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| Lesson Plan Name |
Grades |
| Kindergarten Animal Research Book Making Project |
P-K to P-K |
 (0 stars, 1 ratings) This animal research project integrates writing, science, reading, and technology. Students are able to choose an animal to learn more about, document information using technology and print the project in color to share and keep. |
| "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. |
| "A" is Awesome |
P-K to 5 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students respond to the book, The Absolutely Awful Alphabets by Mordicai Gerstein by taking digital pictures of alphabets occurring naturally throughout the school. |
| A Trip to the Mall... Washington D.C. |
3 to 5 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) This project incorporate our Nation's Capital into a board game that integrates curriculum not only across subjects, but grade levels. |
| Around Town |
K to 2 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Objective: Apply organizational writing strategy of sequencing to write about a trip around town. allow students to experience the being the illustrator/photographer for their own writing/book. |
| Autism Through the Eyes of Technology |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Statistics show that All children benefit from the use of technology in the classroom, however, children with Autism participate, communicate, and engage MOST effectively by using technology. In addition, most of my students have difficulties with fine motor skills, and using technology in the classroom for various lessons would help them grow tremendously. My project will enhance learning and motivate my students to initiate communication participate and collaborate with their peers in order to reach their greatest potential. |
| Autobiographies |
2 to 3 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) My kids will be creating Autobiographies or Biographies on a family member. They will be taking pictures that relate to different aspects of their life and writing about the photographs with paragraphs and captions. |
| 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. |
| Class Book |
1 to 1 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will write four sentences describing themselves. They will need to make sure each sentence has a verb, noun and an adjective. Use of clip art station to illustrate these sentences. |
| Classroom Booklet Adapted from Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See |
K to K |
| Students will make pictures of animals using different colors as in the book mentioned. When they are finished, a photo will be taken of them and their picture. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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 Cloud Riddle Book |
1 to 3 |
| Students will learn to identify different cloud types, observe and photograph clouds in nature with interesting shapes, and print and write a riddle about the object they see in the clouds. Each student will add their cloud riddle and photo to form a class book to be added to the class website for everyone to enjoy. |
| Digital Dreams |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This lesson connects students' experiences with short stories, poems, speeches and newspaper articles in a thematic unit on "Dreams." Students take images that best reflect the pieces read as well as take photos for pieces of writing students create. |
| Digitial Picture Water Source Hunt |
K to 2 |
| Students will create a Power Point and book that will show an in-depth understanding of where water comes from and how we use water in our everyday lives. |
| Fantasy Fusion |
K to 12 |
| Creating fantasy books with students as characters. |
| Force and Motion Flip Books |
4 to 8 |
| Students will use a digital camera to take pictures of the six simple machines, the three types of levers, and Newton's Laws of Motion as seen in the "real world". |
| Friendship Book |
1 to 3 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) The students will take pictures of their friends and write what they know about their friends and the things they like to do with their friends. It will turn out to be a friendship book.
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| 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. |
| Haikus for All Seasons |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This project involves a combination of nature photography, writing haikus to match the photography, and publishing a book of the finished work. |
| I Went Walking |
P-K to P-K |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Kindergarten students take a walk through a Nature Trail to write a book that goes along with Sue William's book "I Went Walking." |
| Illustrated Dictionary |
P-K to 8 |
(0 stars, 4 ratings) As a culminating activity for a Science or Social Studies unit, students will create their own illustrated dictionary including key vocabulary learned throughout the unit. This activity will include small group as well as independent work, and employ technologies such as digital cameras, photo editing software, computer, printer, and SMART board. |
| In the Field with Salamanders |
5 to 5 |
| 5th grade students will collect and monitor the diversity of salamanders in their community. They will produce a field guide to share with other local students that will include both quantitative and qualitative data collected over time. |
| Inspiring Young Authors with Scholastic Keys |
1 to 5 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students completed story prompts using Scholastic Keys and then illustrated their work either by using the paint tool or inserting clip art. Students' work was then displayed for all to see and read. |
| Interactive Books with VoiceThread |
P-K to 2 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will use photos, illustrations and writing to dictate an interactive book which can be read during shared reading or shared with families. |
| Introduction into Graphic Design & Photography 5th Grade Edition |
5 to 6 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Essential Question: How will students apply their knowledge in art & technology through project based lessons that provides hands-on activites to create works of art that communicates ideas and information? |
| Introduction to Cherokee Syllabary Sounds |
P-K to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will construct their own workbook depicting each sound of the Cherokee Syllabayr |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Life Cycle of a Butterfly |
3 to 3 |
| Documenting the life cycle of a butterfly through digital pictures. |
| Life Cycle of the Butterfly |
2 to 6 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will be able to record and report the life cycle of a butterfly using a digital camera. A digital book or slide show will be created at the end of the project. |
| 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. |
| Make a Memory with Movie Maker |
3 to 12 |
| Students create an original story, plan the illustrations and create an audiofile to tell the story. Put everything together on Movie Maker and you have students begging to write more. |
| Making Handbound Books |
3 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Everyone loves a beautiful book made by hand. Use these easy books in the Japanese stab-stitching style for sketchbooks, journals, or content-area projects. |
| My Add on Sentence Story. |
K to 3 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Everyday have students write/type one sentence in their journal. Daily, students will be asked to write/type an additional sentence to the previous one to eventually have a weekly short story. |
| My Family - Bookmaking for Social Studies |
P-K to 5 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will create a "My Family" book using digital images and text to share their knowledge of the roles and responsibilities of each member of their family. They will have a copy to keep at home and one to share with classmates and their families through the.classroom lending library. |
| My Giving Tree |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will use language arts, social studies, and technology skills to write their own personal stories of a native tree that they have adopted. The stories will center on identifying and learning about the benefits that they receive from their trees. |
| My 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. |
| Picture Books: A School-Wide Genre Exploration |
K to 6 |
| English Language Students from a low-income neighborhood will have the opportunity to access technology by learning how to use digital cameras in a self-directed genre study. Students will synthesize the knowledge they gained from their project, and then proceed to teach other students how to create their own picture book focusing on a genre of their choice. The books will then be available for check out at the school library. |
| 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! |
| Pictures of Our School |
P-K to P-K |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) The children will use camera's wtih the teacher's assistance to take pictures of thier school. The children will then print the pictures and make dictations about their pictures of their school. The children will also ask questions to staff and other children in the school to learn more about thier school. |
| Publish a Book |
6 to 6 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will write 5 stories in Word and then logon to Student Treasures to upload and edit their stories, and then add pictures to enhance their text. Each student will receive one hardcover book to keep. |
| Publishing With Photos! |
K to 5 |
| Students will create their own books using photographs for illustrations. |
| Signs of Spring |
K to 1 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) k-1 students walk around the school and photograph some first signs of spring and then print their picture and write about it. |
| Silly Sally |
K to 1 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Read Silly Sally as part of a reading correlation. Take pictures of the children with their arms and legs outstretched.Print them out and glue them upside down and make their own Silly Class Book. |
| Small Moments |
1 to 2 |
| Children partake in many "small moments" that can be captured in a picture at home and at school. When "small moments" are recorded, children can look at them, remember them, and write a genuine "story from experience" including many details that the picture shows. |
| The Shape of Things |
K to 3 |
| The students will use digital cameras to find examples of circle, squares, and triangles around them. |
| The Very Important Me Project |
K to 2 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) First Grade Students will create a project using various computer applications to show their skills they have learned in first grade, including the use of Microsoft Word, Paint, and the Video Star App. They will be combining these skills with ones they are learning in the classroom including sentence structure, punctuation and capital letters. |
| 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. |
| Titanic Research Book |
4 to 4 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Students will use book and internet sources to reseacrh about the Titanic. Then they will use their information to create their own book. |
| Total Physical Response Storytelling |
5 to 12 |
| Students will take pictures and make books to tell a story in a foreign language. |
| Transition Social Stories for Students with Autism |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Students have a difficult time transitioning from elementary school to middle school. This lesson will help the students learn the expectations and will help them later transition into the "real world" |
| We Are Authors! |
2 to 2 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will use Clip Art Station and Microsoft Word to create a book. |
| What are Numbers?: Learning to Add |
K to 1 |
| Students explore digital camera use while learning basic math concepts and simple number identification. |
| 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. |
| Where is.... |
K to 4 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will create a book using images taken of different locations around the school with an icon of themselves in the foreground of the page. The reader will try to identify the location of the photograph. |
| Where We Live |
2 to 2 |
| American students will communicate with Jamaican students and a Peace Corp volunteer in Albert Town, Jamaica. Both groups of students will communicate via internet and construct a book about their communities using camera equipment and technology. |
