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| Lesson Plan Name |
Grades |
| Black History Month Menu/Choice Boards |
5 to 12 |
| •Students will write and create podcasts for a variety of purposes.
•Students will make choices about their learning, using a menu/choice board as a guide.
•Students will conduct guided research to create a variety of podcast projects to communicate their understanding of their research.
•Students will work collaboratively with other researchers in creating interesting podcasts.
•Students will explore literature, music and the lives of people associated with black history month.
•Students will engage in differentiated learning activities based on their interest and their ability. |
| 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. |
| Engaging Presentations of Research |
3 to 4 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will use a Z5 Hovercam Document Camera to help present information gathered through a research project on the American revolution. Presentations include recording an 'interview' with a Revolutionary patriot. |
| Traveling Abroad to Dine! |
3 to 4 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students incorporate the communication skills they have learned in Spanish class during the restaurant unit to produce a mini-drama. They show their advancement in the second language in an authentic setting. |
| "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. |
| A Book for Every Child |
7 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will self-select a book to read through accessing an eBook on the school's library website. |
| 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!! |
| Alternative Modes for Alternative Ed |
P-K to P-K |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) To provide media information in the form of a DVD library centrally located at Seminole County District Office in order to provide various learning formats for struggling and at risk incarcerated learnes. |
| Analyzing Motion of a Tossed Ball |
10 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Using digital cameras, students collect videos of their peers making basketball shots or tossing a ball in a parabolic arc. Using Vernier software, the students then analyze the motion of the object. |
| Biome Project |
5 to 6 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Biome Research project with a choie menu |
| Can You Carry a Tune in a Bucket? |
10 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will examine the relationships between frequency, wavelength, and measurable parameters associated with test-tube "instruments" used to play a tune. |
| 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. |
| Create A Keychain using 3D design |
P-K to 9 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) In this lesson my students will be able to utilize online 3D software to create a "marketable" keychain and print it out on a 3D printer. This will let students take ownership of this process by making it their own and understanding how to begin an entrepreneurship. |
| Creating Our Own Newscast |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Through effective delivery of the morning announcements, and adding creative visual headings for each, it is possible to share news on the school web page with students, staff, and parents, as well as archive the events of the year. |
| 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. |
| Cultures and Cuisines WebQuest |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 3 ratings) Groups of Five are to select a country that they would like to learn more about.
Research that country's environment, people, customs and characteristic foods.
Prepare a report/display and present to the class. |
| Excel Proability with Dice |
3 to 5 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This project is a 3rd grade excel project about proability and patterns using an Excel spreadsheet and dice. |
| Fast Food Meal Planning for Early Childhood |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Early childhood education students will use combined information on food and nutrition requirements for PreK age children to plan meals within the My Plate USDA guidelines and meeting case study criteria with fast food menus |
| Fit or Fat? |
6 to 8 |
| Students will be involved in a Science and Health lessons that involve nutrition and exercise. They will create Healthy Snacks and exercise profiles for the class. |
| Impossible Situation Project using Adobe Photoshop Elements 5.0 |
8 to 10 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Goal: To put together an artwork that is made up of edited pictures that could not be a real situation. |
| Introduction to Atomic Structure |
10 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This is an introductory lesson to atomic structure for a high school level chemistry class. It is a student self-paced lesson that allows for easy differentiation and student choice. |
| JUPITER |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) This lesson teaches students about Jupiter and Earth Science. It has been modified to accommodate students with various disabilities. |
| Laws of Motion Keynote Presentation |
7 to 10 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) After reviewing Newton’s Laws of Motion, students will create animations to illustrate each of the three laws. When animations are complete, appropriate sound effects can be added. Finished Keynote presentations will be exported as Quicktime movies, to be embedded in class wiki. |
| 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. |
| M&M Graphing |
3 to 5 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) In this series of lessons, students will predict and collect data, create a bar graph with paper and pencil, design bar graphs with different sorts of software, access and use the Internet, identify parts of a bar graph, compare the various graphs. |
| Making Book Trailers |
5 to 7 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) 5th grade students will make short trailers for popular children's books using Windows Movie Maker. |
| Microsoft PowerPoint |
6 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) A step-by-step lesson to teach students how to make an electronic presentations using Microsoft© PowerPoint. |
| Mondrian - Primary/Secondary Color Study |
7 to 12 |
| Students will use photoshop to create a painting similar to Mondrian's with primary and secondary colors. Students must create the secondary colors from the primary colors and not select them from the color palette |
| Nature Inspired Digital Alphabet |
2 to 5 |
| Through digital photography and basic computer skills students create their own nature inspired digital alphabet. Students find letters of the alphabet in objects made from nature, for example: ground erosion makes the letter “y,” or the veins of a leaf make the “A.” |
| Out to Lunch |
6 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will look through menus (pictures of items with prices on them) and pick what they would buy for lunch. Students will calculate the cost of their meal and pay for it using exact change. |
| Programming with Alice |
6 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Learn computer programming skills in a fun and creativity way using Alice, free software developed by Carnegie Mellon University. Create 3-D movies and video games while learning traditional programming concepts such as loops, nesting, if/else statements, and functions. |
| Restoring Memories and Planning Autobiography |
4 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This plan utilizes Google Maps for autobiography writing in response to the mentor text Knots in my Yo-Yo String” by Jerry Spinelli. |
| Save the Rainforest in South America |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) 7th Graders: Geography affects the characteristics of a country. Natural resources can determine
the success or failure of a country. Each country is rich in culture, even if they are a
poor country. Each student will appreciate his or her life‐styles, and opportunities
compared to poverty stricken countries. Global issues are complex, and the student
will explain the challenges the rainforest ecosystem is facing, and will develop a plan
of action they can do to help
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| Sharing your PowerPoint Presentation |
6 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) A step-by-step lesson to teach students how to share their electronic presentations using Microsoft© PowerPoint. |
| Sound Stations |
6 to 6 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students complete a series of stations to help them understand sound waves. |
| Special Reporters for School Daily Announcements |
7 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will create multi-media segments to be played during the School’s daily announcements. These will be multi-part, pre-recorded reports about school events and issues. These segments will include video, animation, graphics and still photography. |
| Stock Market Project |
7 to 9 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) In this activity, you and/or a small group will invest $10,000 in four different companies and then track the stock market price of those companies over a period of time. |
| Super Hero High |
P-K to 9 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) To make a movie with special needs high school students (students have multiple disabilities) about "Super Heroes." Students will create characters for themselves and decide what "Super Powers," they have and how they would use them. |
| Thanks for Your Service |
P-K to 12 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Students need to learn to be thankful for what they have. What better way than to honor those who have fought for their freedom. |
| The Food Pyramid |
3 to 3 |
| Students will learn the importance of healthy eating through an understanding of the food pyramid. They will learn what makes up a healthy diet by studying the daily breakfast and lunches served in the school cafeteria. |
| Through the Eyes of a Lens |
3 to 5 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will use point and shoot camera to take pictures of the world around them. They will learn to edit, print, and sell pictures. |
| What Makes a Great Plate? Nutrition for Today |
4 to 5 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will make informational posters, focusing on the new “MyPlate” nutrition guidelines from the USDA. Using the Tool Factory Word Processor, students will design posters that will be displayed in the school cafeteria to encourage the student body to make wise choices within each food group. |
| Writing and Podcasting |
2 to 5 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Based on just a few pictures, students can write and podcast their own story. |
