Current Events Podcasts |
9 to 12 |
| Student pairs pick a week of the school year and they are responsible for creating a 5 minute podcast that sums up the week. They should include school activity news, school sports and academic news, and then community news and entertainment. |
| Welcome to Historic Wilkes County |
3 to 3 |
| Each year our third graders are required to take a field trip back in time to our local Heritage Museum and other historic buildings. This project allows students to make photographs of these historic buildings in our county and turn them into a multimedia presentation about our local history that can be presented on our classroom SMART Board. |
| Welcome to Our School ! |
6 to 8 |
| Overview - using a camera for an ongoing class project will allow students to capture on film any and all projects done in classes for the year, Teacher expectations, and how to get around at our school. The selected activities will be documented and used to make additions and subtractions in an effort to make all projects more student friendly, and to familiarize parents and students with their new school. |
| What are Numbers?: Learning to Add |
K to 1 |
| Students explore digital camera use while learning basic math concepts and simple number identification. |
| What Do You Know About Your Town? |
2 to 3 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Lessons that help students learn a little about their own community. Lesson is generated for Erath, Louisiana, however can be adapted to any area. |
| What The Giver Society is Missing |
6 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Student will create a slideshow about The Giver by Lois Lowry. They will show why some of the rules in that community are actually not beneficial and are quite harmful. |
| What's Going On |
5 to 6 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) The 6th grade special education students are going to make a monthly newsletter for their peers on the things that are happening. This lesson helps with self esteem, organization, and written expression, and technology skills. |
| Where We Live |
2 to 2 |
| American students will communicate with Jamaican students and a Peace Corp volunteer in Albert Town, Jamaica. Both groups of students will communicate via internet and construct a book about their communities using camera equipment and technology. |
| Who AM I and Who Are You? |
P-K to P-K |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) We will be working on strengthening our understanding of identity. What makes us who we are? |
| Who cares? |
8 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Everybody says, "don't talk about religion or politics" but this is what we do in Civics. Apathy is our number one problem in this country, the antiserum is activity. |
| Who's Who in Hampton? |
1 to 6 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Students use their interviews with our town's First Selectmen, Town Librarian, Town Clerk, Fire Chief, and Town Tax Collector, Town Assesor, Board of Education Chairperson, and School Superintendent/Principal to create a podcast.
The interviews will be used |
| Why teach Jet Toys? (Tool Factory Movie Maker ) |
5 to 5 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will use what digital cameras to capture to importance of learning force and motion through Jet Toys. |
| Wiki Comment: The News and You |
5 to 8 |
| Writing Prompt Option for Students
Create a wiki with a page for this student writing prompt.
The activity is a a page for writing clear and cohesive comments that connect students to the news. The goal is for students to write concisely about their connection to the news in the world, sharing and commenting on each others' ideas.
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| 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. |
| Windsor Opposes Waste - WOW! |
2 to 6 |
| We propose a year-long, problem-based learning between grades 2 and 6. Teams of students will meet and discuss and identify the problem(s), brainstorm solutions, implement their solutions and throughout the year evaluate and reexamine their decisions and actions. |
| Women and the Right to Vote |
7 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Change can not happen unless someone chooses to take a stand and have a voice that will not be silenced. Women fought for change and were not willing to be put on the shelf. Both men and women need to be able to speak up for things they believe will make changes in the world today. |
| Write to Read |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) There is nothing more motivating than teaching to the interests of students, and what middle school students' interests revolve around themselves and their friends. Digital storytelling of the school year gives them a voice and leades to improved language arts skills. |
| Writing Classroom Agreements using Inspiration & Word to Go |
3 to 8 |
(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. |
