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Lesson Plan Name |
Grades |
Digital Presentation of Life In The Future |
7 to 12 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 1 ratings) After watching Ray Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451", students will discuss the future as Bradbury predicted. Students will create a video representation of what THEY think the world will look like 50 years into the future. |
Student Generated Science Digital Presentations |
8 to 8 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will create Power Point Presentations of various science concepts to present
at the end of the year in a student led review for the class. |
Digital Science Fair |
P-K to P-K |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 1 ratings) Students use various productivity applications and Internet sites to create a digital science fair presentation. The presentations will be shared with the school and community. |
Electronic Poetry Project |
6 to 12 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 1 ratings) The Electronic Poetry Project is a student-generated, project-based learning experience in which students utilize technology to develop skills in research, writing, and creativity to produce an audio/video presentation. Student-driven, project-based learning enhances lasting knowledge rather that just momentary learning. |
Native Americans |
3 to 6 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 1 ratings) This unit on Native Americans encourages students to read print and online informational texts focusing on Native American tribes of various regions. They will create, practice, and present digital presentations based on the information they found. |
Students Are the Best Teachers |
4 to 12 |
Students will take an active role in the teaching and learning process by creating digital presentations that review basic concepts that are the foundations for all courses. These may include focused mini lessons on such areas as vocabulary, grammar, figures of speech, math problems and concepts, historical events, scientific elements, or technology operations. |
Utopian Society |
7 to 8 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will research, design, and present a Utopian society in conjunction with reading the novel THE GIVER. |
Vivid Visual Vocabulary |
K to 12 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will create weekly presentations of their vocabulary words utilizing Flip Cameras, iMovie and Powerpoint. Computer generated, student driven learning always leads to life-long knowledge, but making videos to enact vocabulary words in context is fun. |
Vivid Visual Vocabulary |
4 to 12 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 1 ratings) The Vivid Visual Vocabulary Project is a student-generated, project-based learning experience in which students utilize technology to develop skills in research, writing, and creativity to produce an audio/video presentation. As students share projects that are developed individually and through cooperative, small learning communities, they become both teacher and learner. |
Computer and Technology Lab Projects |
1 to 8 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 1 ratings) Students develop significant projects in our Computer and Technology Lab, and we require a safe, easily accessible repository of digital images and audio for student use. These various projects are theme related and correspond to specific grade levels. |
Diagnosis of the Day |
9 to 12 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will be given a description of a medical problem. Students will use technology to research the information given to determine a patient diagnosis. |
Digitally Concerned Citizens |
5 to 5 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 2 ratings) Students need to learn relevant technology skills to succeed in the modern workforce. This lesson allows students to master skills with an inquiry based investigation on how humans contribute to changes in ecosystems. With a better understanding of issues facing our planet, students increase their ability to voice their concerns and facilitate change. |
Forces and Motion Scavenger Hunt |
P-K to 5 |
Students will work in small groups to identify and photograph things that we push or pull in our real world. |
Not so Simple Machines |
6 to 8 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (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. |
Oral Tradition-- digital storytelling |
6 to 8 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 1 ratings) Students work to create an original tale from the oral tradition. Instead of publishing a formal written document, students create a stop action video depicting the tale. |
Our Place In The Rio Grande Rift Valley Watershed |
6 to 8 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (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. |
See How They Grow |
1 to 5 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 1 ratings) Student growth can be documented through digital scrapbooking of his school year. |
Seeing Math Everywhere We Look |
9 to 9 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 2 ratings) Through an exploration and photographic capture of parabolas throughout our environment. students will move from the “When am I ever going to use this?” to “I see it being used” stage in math class – specifically for quadratic equations. They will then research the related jobs necessary to "bring the parabola to life." |
SKYPE PALS Project Share NC |
4 to 12 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 2 ratings) Students studying Spanish as a foreign language collaborate to create digital presentations depicting everyday life and culture in North Carolina. Students establish friendships and exchange cultural and language information with students in Latin America via SKYPE and video sharing websites. Students create a SYPE PALS documentary which will be shared with the community at a special celebration in which students, parents, and the community come together to meet one another, to watch and discuss the documentary and to experience typical food and music from the Latin American country. |
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. |
Wild Flower Project |
9 to 12 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (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. |