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| Lesson Plan Name |
Grades |
| 9th Grade ELA Project-Based Learning |
9 to 10 |
 (0 stars, 1 ratings) This is a project-based learning unit that I taught with one of our 9th grade teachers. Students learned different persuasive techniques as they developed their own charitable organization to fight child abuse. |
| Correlating Robotics to the Human Nervous System |
7 to 9 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) The human nervous system is composed of three distinct types of neurons--sensory neurons, associative neurons and motor neurons. These specialized nerve cells correlate to the three categories of Cubelets--Sense, Think and Action. This lesson will provide students with anticipatory set when studying the nervous system. |
| Elaborative Detail- Write it right! |
4 to 10 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This lesson teaches the importance of using elaborative and sensory details in writing. Children may think they are using good details until they see how many details are necessary to make the right picture pop into a reader's mind. |
| Frogs: ELA and Science 1st grade |
1 to 2 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This is a first grade ELA and science unit. This unit integrates technology and allows students to apply real world application with scientific inquiry, while critically analyzing literary and informational texts.
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| Guías de la escuela-School guides |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Student will use flip camcorders to record virtual tours of different parts of the school in Spanish. |
| Linear Relationships in the Real World |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) The student will use problem solving, mathematical communication, mathematical reasoning, connections and representations to solve multi-step equations in one variable with the variable on one of two sides of the equations while identifying at least 3 careers which utilize this skill. |
| Producing a Franchise to encourage global awareness, increased, informed decision making about health, peer relationships and education. |
7 to 8 |
| The students will determine categories of franchises from which to work out media productions for weekly broadcasts on our school news show. |
| Ratio/proportional Relationships: using graphs, tables, and equations |
6 to 7 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will match proportional relationships using graphs, tables, and one-step equations to show hoe they are related. |
| Taking Elaboration to the Next Level |
8 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Teaching elaboration can become formulaic; this takes the Jane Schaffer Model and adds a twist to incorporate highlighting. This helps a lot with visual and hands-on learners, as well as, special education students. |
| Traditional Tribal Homelands of Washington's Plateau Nations |
6 to 12 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) This WebQuest is the first part of a four part unit or can be used alone. It challenges students to think critically about the conflicts before, during, and after the Walla Walla Treaty Council of 1855. |
| "Dear Peter Rabbit" Lesson Plan |
1 to 4 |
(0 stars, 3 ratings) This lesson incorporates Beatrix Potter's story of "Peter Rabbit" and a variety of technology resources. The end result has students writing letters online to Peter Rabbit after his ordeal in Mr. McGregor's garden.
http://www.vrml.k12.la.us/sadies/lesson/peter/peterlesson.htm |
| Author Study - Tomie de Paola |
K to 2 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Students use Tomie de Paola books to explore different themes and ideas as well as make connections between Tomie de Paola's books and connections to real world scenarios and situations. |
| Causes of the American Revolution Research Project |
5 to 5 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will use EdCanvas to learn about the causes of the American Revolution, choose one cause of the American Revolution to research furtherand then give a presentation to the class on that cause of the American Revolution. |
| Culminating Module Project |
8 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This project taps into the students ability to express their understanding of a novel. They have a choice of two projects from a "menu" of options, ranging in difficulty level. |
| 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. |
| Earth Day Movie |
5 to 12 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) The Earth Day lesson plan has students write, record and edit an Earth Day movie. The concepts of Renew, Reduce, Reuse and Recycle are incorportated into the video. |
| Flip Video Cultural Exchange between students in Texas and New Zealand |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students create a class YouTube video comparing the differences/similarities between the Hurricane Ike disaster in Houston, TX to the earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand. The video was sent to all schools in Christchurch, New Zealand - expanding students' world view to include more than just their immediate concerns. |
| 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. |
| Geometry in Our World |
6 to 7 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Find geometric properities in objects inside and ouside of the classroom and building. |
| Harlem Renaissance: "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" |
6 to 12 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Students will use graphic design and powerpoint to discuss race relation and the Harlem Renaissance by creating a children's book for a younger groups of children. |
| INCORPORATING TOOL FACTORY TO GIVE CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL NEEDS A VOICE |
P-K to P-K |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Most children begin talking at the age of 2. My children are 4 and they still can’t talk! |
| Inspiring Young Authors with Scholastic Keys |
1 to 5 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students completed story prompts using Scholastic Keys and then illustrated their work either by using the paint tool or inserting clip art. Students' work was then displayed for all to see and read. |
| Jigsaw Listener |
1 to 5 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) The students will be asked to read a story and then recreate it using sequencing on an ipad. |
| 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. |
| Math Technology Lesson |
7 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Using technology and gathered photos, calculate fractions, decimals, and percents; analyze angles, triangles, and quadrilaterals; and find length and area of objects in and out of school. |
| Paul Revere's Ride featuring EduBlogs |
5 to 5 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) In this lesson, students will use the program Edublogs to create a blog post comparing and contrasting the three accounts of "Paul Revere's Ride". |
| Podcasting About Our World |
1 to 5 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will combine learning about the world around them through our 21st Century lesson about Flat Stanley with technology to create podcasts about their flat adventures. |
| Sketchnotes Reading Comprehension |
P-K to 6 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students use ipads to sketch drawings they think of while reading a text. This helps with reading comprehension. |
| To Kill a Mockingbird |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will examine the issues of injustice and race relations in the 1930s. They will be challenged to gain a new perspective by walking in another person's shoes. |
| Topic: Integrating Technology into the Classroom – Digital Storytelling |
P-K to 3 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will be able to retell a story and demonstrate understanding of the parts of a fairy tale.
Using apps, students will listen to or read a variety of fairy tales. At the end of the unit, students will video themselves recreating a favorite or original fairy tale. |
| View, Review, & Replicate: Using Graphics and Humor for Vocabulary Acquisition |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will recognize and review frequently tested ACT/SAT vocabulary words through the use of word/ graphic associations and humorous content videos. |
| The Robotics Obstacle Course Challenge |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) The Robotics Obstacle Course Challenge is a comprehensive instructional unit that exposes middle school students to various engineering domains/colleges, enhances student motivation and engagement, provides authentic avenues for research, and challenges all students to excel in a robotics obstacle course challenge. |
| 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. |
| Blogging In Kindergarten! |
K to K |
(0 stars, 3 ratings) All of my 18 Kindergarten children have their own kidblog that they use to record their learning. Kindergarten life is full of day long discoveries and kid blogging is just one of the many ways I am documenting the excitement of the discoveries made. |
| "50 Ways to Use Your FlipCam" |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This lesson/power point was developed in order to teach the audience (teachers/instructors) simple and quick ways to enhance their teaching and to help invest their student in their education by using a FlipCam. |
| "Blood on the River" Reading Project |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) These are activities for both Lanugage Arts and Social Studies after reading the Book " Blood on the River" |
| "Coming to a Library Near You!" - Book Trailer Grant |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will read their chosen books and create book trailers using clip art and sound bites. These book trailers will be played on the district's television channel to share with all students. Book trailers will entice other students to read more books! |
| "Geotown" Scrapbook |
3 to 5 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Students will use digital cameras to take photos of architecture and nature that represent geometric concepts. The photos will be used to create a digital scrapbook for the fictional town of "Geotown". |
| "Girls Only" Science Workshop |
2 to 12 |
(0 stars, 4 ratings) This workshop was created to give female students a chance to design and implement both scientific and engineering skills. Female students are sometimes discouraged from entering the fields of science and engineering so we developed this curriculum and hosted an All Girls Science Camp Weekend. |
| "HOW THE TEST WAS WON" |
3 to 5 |
(0 stars, 3 ratings) After the state testing is finished at our school, the students create "Wanted" posters using a digital camera set on sepia. |
| "I am" Identity Oral History Project |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This lesson teaches students the basics of formulating and asking pertinent questions to collect information for an oral history project that involves the use of interviewing family members and using Flip camera technology. |
| "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 |
| "In Three Words" |
5 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) "In Three Words, a lesson creating an anti-bullying Animoto video, allows students to take an active role in the development of an anti-bullying lesson thus taking ownership of the message. Students used the Good Morning America segment “Your Three Words” as a model for creating videos depicting powerful anti-bullying messages. Using flip video cameras, students filmed short clips displaying their three word messages and then created a collective video using the web 2.0 tool, Animoto. |
| "Scientific Method Multimedia Project" |
6 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Student teams will develop a multimedia project utilizing Flip Video in conjunction with i-Movie. Teams will document from beginning to end their own journey through the steps of the scientific method as they design, carry out, analyze and troubleshoot an original experiment. |
| "SMART" Science |
7 to 7 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) The following description of our 10 week Energy unit (Colorado Science Standard 3) in the life science curriculum demonstrates how I will integrate the SMART board system into my classroom and use it to engage, excite, motivate and challenge my students in order to help them learn and understand essential life science concepts. |
| "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. |
| (PART 1) Applied STEM: Rocketry and its Components |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This unit plan walks students through the entire model rocket design, construction, and test launch phase complete with diverse evaluations and using video technology to view every aspect of a rocket launch. All rockets are homemade - no kits involved. |
| (PART 3) Applied STEM: Rocketry and its Components |
6 to 8 |
| See Part 1 for following sections with the exception of Lesson Plan Description. |
| 1000 Paper Cranes for Japan |
3 to 5 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) My students will be learning about the history, arts, and culture of Japan through an Origami project. I will use the document camera to demonstrate the origami process for my students. |
| 4th Grade Double Digit Multiplication |
4 to 4 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) How to multiply two 2-digit numbers using the window pane and butterfly methods. |
| 7th grade- Adding Rational Numbers |
7 to 7 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) -Adding integers using a horizontal or vertical number lines.
Adding integers using counters/chips
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| 8th grade Math-Intro toTransformations |
8 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) A week of lesson plans to introduce students to the different Transformations. |
| A Day in the Life on Tech’s Campus |
7 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Multimedia assignment to capture what is happening on campus from multiple perspectives with photos, stories, video and blogs |
| A Hip New Twist on the Past! Creating Music Video Biographies |
3 to 5 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Student motivation is a huge challenge for teachers. Students today are surrounded by multimedia sources and technology. Why not bring that into the classroom? Technology is relevant to their lives and will keep them excited as they learn. |
| A Hip New Twist on the Past! Creating Music Video Biographies |
3 to 6 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Student motivation is a huge challenge for teachers. Students today are surrounded by multimedia sources and technology. Why not bring that into the classroom? Technology is relevant to their lives and will keep them excited as they learn. |
| A Matter of Fact |
5 to 6 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) A math and science unit on matter. |
| A Simple Chocolate Bar Global Project |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Discuss and Investigate the many parts from different countries that are needed in order to make a product in this case a Chocolate Bar. Understand all the environmental effects that impact this product and the people and the environmental involved. |
| A Utopian Revolution |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students are introduced to the ideas of utopia and totalitarian states before reading George Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty-Four" by actively participating in the creation of a utopia and its fall into a totalitarian society. Students will document the rise and fall of their society and reflect upon the changes that allowed a dictator to take control. |
| A Year in Arizona |
4 to 4 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will choose a theme related to our state of Arizona and create calendars around that theme. Some examples of potential themes are: animals of Arizona, Arizona cactus and plant life, Arizona history, Arizona's geology, and Native American culture. |
| A Zoo Book for All |
1 to 3 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) The purpose of this lesson is for my students to be able to research information about animals and communicate in written form using the Four Stages of Writing. They will use Tool Factory Workshop and MultiMedia Lab V to create two pages for our class book and a presentation for our Friday Morning Assembly. |
| ABC Grammar Book |
1 to 5 |
(0 stars, 4 ratings) Students will find objects that can identify parts of speech and capture the object in a photo. (Example: If you are studying verbs and nouns they could take a picture of a students swinging on a rope. Swinging = verb. Rope = noun) |
| Academy Walking |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) This lesson is designed to show students the importance of understanding both federal and state government as well as developing a knowledge of technology |
| Act!Ivating Students Through Storytelling |
4 to 4 |
(0 stars, 3 ratings) Activating students through storytelling is a fun, engaging, interactive learning process designed for 4th grade students at Northside Elementary School. The focus of the program is to stimulate imagination, emphasize critical thinking, and build cultural awareness using folktales from all over the world.
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| Ad Logic #BestBuds |
5 to 7 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) The learner will be able to recognize the importance of emotional appeal and how it relates to the advertising industry and the social networking world. |
| Adapting to Life by the Wild Myakka River |
6 to 9 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Students will use digital still and video cameras to capture organisms adaptations to their local environment while on a field trip to Myakka River State Park. Students will then use the captured media to create a digital interactive poster (Prezi) that they will present to the class. |
| Advocate for Something! Flip Cam Media Advocacy Project |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will find an inner passion to support cause through the power of Media Advocacy campaigns using Flip Cameras. This lesson is a basic introduction on online research, video team roles, field reporting, collecting video interviews and video editing interviews into a short 2-3 minute video. |
| All about "Me" autobiography!! |
3 to 5 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Student will make powerpoints and turn them into movies. These movies will be autobiographies about them!! |
| All About Books |
1 to 2 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) In our Non-fiction Writing Workshop unit, students research and study an animal using technology in order to write an "All About" book. They must find out where the animal lives (type of environment), what it eats, what it looks like, and other additional interesting facts about their animal. |
| All About Me! |
K to 1 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Writing stories "All About Me" |
| Alternative Energy |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Integrating technology for hands-on instruction to give students a better understanding of renewable energy, how electricity can be produced, and the relationship between wind speed and voltage. |
| American Cities |
7 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) In this lesson, groups of students will work collaboratively online to create informational worksheets about a major American city through the ages. |
| 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." |
| Analyzing Concrete Jungles |
4 to 4 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will take pictures of plants located throughout the school campus (which has very little grassy area.) They will compare and contrast the plants that are thriving with the plants that are struggling for survival. |
| Anatomy & Physiology/Healthcare Applied Therapeutic Services: "So Doc, what's the prognosis?" |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will take on the role of a medical intern in a hospital cardiovascular rotation whose focus is to communicate through modeling the process of and treatment options for a specific cardiovascular related disease/disorder to a newly diagnosed patient. To assess their ability to communicate this knowledge, students will create a Flip Video presentation of their role play for which self and peer review commentary is provided. |
| Ancient Egypt |
P-K to P-K |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Throughout this two week unit, my students will learn about the many contributions that have come from ancient Egypt. |
| Ancient World Advertisement Videos |
7 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will use a video creation program to make and advertisement for an Ancient World civilization which they will share with their peers. |
| Animal Morphs |
2 to 5 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students use photos (headshots) of themselves with the expression of an animal that they want to be. The photo sticker is placed on the paper, and the students add the rest of the body in its natural habitat. Information about the animal is written in the border of the picture. |
| Animal Research Paragraph |
2 to 2 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Animal Research Paragraph-Students will need to research animals and gather facts from various sources. |
| Animal Science Research Report |
4 to 6 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will visit Squam Lake Science Center, meet animals and scientists, take interview notes, photograph the animals and then return to school to complete a research report and post their data to our class blog. |
| Animal Trading Cards |
2 to 4 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This is a collaborative unite in which students research an animal and create a trading card like a baseball trading card using Microsoft Word or other word processing software. |
| Annotating and Analyzing Readings with Tablets |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This lesson plan shows how tablets and/or computers with internet access would be used in my ELA classroom to enhance engagement and independence reading and analyzing Common Core texts. |
| Antony vs. Brutus |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) In groups of four, students will create an advertising campaign based on their given character/speech of Antony or Brutus from Shakespeare's Caesar. Students will use the project as means of debate focusing on the which character should have control of Rome after the death of their former leader, Caesar. |
| Apparel Design technology. |
11 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students in the 11th & 12th grade fashion class will be able to: 1. design a fashion apparel line using the ipad sketch, and textile design soft ware application. |
| 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. |
| Art and Life: Where Do We Use Art? |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This lesson increases the relevance of not only art classes, but also all academic disciplines by engaging the students to research how art is used in all aspects of their education and their lives. They will create videos that will collect factual information and visual examples that will educate the viewers on how art is used in a variety of settings and how historical people and socities have depended on the coexistence of art and non art subjects. |
| art tech club |
5 to 7 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Interested and motivated students in various grades join one of my Friday "art club" groups. At least one group spends their time making an animated movie. |
| Artistic Expression of the Scientific Revolution |
9 to 10 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will explore the influences of the Scientific Revolution beyond literal scientific tools and inventions through reading, collaborating, scavenging, and games. Students will identify the ways in which science influenced and transformed European cultural institutions through art and music. |
| At the Top of Mississippi: Southaven |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Project – At the Top of Mississippi: Southaven
Students will report and record personal events, people and places that are important to them in their daily lives. They will then, with their classmates, combine their efforts and produce a DVD that will be presented to the City of Southaven and the Southaven Chamber of Commerce to give to families that are interested in relocating to our city. This will promote Southaven in a positive manner through the eyes of our youth.
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| Banner Ad/Web Banner ... Internet Advertising - Copywriting |
7 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) The students were asked to create banners of the standard size to advertise various products and/or promote causes and ask for donations. |
| Be Aware of Bullies! |
5 to 5 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) This webquest is designed for 5th grade recess monitors. This teaching-to-learn webquest is intended to involve students in the examination of bullying behavior and how they can help younger students prevent it from happening. |
| Becoming Africa’s Wildlife |
4 to 6 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Each student becomes an expert on one of the animals native to Africa and contributes important information to a safari field guide. Each student investigates the natural history of the animal and learns about the animal’s habitat, ecological niche, interdependence, relative position in a food web, adaptive features and behaviors, and conservation. With their research behind them, each student “becomes” an animal and creates a poster presentation written primarily from the animal’s point of view. |
| Behind the Camera |
5 to 8 |
| Students create a documentary-style video that speaks to an organization within the community. |
| Beyond the Basic Research Paper |
8 to 8 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Students will use technology to demonstrate understanding of immigration and create unique technology enriched products of specific research topics. |
| Big Things-Small Packages |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Every year, students enrolled in the media 3 & 4 program are required to create, for the purpose of public instruction, personal work experience, sales and marketing, a Portfolio Project using computers to edit, store digital video files, music and images. Those files will be used in a short film, documentary and the annual senior video-a video yearbook for the graduating class. |
| Bill of Rights Documentary |
3 to 5 |
(0 stars, 5 ratings) Our fifth grade Social Studies students learned about the Bill of Rights by creating their very own documentary using the Flip camer and software. We held a viewing party at the end of the unit complete with a popcorn donation from AMC Theatres to celebrate our young filmmakers! |
| Biographical Blogging |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) SWBAT explore blogging and compare and contrast this genre to other on-line and in-print genres. SWBAT create and update their own blogs. |
| Biographical Timelines |
2 to 3 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Overview: Students will choose a biography or an autobiography to read and create a timeline on the person's life. |
| Birthdays, Everyone Has One! |
P-K to 3 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Specific purpose/ objective
The student will practice retelling and explaining to build social studies and vocabulary skills. The student will connect the information with prior experiences and insights to his or her own birthday. |
| 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. |
| Blogging in the Classroom |
10 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will use laptops/chromebooks to create their own student blogs, where they will respond to literature, evaluate media, and collaborate with their classmates. |
| Body Tissues and Membranes |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) The document camera will be used to project an image to demonstrate proper dissection of a rat and display body tissues/membranes during lab time. |
| Book Report |
1 to 1 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) The Kids Book Report App will allow students to create their own book reports by filling in information on the IPad. Students can print their book reports on a wireless printer and staple them together to keep. |
| Book Report: Movie Trailer (Elements of Narration) |
P-K to P-K |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Instead of the old "write a summary" book report, students will tell the parts of the plot by writing an interactive movie trailer. |
| Book Trailers |
5 to 8 |
(0 stars, 3 ratings) After reading a self selected text, students will plan and then use PhotoStory 3 to create book trailers which persuade an audience to read the highlighted texts in order to encourage and reinforce the practice of self selected reading by students.
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| BOOM Learning |
1 to 3 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Boom Learning is a digital online program where students can access flashcards for all standards. They are interactive and give automatic feedback! |
| Bouncy Ball Energy |
9 to 10 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students make their own bouncy balls after a short discussion about what is happening at the molecular level to convert the substance from liquid to solid. Then students record a video of dropping their ball to upload and analyze in LoggerPro. |
| Breaking Color Barriers |
3 to 5 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Students use the scientific method to compare what is on the outside is not what's on the inside. Using white eggs and brown eggs as the comparison. |
| 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.” |
| calendar skills |
P-K to 2 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) lesson about calendar skills |
| Cameras and Shadows |
K to 8 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Students will utilize photographs to capture shadow changes throughout the day. These changes will help to make predictions about how the shadows will change and why they change. They will use this information to then create and document a sun dial that tells time. |
| Can You Carry a Tune in a Bucket? |
10 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will examine the relationships between frequency, wavelength, and measurable parameters associated with test-tube "instruments" used to play a tune. |
| Can You See What I See? |
5 to 8 |
(0 stars, 3 ratings) In this lesson, students will take digital pictures to represent various forms of energy and the steps involved in energy transfers and transformations. They will then create a Rebus story that can be solved using these pictures. This activity will bring to life a science concept that is usually difficult to see and understand. |
| Candidate Obama Support and President Obama's Agenda |
7 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Support letters via Microsoft Word for Candidate Obama ... sent to Obama Headquarters in Chicago [received Obama response] ... then PowerPoint presentations of President Obama's Agenda researched at www.whitehouse.gov ... sent as followup to the White House. |
| Carbon Footprint |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students do a survey at http://calc.zerofootprint.net/youth/ to find their carbon footprint based on their answers to the questions. Using the data collected for the class, students create a spreadsheet table about tons of CO2 and the number of Earths they use up. From the data table they create a bar graph. |
| Career Research |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) 10 grade students will conduct research over a two week scaffolded lesson. This is one of the lesson plans attached to the career research, which includes technology as a way to communicate throughout this lesson. |
| 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* |
| 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. |
| Cellcraft Game |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students learn the cell organelles' location, structure, and functions by playing Cellcraft game while taking Cornell notes on the cell structures as they "discover" them, in the game. |
| 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 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. |
| Cheesy Connections |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students plan, shoot, and create cheesy videos of their chosen SAT vocabulary word to help other students learn the meanings of the word.
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| Chemical Change in the Kitchen |
3 to 7 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will photograph the different stages of a food item being cooked. They will then put their photos into a slide show with captions describing the photos and any evidence of chemical change. |
| Chemical Reaction Demonstration |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Identify and classify chemical reactions based on the five following types of reactions: synthesis, decomposition, single replacement, double replacement, and combustion. |
| Cherokee Unit- Lesson 1: Cherokee Religion and Culture |
7 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) In this unit, students will learn about the beliefs, practices and traditions of Native American groups in North Carolina, specifically the Cherokee people, and explain how European explorers and settlers impacted these groups. |
| Civil Engineering and Architecture |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This lesson plan includes the Engineering Magnet students' use of 3-d CAD modelling software to design and create residential and commercial buildings. The goal is to get the students an Autodesk Revit certification. |
| Civilization Classroom |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Civilization is an online game that lets you match wits with history's greatest leaders. You start at the dawn of recorded history 4,000 B.C. and the founding of the first cities then nurture your society toward the Space Age. In the beginning, you'll labor to simply survive. Players learn to utilize workers, gain technologies and acquire knowledge in multiple subjects. The game presents cross curricular challenges in Language Arts, math, geography, economics and science. |
| Classical Greece: Magazine Project |
5 to 7 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Members will be creating a full magazine centered on the Grecian’s Golden Age. Issues will be celebrating either the 30th, 40th, or 50th anniversary of the Greeks victory over the Persians. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Coding in a Different Way! --Secret Code Messages |
4 to 6 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will be able to create a rolling robot that flashes the light cube in morse code, so as to communicate a brief message to the students on the other side of the classroom. |
| Collaborating with Robots |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students in the Behavior Support Program will practice communication, collaborative and pro-social skills to create and program a classroom robot using Lego Mindstorms technology. |
| Collaborative Story Writing with the Dell Venue Pro Smartphone |
3 to 12 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Students learn the writing strategy of rereading the text while collaborating on a story with their peers. The Dell Vanue Pro Smartphone is utilized as a word processor and assessment tool. |
| Collaborative Writing using Blogs Lesson Plan |
1 to 6 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Students will create a paragraph that shares details of our weekly classroom learning. They will illustrate their paragraph with one or two appropriate pictures or photos. Then it will be put into our classroom blog. |
| Come Meet Us at the Zoo |
P-K to P-K |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Come Meet Us at the Zoo is a project theme lesson plan that incorporates technology with life science, literacy, writing skills, and creativity. Children will identify animals, research them online and with books and magazines, then write a book about the animal of their choice. |
| Commentary Across the States |
6 to 8 |
| Using Edmodo.com, students in one part of the country can use a safe, educational tool to communicate with students from another region of the country. |
| Commercial Success with Sensory Adjectives |
3 to 5 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will learn about sensory adjectives by using various modalities. They will create a 1 -2 minute commericial for a product using sensory adjectives in writing and in a presentation. |
| 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. |
| 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 Helpers in our School and Town |
P-K to K |
(0 stars, 3 ratings) This lesson correlates with our Reading Unit on Neighborhood Helpers |
| Compare/Contrast Animal Kingdom Characteristics from Informational Texts |
P-K to P-K |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will compare and contrast the various animal kingdoms. Students will take this knowledge and complete a compare/contrast essay after researching the animal kingdoms. |
| Computer and Technology Lab Projects |
1 to 8 |
(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. |
| Connecting Across the Atlantic |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) If the cameras are won 5 will be donated to our sister school in Ghana. Students in each school will then create daily life and educational videos to share across the ocean to encourage global awareness and citizenship. |
| Constructing collaborated constructed responses for the Common Core World |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will be able to get instant peer feedback to better collaborate for correct answers. Students will also be able to get a better sense of peer writing styles to help develop their own. |
| Constructing Model Houses Using Accepted Construction Techniques |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will assume the role of construction foreman. They will research structural systems and designs to plan and construct a model building of their choice. |
| Constructing Model Houses Using Accepted Construction Techniques |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will assume the role of construction foreman. They will research structural systems and designs to plan and construct a model building of their choice. |
| Cow Eye Dissection |
6 to 7 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) The student will identify and locate the part's of a cow's eye. The learner will exhibit proper lab safety procedures during class. |
| CRAAPY or Happy? |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will use the CRAAP test to determine whether a research source is credible or not. |
| Creating a Digital Newspaper |
P-K to 5 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Lesson plan for creating a digital school newspaper. This includes some modifications for students with disabilities. |
| Creating a Realistic Fiction Story Using Google Classroom |
7 to 8 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Students create a Realistic Fiction Story on Google Classroom. As they are live typing I can give instant feedback to assist in the paper being the best that it can be. |
| Creating a Virtual Zoo: A Cross-Curriculum, Problem Based Learning Project |
1 to 1 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) In this unit lessons, students will use technology skills and digital media applications, along with science and literacy skills to research animals in order to create a "virtual zoo", for students who do not have a zoo nearby or cannot afford to make the trip. |
| Creating an Effective Ad Campaign |
10 to 12 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) The student will create an ad using technology tools to promote membership in FBLA (Future Business Leaders of America). |
| Creation Stories |
6 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Provide an authentic approach to improve understanding the foundation of American Literature and improve literacy skills of all the students. This project will allow students to research, create, and demonstrate, via podcasts and discussion boards, their knowledge of the origins of American literature. |
| Crucible Library Web Quest |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will conduct a web quest as an introductory activity to reading Arthur Miller's The Crucible. |
| CSI - Crime School Investigation |
5 to 5 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students use the fun, hands-on science skills of collecting, analyzing and matching evidence to solve a mystery. By teaching the unit holistically students benefit in reading, writing, math and science skills. |
| 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 Differences found in St. Patrick's Day |
2 to 2 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This lesson teaches the students about St. Patrick's Day and how it is celebrated around the world. It is a cross-curricular lesson for both Social Studies and ELAR. |
| Cultures and Cuisines WebQuest |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 3 ratings) Groups of Five are to select a country that they would like to learn more about.
Research that country's environment, people, customs and characteristic foods.
Prepare a report/display and present to the class. |
| Cyberbullying |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) With the layering of identity through the use of nicknames and avatars as well as a sense of anonymity, it is easy for young people to sometimes forget that real people – with real feelings – are at the heart of online conversations. In this lesson students will explore this concept and discuss the importance of good netizenship. |
| Daily Announcements Made Easy! |
3 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will create daily (or weekly) announcements for their school or classroom using a webcam. |
| Daily Life: Recognizing Positive Social Behaviors |
8 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Activating schemata (1) Developing recognition of target vocabulary in context (2) Recognizing that multi syllabus words have different stress patterns. Recognizes target words and spoken context in isolation using appropriate technology when possible. Recognizes the stress pattern of target words. |
| Density- An Intrinsic Property |
K to 12 |
| Students will use common lab equipment and materials to design an experiment to prove that density is an intrinsic property. They will use a digital point and shoot, a computer, a PowerPoint program and a digital projector to develop and present the procedures they create and perform in the lab. |
| 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. |
| Differentiated Tea Party: Important Groups in Feudal Japan |
7 to 12 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) This lesson teaches the students the important groups that made up Feudal Japan, and the very different views that they had. The point of this lesson is to show the students the many changes that took place in Japan following Prince Shotoku's desire to open Japan's borders to other Asian influences. |
| Digital Cameras |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Performance Objective:
Upon completion of this assignment, the students will be able to choose the right digital camera for the type of pictures they are going to take and successfully transfer images from the camera to their computer for editing. |
| Digital Citizenship |
11 to 12 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Objective: In this lesson(s), students will be able to continue developing an understanding of what it means to be a digital citizen. Through guided notes, discussion, and activity student will be led through various concepts relating to being responsible in the digital world.
Unit Summary: This unit would be considered year long, ongoing curriculum that will constantly be reinforced as we utilize technology within the English Language Arts classroom. The main areas to be focused on will include: self image and identity, relationships and communication, digital footprint and reputation, cyberbullying and digital drama, and internet safety. In order to have a technologically centered classroom and methodology these items must be addressed. Students need to not only know how to use the technology effectively but also how to use it responsibly and safely.
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| Digital Citizenship unit |
7 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This wiki teaches 7th and 8th graders about Mike Ribble's 9 elements of Digital Citizenship -- using Internet links, online videos and podcasts. Digital Citizenship is one of ISTE's NETS-S. |
| Digital Curation: A way to organize your favorite Web 2.0 tools |
6 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will be introduced to Web 2.0 tools that they can use in the classroom (science, math, social studies, ELA) to demonstrate content knowledge |
| Digital Doubles |
1 to 2 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Adding doubles is a great strategy for adding numbers and gaining number sense. First grade students will use virtual manipulatives to add doubles. |
| Digital Literacy |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Plan designed to improve reading comprehension and writing skills for high school english students through script writing and film adaptation. |
| 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 Research Animal Project |
1 to 2 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will research an animal of choice and use an iPad app to create a trading card to inform peers of their new learning. |
| Digital Science Fair |
P-K to P-K |
(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. |
| Digital Storytelling |
5 to 12 |
| Students write more when they are inspired either by the topic or by the process. Using Movie Maker, students bring their creative stories to life and have a Windows Media Player as their final version of their work. |
| Digital Storytelling: At-Risk Students Find Their Voices |
9 to 12 |
| Students will use technology and sound writing practices to relate personal narratives. |
| 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. |
| Digitally Concerned Citizens |
5 to 5 |
(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. |
| 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. |
| Dissection Scramble |
7 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Use digital cameras to take pictures of a dissection in progress and download to laptops. Then have the students create a game using the pictures in order to have the other students label structures on the pictures. |
| Documentary-Style Research Projects |
4 to 6 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Students will research a topic related to the social studies curriculum, and then create a report and a short documentary video using iMovie. Along the way, students will learn how to narrow topics, take notes, keep citations, and make editing choices. This is an ideal lesson for a computer lab setting. |
| Don't be a Bully, Be a Star |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Students will develop a podcast featuring a bullying situation at school with two different outcomes, a negative one and a positivie one. Students will lsiten to the podcast and share their opinions about the events that occurred. |
| Don't Laugh At Me |
3 to 5 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Third graders create a music video for the song 'Don't Laugh At Me'. They use their connections and synthesis to illustrate the points made in the book and song. |
| Electricity - how it works and how we measure and pay for it! |
6 to 12 |
| What is electricity, and where can we see it in our daily lives. This lesson is primarily informational, providing an easy-to-understand description of electricity and how it is literally all around us. |
| Endangered Animals Podcast |
3 to 5 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Students will be researching endangered animals on the internet, writing a report about why they are endangered and how we can save them on Microsoft Office, recording their report with MP3 players and uploading them online to a podcast. |
| Engaging Presentations of Research |
3 to 4 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will use a Z5 Hovercam Document Camera to help present information gathered through a research project on the American revolution. Presentations include recording an 'interview' with a Revolutionary patriot. |
| Equations in Motion |
8 to 11 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Groups of two or three students will walk around the Block taping items in motion and then using the Vernier Video Physics App write equations for the motion they see. Tis will be a culminating activity for our unit on writing equations. |
| Essential to Autumn: Line, Shape, Color, Texture, Pattern, Rhythm, Emphasis, Movement, Balance, and Unity |
3 to 5 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will observe their natural environment to experience the changes that occur when Autumn arrives.
Students will create artworks based on personal observations and experiences with their environment in Autumn. |
| Everyday Recycling |
P-K to K |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This lesson will teach students how to identify recyclable materials and integrate the practice of recycling into their own homes. The students will also learn words associated with recycling and create a take home project modeling Planet Earth. |
| Exploration Journal |
4 to 8 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) We use Pixlr.com, a free photo editing site, to explore various regions of the world according to the new Social Studies standards in 7th grade. Students will edit a picture to portray themselves exploring the region and then create exploration journals documenting their trip. |
| 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 |
| Exploring Force and Motion |
7 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Using Flip video moblie lab to create lessons on Force and Motion |
| Exploring Genealogy Through Technology |
7 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Goal: Create a computer presentation based on family interviews and research on lineage, traditions, and artifacts using Keynote or I movie software programs. The presentation should be 3 to 5 minutes in lenght, visually interesting and informative. |
| EXTRA! EXTRA! Hear all about it!! |
P-K to 5 |
(0 stars, 6 ratings) Parents can now hear the excitement in their child's voice and see the smile on their child's face as their children share what they did throughout the week with this podcast newsletter. |
| Facebook: The Developers of the Atomic Theory |
8 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Using the website "MyFakeWall.com" students will develop a facebook type page with friend comments and status updates on the development of the atomic theory. |
| Factors and Multiples |
4 to 4 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will model and investigate math problems. Using a document camera, students will model arrays to discover the factors of the number six. |
| Family Artifact Research Project |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) The Family Artifact project is an introductory project for sixth graders to begin their life long journey of research, writing and presentation. The students will evaluate the differences between primary and secondary sources in both documents and artifacts. |
| Family HIstories Alive! |
2 to P-K |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will conduct a family interview, curate family photos through narration, and reflect on a family heirloom/artifact. Students will use a video camera to document their interview, photo narration, and heirloom/artifact reflection. |
| Family History |
2 to 5 |
| Students will take photographs of their family and gather pictures to create a family tree. |
| Fantasy Fiction Video Finale |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students use flip video cameras and iMovie to create visual reflections for their culminating project in Fantasy Fiction book groups. |
| Fantasy Fusion |
K to 12 |
| Creating fantasy books with students as characters. |
| 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. |
| Farm Animals |
P-K to P-K |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Rodeo - Farm Animals
Elementary Zone Grant |
| FCAT Science 2.0 Powerpoint Presentations |
5 to 5 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) My class will make a presentation for all 5th graders in Florida who take the Science FCAT 2.0 |
| Fe Chef |
P-K to P-K |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students study the chemistry of cooking and create a cooking video as the culminating project. In the video they describe the science principles associated with their recipe. |
| Festivals, Fairs, and Fun and Unit Exploring Spanish Festivals |
6 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will compare and contrast the cultural traditions and festivals of Spanish speaking countries with their own culture. It is our desire that students understand, value, and respect people and places outside of their own environment. |
| Film Legends |
6 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students utilize the internet to research/respond to topics/questions related to films they view. I found this lesson particularly engaging for my ELL students. Student presentations could definitely expand, if our digital equipment was increased! |
| 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. |
| Five Themes of Geography |
7 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This is an assessment tool for the Five Themes of Geography. Students will research the five themes of Geography for the assigned Canadian Province and make a “Doodlecast Pro.”, or another presentation app, make a presentation. This could be an individual or group project. . This could be a group on individual project.. |
| Flat Stanley |
1 to 2 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will read the book Flat Stanley, take him home for a week and write and film their adventures with Flat Stanley at home and report back what they did with him to the class. |
| Flip Cameras and Puppet Shows Create Education |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will create, film, download, and produce an educational video of a puppet show using a flip camera. |
| Flip into Technology! |
6 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students use Flip cameras to gather information and integrate it into any classroom activity. |
| Flip My Writing |
3 to 4 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Students will create their own video based on a book by creating a sequel to the book and acting it out for a video. Students will write a skit, film it and learn to import and create a video using a Flip Camera and Movie Maker. |
| 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. |
| FlippEd Geo Buddies |
3 to 6 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will create videos that incorporate geometric shapes in the real world. They will also collaborate with other classrooms in a social network, uploading and commenting on each others videos using Edmodo.com. |
| Flipping for Force and Motion! |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will go through many fun, hands-on experiences using the flip cams to document evidence of their learning. |
| Flipping Over Our Weather Reports |
2 to 6 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will write and film a weather report. |
| Fractals in Nature |
P-K to P-K |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will be introduced to the concept of fractals and look at examples of fractals, find fractals in nature, and create fractal cut outs. |
| Fractions in Action |
5 to 5 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) We will learn fraction using the Blended Classroom method and kicking them off with an Engaged Learning Unit. Students will learn to add and subtract fraction with unlike denominators. |
| French Family Member Names and Possessive Adjectives (easily adapted to other World Languages) |
6 to 6 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This lesson would be the third in a unit. Students practice using family member names and learn their meanings. They also practice using the possessive adjectives. This lesson is for a block period class of 68 minutes. |
| From Flannel Board to Interactive Board |
P-K to 2 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) It is so simple, even a "techno- phob" can use this! Use "good ole" flannel board stories in a new and exciting way. Keep digital kids engaged telling stories using an interactive board. |
| Frontal Impact Safety Challenge |
8 to 10 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Design and construct a vehicle that will protect an egg if the vehicle is in a front end crash. |
| 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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| Georgia's Physical Features |
8 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will use various websites and interactive online tools to learn about the physical features of Georgia. |
| Get a Job! |
6 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will learn how to prepare now for a successful career and explore how to choose a career. |
| Getting Down to Business (Letters and Technology) |
7 to 11 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students use technology to learn parts of a business letter, how to write a business letter, research businesses, and write a letter of request to a business of their choice. |
| Getting Ready for Graduation |
8 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) The yearbook is being finalized, and the last digital newspaper will be complete for May 1, the staff will create a senior "Life-Road" slide show to play during the graduation ceremony June 6. They will gather photos from each senior documenting their childhood up 'til the graduation night. |
| Getting Ready for Graduation |
8 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) The yearbook is being finalized, and the last digital newspaper will be complete for May 1, the staff will create a senior "Life-Road" slide show to play during the graduation ceremony June 6. They will gather photos from each senior documenting their childhood up 'til the graduation night. |
| Getting to Know the Characters in The Tempest |
P-K to P-K |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This lesson is about characterization and Shakespear's play, The Tempest |
| Go Animate the 20th Century! |
4 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) In this lesson, students create an animation to share their knowledge of a historical event that took place in the 20th Century. |
| 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. |
| Google Classroom interactive lesson |
6 to 6 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) students use google classrooms to take assessment as well as read informational text and refocus their thinking. |
| GoPro MakerStory |
3 to 6 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will share their MakerSpace exploration process using GoPro video. Students will plan out their basic scenario with the MakerSpace tools, wear the camera, and discuss the process while working with the tools. They will view their video and edit for public viewing on the school YouTube page. |
| GPS Ecosystem (Ecotone) Scavenger Hunt |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Using GPS's and your surroundings to make going outside fun for students! |
| GRAMMAR SHOTS |
K to 8 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Have fun creating a progressive grammar portfolio. |
| Grandparents Day History Interviews |
1 to 1 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) We will invite Grandparents to our class and interview them about how technology has changed since their childhood. |
| Graphic Tablets for Real-World Experiences |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) The purpose of this unit is to incorporate the graphic tablet technology in my art classes. This will continue the develop of the students' drawing and layout skills while providing them with skills that relate to the illustration and graphic design industry. |
| Graphing quadratic equations of the form f(x) = ax^2 + c |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) In this lesson, we explore the effect of the constant C in the quadratic function f(x) = ax^2. Students will be able to observe that C shifts the quadratic function up/down. |
| Graphing Weather |
2 to 3 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Graphing Weather and writing about the results |
| Greetings, Introductions, and Farewells in Spanish. |
9 to P-K |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) The student will learn some basic phrases for greeting another person and introducing yourself.
The student will understand the meaning of the sentences of their own dialog and practice with their classmates.
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| 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. |
| 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. |
| Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad |
2 to 6 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students work in small groups. They will use IPads to complete graphic organizers with an app called Skaffl. The teacher can assess one group on her account while sitting with another group. |
| Hey! How'd you get so big? ( The Story of Mitosis) |
9 to 10 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) How do we grow from the size of an egg to the size the average human reaches at adulthood? The student will investigate this question through several different sources: hands on, use of technology and research. |
| High School Energy Audit |
9 to 12 |
| You will take scientific measurements, question school staff, and obtain various kinds of information related to how your school uses energy. As you finish each investigation, you will write a scientific report with graphs and recommendations and present it to school
officials. |
| History of Manufacturing |
9 to 10 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Students will research the history of manufacturing and document the evolution of it pre-industrial age to now. Students will choose an Ag related product and trace its development from raw material to finished product. |
| HMS Book Review Podcast |
4 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students in 8th grade reading will create podcasts to recommend books for other students to read. The book is one that they really enjoyed during the semester in reading. |
| 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 |
| How does N.Y.C. play a role in international affairs? |
2 to 2 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will be able to recognize the international role of N.Y.C. , and appreciate the importance of the United Nations. Students will be able to identify aspects of N.Y.C.'s cosmopolitan nature. |
| How Much does it Cost Project |
7 to 9 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) In this project, students investigate pricing schemes for various entry fees and determine which is the better option depending on their situation. |
| How to "Write Right"! |
K to 1 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) One to two sentences will be written on the board with an appropriate/relevant illustration underneath. Students will be given the opportunity to review and practice their oral, reading and writing skills in this lesson. |
| How Women Changed the World |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will investigate the roles women played in the development of technology and computers. |
| I Have A Dream Too |
5 to 7 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) In this lesson, students will practice writing persuasive speeches according to a rubric outline, learn about Martin Luther King Jr., and learn how to give an effective speech. They will have the opportunity to view themselves giving their speech, so that they can critique their ability to give speeches. |
| I Spy Riddle |
3 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will create an I Spy Poster and riddle, and as an extension may also create the project electronically. |
| Iditarod |
4 to 8 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) This lesson provides students with a point of view experience while tracking Iditarod mushers online live. |
| Iditarod Stars |
3 to 7 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Be the writer, director, producer and star of your very own movie of the Iditarod. I bet you never dreamed you would star in a movie when you were in elementary school, but here is your chance! |
| If Hornets Could Talk... |
5 to 5 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) As a teacher, I find myself constantly challenged to integrate the state and parish standards, grade level expectations, ILEAP test preparation, and multi-disciplinary lessons, at the same time keeping my students engaged, excited, and learning. At times I find the students either bored or discouraged with basic assignments, in particular reading, writing, and researching. I find that no matter how important the components being taught, without a “catch” or “hook,” the students view the assignments as redundant and see no connection with real life. I’ve found a “hook!” |
| Immigration and the Economy |
8 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will learn how immigration impacts the economy of small towns like ours. |
| Immigration in Early America (5th Grade) |
3 to 5 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This is a lesson that integrates American History into a typical 90-minute reading block. Reading strategies are integrated into informational non-fiction text that satisfy history standards. |
| Importance of Estimation |
5 to 8 |
| Students will make sense of big numbers in order to make reasonable estimates. |
| Improving Student Presentation Skills |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Watching video of oneself when presenting is the most impacting means of growing one's presentation skills. Throughout the past 6 months my 'Science Research in the High School' students have been conducting symposium style 12:00 presentations in class and not until we started videoing with a FLIP camera did students begin to make startling progress. |
| 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. |
| In the Days of our People: Shageluk, Alaska |
K to 12 |
| Archiving Athabaskan Memories from Shageluk: Student projects |
| 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. |
| Inference and Theme Technology Lesson Plan |
4 to 4 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will incorporate technology to practice inference and theme skills in a reading workshop model. Students will begin their guided reading project using Tinkercad to create and design 3-D objects using Chromebooks. |
| 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. |
| Internet Footprints |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Students will learn about their digital footprints. Students will also discuss steps they can take to keep their personal information more secure on the internet. |
| Internet Safety |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will create internet safety commercials to teach other students how to stay safe on the net. Topics will include safe surfing, cyberbullying and computer ethics. |
| Internet Safety Presentation |
7 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will create a presentation using a web-based presentation program focusing on one or more aspects of internet safety. |
| Internet Security Basics |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) The goal of the lesson is to educate the learners in the responsibilities of using the Internet's resources in a safe, secure, and ethical manner. In addition, students will be able to apply new knowledge to correct unsafe practices currently used by them on social networks and other Internet sites. |
| Interview with an Explorer! |
4 to 5 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) The students will research the explorers, then report about it in an "interview" setting. The final phase includes "writing about the project" in a newspaper. All information is included on my website. |
| 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 into Graphic Design & Photography 5th Grade Edition |
5 to 6 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Essential Question: How will students apply their knowledge in art & technology through project based lessons that provides hands-on activites to create works of art that communicates ideas and information? |
| Introduction to Atomic Structure |
10 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This is an introductory lesson to atomic structure for a high school level chemistry class. It is a student self-paced lesson that allows for easy differentiation and student choice. |
| Introduction to Parallel Lines Cut by a Transversal |
8 to 9 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This lesson introduces eighth grade mathematics students to the concept of parallel lines cut by a transversal. As a result of this lesson, students will be able to develop an understanding of and identify the interior and exterior sections formed by parallel lines. Students will also be able to identify the interior and exterior angles formed when parallel lines are cut by a transversal. |
| IPad Literacy: Engage and Enrich 21st Century Learners |
2 to 3 |
| Students will use the iPads as literature and reading response resources during partner or listen to reading. The teacher will use the iPad to formatively assess and keep track of student progress. |
| iPod review |
7 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) By using iPods, students can review for tests at their own pace. Group work, review at home, auditory learning, individual pacing, all occur with the use of iPods. |
| 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 a Buggy Bug World |
1 to 1 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will read text and watch videos to learn about insect characteristics. Students will compare and contrast different insects by their characteristics. |
| It's Challenging Being Green! |
3 to 5 |
| Students will delve into botany by planting a seed and watching it grow or die based on what they do to take care of it. Prior knowledge of human anatomy and physiology will be the entry point as students connect these two very different areas of biology. By the end of the unit, students will be able to defend plant conservation the way they could any other organism they study. Ultimately, students should have increased awareness of the lack of green spaces in urban areas and the need for more parks and gardens |
| 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. |
| iThink: iWrite |
2 to 5 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Kids will create a story using the Story Kit app for the iPad. They will share their stories with the class using Airplay on our Apple TV. |
| iZOO |
3 to 5 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This is the cumlinating project for a unit on animal adaptations and habitats. Students will complete a WebQuest, create a slideshow or animated movie, and a podcast. |
| 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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| Jazzing-Up Thanksgiving! |
7 to 7 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Through the years, students have answered the “What are you thankful for?’ question. In this unit the students will answer this question incorporating technology with art, figurative language, the study of biographies and autobiographies, research, and by producing a jazz / blues song. |
| 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. |
| Johnny Appleseed or John Chapman: Which Character is Your Favorite? |
2 to 3 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Johnny Appleseed or John Chapman: Which Character is Your Favorite? Students will learn about Johnny Appleseed's fictional character and real life character and write about it. |
| JUPITER |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) This lesson teaches students about Jupiter and Earth Science. It has been modified to accommodate students with various disabilities. |
| Kandinsky on Computers |
6 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This lesson explores the Expressionist art style, specifically, the works of Wassily Kandinsky. Students listen to music and then create a poster expressing the mood oe feelings of the music. |
| Keeping an Inventory of Greenhouse Plants |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Stores keep inventories to know what they have and use this to work with customers as well as know when to reorder. It is important to keep a good inventory of what you have in your greenhouse as well. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Language Arts - Journalism |
7 to 7 |
| Objectives:
Identify the format of a news article.
Gather information needed to write a news article.
Apply an inverted pyramid format to write a news article. |
| Laws of Motion Keynote Presentation |
7 to 10 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) After reviewing Newton’s Laws of Motion, students will create animations to illustrate each of the three laws. When animations are complete, appropriate sound effects can be added. Finished Keynote presentations will be exported as Quicktime movies, to be embedded in class wiki. |
| Learn and Serve Video |
10 to 12 |
| Students in my Multimedia class create a video on any topic related to the K-12 curriculum. They partner with a teacher in that subject / grade for ideas and then they script, video, edit, and publish a video that teaches the topic. |
| 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. |
| Learning About Area and Microsoft Excel |
3 to 3 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Third grade students will enhance their knowledge of area and technology by creating a floor plan of their home using excel. |
| Learning with Letters & Sounds |
P-K to P-K |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Students will learn letters and sounds through working on the Letterland app. Students will use Chromebooks and headphones as they listen and work on the application. The app will allow students to each have an account. Students will focus on characters, letters, and sounds. |
| Lego Mindstorms Robotics |
4 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) The 5th, 6th, and 7th grade students of St. Catherine of Siena participate in Lego Mindstorms Robotics Initiative. By designing, building, programming and documenting robot performance, students will use science, engineering technology, mathematics and writing skills in hands-on projects that reinforce their learning.
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| Lesson Plan Using iPads |
K to 5 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Standards (Common Core): Read and write whole numbers and decimals; identify places in such numbers and the values of the digits in those places; use expanded notation to represent whole numbers and decimals. |
| Let's Collaborate! |
5 to 8 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Students will work in groups using the digital storyteller website, www.storybird.com, in order to collaboratively create a story that includes all story elements. |
| Let's Write a Book About Trees |
K to 2 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Kindergarten students have concluded learning about trees and seasons in science class. They will now work together in groups of 4 to write a book about what happens to trees throughout the seasons. Students will collaborate with their group to create this book using Storybird.com. |
| Letter Factory |
P-K to 1 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) The students will begin to identify beginning sounds and will show that they have an understanding of beginning sounds through a variety of methods. They will use the technology to begin to learn how to use technology as well as reinforce their learning. |
| Let’s Get Excited about Roller Coasters! |
5 to 9 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) An amusement park has decided to open a theme park to be located in Waikoloa Village, Hawaii. It is an exciting time for the citizens of Waikoloa Village. Finally, this small town will be put on the map for something big. The residents are anxiously anticipating the grand opening of the amusement park. However, the operators of the amusement park need your help. They want to design a new roller coaster with a car that runs as smoothly as a marble would down the track. Your team has been hired to design this new roller coaster track for this theme park. Your task is to design a model of the track you would like to build for this amusement park. Your model must demonstrate the law of conservation of energy, gravity, force, momentum, and especially kinetic and potential energy. |
| Let’s Get Excited about Roller Coasters! |
5 to 9 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) An amusement park has decided to open a theme park to be located in Waikoloa Village, Hawaii. It is an exciting time for the citizens of Waikoloa Village. Finally, this small town will be put on the map for something big. The residents are anxiously anticipating the grand opening of the amusement park. However, the operators of the amusement park need your help. They want to design a new roller coaster with a car that runs as smoothly as a marble would down the track. Your team has been hired to design this new roller coaster track for this theme park. Your task is to design a model of the track you would like to build for this amusement park. Your model must demonstrate the law of conservation of energy, gravity, force, momentum, and especially kinetic and potential energy. |
| Life Skill Communication |
K to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Using digital camera to expand students with significant disabilities' communication methods. |
| Lifecycle Learning |
K to 3 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Classroom children can watch lifecycles by having a camera set on an egg or a seed planted and projected on a large screen. In return, they learn the sequence of each lifecycle by seeing it first hand. |
| 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. |
| 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 Organisms Digital Scavenger Hunt |
1 to 5 |
| We conducted a digital scavenger hunt with digital cameras at a nearby pond to document various living things for our science unit. |
| 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. |
| Local Heroes |
P-K to 4 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will use videos created by local community leaders and High School students they look up to (i.e. ball players, tutors, cheerleaders etc.) to learn messages and receive demonstrations about good physical fitness practices, health messages, and safety tips. |
| 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. |
| Louisiana Cinquains |
P-K to P-K |
| Overview: Students review language and grammar skills taught throughout the year. Students will also utilize the writing process in order to compose a form of poetry (cinquains). Finally students will incorporate our study on Louisiana as a focus on their poems. |
| Making a Battery and Energy Transformations |
7 to 7 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will use the inquiry process to build their own wet cell battery. Focus will be on students understanding that energy can be stored in one form and transformed into other forms. |
| Making Book Trailers |
5 to 7 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) 5th grade students will make short trailers for popular children's books using Windows Movie Maker. |
| Making Handbound Books |
3 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Everyone loves a beautiful book made by hand. Use these easy books in the Japanese stab-stitching style for sketchbooks, journals, or content-area projects. |
| Math All Around Us! |
6 to 8 |
| So many times students will say, "When will I ever need to do math?" This lesson will attempt to make them look at everyday objects in terms of various math concepts. |
| Mathematical Modeling & Inverse Variations |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will collect and analyze real data completing an exploration. Motion observed during the data collection will be used to create an appropriate math model to fit the data and make predictions that will then be tested. |
| Matter in this World: Video Presentation |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students in groups of 3-4 will create a video presentation (following the rubric below) representing their knowledge of understanding of energy and matter, such as physical and chemical properties and it’s changes. |
| Me Gusta |
6 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will have opportunities to learn and practice using me gusta + noun and me gusta + verb in level 1 Spanish. |
| 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. |
| Meterologist/Journalist for a Day |
4 to 4 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This covers a wide range of skills that EVERY student can be succesful in doing. Each student has the opportunity to be Weather meteorologist or Journalist for the day!! |
| Mitosis |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) This lesson is modified for technology infusion in a typical classroom for students to better understand Mitosis and be creative learning the concepts collaborative environment. It has also been modified for students with disabilities who have been integrated into the regular classroom setting. |
| Modern Day Pen Pals, Connecting Our Art Room to the Rest of the World! |
P-K to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) We have all heard of pen pals writing letters, but why not have “Modern Day Pen Pals” connect through the web using video streaming and pod casting technology! |
| Moon Craters Lab |
3 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) By dropping a rock from three different heights, students were able to employ al the steps of the scientific method while conducting an investigation. They explored the limitations of models and connected the relationship of mass, height, and impact. |
| Motion force and Energy |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Students will be able to identify Newton's three law's of motion through designing and building an amusement ride. |
| 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. |
| Movement Analysis |
5 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) The video cameras will be used for video analysis assignments. The students will video tape themselves completing a task and then they will watch the video to determine what they need to work on to improve their skills. |
| Movie Music |
5 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students study music in movies and create a sequel to a popular childrens movie. |
| Multiplication and Division Strategy Podcast |
3 to 5 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) The students will draft, edit, and publish a podcast explaining their favorite strategy for solving multiplication and division word problems. |
| Multiplying 2-digit Numbers |
4 to 4 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will use several strategies to multiply two-digit numbers by two-digit numbers. They will use area models, partial products, and the standard algorithm. |
| Music Video |
P-K to P-K |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students record their own voices using Garageband and karaoke songs purchased from itunes, and turn their song into a music video. They create a storyboard, shoot, edit, and mix the video with the audio track and burn it to a DVD to be viewed. |
| Musical Instruments of the Orchestra |
3 to 5 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will explore the families of instruments online and create a digital media project that gives information about a particular instrument or family that they select. |
| My Giving Tree |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will use language arts, social studies, and technology skills to write their own personal stories of a native tree that they have adopted. The stories will center on identifying and learning about the benefits that they receive from their trees. |
| My Ideal World |
8 to 12 |
| After reading the book To Kill a Mockingbird in English, students will use adobe Photoshop or GIMP Photoshop to create their own ideal worlds. |
| 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. |
| Native Americans |
3 to 6 |
(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. |
| Nature of Science, Like a Scientist |
5 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) The first week of school is all about introducing students to the school and my classroom. I like students to explore the classroom (and expectations), create norms for a safe learning space, and explore what it means to be a scientist. |
| Nature PSA/Visual Argument |
10 to 11 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) After reading texts about nature and discussing the skills of effective argument, in groups, students design and create visual arguments, or Public Service Announcements, in which they encourage the preservation of some aspect of nature. |
| 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. |
| News-2-You weekly activities |
K to 12 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Weekly special education newspaper would be enhanced at the end of each week. Using an Interactive Smart Board and videos from YouTube. |
| Newspaper for Inner City School |
K to K |
| The project is to promote fluency both oral and written 2 languages. |
| Newton's Laws for One and All! |
8 to 10 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) In this unit, students will create a digital portfolio of their learning. Students will collaborate on portions of this unit, while other parts are individual. This unit focuses on learning, applying, and working with Newton’s Laws of Motion. It is a layered curriculum unit which has students progressively building in their understanding and use of the laws. |
| Noun Book Videos |
1 to 3 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Students create a noun book with pictures they have pulled from various magazines. They then work in pairs, to video record each other as they present and explain their noun book. The videos are added to their Video Portfolios. |
| Now and Long Ago: Immigration and My Family |
3 to 5 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This lesson introduces the concepts of immigration and family history. Through the exploration of immigration events and issues in American history, students will learn that all Americans are immigrants with cultural differences and that all have ancestors and a family story that is unique and of value to share. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Oral Tradition-- digital storytelling |
6 to 8 |
(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 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 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 World |
2 to 4 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will use Chromebooks to look up a website. The students will navigate to ducksters and learn additional information about geography. |
| Our World With Maps! |
K to 1 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Our World With Maps! Computer Lessons |
| Outside the Classroom Window |
P-K to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Garden Students would record the sights and sound of the garden. Using journals and time lapsed photography and video, the students can track the variables. recording rainfall, temperature, daylight and darkness |
| Owl Pellets Up Close And Personal |
3 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will explore the food chain, the concept of predation, and the hierarchy of species through a dissection of an owl pellet. |
| P & P- " Portraits and Persepctive" Digital Photography for Kids |
2 to 3 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Grade 2-3 students will be involved in a credential teacher led short term project that teaches the basic of digital photography using portraits and perspective practice lessons. Students will learn layout and design, captioning and title skills. |
| Parts of Speech Identification |
6 to 7 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) During this lesson, students will use technology to engage in grammar instruction while identifying various parts of speech. |
| Passport to Ancient Civilizations |
3 to 6 |
| This will be a collaborative project between the classroom teacher and the technology teacher, me. Students will create their own passports of the ancient places they visited virtually. |
| Patchwork Quilt Class Project Thematic Unit |
3 to 3 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This is a thematic unit that integrates social studies, math, reading, and writing. |
| 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. |
| Persistence of Vision/Thaumatrope and Flip Book |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Thaumatrope: Scientifically students will come to understand the Persistence of Vision, the theory which explains why our eyes are able to see objects on film move instead of seeing individual pictures. Flipbook: Students will take Persistence of Vision one step further by making a short 4 second flip book that will be captured and viewed on video as animation, finally seeing the tie between art, history, science, and technology.
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| Persistence of Vision: Animation I |
10 to 12 |
| Students will study the early history of moving pictures as an introduction to the concept of persistence of vision and animation. Students will develop a final animation which utilizes a variety of animation sequences: computer drawn, stop motion, hand drawn, with a 6.0 megapixel Olympus digital camera and the Tool Factory software MultiMedia Lab V. |
| Perspectives on a Shoe |
4 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will photograph a shoe in various locations and then take the photo(s) to create a short story or poem from the perspective of their shoe |
| Persuasive Essay Powerpoints |
9 to 10 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will use digital cameras to document campus problems at our school and compile them into a PowerPoint presentation along with a persuasive letter to our school faculty, administration, superintendent, or school board. |
| Photographical Ecology |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Students will photograph and understand differences in organisms and the roles they play in our environment. |
| Photojournalism: Documenting the Four Greatest Threats to Global Sustainability |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) The environmental science students will engage in an inquiry type project by capturing photos of examples of overpopulation/economic stagnation, ecosystem degradation, atmospheric changes, and loss of biodiversity. They will compile a photojounalism portfolio and present this portfolio to the class in the form of a PowerPoint, Animoto, Prezi, or Glogster-type presentation. |
| Picture Perfect Parts of Speech |
7 to 12 |
| Using photography skills to enhance the process of learning parts of speech. |
| Place Value and Decimals |
5 to 5 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) In this lesson plan unit, students will experience a blended learning experience. Half of the instruction is self-monitored and self-guided in a course I created on Canvas. The other half of instruction is problem-solving and intervention activities as needed. |
| 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. |
| Pod Cast for Veterans Day |
3 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will pod cast an interview of a person who lived or served during a wartime. Some students may role play a war hero in a pod cast. |
| Podcast, Podcast, Read All about It |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will be able to create a podcast. They will practice submitting a podcast onto an iPod Shuffle. |
| 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) |
| Poetry in Motion |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Students will write a poem in the Target Language and use Movie Maker to illustrate.
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| Poetry Slam For a Cause! |
K to 5 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Problem Based Learning, Driving Question: How can we as poets and poet critics, create and design a Poetry Slam to make other students and parents more aware of (a topic or cause of student choice/interest.) Students will research a few local problems or topics of interest and decide on one of interest to their group. Then, they will find poems and write poems to bring to life for a Poetry Slam and the slam will be recorded in imovie! |
| Political Campaign Commercial Project |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Standards 6d. The student will demonstrate knowledge of State and Local elections by analyzing the influence of mass media and campaign advertisements and public opinion polls.
Purpose: The purpose of this lesson is to introduce students to political advertisements and help them understand how those advertisements influence the issues and candidates in campaigns.
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| POP ART Lesson Plan |
5 to 6 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will make computer generated art based on Andy Warhol's Pop art and use Pop culture imagery of today. |
| Postcards from the Civil War |
5 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will research one of the battles of the Civil War and use their research to create a digital postcard which they will send electronically. |
| PowerPoint Project |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Cross curriculuar project with English 1 to create a PowerPoint which includes Elements of Rhetoric from a famous Speech they chose from (of 8) in the English class. |
| Preposition. Preposition Starting with an A |
4 to 6 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) After an introduction to prepositions, students will create a hands-on Powerpoint slideshow using a digital camera, Lego figures, and their laptops. This slideshow will showcase their knowledge of prepositions and prepositional phrases. |
| Presentation Blogs |
P-K to P-K |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Create a series of audio/video blog entries in the target language as a means of assessing progress and skill/content acquisition throughout the course of language learning. |
| Preserving History for Illuminating Today's Values and Traditions |
5 to 12 |
| Students will use the processes of oral history and the latest technology to engage in historical inquiry and the preservation of the past. They will work in cooperative work groups or individually to discover and capture the past by interviewing family members and people in the community about a variety of folk traditions and/or significant events that occurred in their past. |
| 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. |
| Programming with Alice |
6 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Learn computer programming skills in a fun and creativity way using Alice, free software developed by Carnegie Mellon University. Create 3-D movies and video games while learning traditional programming concepts such as loops, nesting, if/else statements, and functions. |
| 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. |
| Project: Mother’s Day Video |
P-K to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Preparing students for the workplace requires providing learning experiences that mimic or realistically replicate those found in the industry. In this project, students are responsible for putting together a Mother’s Day video of the kindergarten children talking about their mothers, singing songs and reading poems, to be viewed at the annual Kindergarten Mother’s Day Tea |
| Public Service Announcement |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students choose a current social issue and then create a 2-minute PSA using Adobe Premiere Software. |
| 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. |
| Publish a Book |
6 to 6 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will write 5 stories in Word and then logon to Student Treasures to upload and edit their stories, and then add pictures to enhance their text. Each student will receive one hardcover book to keep. |
| Publishing With Photos! |
K to 5 |
| Students will create their own books using photographs for illustrations. |
| Radio Station Podcasting Throughout History |
3 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Using Podcasting as a radio station to engage students in Social Studies and improve their fluency. |
| Rainforest: Creating Globally Conscious Students |
2 to 2 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will be able to apply their knowledge of the rainforest ecosystem to create peer interviews with Flipcams. These interviews will be edited and posted on our district website as well as sites such as www.teachertube.com for students to convey their understanding of:
• The various strata of the rainforest, and the role that each plays in the overall health of the ecosystem.
• The interdependence humans have with the rainforest for health needs.
• The great diversity of the animal kingdom that resides in the rainforest as well as the effect deforestation has on these species.
• How our actions can directly impact the rainforests. Students should be able to persuade others to take simple steps to protect these regions of the world.
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| Read 180 Rotations |
7 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students are working in small groups utilizing their IPAD Software. |
| Reading and Responding to Real World Issues |
8 to 12 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) The purpose of this lesson is to allow students to read and respond to articles that address real-world issues. They will use technology to read, to make connections, and to share their responses with the teacher and the class. Students will learn to support their positions with textual evidence from an online article. Students will post responses on an online message board on Schoology.com. |
| Reading to Haiti |
3 to 6 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students in the U.S. will practice fluency by reading Haitian picture books in English, creating short videos after book selection and practice, and saving them on flash drives. Students in Haiti will use their One Laptop Per Child laptops, and their own copies of the books to read along with the children in the videos. |
| Real World Addition and Subtraction |
1 to 3 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will apply previous knowledge to solve real world addition and subtraction problems. |
| Real-World Probability |
11 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will use digital media to complete a culminating project relating probability concepts to real-world events. |
| Reflective Decoupage |
7 to 12 |
| Cameras and art go hand and hand way beyond pictures and portraits, right? In this project, the cameras are going to help our students produce their reflective art through decoupage! |
| Relevant, rigorous application practice and enrichment stations |
P-K to 5 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This lesson management system covers any small group targeted instructional block of time such as ELA block, and math block periods. It allows the teacher to provide rigorous, differentiated, engaging, independent stations while he/she is teaching, remediating, enriching small groups of students through differentiated, targeted instruction driven by data. |
| Renaissance Digital Story Project |
9 to 11 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Assignment: To produce a quality 2 minute speech and a quality 2 minute digital story that tells the tale of a Renaissance artist, inventor, or scientist. |
| Research Project |
8 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This is an 8th grade research lesson plan. Students research a variety of historical figures stemming from the film "Night At the Museum, Battle At the Smithsonian." |
| Researching the Black Diaspora in Latin America |
5 to 8 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Students will first research, and then create podcasts about the Black Diaspora in Latin America. Research topics can include historical themes such as the middle passage or the triangle trade, cultural themes such as the influence of African rhythms in Latin American music, or social themes such as the social stratification and racial vocabulary that existed within Latin America. |
| Restoring Memories and Planning Autobiography |
4 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This plan utilizes Google Maps for autobiography writing in response to the mentor text Knots in my Yo-Yo String” by Jerry Spinelli. |
| 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. |
| Roman Action News - Julius Caesar |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) 10th Grade Students create a "Roman Action News" broadcast using Flip cameras after reading Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar." Research on the time period and concentration on the text is key to this adventure. |
| Romanticism Through the Eyes of Art, Poetry, and Technology |
10 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Teaching the qualities of Romanticism, comparing pieces of the period, and creating responses that show comprehension, while using an Elmo. |
| Rotational Math |
6 to 6 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Unit will be on how to use positive rational numbers. I will cover Lesson 1-1 Fluently Add, Subtract, and Multiply Decimals. The same rotational model will be used for all math topics. |
| S.C.A.N.M.E. |
P-K to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students Creating A New Method of Evaluation |
| Save the Rainforest in South America |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) 7th Graders: Geography affects the characteristics of a country. Natural resources can determine
the success or failure of a country. Each country is rich in culture, even if they are a
poor country. Each student will appreciate his or her life‐styles, and opportunities
compared to poverty stricken countries. Global issues are complex, and the student
will explain the challenges the rainforest ecosystem is facing, and will develop a plan
of action they can do to help
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| 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 Commercial |
7 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Creating a commercial about Jewett Academy. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| School Spirit |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) In this lesson I teach students how to use design tools to create a school t-shirt. Then I teach them how to market their designs to the student body and the business marketing mix. |
| School-wide Anti-bullying Campaign |
5 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Creating anti-bullying messages that influence my peers. Creating a climate for anti-bullying. |
| 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 Circles Podcast |
5 to 12 |
(0 stars, 3 ratings) Science Circles Podcasts will feature small groups of 3 to 4 students holding round table discussions on weekly science topics. Students will prepare statements presenting their ideas about the topic. A student facilitator will direct the flow of an open, round table discussion after opening ideas are presented. |
| Science Equipment |
5 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Introduce equipment used in a science lab with student produced video. Use student produced commercials and product reviews in lieu of teacher demonstrations. |
| 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). |
| Science Simulation Using BBC Science Simulations 3 |
3 to 6 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will be able to create virtual experiments in the classroom using the software and interactive whiteboard. |
| Science Video Journal Through Earth's Systems |
6 to 6 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Collaborative groups will be used to create video lessons for classmates in a modified jigsaw type activity. Students will become experts on their topic and teach peers using creative video lessons to explain concepts on Earth's dynamic systems. Video lessons can be demonstrations, skits, interviews, songs, etc. |
| Scientific Inquiry Work Sample Preparation |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This will provide students the knowledge to create a scientific inquiry for a state work sample on relating pitch and frequency of waves. |
| Score it! |
3 to 4 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students would work in small groups to create a movie score/soundscape for a 3-5-scene movie |
| Sea Scallop Data Mining Research Project |
10 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students develop a research question and then gather the data to answer that question using the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Sea Scallop Survey database. Students present the results in a formal classroom presentation and a scientific poster session which is open to the public. |
| Season Ending Injury |
11 to 12 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) The project is a collaboration project in which students in my Advanced Biology class look at the anatomy and physiology of the human skeletal, muscular, circulatory and nervous system through a sports injury. The students video a mock injury and report on it as hosts for a sports telelvision show. |
| Second Grade Science Textbooks |
2 to 2 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Second graders spend the year planning and making their own science textbooks. They are learning science as well as learning how to read and write nonfiction text. |
| See it, Say it, Move, it, Do it! |
K to K |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) An interactive lesson featuring multiple learning styles to enhance all students' abilities to recognize the alphabet. *Lesson plan developed collaboratively with ESL teacher, Darcy Berger. |
| See the Music |
4 to 5 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students create PowerPoint presentations featuring famous musicians, singers, or a piece of music |
| Seeing Math Everywhere We Look |
9 to 9 |
(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." |
| Seeing the World Through the eyes of a Veteran |
7 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will be assigned a Veteran to interview, get a military photo of and take a recent picture of. They will write a short story about the person and present a Power Point using the photos, or a movie with Movie Maker. A few selected ones will be used for next year's Veterans Day Program. |
| Self-Portrait |
6 to 7 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) For students in middle school, the self-portrait is timely, as it is during these years, between the ages of 11-14, that young people are immersed in “the self”-exploring identity, finding his or her place in the world, building perception of self in relation to others. In the lesson plan, students delve into these artistic qualities as they first explore famous artists’ portraits, which grounds them in a range of styles and art history, all of which students reflect on as they design their self-portraits, which they will create using Photoshop using both the standard desktop computer and the WACOM tablet to compare/contrast the impact of the different technologies on the design process and final product.
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| Selfie vs Self-portrait |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This activity combines contemporary technology with archaic photographic processes the end result a one of a kind tangible self-portrait from a 200 year old process using modern technology. It challenges the students to further understand the difference between our cultural image capture and the power of a image when it's seen as an entity, not a digital thumbnail. |
| Sequencing in Kindergarten |
K to 2 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will learn the the basics of sequencing and how it relates to the word around us. Students will use this as a guiding lesson to introduce the basics of coding using codable.org. |
| Shape poems |
7 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will write and present shape poems on a document camera |
| Sharing Our School |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students take flip video cameras and film all the parts of our school. They edit and create a movie of our school to share with our skype school partner across the country in California. |
| 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. |
| Silent Films with a Flip Cam |
4 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will analyze a variety of silent films, the roles and responsibilities of film careers and work together to create a film that demonstrates the basic storytelling concepts of conflict and resolution. |
| 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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| 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. |
| Smartphone Q & A Discussions, Polling and Quizzes |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Using Smartphones, students will use the Edmodo application to have discussions with fellow students in their group and the teacher. There will be polling and quizzes in order to review topics learned in the classroom. |
| SO WHAT ABOUT THE WORLD?!?!? |
6 to 12 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Students will investigate world countries currently at war/conflict and the impact on the United States. Students will create a news podcast/broadcast video available on youtube.com, schooltube.com, and Kozlen.com. |
| Solar System Planet Research Project |
3 to 5 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will study the solar system through a variety of collaborative research based activities, culminating in a Google Slide presentation and a "Scratch Jnr." coding planet commercial. |
| 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. |
| Sounds of ... Assignment |
10 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This intermediate PodCasting assignment focuses and strengthens students' scriptwriting abilities by having them weave audio elements throughout their work. Sounds are no longer ancillary or used merely as aural illustrations; sounds are central and are enhanced by the script. |
| Spanish Childhood Memories |
10 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Objectives: The students will use childhood vocabulary words and the imperfect past tense to write a letter describing activities and interests that they had throughout their childhood. The students will utilize the preterite past tense to describe one “bad” event that took place and to explain a cause/effect result of that event. The students will then utilize the present tense to describe solutions that have initiated in their lives to improve or make up for that initial “bad” event. |
| Spanish I Going Places and Invitations |
10 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This lesson plan is multifaceted and provides a week of introduction, modeling, practice and review before the actual video cameras are put into use. Day five begins our video camera use with the students creating clips to be used with an interactive white board in order to play a vocabulary game featuring the students. The end of the unit culminates in a Multimedia project where students will divide into groups to create and perform dialogues and rap videos with the assistance of props also created by the students. |
| Speaking Our Truths: Podcasts as Relevant Research |
10 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students are creating informational podcasts as an alternative to a traditional research project. Students will be able to show mastery of the skills required to do a traditional research paper but in a way that is relevant to their lives. |
| Spring, Summer, Winter, Fall: Dress and Play for Them All |
2 to 5 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This activity will engage students to work in pairs to make up short stories about activities they can do during each of the four seasons. They will also focus on identifying clothes and activities which are appropriate for each season. |
| 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. |
| Static Electricity Intro. |
3 to 5 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) This is an introductory science lesson on static electricity. By the end of this lesson students will be able to explain what static electricity is and describe static electricity through examples. |
| Stations: Equation of a line and Slope |
8 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This is a stations lesson to check the learner's understanding of graphing lines and slope. The learner will receive immediate feedback at each station to determine if they fully understand the concept. |
| STEMing Mobile Devices |
8 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Incorporating STEM and mobile devices into the physical science curriculum in an engaging and interactive way. |
| Storm Alert! |
2 to 8 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Students create podcasts related to the study of weather in science class or in connection with a storm story in reading class. |
| Storytelling with a Document Camera |
3 to 5 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will use the document camera to retell and put on a presentation of a Native American folktale, legend, or story that they read. This project aims to help students practice and enhance their reading fluency, comprehension, and speaking skills, as well as understand Native American history and culture. |
| Student-created digital portfolios |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) In this lesson, students will create a google site that will be their digital portfolio for the semester. They will learn how to upload images of their art, as well as write goals before they start their art and reflect after they are finished with their art, and collaborate with others inside and outside of the classroom. |
| Students will utilize tablets to research S.T.E,M, topics to enhance their knowledge, achievement, success, and engagement in the classroom. |
5 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Student teams of three will select from a teacher prepared list of STEM topics. They will utilize a tablet to research, document and create a variety of presentations on their selected topic. Student teams will utilize a teacher prepared rubric to complete their assignment. |
| Studio Photography |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This project involves shooting long exposure photography in the school portrait lighting studio. |
| Succession in the Classroom |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Students will observe and record with digital cameras the process of succession as it occurs in a 55 gallon tank that the students set up with soil from their own backyards. |
| 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. |
| Super Size It, Please! |
10 to 11 |
| Hands on math project to help students understand scale factors and ratios using photos of themselves! |
| Symmetry in Nature and Congruent Shapes All Around |
2 to 2 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) All students will work in groups to investigate nature and their surroundings to find symmetry in nature and congruent shapes all around. Students will take photos using a digital camera and help create a multimedia presentation of their geometric findings. Students will share the final project with their peers. |
| Tablet use in Centers |
P-K to 9 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Teacher will use a tablet in a center in order to focus student on quick activities centered on one concept. Students will cycle through the 6 centers in groups of 4. |
| Teacher Appreciation Week |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will create a design to give to a current/previous teacher in honor of teacher appreciation week. |
| 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. |
| Teaching Listening and Speaking Skills for Special Education Students |
K to 1 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This ELA lesson plan for students with special needs includes technology integration while students enhance their listening and speaking skills. Students will learn different modes of transportation while building language and cooperative skills. |
| Teching Up the Nature of Science |
2 to 5 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Fourth grade GPS Standards:S4CS8. Students will understand important features of the process of scientific inquiry & S4CS7. Students will be familiar with the character of scientific knowledge and how it is achieved. Students will explore these standards while keeping a video diary of developing results & an online log for their peers to "question" as well. |
| Technolgy and Thematic Lessons in Literature |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will use the Flip VideoT cameras to record their book reviews and Socratic Circle discussion groups while analyzing the thematic lessons of their books and how they apply to real-wolrd isssues. These videos will then be linked by the students to the Media Center online web site for school-wide viewing. |
| 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-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. |
| Teen, Drugs and Alcohol PSA |
6 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) The Students will create an informative video on a health topic related to alcohol, tobacco and other drugs with a group of their peers. |
| Telephone Talking/Taking Sides by Gary Soto |
4 to 8 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) In this lesson technology will be utilized. Students will write a telephone conversation using quotation marks, and they will record it using headphones and Photo Story. |
| Text and Technology Based Literacy |
3 to 3 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will demonstrate understanding of character traits, central message, and how chapters build on one another in the book The Stories Julian Tells. This will be accomplished through Learnzillion.com, the use of collaborative groups, independent reading, and teacher scaffolding. |
| Thanksgiving Feast |
6 to 8 |
| Every year the students in our Life Skills Support class at Beaty Warren Middle School take on the huge task of planning and preparing a Thanksgiving dinner for approximately 80 family, faculty, and staff. Under the direction of the special education teachers and classroom aides, the students decide who to invite, develop a menu, find recipes, make grocery lists, and begin to shop at the local grocery store. The students make placemats, decorations, signs, and a place card for each guest. |
| The ABC's of Winter |
K to 4 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will use a tablet to take photos of objects in the school that are ABC related. These will be photos of winter or winter-related themes. |
| The Amazing Race-Physical Science |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) The students will compete in a race around the school while reviewing physical science concepts. |
| The American Revolution: It Takes Two to Tangle, but Three to Decide a War! |
5 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This unit on the American Revolution is designed to provide students with a deeper understanding of the complexities of war. The goal is for students to gain knowledge of history from several different points of view. |
| 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 Civil War Through the Eyes of Students |
7 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) I am working with the technology and art instructor to provide cross-curricular learning experiences for my 8th grade students. My students will research historical characters and their impact on the Civil War. |
| The Family Tree |
6 to 8 |
| Families are a wonderful resource of support, traditions, and stories. In this unit, my students will write a series of essays about their families that will be put together in a book that can serve a record that can be shared with family now and in the future. |
| The Hall of Physicist |
8 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will create biographical posters of famous physicist through the ages. |
| The History of Daily Life in America: An Inquiry-based Unit Plan |
P-K to 8 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) By completing an inquiry-based project, students will be able to compare the various ways people lived in the 1800’s to the way we live today. Students will learn how to form a good inquiry question, effectively search the web for answers and synthesize the information found to form a deep understanding of the topic. Students will prepare a Power Point presentation of their knowledge to share with the class. At the very end of this unit, students will take part in a living history lesson and act like people living in the 1800’s. |
| The Next DIY Stars |
3 to 8 |
(0 stars, 4 ratings) Teach students to write "how to" or "directions" essays,
then bring them to life by demonstrating on video using Movie Maker and Flip cameras. |
| The Original Photograph |
8 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Using the medium of photography, students learn how to make ordinary subject matter "extraordinary" through the use of various photographic techniques, manual camera operations and iPhoto editing tools. |
| The Outsiders Unit Plan |
7 to 9 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) The students will read The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton and complete a digital-based lesson plan that incorporates the novel. |
| The Peace Project |
K to 2 |
| What does "peace" mean to second graders? Students will create artwork and personal videos to communicate their reflections about "peace" to share with the world. |
| The Physics of Sports: An 8th Grade Physical Science Project |
P-K to P-K |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Many physics concepts and principles of motion can be observed and studied through sporting events. This activity offers you the opportunity to examine these principles using sporting events as examples. For this activity, you may work alone or as a team of two people. We strongly encourage you to work with a partner due to video-recording and due to the amount of time and effort required to create an I-Movie.
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| The Planet Mars |
5 to 8 |
| I created this lesson plan so that my fifth grade students would be able to compare and contrast the planets of Mars and Earth, and further build their knowledge of the solar system. |
| The Soundtrack of Your Life |
6 to 12 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Every sound tells a story. In this Language Arts lesson, students learn about poetic elements, tone, and personal connection by creating their own soundtrack of the major events, experiences, passions in their lives. The final product is a Glogster page. |
| 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. |
| The Student Becomes the Teacher |
7 to 8 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) We know that sometimes students learn better from their peers. In this lesson plan, the content that is to be taught in class is divided and taught by the students for the students. |
| The Water Cycle |
K to 2 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) The first graders are studying our Science Unit on the Water Cycle. The students will be learning and discussing the various parts of the water cycle and how they work. The students will observe the water cycle experiment. |
| 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. |
| 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 day In History |
6 to 6 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Students will research past and current historical events. They will present their research in the form of a dramatic scene, videotape performances and watch together as a class for editing and a grade. |
| This is A Day in My Life: A Photo Essay |
8 to 12 |
| This project entails students creating a series of photos that show a day in their life, editing the images in Photoshop, and then posting them digitally. |
| Thomas Eakins: Scenes from Everyday Life |
7 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This lesson will introduce Thomas Eakins as a photographer and painter. The students will apply Eakins' method of integrating photos into paintings |
| 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 |
4 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) A guest speaker will introduce students to basic photography techniques and skills. Students will use cameras to capture the beauty of their lives. Each student will choose his or her favorite image to paint and to write a short descriptive essay. |
| 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 Capsule Essay (A Letter to Future Students) |
2 to 4 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Dozier Elementary's Time Capsule Project Link shows all information @http://www.vrml.k12.la.us/dozier/eye/09_10/TimeCapsule09_10/projects.htm |
| Time to Vote |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 11 ratings) The students will learn about the three branches of U.S. government by creating and simulating the election and campaign processes. They will utilize not only their textbooks and classroom materials, but will also take a hands on approach with various technologies to enhance their outcome. |
| Titanic Research Book |
4 to 4 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Students will use book and internet sources to reseacrh about the Titanic. Then they will use their information to create their own book. |
| Title: Digital Photo Storytelling on Five Senses, a project based learning activity by Mary Gore |
P-K to 2 |
| Learning about the five senses is a very exciting and fun experience that students in the primary grades are eager to engage in as well as share with others, in and out of the classroom. Through digital photo storytelling project learners are able to document their experiences and take on various roles as they create a presentation project.This is a project based learning activity. |
| Total Physical Response Storytelling |
5 to 12 |
| Students will take pictures and make books to tell a story in a foreign language. |
| Transition Planning-Technology in Professions |
9 to 10 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This lesson plan is designed to help student with disabilities (in a Study Skills class for students with IEP's) research and understand how technology is vital in almost every career, particularly health-related careers. It is also designed to show students how technology may help them in their current schooling and future career goals. |
| 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. |
| Trigonometry in Right Triangles |
9 to 10 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This lesson plan is being submitted for the IPEVO Mirror-Cam Grant. |
| Tuning the World One Note at a Time |
6 to 8 |
| This project is intended to broaden the horizon for our small town students. Students will produce a DVD movie/music video highlighting the world of music as its focal point. |
| Twenty-First Century Social Skills Instruction |
2 to 5 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) This project uses video taped self modeling technique to help students learn and practice appropriate social behaviors. |
| Underground Railroad |
4 to 6 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This project is to enhance the learning in the classroom by researching information on a variety of topics and creating a tri fold with the computer teacher, learnign a song and the meaning of it with the music teacher, and creating art with the art teacehr . In addition to the art and music pieces, the research will be used in a tri fold (which is a technology goal for this grade). |
| 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 Flipgrid to Teach Hamlet |
10 to 10 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will use Flipgrid to demonstrate their understanding of each act of Shakespeare's Hamlet. They will create social media posts for characters and act out/modernize scenes. |
| 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. |
| VERB-alize |
P-K to K |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Still-shots and short video clips will be used to illustrate action verbs for hearing-handicapped preschoolers. The photographs and clips will include the manual sign, appropriate setting, and modeled target action. These will be integrated into lessons presented via Smartboard technology and into vocabulary/communication journals. |
| Video Vocab |
K to 2 |
| To build background knowledge of unit vocabulary, students will create videos explaining the definition of new words that will be used in second grade Science units. |
| Virtual Museum of Musical Instruments |
4 to 8 |
| Students create and build their own musical instruments based on existing characteristics of the four families of the symphony orchestra. They will take photographs of their completed instruments, record the sounds and post them to an existing web site which showcases student work. They will also create their own web page which will be attached to the teacher web site. |
| Virtual Travel Plan |
4 to 8 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) This lesson was created for 4th grade students in North Carolina. It integrates many areas of the curriculum including mathematics, social studies, and language arts. Students design a virtual trip through North Carolina to learn about the history and symbols of North Carolina. |
| Visualizing Vocabulary in an Ecosystem |
6 to 6 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Learning about the pond ecosystem will be combined with a creative communication project, greatly enhanced by photographs taken with NEW DIGITAL CAMERAS!! |
| Vocabulary and Humor |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Objective: The students will work in groups to be challenged to use humor to help recall the vocabulary words for their Unit 12 Vocabulary test. |
| Wacky Vocabulary |
6 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will seek out or create silly situations that illustrate their vocabulary words. |
| Want to Drag?! (: |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This lesson plan will present 7th & 8th grade students with engaging, motivating, and fun hands-on engineering opportunity to create, design, fabricate, test, and competitively race scale model cars for aerodynamics and performance |
| Water Unit |
6 to 8 |
| In this unit, students will learn about the essential and valuable properties of water. Students will learn through hands-on activities. |
| 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. |
| Weather Report |
7 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students create and film a weather report as seen on the evening news. |
| 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. |
| Weather Watchers |
6 to 6 |
| Students will take pictures of various types of clouds and weather patterns to analyze in the school science lab. |
| Webquest - Westward Ho! |
3 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Work as a group to investigate life on the trail using various resources and Internet links. As a result of the research, students will write an article. |
| Welcome Back To School -- You Map It |
2 to 5 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) As a welcome back-to-school project for your late elementary or early middle school math students, we will work on measurement, scale, and technology by measuring portions of the school and then using Tool Factory Math Draw to make a scale project with perimeter and area. |
| 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 Do You Put Stock Into? |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Overview: In this unit, students will learn basics about the stock market. Students will choose and “buy” stock in a company. He/she will check the price of the stock each day and record in a spreadsheet. At the end of the allotted time, students will create a graph depicting losses and gains. After evaluating their data, students will compose a summary report which will include their losses/ gains and possible reasons for the outcome. |
| What is the FAFSA? |
11 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Aim:
The purpose of this lesson is…
To familiarize students with what the FAFSA is and the steps to complete it.
To familiarize students with what the CSS Profile is and the steps to complete it.
To have Junior students submit their necessary materials, so they can be prepared for financial aid early.
To have Senior students complete their FAFSA, so they can receive aid for school. |
| What Message Are You Sending? |
P-K to P-K |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Since I teach about technology in our middle school, my students are always online. We will role play, online sites and classroom discussions to learn about staying safe and how to use netiquette on the Internet. |
| What Time is it? |
P-K to 5 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) I have several centers that deal with the concept of time and telling time. Computers are highly motivating and a great way to reinforce skills. |
| What's Living in the Water? |
6 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students assess water quality of a local pond through observation and testing. Students link changes in seasons to changes in water quality. |
| 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. |
| Who Are QR? |
3 to 7 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Use your tablet to create a QR "Who Is" activity that allows self checking. |
| Who Ate Archy the Anchovy |
4 to 6 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) In this lesson, students will use flip cams to film clues about members in the marine food chain. The goal is to solve the puzzle of who ate Archy the Anchovy! Once clues are filmed, an interactive PowerPoint will be created for students to complete a problem-solving activity to solve this mystery! |
| Who's Who in the Art World |
2 to 5 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students study famous artist and their works, through Internet resource using social bookmarking. The create biographies and recreate famous works then create online portfolios of their final project. |
| Wiki Jisho |
8 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This is a student-created and student maintained thematic Japanese-English dictionary. |
| 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. |
| Wishing for Wells |
2 to 2 |
| Students of all ability levels will learn about the water crisis in Africa. They will use iPads to conduct research, make PSAs to broadcast on the morning announcements, and complete other technology-infused projects to raise awareness (such as an interactive QR code exhibit about a region in Africa). The unit will culminate in a fundraiser to try to fund the construction of a well in Africa. |
| World of Quadrilaterals |
7 to 12 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Why is it important to know the properties of quadrilaterals? How can we use it in our real life? |
| 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. |
| Writing Equivalent Expressions |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This involves writing equivalent expressions using area model and exploring difference of squares through an interactive activity. |
| Written in Bones |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Students will read literary and informational texts about the stories of our past to understand how different texts offer unique historical perspectives and how authors sometimes alter details of history to serve a purpose. Students will express their understanding by corroborating details of the past, deciphering an author’s purpose, and writing their own fictionalized version of a historical account.
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| Yes We Can! Students with Autism & Downs-Syndrome on the Drums! |
K to 12 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Students with profound special needs, such as autism, Downs-syndrome, CP, & medically fragile conditions, will participate in a variety of exciting experiential activities, including adaptive percussion & drumming, Karaoke type music, and using American Sign Language to express themselves to music. Project will be documented via video and digital pictures and shown to the school body in a music video format. |
| “A Drop of Ink Makes A Million Think!” But... "A Design Can Change A Million Lives!" |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) The Research Paper brought to Life.......The Tween Teen Journey in ELA Research!
After students research the history and operation of a catapult, they will write an inquiry paper and design their very own catapult! Their research will be connected to all curriculums, as the end result will require building a catapult and synthesizing their outcomes, via comparisons and DATA analysis!
Learning brought to life!
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| “Through the Eyes of a Child- Student Photography” Elementary Level – Visual Arts |
2 to 5 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will experience the beauty of literacy through the use of photography. Teacher guided photography instruction will focus on the subject areas of reading and writing skills to help students become better readers. |
