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| Lesson Plan Name |
Grades |
| Flipping Over Romeo and Juliet! Translating Shakespeare Into Standard American English |
8 to 8 |
 (0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will record performances of important scenes from Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and use appropriate software to add subtitles to the scenes, which are translations of Shakespeare's Early Modern English into Standard American English. |
| Crusaders! |
7 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This lesson covers the Crusades. Students are to choose which particular Crusade they wish to study. Students will map the route taken, choose a major city along the way, evaluate the city and explain whether or not there were any benefits from hosting the Crusaders, and they will consider the forts built along the way. |
| Literary Tour of California via Vodcast |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 3 ratings) Students study California authors and create a podcast telling about each author. Listeners learn about the cities and places that California authors lived, worked and played in and wrote about. |
| "Board" Games |
6 to 6 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) The Teacher will use the Promethean Board to create interest and review for tests in the classroom. The lesson reviewed will be for adjectives. |
| "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! |
| "I Believe..." Podcast Style |
10 to 11 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will read John F Kennedy's speech "I Believe in an America Where the Separation of Church and State is Absolute" and Martin Luther King's speech "I have a Dream." After comparing both speeches students will write their own speech about their personal beliefs, podcast their work and present their speeches to our local veterans at our Veteran's Day Celebration. |
| "Marchen or Sagen" - A Digital Story Telling Experience |
10 to 12 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Storytelling is as old as time itself! Every culture that exists or has ever existed had a strong storytelling aspect. Stories are used for entertainment, teaching and passing on knowledge and wisdom. Each of us has a story and it has been said, "We are the stories that we tell about ourselves." |
| 1 Picture = 1,000 Adjectives |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) When learning parts of speech, my students tend to have a difficult time thinking of powerful, creative adjectives, especially since I have a list of adjectives they are not allowed to use. The students groan when told to look at a thesaurus but having them complete an activity keeps them interested and actually causes them to ask for a thesaurus without being told. |
| 55 Word Video Stories |
7 to 12 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Using the literacy skills of the 21s Century stidents will create original 55-word short stories, or re-write well known stories in 55 words, and then turn them into short movies using video cameras. They will then publish their finished products on YouTube and the class blog, and have an opportunity to submit their original stories to the fifty-five fiction contest. |
| 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. |
| A Brief History of NY...by class 401 |
3 to 5 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) My class of ESL 4th graders is writing a play about the history of New York! We built the set, made the costumes and the props...and now we want to take a video of it! |
| 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 Digital Walk Through Chatham |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Our project is a digital storytelling activity using MultiMedia Lab V and digital cameras. Students will photograph important landmarks in town, write descriptive articles, and share them with other students through the school newspaper and web site. |
| A Genre-riffic Thanksgiving |
12 to 7 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Using different genres in literature, have sutdents explore and discuss the characters, take the characters out of the book and place them into a modern day Thanksgiving celebration. The characters from the books need to retain their personalities and traits. (Time to completion of activities: 3 weeks) |
| A Picture of Dreams |
11 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will merge photography; gel transfer pictures, writing, and their plan
for their future to result in a multi dimensional visual art project
that supports digital skills, education and career development, and the
arts, poetry and English language. |
| Access to Technology |
P-K to K |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will have access to our mandatory I-Ready software for our math program in order to build their Number and Operations, Geometry, and through the reading program in order to help in letters and sounds, reading comprehension during our differentiated instruction every single day.
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| 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!! |
| An Entertaining Assignment |
11 to 12 |
| Make a gossip style video about a medieval character and the rules of Courtly Love and Chivalry they have either broken or upheld. Video may be shot using a Flip video camera from the media center and edited using MovieMaker. |
| Analyzing and Synthesizing Propaganda Techniques in Film |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will analyze the non-verbal techniques used in films that attempt to manipulate audiences through political or commercial propaganda. In teams, students will then create their own videos demonstrating a synthesis of these techniques. |
| Animation Station |
4 to 6 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students create clay animated videos. These videos are based on idioms or short stories the students write. |
| Back to School Writing |
12 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Seniors who are at-risk of not graduating need extra writing skills. By providing a camera and tools necessary to create their story of their senior year, I can encourage writing. |
| Bilingual Books for Home and School |
K to 8 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) These lessons will allow students to create books that they can take home and share with their families. The books will integrate concepts in Language Arts with Science and Social Studies. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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 |
4 to 4 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) 4th Grade Students create book trailers for incoming students to their grade level for the following year. |
| Bracket Madness! |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Students will "compete" against each other by utilizing various forms of imagery to compliment their research-based presentations in an attempt to end up in the championship bracket. Although the original idea is for a "Most Courageous Person in History" presentation, it is a concept that is easily adapted to any classroom curriculum. |
| 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. |
| Clip Art Builds Readers |
P-K to 1 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Using clipartstation our class will make digital books about our school and community to help students who are English language learners better able to succeed. |
| 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. |
| Code the Bots! Block Coding in Javascript |
K to 5 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will learn and code with Javascript, initially using a block-based curriculum free at code.org on existing technology already in the school. Students will progress to programming a variety of robots like Dash and Dot for the Wonder League Competitions; Ozobots; Sphero’s BB-8 and SPRK+ Lightening Lab; Osmo Code, and Parrot’s Rolling Spider Mini-Drones. Students will also create and code Javascript programs, digital stories, and computer programs. |
| Color Poem Collage |
3 to 6 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Students are engaged in poetry writing and creating an accompanying collage using technology. This lesson is great for helping students use more descriptive writing. |
| 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. |
| Community Connections |
6 to 8 |
| How can students with disabilities learn to connect with their communities? The program described below takes instruction into the community and helps students make important community connections. |
| 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 insects puppet show |
1 to 3 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This plan integrates reading, investigating, writing, performing and technology into one fun and engaging project that will get students involved in writing a skit and performing for a " puppet-show " purpose. |
| 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. |
| Dazzling Digital Poem Project ¨C 7th grade |
7 to 10 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) 7th grade students will take one of their original poems and create a digital poem on PowerPoint. This poem will include a student narration of poem, a collage of pictures representing their poem's ideas and background music. |
| Diagnosis of the Day |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will be given a description of a medical problem. Students will use technology to research the information given to determine a patient diagnosis. |
| Differentiating Through Audiobooks |
8 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Advanced readers stage and record audio versions of novels for less-able readers, who will listen to audio recordings using MP3 players and listening stations. |
| 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 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 Parts of Speech |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Enlgish Language Learners at the high school level will create iMovie projects with music, photo clips, and video clips to enhance learning & instruction of parts of speech. |
| Digital Student Portfolios |
9 to 9 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) 9th grade students will create individual digital portfolios throughout the year. Portfolios will consist of digital book trailers, published blogs, uploads to the school website, writing in all content areas, digital autobiographies, etc. |
| Earth Day Movie Maker Documentary |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) This lesson, which spans over the course of about a week and a half, has students researching a particular animal and the ways in which it has been impacted by humans and the environment. Students will take a field trip to the zoo and use flip cams to videotape their animal. They will then choose a prompt from the list and create a documentary (using Tool Factory Movie Maker) about their animal. |
| Earth Editing: Increasing Environmental Awareness with Student Created Public Service Announcements |
3 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students create a Public Service Announcement video on issues concerning the environment, which will “air” on the school website and at an Earth Day Assembly. Each video will focus on a single strategy that students and community members can do to help protect our planet Earth. |
| 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. |
| eLeaders Technology (Students of the 21st Century) Program |
4 to 12 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) With the new PILOT program of eLeaders, students are accepted that have an interest in technology, and volunteer their time, to troubleshoot technology, teach lessons to peers and teachers, and offer in-service presentations on staff Professional Development Days. Additionally, they assist with and participate in a (rotating) class of 60 students (changing every 2-4 weeks so all South Middle School population may participate) that create the SMS Video Productions (completely created by student body), our newly founded news source. |
| Electronic Poetry Project |
6 to 12 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Students will utilize digital technology to create a presentation of a chosen or original poem. The project will include creating photos/videos, voice overs, original background music, and character generation to interpret a poem for classroom and podcast presentation. |
| Enhancing Friendships Through Photography |
P-K to P-K |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Young learners will use digital photography to create new friendships with pen pals at another school. |
| Essay Writing |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will write a variety of essays using Google Docs and Edmodo.com. Students will learn to collaborate and to constructively use social networks. |
| 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. |
| Fans of Fantastic Fiction and Fantasy |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Choose an author to write to, read about, read stories by, and emulate. |
| 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. |
| 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! |
| Flip for Book Reports |
K to 12 |
| Students will create Flip Video book reports to share in class and to keep as a data base of book reviews. |
| 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. |
| From Photos to Poetry |
8 to 12 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Students will create photographs and poems which have meaningful themes through a thoughtful and deliberate process. |
| Gangs and Clicks... Are They One In The Same? |
7 to 9 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will work on a whiteboard or SMART Board and make a Venn diagram comparing/contrasting the two social groups. |
| 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 |
| Group Video Bookreport |
3 to 7 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Students will adapt and create a skit based on books that they have read. They will then film themselves for their classmates to watch. |
| Halloween Dramatic Reading Podcasts |
4 to 12 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Spanish students will create dramatic reading podcasts from elementary Halloween books and stories. The students will create both English and Spanish versions of the podcasts. The podcasts will be shared through the school website with local elementary schools. |
| Harlem Renaissance Research Project |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will research an aspect of the 1920s and/or 1930s in order to gain an understanding of the setting in terms of the time and place of the novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God. |
| Hero Within |
3 to 10 |
| Students set on a year-long integrated heroes journey. They relate heroic efforts found in their studies to their own lives. |
| 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 |
| If Dracula Walked Today |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Objective: Preserving the message and power within the original manuscript of Dracula, while recreating an original depiction using a flip camera and an understanding of pop culture. |
| 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!” |
| 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. |
| Interactive Rainforest Animals |
4 to 6 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) A three part learning project designed to teach student about various animals/creatures of the rainforest with a focus on the arts and technology. |
| 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. |
| Introducing Each Other |
7 to 7 |
| This is a 7th grade English project. My students will conduct interviews, take photos, and do research on the internet. |
| Kinderbet-An Alphabet for Children |
P-K to K |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Kindergarten children will brainstorm and search the classroom and campus for objects that begin with each letter of the alphabet. They will photograph each item and create both a power point and a written book to be presented to the library. |
| Let's Get Active |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This lesson plan utilizes a variety of technology and collaborative activities to demonstrate the difference between active voice and passive voice. It is for an inclusion classroom using a complementary co-teaching strategy and differentiated process, content, and products. |
| Literature Circles Meeting using Subtext |
7 to 10 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) In this lesson, students facilitate a literature circle meeting using notes and annotations they've created within e-books using the Subtext app. They then use the ideas generated to write analytical paragraphs in Google Docs for teacher feedback. |
| Literature is Alive and Everywhere |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Students will look to the world around them for inspiration for writing poetry and prose. Using digital cameras and related technology, students will reach out to their world to look for inspiration in everyday beauty. |
| Living Wax Museum |
5 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will complete a biography about a person of their choice. This project includes a written paper, a slideshow, and creating a poster board that will be displayed throughout the school. |
| Local Heroes |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) The students will use interview skills, digital photography, digital video and movie editing software to create a five-to-ten-minute video showcasing a local person who is a positive role model. |
| 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. |
| Movies for Motivation: Encouraging Literacy Through Student-Created Films |
9 to 12 |
| Struggling readers enrolled in a Targeted Reading class will use Tool Factory Movie Maker to create videos advertising their favorite books. These videos will then be shown to the entire school as part of a school-wide literacy encouragement effort. |
| My Vision Is A Verb |
P-K to 12 |
| Students will take a dream or vision that they desire to see come true and use the Zoo Burst and/or Story Jumper storytelling software to turn that dream or vision into a book. Students will also learn that work gives power to any vision. |
| Mythbusters |
8 to 8 |
| The popular show "Mythbusters" is the ultimate way for students to utilize the scientific method every day to answer questions about science and life. |
| 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. |
| Once Upon Technology |
4 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students re-write fairy tales adding current technology to change the ending. Then they make their new story into a movie to record and edit in class. |
| 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. |
| Parts of Speech Slide Show |
1 to 4 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Students create a slide show demonstrating their knowledge of the parts of speech (noun, verb, adjective, adverb). |
| Peeps Project for Watership Down |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students create a video of key scenes in the novel Watership Down. Student first create a storyboard timeline of the key scenes by using skills they have learned for determining importance and sequence of events and then they choose one to recreate using Peeps marshmallow treats. |
| 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 |
| Persuade the PTO |
4 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Create a video to persuade your local PTO to fund a classroom need! It worked for us! |
| 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. |
| PhotoTalk! |
K to 12 |
| Images communicate without written or spoken speech. Linking images to simple text in the target language is a powerful tool for helping second language learners speak and read! |
| Picture the Future |
4 to 9 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Using various types of technology, students will assemble an electronic portfolio of their high school work to demonstrate their competencies, honors and achievements. |
| Podcast for the Environment |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will improve comprehension skills and access prior knowledge by researching an enviromental issue and creating a podcast on the issue. |
| Poetic Podcasting |
P-K to 5 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students write their own poetry and create a podcast with their own work. |
| Polar Bears |
K to 4 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) In this lesson students will learn about polar bears. They will create a writing piece about the characteristics of a polar bear. They will extend this activity by developing ideas about the extinction of the polar bear. |
| Public Service Announcement Project |
5 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Using a digital media form, students will create a Public Service Announcement to inform peers on a topic of social interest or need. These PSA's will be shared through journalism or school mail to reach the target audience. |
| Read 180 Rotations |
7 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students are working in small groups utilizing their IPAD Software. |
| Read All About It: Magazine Creation |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will practice writing standards by creating a collaborative mini magazine. Each student will be required to write an article for the group's magazine that illustrates his/her ability to cite text evidence, use direct quotations, paraphrase information, and use correct grammar. |
| 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 Stations |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Interactive reading stations that incorporate technology to enhance the reading experience of high school students. |
| 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. |
| Recipes and Recollections |
10 to 12 |
| Students interview their families to gather stories and to garner recipes. Many literary stories have their origins in family recipes, even the novels we study in English class. Each student compiled five family recipes and related stories for personal cookbooks. We also made a class cookbook. |
| Reenacting Shakespeare |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Students analyze scenes from Romeo and Juliet and recreate scenes through modern skits. |
| 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." |
| Reviving the Renaissance |
7 to 12 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Using the world wide web, students will research the Renaissance Era and present a multimedia project to classmates which will focus on one aspect of that time period: food, clothing, pastime, gender roles, law enforcement, etc. This is done prior to reading any of Shakespeare's literature. |
| Rhetorical Analysis of Popular Media |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students are to analyze the rhetorical appeals, strategies and devices found in popular media. Students assess how effective the media is at trying to persuade consumers. |
| Rock Poetry |
8 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Student use what they have learned about poetry and litery devices to analyze a song and then show that interpretation through visuals by creating a video. |
| 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. |
| S.C.A.N.M.E. |
P-K to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students Creating A New Method of Evaluation |
| Save Trees, Use the Mini to Complete Our Assignment! |
2 to 2 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will learn that by using technology in the classroom, they will be saving trees from destruction to create our textbooks and workbooks and how we can stop filling our landfills with mounds of paper. With our reading program online, students will have access to the program and will be able to complete assignments directed by the teacher and have immediate feedback on their performance. |
| School News Channel |
P-K to 4 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) I am asking for a live streaming camera in order to host a morning news channel for our school. This news segment will provide morning announcements and will be ran by the student population. The news cast will be streamed to every classroom in the morning. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Shark Tank: Industrial Revolution |
5 to 6 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will read "Immigrant Kids" and create a business idea that they will each present in front of a group of "sharks" (teachers and parents). Students will present ideas using imovie and then make a commercial promoting their inventions. |
| Sketch in the Round |
8 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will demonstrate the ability to develop a 3-D main character sketch for their emerging short story continuation. |
| Smart Understanding of Characters w/ Smartphones |
5 to 8 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Students will demonstrate an understanding of how characters change throughout a novel. They will also be able to identify 1st and 3rd person point-of-view.
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| 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. |
| SpellingBot |
2 to 2 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) During Word Work station, students will create a robot using Cubelets Robot Blocks that will help them spell and locate the correct spelling of their spelling words. |
| Star Reading |
4 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will understand the importance of fluency and become fully engaged in the process. The teacher will act as a facilitator while students perform the tasks. Students will become motivated to become more fluent readers as they view and graph their scores. They also learn to critique their own reading and that of their peers. They will begin to fully understand what fluency is and sounds like through the process. |
| Story Telling |
9 to 12 |
| Students learn about the art of story telling and practice this art through performance. |
| 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 Tone and Mood |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) After reading a book or novel students create a documentary where they play the role of one of the characters from the story. Students demonstrate an understanding of tone and mood through their acting, music selection, and editing of the video. |
| 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 Rich Romeo and Juliet Lesson Plan |
9 to 10 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) The students will understand Romeo and Juliet and as a result will produce and present a Storyboard that demonstrates a scene’s importance. |
| 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. |
| The Autobiography of a Middle School |
6 to 8 |
| The multidisciplinary project would use the Olympus Digital Cameras and Tool Factory Software to help define and build school unity, self-esteem, and culture through student-made pictures, essays, biographies, and art. The final goal of this project will be an autobiographical photo-essay slide show that the student council will present to their peers, parents, faculty, and school board at their eighth grade graduation ceremony. |
| 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 Middle Ages Meet Modern Technology |
11 to 11 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will use mobile devices to go on a pilgrimage through the Middle Ages. Students will make stops throughout their journey to gather background information to provide a context for the reading of The Canterbury Tales. |
| 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 Wonder of a Wordless Book |
3 to 5 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) The students will create stories to accompany wordless books. They will record a podcast of their story to present to the class. |
| 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. |
| The World Around Me |
5 to 8 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Students will take pictures of landscapes, nature, the environment, etc. They will choose one picture that will be used as their "muse" to write a story that describes that specific picture. |
| Titanic Research Projects |
7 to 7 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) In this lesson, students conduct research (CCSS W.7.7) on topics connected to a narrative nonfiction story from the reading basil, "Exploring the Titanic" by Robert Ballard. Students use iPads or Chromebooks to gather credible and relevant research on individually assigned topics and then present their findings to the class through use of an interactive presentation program such as Prezi, Emaze, or Google Slides. |
| 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. |
| Tracking the Olympics |
4 to 6 |
| The children will discover how radio and TV announcers broadcast sports events while watching the Winter Olympics. The children work with teams on creating podcasts of the upcoming Winter Olympics |
| Understanding Idioms |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students understand and explain literal and figurative meaning of common idioms. |
| 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 Our Senses |
1 to 1 |
| We will go on a nature walk and use digital cameras to capture the things we learn about using our five senses. |
| Using Rhetoric in Speeches |
8 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will analyze "I have a Dream," "Old Major's Speech," and "Imagine" for the three rhetorical devices (ethos, logos, and pathos). They will then create podcasts in which they give their own speech for the world using the three rhetorical devices |
| Video Buddies |
K to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Hamden elementary students and Beijing elementary students will correspond with each other through technology which includes use of the Flip Video Camera. Students will use the video camera to introduce family members, pets, and record important events such as birthdays and holiday celebrations. |
| Video Vocab |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will create short, humorous video skits to illustrate vocabulary words in context. |
| 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. |
| Vocabulary Taboo Review |
3 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This lesson is a twist on the card game "Taboo", where people aim to describe a word at the top of the card, but are not allowed to use the "Taboo" words printed on the card in their description. |
| Vocabulary Videos |
9 to 12 |
| This lesson integrates vocabulary research with script-writing, performance, and videography to give English Language Development students, along with Special Education and General Education students a better command of the English Language while gaining experience in filmography. |
| 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 |
| Web 2.0 - Video Sharing |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Create a video to share on a Video Sharing Site (Youtube, Flickr, etc.). Through this lesson, the student will become proficient at sharing files online using the various Video Sharing Sites. Students will use Tool Factory Movie Maker to edit and produce the video.
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| What do you know? |
4 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This is an exercise that has a pre and post casual assessment using polleverywhere.com It assesses what is known before a unit and afterwards by using cellphones and computers |
| What Firemen Read |
9 to 12 |
| Armed with digital cameras, iPods with recorders, and great attitutdes, students will interview community members and find out what their favorite books are and why. Students will compile the results in both print and web formats and share their findings with the world. |
| What in the World..?!? |
3 to 5 |
| You don't need to be able to read to love science, computers, and photography. My special education students will use these materials to create their own photographic "I Spy" books during our What in the World..?!? photo project. Using picture symbol software and photographs, students can address all content areas including math, reading, writing, technology, and science. |
| What will I be when I grow up? |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will research various careers of interest to them using different modes of learning. Students will utilize the library, internet, college tours, guest speakers, college and career center, and classroom materials. |
| What's in a Story--A Short Story/Film Unit |
5 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students analyze and evaluate "story" through both the written word of short story and the visual images of short film. The lesson/unit culminates in a production of a short film. This is run in a workshop format, with mini-lessons and some direct instruction/practice of skills as the project unfolds. |
| Who's in the Hot Seat- Characterization and Point-of-View |
6 to 7 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Students will be able to demonstrate how characters change throughout a story, as well as describe how the author develops the point-of-view of the characters. Students will use the Smart Board, along with Smart Board Slates, to complete the interactive activities, in order to master these objectives. |
| WORDS: A Lesson in Collaboration (Disguised as a Lesson on Homophones/Homonyms) |
6 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students work in groups to plan, create, edit, and share a collaborative, creative video on homophones and homonyms to share with the world. |
| Writing a Masterpiece |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) When working with students to create complete sentences, I make the visual connection to a masterpiece painting. This metaphor helps struggling writers connect to the necessary components of a sentence. |
| 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. |
| "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" |
| "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 |
| An Explorer's Virtual Sea Chest |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Students will be assigned an Explorer to study. They will create a photo story depicting the voyage as a crewmember of a ship that belonged to a famous explorer. One aspect of the job required that they document the voyage and create a virtual sea chest to document the explorer’s findings in the new land.
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| 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 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. |
| Animation |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Through the exploration of animation techniques, students will be able to describe and depict emotions and expressions with processes, traditional tools, and modern technologies used in the arts. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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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| Because I Said So! - Writing a Persuasive Speech |
4 to 4 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This is a short writing unit. Students will brainstorm, write, and edit a persuasive speech on a topic of their choosing. The studetns will then record a podcast of their speech which will be uploaded to the school website. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Body parts Identification |
K to 3 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This lesson is geared towards lower elementary students, and students with special needs to identify the parts of the body. |
| Building cross cultural learning through technology |
3 to 3 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will conduct research and create a PowerPoint presentation on an animal. Students will then showcase their PowerPoint to families and Skype presentations to pen pals in Japan. |
| 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.” |
| 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. |
| Capturing Animals through Technology |
2 to 5 |
| Students will use digital recoding photograpgy equipment to take pictures of animals at our local zoo. They will then insert the photography into a variety of audio-visual technology -based reports featuring thier animals. |
| 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.
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| 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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| Collaborative learning through technology assisted projects |
K to 6 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) My class is a computer literacy class at an arts integrated charter school. Elementary students form Kindergarden to 6th grade will learn computer skills and Google's collaborative tools through project based learning. Problem solving, teamwork and critical thinking skills will be required to complete projects successfully. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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). |
| 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. |
| 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 and Numbers |
K to 1 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Using digital cameras to take pictures of groups of numbers to practice grouping and counting. |
| 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 Revolution |
6 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will compose an original historical photograph about a revolution based on Eleanor Antin's work. They will also read a literature piece coinciding with the revolution they have chosen to study. |
| 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. |
| El menú fabuloso! |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Everyone loves food! Now we are making food an interactive project. In this project students are to make their very own menu in Spanish, pictures included. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Fifth Grade Physical Science - Atoms |
5 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Using PowerPoint presentations, realia, and various visuals and websites, students will understand that elements are made of atoms, and know the basic structures of an atom (nucleus, electrons, protons, and neutrons). |
| 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. |
| Flip for Family History |
8 to 12 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Students would interview use the flip cameras in order to conduct oral family history interviews. The students would also create a short film about their experience in finding out their family history. |
| Flip for Favorite Stories |
2 to 5 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) The students will take a familiar book in Spanish (or other foreign language) and record themselves performing it as a movie, then insert English subtitles. |
| 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 Lipdub |
10 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Spanish students translate a song from English to Spanish, memorize the lyrics and create a lipdub video using a flip camera. |
| 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. |
| 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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| 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. |
| Great Depression Gallery Walk |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Students will analyze the impact of the Great Depression on U.S. society and populations by analyzing primary source images from the Library of Congress website. |
| Gumby Rules! |
5 to 6 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Using Responsive Classroom ideas, students will brainstorm classroom rules, examples of those rules, ways to apologize when rules are broken, and possible consequences. Each student will then pick one part to animate with the software. |
| Health, Fitness and Technology |
4 to 7 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) SWBT obtain accurate height and weight measurements, plot stature and weight percentiles on clinical charts, evaluate growth and fitness and identify methods of improving health and fitness. Students will use a variety of technology tools and resources to research, calculate,analyze and present their information. |
| High School Students Meet Veterans |
9 to 12 |
| The goal of this lesson is for the students to come away with a better understanding of who veterans are and what their life was/is like. |
| 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 to _____ like a pro! |
K to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) As young adults, many of our students have talents beyond what falls under "classroom curriculum". This project would involve filming something they are passionate about as a "How to Documentary" and create a written piece reflecting on their passion and their lives. |
| If a Picture is Worth a Thousand Words... |
4 to 4 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) I will be using photography as a way to focus and enhance students' writing. |
| 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. |
| Immigration to U.S. |
P-K to P-K |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students analyze a photograph from the early part of the 20th century to find underlying ideas popular at that time regarding immigration to the U.S. |
| IPAD Lesson on Nouns |
1 to 3 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) The students will use the application "Story Kit" to write a short story about nouns. They will take a picture of a noun, label it, and record themselves talking about what the noun is and why they know it is a noun. Students will then share different pages of their stories with the rest of the class via the projector. |
| 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 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. |
| 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. |
| Keyboarding |
P-K to P-K |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) A step-by-step lesson to teach students how to practice keyboarding (typing without looking at the keyboard). |
| Keynote Digital Parts of Speech |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) We use Keynote from iLife '09 to write a super powerpoint for a parts of speech video |
| 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 and Literacy Support through Photography |
K to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This project provides ideas and activities for promoting development of oral language, literacy, and student identity through the use of photography-based Language Experience Approach lessons and books. |
| 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 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. |
| Legacy Project: Using Flip Cameras to Connect Generations |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This lesson will enable students in Ms. Barb Ressler's English classroom at Wahlert High School to capture insights from senior citizens by utilizing flip cameras. As a result, the students will be able to learn many important life lessons and build important connections with senior citizens. |
| Let the Sun Shine-Development of the Digital Negative/Cyanotype Printing |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) This lesson helps students understand the concept of what photography is and to learn alternative printing processes. Students use hands on traditional photo chemistry along with modern digital imaging techniques. |
| Make a Digital Dance Textbook |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will create a Wiki page/website that will be used as a dance textbook in class. |
| Memories To Treasure Forever! |
K to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) To honor the grandparents of our students, we have an annual Grandparent's Day Event. My teacher created activity involved an interview with their grandparent (s). The students were givena list of 30 questions to choose to ask their grandparents and interview them with the flip video cameras. The grandparents could then flip it around and interview them. This was then turned into a keepsake DVD. |
| Memory Book - A Cooperative Learning Experience |
5 to 8 |
| 8th graders create a memory book that includes pictures and writing (English), their heritage (history), calculated growth patterns (math) and genetic heritage (science). |
| Military Families |
P-K to P-K |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Improving student vocabulary through interactive spelling games and a short story. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Music Style Research and Composition |
6 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will use IPads and the internet to research various composers and styles. Students will then compose short pieces based on those composers and styles. |
| My Digital Story |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Digital storytelling is one of the most creative ways to encourage students to write narratives. The project allows students to use existing writing, photography and computer skills, and gives them a challenging platform to create more intense, interesting and personal stories. |
| 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. |
| Newspaper for Inner City School |
K to K |
| The project is to promote fluency both oral and written 2 languages. |
| Of Mice and Men, Migration, and Photography |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Over the course of the month of December, students will read the novel, Of Mice and Men, and explore the concept of the American Dream through the migrant experience of the 1930s. Students will then take the classroom outside in the community and document the migrant experience and concept of the American Dream in their own neighborhood to juxtapose the possible changes of the dream since the 30's. |
| 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. |
| Pharmaceutical Commerical: Which drug is better? |
11 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Chemistry students will research a pharmaceutical drug (must be approved by the teacher). The students then will make a brochure and a video commercial to try to sell and promote the drug that they picked. |
| Picture This - Stars over Hoke /Imaginarse - Estrellas sobre de Hoke |
5 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) My grant request is to enable my middle school ESL students to better communicate and participate in classes by using digital cameraas and software to publish their own personal bilingual dictionaries, story books and PowerPoint presentations for the SMARTboards in their classes. |
| Picture This: A Book Full of Patterns! |
P-K to 8 |
| My students will use various hands-on manipulatives while making different types of patterns (ab, abc, aabb, aabbcc, etc.) Students will use the digital camera to take a picture and write what they did! |
| Poetry Alive! Interpreting Poetry Using Digital Images |
9 to 12 |
| A team of English students will take the role of a production company and will create a 4-5 minute film using the digital image as a medium for interpreting students’ original poems. Three classes will be working together in order to complete this project: Creative Writing, English, and The Actor’s Studio. |
| Poetry and Photography |
7 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Using a digital camera to help students understand poetry |
| Properties of Exponents and Square Roots |
7 to 10 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students create Common Craft style videos using paper and Flip video cameras. Each video, 30-60 seconds long, reviews one property of exponents or square roots from Algebra 1. |
| Readers Theater In Action - Take 1 |
P-K to 3 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Students will be working in five groups of four to come up with their own Readers Theater. They will be designing their own backdrop, creating the script for the story, and filming the entire step from beginning to end of the production to be displayed on the class smartboard. |
| Reading Blog Log |
6 to 12 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Students will create blogs in which they will share ideas about literature we are reading in class - kind of online Socratic seminars. In addition they will create podcasted informational reports, and then open the forum up to others in the library media center during celebrations of READING WEEK. |
| Research Project |
8 to 8 |
| This lesson gives the a overview of common source types and outlines a research project. I have adapted this in several ways to include book reports, and research projects of any kind. |
| Research Project |
8 to 8 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) This is a lesson that incorporates a research project and allows students to create a publish their research project. |
| Rocky Point Recycler's |
P-K to P-K |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Our students will be learning about how to save and protect our Earth. Students will use ipad's to reseach and present information to the other grade levels in our district. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Selfie with a new friend |
7 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students are to find a person i the school who they never talk to and don't know. They take a selfie with that person and ask them a fact about themselves, and share a fact. Student has to submit to Google Classroom. |
| Sight Words and iPads |
K to K |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) In this lesson, students will use iPads to listen to, read, and practice writing sight words. Students will use the Kids Learn Sight Words application to complete this activity. |
| 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. |
| Solutions to Real World Economic Problems in the Classroom |
6 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will investigate real world American economic issues that are effecting the average family. In this project, students will conduct research to identify the causes of the struggling United States economy. They will examine the effect it has on the average American citizen. They will create strategies to help the struggling American family. The final product of this project will be a documentary about the direct effect of the struggling economy on the DuPage county community. |
| 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. |
| Story Telling through Photography |
4 to 9 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will use photographs to form the basis for a narrative story. This is lesson will be part of a series of lessons that will lead to a book of stories and student created images. |
| Students Are the Best Teachers |
4 to 12 |
| Students will take an active role in the teaching and learning process by creating digital presentations that review basic concepts that are the foundations for all courses. These may include focused mini lessons on such areas as vocabulary, grammar, figures of speech, math problems and concepts, historical events, scientific elements, or technology operations. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Teaching and Learning: Using iPods in the Classroom |
P-K to 5 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) My students need an iPod touches, apps, and software so I can facilitate the implementation of activities that are in step with the 21st century classroom. |
| Techno Lit |
3 to 5 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This lessons includes a variety of technology to publish expository texts so they can be viewed on iPod touches and iPads. |
| 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 with nouns |
1 to 2 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) A Lesson on using technology and nouns to bring interest and engagement to a lesson. |
| Technology-Assisted "7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens" |
9 to 10 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This unit teaches teens the underlying principles that are essential to achieving their goals and personal success. The activities, described in detail below, support an understanding of each of the 7 Habits along with any important terms and the application of those habits into the daily lives of the students through the implementation of “baby steps” that will be monitored twice a week by the students’ personal mentor and supplemented with a wide range of technological hardware and applications. |
| The Five Senses |
K to K |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) •.This unit will focus on the use of the five senses to develop a heightened awareness of the world. Skill development is centered on observing, describing and classifying objects. Students will use their senses to describe objects and identify common properties. Students will develop more refined methods of observation, ability to make more detailed descriptions and an increasing ability to differentiate among similar objects on the basis of one, and then
multiple, characteristics. Describing objects will involve making measurements of various properties and comparing them to other reference points (e.g., a color chart). |
| The Flat WSD Students |
1 to 5 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) The students create stories, a movie and a book about how they become flat after reading the story "Flat Stanley". This is written for Deaf students, however it could be easily modified for hearing students. |
| The Great Depression-A tale of misery and hope |
7 to 12 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) This lesson will seek to explore images using Smart-board technology while making observations and inferences in describing the period of the Great Depression. Was it a time period that was misery, or was there a tremendous hope for the United States during this period? Students will use photographs shown to support their answer to this essential question. |
| The More You Know: Designing Creative Solutions for Waste Reduction and Recycling |
2 to 6 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This lesson outlines the conclusion of a larger unit plan based on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Since these goals highlight global challenges that require innovative thinking and collaboration in order to develop possible solutions, the Design Process was also used to guide students throughout all aspects of the unit. Introductory lessons focused on the first two steps of this process: identify the problem and research possible solutions. Third grade is specifically working on Goal 12: Responsible Consumption and Production, so they began by making connections between this goal and their own lives. After identifying numerous problems related to Goal 12 within Montgomery Township, they ultimately agreed to concentrate their efforts on the waste and recycling management at MMR. Students then conducted an assessment of MMR’s waste stream in order to identify how much waste was being produced every day and how much of that waste could be recycled. Using the data collected, they moved on to the plan and create phase of the Design Process during which they developed proposals for a new system to manage the waste and recycling in the school cafeteria and within each classroom. As a whole class, we selected the best proposal to move further along in the Design Process. At this point, students are preparing to test & improve the decided upon plan before they conclude the unit using the school’s broadcast studio equipment to produce a Public Service Announcement (PSA) that will be aired for the entire student body. The PSA will allow students to communicate the results of their efforts, spread awareness about an important issue, and inform the school community on how we can work together show respect for the environment. |
| 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. |
| Through Our Eyes |
9 to 9 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) “The House on Mango Street” by Sandra Cisneros is a novel that addresses many important themes, but none more important than poverty. But simply talking about a world problem does not teach my students as much as a hands-on problem solving project would! Upon completing the novel, my students will tackle the final project “Through Our Eyes.” |
| Using Flip Video to Identify and Analyze Figurative Language |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will be divided into collaborative groups of 2 or 3. They will be assigned a type of figurative language which they will need to define and provide a dramatic interpretation using that type of figurative language on video. |
| V.I.P. Project |
K to 12 |
| Students interview each other and practice social skills while practicing reading and writing activities. |
| Walk a Day in my Moccasins |
P-K to 5 |
| Using a video camcorder to record a day in the life of another student who either is ELL or ESL or Special Needs (Austism) so that other students can see how these students deal with the challenging day at school. |
| Wanted - Dead or Alive |
3 to 6 |
| After learning about trickster tales, students will create clay models of a trickster, create a mug shot which will be used on a life-size wanted poster. Students will also photograph and animate the trickster using the Claymation software in Whole Class Fresco. Finally, students will design games based on a trickster tale for younger students. |
| 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. |
| What The Giver Society is Missing |
6 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Student will create a slideshow about The Giver by Lois Lowry. They will show why some of the rules in that community are actually not beneficial and are quite harmful. |
| Who Are QR? |
3 to 7 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Use your tablet to create a QR "Who Is" activity that allows self checking. |
| 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. |
| “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. |
