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| Lesson Plan Name |
Grades |
| 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. |
| Claymation Film Festival |
3 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This project allows students to extend their story-writing skills to a new medium. Students will learn the essential elements of a story through creating a storyboard, characters, and a short claymation video |
| 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! |
| Geometry Film Makers |
3 to 5 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will apply their knowledge of geometric concepts related to the world around them. The use of flip cameras will enable students to explain the distinguishing characteristics of key geometric vocabulary as they develop movie clips that will be used in the creation of a short film. |
| Lights, Camera, Action! A Filmed Chemistry Demonstration. |
10 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) In this authentic high school chemistry assessment, students use FLIP cameras to write, film, and edit a chemical reaction demonstration. Students will practice using safe lab practices and include a discussion of the chemical reaction theory. This lesson is designed to take place during a 90-minute block period with the subsequent 45-minute period used to edit the films. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Using laptops to make short films |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) My dream is for all students to have a laptop, in order to incorporate academic content through film creation. Computer resources used are FinalDraft and FinalCutPro. |
| 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. |
| "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. |
| American History Digital Movie |
5 to 12 |
| Students write, perform, produce, and present a digital movie based on a historical event. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Bollywood, Philadelphia |
9 to 12 |
| Students will create a Bollywood-type musical using digital media. |
| Continuidad de los Parques |
11 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Write a skit and film it using flip videos adding an ending to the short story Continuidad de los Parques by Julio Cortazar |
| Extr@ Spanish |
10 to 12 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Students watch an educational Spanish video series called Extr@. Students would use these cameras to produce and record their own episode of Extr@. |
| 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. |
| Greek Mythology Movies |
6 to 6 |
| Students will learn about Greek myths. Then, students create a script based off of a Greek myth, film, and edit their movies. |
| Growing up in Las Vegas: Memories of Childhood in the Neon City |
9 to 12 |
| In this project students will use digital voice recorders to interview older members of the Las Vegas community who grew up here, students will then communicate their oral history interviews with the community through the use of blogs, websites, a book and a documentary movie. |
| 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 Spielberg Can Do It, So Can I!! |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Students learn to make a movie using digital video cameras and video editing technology. |
| 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. |
| Poetry In Motion |
2 to 6 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Student come to hear the language , rhythm, and motion of poetry as they read and select images to represent their poems. |
| Recycling PSA |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Students apply the 3 types of persuasive appeals to make a public service announcement about recycling. |
| 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. |
| Stacy Bodin's "Digesting a Story" Unit |
1 to 5 |
(0 stars, 4 ratings) Digesting a Story (Written by Stacy Bodin, submitted by Schuyler Poche) Retired teacher (and current Dozier Tech Specialist/webmaster) Stacy Bodin wrote the and worked with this project several times during her teaching career. As librarian, I am submitting this with permission from Stacy Bodin. |
| 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 STEM Train! |
7 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) The STEM Train will be a school-wide program for students to create exploration through video-making, short films and documentaries. Students will become mini filmmakers. They will use the latest technology to make video presentations in class. Digital Cameras will be the source of our videos, but in order to “create” magic, we will need more electronic equipment. |
| Weather Report |
7 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students create and film a weather report as seen on the evening news. |
| What's In A Name? |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Sixth grade research class students will learn about triangulation as they collect primary and secondary research about their names, along with expert opinion . The research findings will be presented in the form of a movie. |
| I Have A Dream |
2 to 5 |
(0 stars, 4 ratings) Fourth Grade and Second Grade Buddies will collaborate to write "I Have A Dream" poetry and record their poetry to share on the Internet. They will use the videos to assess the content and presentation. |
| "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. |
| "A Picture Is Worth A Million Words" |
7 to 8 |
(0 stars, 4 ratings) This project is a photography, poetry, and bookmaking unit utilizing three artists-in-residence who teach photography, poetry, and bookmaking. |
| "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 |
| "FLIP-iT" - Where Do I Go From Here? |
12 to 12 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Graduating seniors find themselves at a pivotal point in their lives. By doing four Flip Camera interviews of themselves, on a series of topics, they will take a closer look at their values and goals, and gain potentially insightful reflections for the future as they prepare for the next step. We will burn all four videos to disk and they will also have a nice souvenir for their Senior year. |
| "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. |
| "Know Your Rights" Bill of Rights- Stop Motion Video Project |
8 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will create a stop-motion video short based on one of the ten amendments in the U.S. Bill of Rights. |
| "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. |
| "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. |
| "The Know Show" (Think: Saturday Night Live meets Bill Nye meets Fifth Grade) |
P-K to 5 |
(0 stars, 4 ratings) My fifth grade students will use video editing software with the flip camera we have in the class to produce 'The Know Show' every other week. The students will write skits, perform songs they pen, display historical reinactements, act in joke segments, and describe scientific drawings all during each15 minute show. |
| "Why College?" Commercial |
9 to 9 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Students will create a 30 second commercial advertisement for an audience of high school students. The commercial's message must center around why attending college is important. |
| 'Student Teaching' |
6 to 6 |
| Students teamed up to teach a 20 minute mini-lesson. I used my Flip Video Camera and Tripod to record them. |
| 21 century pen pals |
3 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) These lessons are for the students to show what they've learned about specific topics to an international school. |
| 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. |
| A Day in the Life of ... |
10 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Overview: Evansville, IN offers many opportunities for students to experience high tech product creation.Students will video the life of a product being manufactured in Evansville at such companies like Mead Johnson Nutrition, Berry Plastics Corporation and AmeriQual Foods. |
| 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 tribute to Willis. |
11 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) A culmination of a semester's worth of prep which includes, the history of stop motion animation, clay character design and production, writing story concepts, creating storyboards and building dioramas. All leading to the production of a digitally animated stop motion film. |
| A Virtual Tour of our School -- in Spanish! |
10 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Spanish 2 students film a video tour of our school in Spanish using Flip video cameras and exchange with cooperating schools in other states. |
| 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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| Adding Creativity to Science Inquiry |
6 to 12 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Students create flip videos that enhance scientific investigations performed in class by having students think metacognitively while fusing the fun of creativity with the science of analytical thinking. |
| Advertising in Action |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Students create their own commercials for a product of their choice. They must utilize a variety of advertising techniques to sell their products. |
| All About Me! |
K to 1 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Writing stories "All About Me" |
| Animation |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Through the exploration of animation techniques, students will be able to describe and depict emotions and expressions with processes, traditional tools, and modern technologies used in the arts. |
| Animation Festival |
5 to 6 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) 5th and 6th grade students will create claymation and object animation shorts to be produced as a short film festival. This lesson is actually a unit on animation comprised of several weeks of group work and filming. |
| 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. |
| Be A Star! |
K to 1 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will be able to showcase other students meeting the behavior expectations set by our school within the hallways, lunchroom, classroom, playground, riding the bus, and going in and out of the building. |
| 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. |
| Beginning Sounds -What sound does each picture begin with? |
K to K |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Beginning Sounds -What sound does each picture begin with? |
| 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. |
| 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! |
| Book Talks- Reading Rainbow Style! |
3 to 5 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Students will film book talks (books they recommend to other readers), like the ones enjoyed on PBS's Reading Rainbow, which we will then be played on our school's morning news program. |
| Book Trailers |
3 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will produce book trailers to be shown on the morning annoucements based on books they have read as a group in class. |
| Breaking News: Who Did It? |
7 to 7 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will summarize the work that they have been doing to solve a mystery in science class using genetics to find who contaminated a school nutrition source! In groups of 3 or 4, students will create a breaking news headline detailing the crime and the suspect including evidence using the Videolicious App on the iPad. |
| Campus Media Team |
5 to 6 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) The campus media team create biweekly news shows for the school. The videos are for the students and teachers to be kept informed, entertained and updated on the latest events happening at school. |
| Capturing Conic Sections with Digital Cameras |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) This project will help students to make connections between math and the real world by having them identify conic sections in art and architecture in their communities. Students will photograph these examples of circles, ellipses, parabolas, and hyperbolas in the real world with digital cameras and then write the equations for the graphs. |
| Character Counts in Action! |
K to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will create documentaries based around the 6 Pillars of Character. Each group/individual, will highlight the pillars in a video that defines and provides examples of the pillar and problem solving solutions for difficult situations that arise in and around the school community. |
| 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. |
| Christmas Around the World |
P-K to 2 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Christmas Around the World |
| Claymation Metamorphosis in Butterflies |
3 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This Claymation project will show the Butterfly Life Cycle. Starting with a storyboard plan our students will build characters ( young larvae, mature larvae, butterfly) and film their actions one frame at a time with a digital camera. |
| 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. |
| Collaborating Living Moments |
6 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students who are incarcerated experience very little positive influences, have created substantial challenges, and show little ability to make beneficial, character building decisions. which incapacitate them to progress academically, socially, vocationally, etc., and ensure continued failure . We wish to utilize the Seminole County Dividend Speakers to influence these students, however, due to incarceration and facility regulations, students are unable to participate in their presentations. Therefore, we would request technology, in the form of DVD video camera and digital programming, to bring speaker presentations in house. We would tape initial speaker performances at Eugene Gregory and later present to other students at John Polk and the Juvenile Detention Facility. |
| 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 Helpers in our School and Town |
P-K to K |
(0 stars, 3 ratings) This lesson correlates with our Reading Unit on Neighborhood Helpers |
| 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. |
| Create a Mini Movie For Field Trips!!! |
4 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will use the Magisto- Magical Video Editor App on a smartphone/tablet to create movies from selected photos and videos on a field trip. |
| Creating a How-To Video |
3 to 6 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will complete an essay and short video using iPads, transitional words and power verbs. Students will choose from a list of "how to" ideas, create a video explaining and demonstrating the steps. Students will also use laptops/computers to compile a narrative essay. |
| Creating A School News Network |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will create a TV Network where they will produce programming for the school and the school's website. This programming will include daily announcements, video shorts regarding special programs, projects, and events at the school. |
| Creating an Informative Video on the Importance of Healthy Rivers |
4 to 9 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will learn about the effects of pollution on rivers and how to chemically test a water sample. They will make an informative video about the importance of healthy rivers and present it to the whole school. |
| Creating Fairytales using Tool Factory Movie Maker software |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Students will create their own fairytale or a modern day interpretation of an existing fairy tale using Tool Factory Movie Maker software. |
| Cyberbullying PSA |
5 to 8 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Students will form groups of 2 or 3 to make a 60 second Cyber-Bullying Public Service Announcement. They will contuct research, create an outline, write a script, film, edit and publish. |
| 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. |
| Dear Future Writing Assignment |
1 to 4 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will be writing to future residents through a Time Capsule. |
| Digital Forensics |
9 to 12 |
| Students will understand and comprehend how to investigate a crime scene and the importance of crime scene photography. |
| 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 Mitosis and Claymation |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students use digital cameras to create a movie or vodcast of mitosis or meiosis. |
| 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. |
| DNA Replication Animation |
7 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students use modeling clay and stop-motion animation to illustrate the replication of DNA. |
| Don't Just Do It - Talk About it! |
3 to 5 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) A hands - on science class provides student with the opportunity to experience learning rather than just hear about it. Combine that with a Flipcam and you have a winning combination. Students using hands-on activities for direct experience and video to help students explain and internalize their learning. |
| Dot and Dash Global Ambassadors |
3 to 6 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Combining communication , collaboration, critical thinking , computer coding, real world writing, geography, research skills and creativity. |
| Earth Day Commercials |
3 to 5 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) For our culminating unit on recycling and conservation, students will work in groups to write and produce a commercial for the morning news show encouraging students in the school to do something specific to help the environment. |
| 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. |
| Economics: Products of South Louisiana |
2 to 4 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Economics: Products of South Louisiana: Students will learn how two products are part of South Louisiana's Economic Process.
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| Electronic Poetry Project |
6 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) The Electronic Poetry Project is a student-generated, project-based learning experience in which students utilize technology to develop skills in research, writing, and creativity to produce an audio/video presentation. Student-driven, project-based learning enhances lasting knowledge rather that just momentary learning. |
| Elementary Lessons for Primary and Secondary Sources |
3 to 4 |
(0 stars, 4 ratings) Primary and Secondary Sources Lessons |
| Energy Agents in Action |
K to 5 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Students will learn through video how to conserve energy and protect their environment. |
| 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. |
| Exploring our World through Video |
2 to 4 |
| I want to allow students to use video to express their lives and the area in which they live. I also would like for them to learn how to use a camera, import video and create great projects using that video. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| FISH FACE: Character Design & Animation |
3 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will explore how animators use facial expressions, physical gesture and sound to create characters, as they work with a partner to create an animated short. Students will be introduced stop motion animation with a screening of the claymation classic, "Creature Comforts." |
| Flat Stanley Visits....Your Imagination in Claymation! |
3 to 8 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Students will enhance their literature experience by producing a Claymation movie starring Flat Stanley Goes to...their imagination! |
| Flip Camera Activity: Being a Good Citizen |
3 to 4 |
| Flip Camera Activity: Being a Good Citizen involves the students dicovering and citing what makes a good citizen and then filming each other's findings. |
| Flip Camera Christmas Lessons and Ideas |
P-K to 6 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Flip Camera Christmas Lessons and Ideas |
| 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 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 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 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. |
| 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. |
| Flippin for Valley View Scavenger Hunt |
K to 6 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This is a lesson for including an outdoor nature preserve onsite at our school and using it to teach state standards while incorporating technology into a classroom where nature can't come inside. |
| Flippin' For CJH-A Video Presentation of Our Campus |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) The students use the Flip Video Cameras to learn the principles of multimedia production while producing a meaningful video tour of our campus product. This product will be used to introduce CJH to newcomers and the world wide web. |
| Flipping for Math |
7 to 7 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will plan and develop a video over current topics taught in math for the semester using Flip Video cameras. |
| Flipping Out at the Peoples' Choice Ad Awards |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) A marketing lesson plan taking marketing basic concepts and applying them in a culminating project. This is a grouped project requiring the students to use technology creatively to attempt to produce a winning video commercial for a classroom award ceremony. |
| Flipping Over Our Weather Reports |
2 to 6 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will write and film a weather report. |
| 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. |
| Flipping with Math |
1 to 1 |
(0 stars, 4 ratings) 1st graders will write math sentences and model those with items. Using a flip camera or still camera, the students would model their own number sentences. |
| From Book to Script to Claymation |
3 to 6 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Guide to creating a Claymation movie from a children's book. More than LIGHTS, CAMERA, ACTION, it's writing, editing, designing, and building sets, creating characters, filming, recording voices, and oh yes save those out-takes. |
| 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. |
| Geography of Our School |
K to K |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will work in groups to video interviews about the important locations in their school. The videos will be embedded into a class-made map of the school to share with the class as well as future Kindergarten students. |
| Ghost Stories in Spanish |
11 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) In this lesson, students will study Hispanic folk tales like "La Llorona" and use flip cameras and ToolFactory software to create a movie version of one of the tales. The lesson could also be approached as a podcast! |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Hear Ye! Hear Ye! |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) A team of students will create a documentary presented from the point of view of people and explorers who lived during the specific assigned historical event. |
| Historical Scavenger Hunts |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Students explore the history of their community by paying attention to the details of architecture, monuments and area artifacts. This is a multi-step lesson that allows students to practice historical fieldwork, pre-reading strategies, acting skills, research skills, writing skills and public speaking skills. |
| 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. |
| Human Impact Video Project |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Using Flip cameras and Pinnacle video editing software, the student task was to create a 1-2 minutes video on human impact on the globe. The video was take the form of a news broadcast as if they were filming "on location". |
| I Can Help the Earth, Can You? |
1 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will use the flip video cameras to create short video clips, or commercials, stating what they can do around the school to promote Earth Day awareness. These will be used to spread awareness of the simple acts that can be done each day at school and home to help our Earth. |
| 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 Want To Be an Entrepreneur (Flip Camera Lesson Plan for Economics) |
3 to 6 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) I Want To Be an Entrepreneur (Flip Camera Lesson Plan for Economics)
Objective: The students will create and advertise a business while learning the meaning of the words entrepreneur, advertise, profit, and loss. |
| Idiom Ideographs |
9 to 12 |
| ESL students will learn the meaning of idioms by creating audio-visual meaning representations. Student projects may be audio, pictorial or dramatic. |
| 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!” |
| If I Were 100 Years Old... |
K to 3 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) For the 100th day of school, my first graders are asked to write about what they would and would not be able to do if they were 100 years old. To update this lesson, I would have them dress up as if they were 100 years old and record their thinking in a flip video. |
| In the Days of our People: Shageluk, Alaska |
K to 12 |
| Archiving Athabaskan Memories from Shageluk: Student projects |
| Inspirational Essay: Video |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will create an inspirational movie using both video and text. Partners will choose a famous person who has inspired them. Using quotes and filmed clips, students will create a video detailing how and why this person inspired them. |
| 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 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. |
| Introduction to Stop Motion |
2 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This is basically accomplishing three things: teaching kids the process and technology involved with stop-motion animation, working on the editing side of making a movie, and creating two projects (one to practice application and one for synthesis). |
| Iowa History Television Broadcast |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) In this lesson, students are responsible for researching an event of their choosing from the history of Iowa. After choosing an event, they must then prepare a news broadcast to the class. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Jumping in the air - What was your height? |
7 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Using video equipment and quadratic formulas students will determine the height of their jumps. |
| Kids with Cameras make a difference |
1 to 4 |
| 1-4th grade students create a photography exhibit titled "Sense of Place" about their community and then use the exhibit to collect donations to support international Kids with cameras programs. |
| Learning About Migration Through Interviews |
3 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Using Flip Videos, students will work together in partnerships to learn about why individuals migrate to the United States and hardships/obstacles a person may face. Students will also learn how to prepare questions, interview on film, use a Flip Video, make a movie of and interview. |
| Learning More About Inventors! |
2 to 5 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) 4th Grade students in Lori Porter’s class at Dozier Elementary had a taste of the movie industry as they worked on an inventor/invention project for Social Studies. The goal of the lesson was for the class to learn about twenty famous inventors/inventions and how those have impacted life in America. |
| Les Petits Chefs |
10 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Using a flipcam, students created a proposal to offer French cooking and language lessons for children in our community. They submitted their video to the "Francophone Youth in Action" contest sponsored by the Francophone Centre of the Americas, and won a $2500 grant to realize their project. |
| Let 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. |
| Let's Make Subtraction Movies! |
1 to 1 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will create number sentences and create a little movie. |
| Lights! Camera! Action! |
5 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) In this lesson, students will use resources to explore the functions of digital cameras. Students will then use a digital camera to take photos which will utilize simple photography configuration principles. Students use their photos to share ideas and information in the community and with peers, both in person and online. |
| Lights, Camera, Action! |
3 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Using Flip Cameras and editing software, students will create videos of students performing a weekly reading selection. |
| Lincoln Bicentennial Celebration |
5 to 12 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Students will use a variety of primary sources to compose an informational video on Abraham Lincoln. Though this is written for Middle School, 5th grade to high school could actually use the same plans. |
| Literacy through Photography |
4 to 5 |
| Literacy through Photography encourages children to find their unique voice through original photographs and written text. Students photograph scenes from their lives, and these images drive related writing activities. |
| Living Creatures Up Close |
2 to 5 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will discover a pond habitat, capture a specimin and observe under a microscope. |
| 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. |
| Louisiana Unit for Pre K |
P-K to P-K |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will learn about their state. |
| Mastering a Student's Personal Information in a Special Education Classroom |
2 to 5 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Students come to me lacking personal information such as their middle name, ability to spell and read parents' and siblings names, pets' names, dates of birth, etc. My project will focus on mastering this information through photography. Our product will be a photo book for each student. |
| Math Game Video Tutorials |
3 to 6 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) To facilitate increased family involvement and support of students' mathematics learning, students collaborated in small groups to create video tutorials for family members to watch and learn how to play the math games students play at school as part of their math lessons. |
| Memoirs of a Fifth Grader |
5 to 5 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Fifth grade students will write an auto-biography and create a correlating video diary. |
| Mi vida Loca |
10 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will create a video presentation describing and showing important events and/or places of their lives. |
| Modern Day Piracy |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will lean about copyright laws and how use the internet legally and safely. |
| Modern Indian Culture as "Scene" through Bollywood |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Using Knowledge from Current Indian Culture (social organization, religion, government, language, arts and literature, customs and traditions, economy) students will be asked to collaboratively create, film, and edit a five minute scene in the true style of a Bollywood film. |
| Movie Maker: Retelling a story |
3 to 6 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) 6th grade students will use FlipVideo to retell the story they read, using beginning, middle, and ending. It would need a title page and credits. Objective: Reading Comprehension, Writing, Planning, Application of technology. |
| Movie Music |
5 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students study music in movies and create a sequel to a popular childrens movie. |
| Movies for Mothers |
P-K to 5 |
| Students will use photos, drawings, and videos to create a movie using Tool Factory Movie Maker as a heartwarming gift for their mother on Mother's Day. |
| Moving the Brain |
5 to 6 |
| Students will lead short exercise routines that can be performed in the classroom. Classroom teachers will then be able to use these videos to get their class up and moving when they are in need of a quick brain break! |
| Multi Media: Television Show Production |
10 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) OST class offered for students in grades 10-12. Introduction to multi-media production careers with partnership with local university students, radio station and cable TV. |
| Multiplication Live! |
3 to 3 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Filming student lessons with multiplication |
| 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. |
| My Three Words |
7 to 8 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Our schools 7th and 8th grade Performing Arts class was asked to reflect on an significant event that happened in their life. The student had to express this event using only 3 words in a non traditional and non verbal way, such as written in flower petals, in the sand etc. We used our flip camera to record each child's interpretation, and set the movie to music. |
| My Town/ My School |
3 to 6 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students groups will gather information on their town or school. They will research the city website, or school website to find important facts, history, and landmarks. Student groups will create a presentation to share with others. |
| Mythbusters - Don't FLIP Out! High School Isn't THAT Scary!! |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will be introduced to various activities surrounding the concept of digital video production. Students will use Flip™ Video cameras to produce a video that will be used during the high school orientation night for the county’s incoming 8th grade class. |
| News Broadcasts |
3 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) After writing and practicing a script, the students present a news broadcast about a topic in the news. This is made with a Flip camera and sent to other classrooms. |
| Notre monde - Our world |
7 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will share their way of life with their French-speaking pen pals by making a video about them in their community. |
| Novel, Loser by Jerry Spinelli "Bullying" Commercials |
4 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) After my class read the novel, Loser by Jerry Spinelli, they worked in cooperative groups to select one of the bullying scenes to act out in a commercial to be videoed
with a Flip Camera. They wrote the script, designed the props, costumes, and had to become actors and actresses to perform the original scene from the book, as well as, how the incident could have been prevented. |
| 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. |
| 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 Elements Commercials |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) After studying ten primary persuasive elements, students were asked to brainstorm a known product and develop an angle. Then they drafted a 1-2 minute script and produced a commercial, including editing and post-production work. |
| persuasive writing FLIP style! |
3 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students produced a persuasive i-movie presentation on avoiding caffeine-includes the characteristics of persuasive writing, images, voiceovers, data, recommended solutions, and song remake of "Pants on the Ground." |
| 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 |
| Point and Shoot Mood Silent Movie |
7 to 8 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) There is a movie, Who is Afraid of Virginia Wolf, that the story is told more by the actions of the characters than their words. This lesson will help students understand emotions and how to portray the mood of a story with facial expressions, music and no words. They will make a silent movie! |
| Post Production -- Editing a Short Video |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Students (in teams) will edit a short film using Final Cut Pro.
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| Poverty Point Native Americans |
2 to 3 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Poverty Point Native Americans and Landmark in Louisiana (Rotation Day 1 with Centers) |
| PowerPoint Probability |
6 to 6 |
| Students conduct an independent probability experiment and film the scenario. The scene is imported into a PowerPoint presentation with frequency tables and graphs. Students create questions to ask other students about their probability movie. |
| Pre K Learn Learn About Patterns |
P-K to P-K |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Pre K Learn Learn About Patterns |
| 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. |
| 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 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. |
| Public Service Announcements for Our School |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will work in co-op groups to brainstorm, plan, write scripts, keyboard scripts and then use digital video camera to film public service announcements. They will edit on the computer and we will show on morning announcements and connect to website. |
| Quadrilateral Scavenger Hunt |
6 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students explore the school for various quadrilaterals. Once they find them, they record themselves using a Flip camera describing the various characteristics of each one.
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| 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 Rainbow for Second Graders |
2 to 2 |
| Students will collaborate to develop a multimedia presentation based on a theme using a Reading Rainbow format consisting of book summaries, a team documentary, and original writing with illustrations. Teams of students with similar interests would be selected to work together on an eight to nine week project which will allow for differentiated learning opportunities. |
| 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. |
| Red Ribbon Week |
4 to 8 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) During this week we will perform shows that teal with the topics of Bullying and Cyber-bullying. The students will write parts of the shows and they will be performed over three days for the entire school which has an enrollment of about 720 students. |
| Reenacting Shakespeare |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Students analyze scenes from Romeo and Juliet and recreate scenes through modern skits. |
| Reporting News About Rosa Parks |
4 to 6 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) You are a news reporter and your boss needs for you to write a newspaper article on Rosa Parks. |
| 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." |
| RTI FLIP Oral Reading Portfolio - Sacajawea, 3rd Grade |
1 to 12 |
(0 stars, 5 ratings) At-risk and below-level students will master content of a short, non-fiction text to improve oral reading fluency. Students will use the FLIP cameras to tape multiple readings and an acted-out version of the text, which will be kept in personal student video portfolios. Periodic viewing of student portfolios increases student reading confidence because they actually see great improvement over a short period of time. |
| School Commercial |
7 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Creating a commercial about Jewett Academy. |
| 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 Olympics |
K to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Science Olympics will actively involve the chemistry and ELL science students at Reynolds High School with science education in one the district’s elementary schools heavily populated with ELL children. The high school chemistry and ELL students will be taught how to present and involve the grade school kids in a variety of hands-on science activities covering all seven of the Common Curriculum Goals and will be encouraged to think creatively and plan how to get these basic science concepts across to children in grades K-5. By doing so both the high school students and the K-5th graders will experience science as fun, rewarding, interactive, engaging, and memorable.
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| 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 |
| ScreenPlay Writing |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This a two-week unit that includes screenplay writing and video editing |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Shot Composition Video |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will introduce and demonstrate 22 camera shots, movements, and angles using a digital camera. They will edit their video using iMovie and add music using Garageband. Final projects will be posted on their own webpages. |
| Social Skills |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will read a text at their reading level depicting a challenge faced in middle school. They will discuss the relevant issue and collaborate about how to solve the problem through role-play and practice. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| SPARTACUS!!! Wait...what? |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 3 ratings) The student will be able to create a Claymation version of their favorite movie using the skills that were learned in class. They will also create a stop motion version using their classmates as the objects.
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| 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. |
| Stone Soup--More than a Field Trip When it is a Video/Movie |
P-K to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) First grade students use digital storytelling techniques to create movies that extend the learning from field trips. |
| Stop Animation, Art history and Literacy |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students work in teams of two to create a short Stop Animation Film for pre-K through 1st graders to learn about the Masters of Art History. |
| Stop Cyberbullying Today! |
8 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Eighth grade students in my Computer 8 course will create a 60 second video about how to prevent Cyberbullying. |
| Stop Motion Animation with Photographs |
5 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Have students move objects in a scene and take a series of photographs that create the illusion of movement of said objects. The students will then put the photos in a video editing program to make a short video of their characters in action. |
| Stop Motion to Jump Start Thinking! |
3 to P-K |
(0 stars, 5 ratings) For this project, students will be able to display their knowledge gained from an inquiry project or book reading using the stop motion techniques. |
| Students will FLIP for the News |
4 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Incorporating technology skills with both written and verbal communication skills, students will create news programs to be shared on School Tube. |
| Studio Photography |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This project involves shooting long exposure photography in the school portrait lighting studio. |
| Take a Picture, It will last longer! |
3 to 5 |
| Begin a Camera Club after school hours that will enhance learning through cameras and technology. Students should be able to express themselves creatively with technology and gain a curiosity of the world around them through photography. |
| 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. |
| 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 as a Tool of Science |
9 to 12 |
| Digital cameras and Tool Factory will be used in a variety of projects in several classes. The objective is to show students the tools that can assist them in the recording, cataloging and sharing of science information. |
| The Art of Video |
5 to 5 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) After learning about post-modern dancer, choreographer, and film-maker Yvonne Raines, students will create an improvisational dance. They will enhance the meaning and effect of their 16 count movement phrase by videoing the dance at different camera angles. |
| The Clay's the Thing |
12 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Senior Creative Writing students will learn about dramatic structure, create original scripts for claymation, produce a short film, then hold a school-wide The Clay's the Thing Film Festival |
| The Flip Side |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will use their Flip cameras to chronicle their experience at a local food pantry and share their experience with the rest of the school and local community organizations. |
| The Illustrated Bill of Rights |
11 to 12 |
| Most of the students who are assigned this American Government project have had little or no experience using PowerPoint or working with a digital video camera. This project will serve as an introduction to the use of this technology as well as a means of learning the Bill of Rights. |
| The Important Thing |
P-K to 7 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) At the end of the school year, students create a movie using iMovie or Photostory with the theme of "The Important Thing About Fifth Grade." This movie is shared with incoming 5th graders the next year! |
| 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 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 PLEO Project: An Introduction to Computational Thinking and Programming |
8 to 8 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) This small group collaborative project introduces 8th grade students to programming with PLEO, a robotic baby Camarasaurus with a LifeOS. Students first get to know PLEO's personality by interacting with him to learn about his behaviors. They will then learn how to program him to perform their individually created original "skits". |
| 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 Waning Moon |
4 to 5 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will create a short claymation video to explain the phases of the moon and what we can learn from them. |
| 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. |
| 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 Warp Interview |
3 to 5 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) With the aid of technology and a bit of creativity students will travel back in time and interview leaders of early America. Students will then be paired up to conduct interviews to portray the qualities of a great leader.
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| 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. |
| Tour the Solar System |
4 to 6 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) The students in my computer class will create an animated tour of each planet in our solar system. The movie will take the viewer to each planet starting at the sun. |
| Un anuncio comercial |
10 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will create their own comercial using movie maker |
| UNIVERSAL BUS STOP |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) As a culminating activity, my Advanced Placement seniors create a script and storyboard combining literary characters and historical figures. The presentation must begin at a bus stop, and the identity of the characters / people should be made evident through dress, dialogue, and actions. |
| Using Cubelets to Create a Self-Driving Car |
4 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Lesson Overview- The students will design and create robot car that will drive and steer with cubelet sensors triggered by the students hands. They will design and create a track with construction paper where the car will run. The students will then research the development of self-driving cars and compare their basic components to the components of the cars they created. The students will create a short video showcasing their cars and research. |
| Video Yearbook/Senior Video |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) The Video Yearbook/Senior Video will be an ongoing year-long project. During the school year students will film school events such as sports and homecoming, drama and music productions, and club activities, and graduation. Tool Factory Movie Maker will be used to edit the clips for a Video Yearbook which will be burned to DVD. |
| Voice of History |
7 to 12 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Radio programs dominated national consciousness from the beginning of the 1900s to the dawn of television, and they were known for their abundant creativity, their clever advertising, and their infinite reach. Recreate the joy and drama with quick research, a few voice recorders, and a solid editing program. |
| We Have a Dream |
2 to 4 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students write their own "I Have a Dream" speech based on how they think they can make their world a better place. |
| We have a dream.... |
4 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will use the Flip ULTRA 120-minute Camcorders to recreate Martin Luther King Jr.'s famous "I have a dream..." speech with a little twist! |
| Weather Forecast Project |
6 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) How can you use software available on a Mac laptop to best create a professional weather forecast that demonstrates your ability to read and interpret a weather map? |
| Weather Forecast Project |
6 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) How can you use software available on a Mac laptop to best create a professional weather forecast that demonstrates your ability to read and interpret a weather map? |
| Welcome to BIS! - A Student-created Video for New Students |
3 to 3 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Blackhawk Intermediate School has approximately 600 students in grades 3-5. Second graders from two primary buildings move to BIS each Fall which can be overwhelming as the building is much bigger than their previous buildings. Third graders will create a welcome video to introduce new students to BIS and help make this transition easier. |
| 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. |
| Welcome to Our School! |
3 to 5 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) This lesson plan is designed to teach students how to develop perspective, boost creativity, and promote communication and collaboration skills. Students will create a video about our school intended for new students to feel more comfortable and knowledgeable about our school before arriving on their first day. |
| 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 is it... A Frog or a Toad? |
1 to 3 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Frog and Toad
Lesson Purpose: Comparing Frogs and Toads (Can be used for science lessons or for any “Frog and Toad” Series book.) |
| What's Up with the Water Cycle? |
1 to 2 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Purpose: Students would learn the steps of the water cycle, then film the process and explain it using a flip camera. |
| 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 the Man? Men of the French & Indian War and Road to the Revolution |
5 to 6 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Who's the Man? Men of the French & Indian War and Road to the Revolution |
| Why teach Jet Toys? (Tool Factory Movie Maker ) |
5 to 5 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will use what digital cameras to capture to importance of learning force and motion through Jet Toys. |
| You Can Do It: Creating How-To Videos |
P-K to P-K |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Middle school students create instructional videos for other students using Flip video cameras and editing software. Students must brainstorm a topic, write an original script and create their film and audio narration, then edit and and create an original movie. Sample topics include "How to tie your shoes," "How to be organized for Middle School," and "The Water Cycle." |
