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| Lesson Plan Name |
Grades |
| Cheesy Connections |
9 to 12 |
 (0 stars, 1 ratings) Students plan, shoot, and create cheesy videos of their chosen SAT vocabulary word to help other students learn the meanings of the word.
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| 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 Connections |
6 to 8 |
| How can students with disabilities learn to connect with their communities? The program described below takes instruction into the community and helps students make important community connections. |
| Digital Video Interviews |
6 to 12 |
| Students will create a video interview. They will interview a business leader from our community and then a Movie Night will invite the community members, families, and students to view the final products. |
| Enhancing Our Outdoor Classroom Studies through Technology |
K to 5 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Students will make and collect scientific observations in our outdoor classroom. In addition to traditional observations, video recordings and digital photographic records will be collected as well. |
| Lifecycle Learning |
K to 3 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Classroom children can watch lifecycles by having a camera set on an egg or a seed planted and projected on a large screen. In return, they learn the sequence of each lifecycle by seeing it first hand. |
| Podcast Book Buddies |
2 to 5 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students from one class would read books from all different genres through a podcast to students at a different school. After they read the book, they would pose questions about the book and continue in dialogue with their book buddy for two weeks. |
| Podcasting Poetry Slam |
3 to 5 |
| Students will participate in a poetry slam by podcasting. Poetry slams are a great way for students to improve oral reading and fluency and to make connections; it is only natural to incorporate technology. |
| Literary Tour of California via Vodcast |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 3 ratings) Students study California authors and create a podcast telling about each author. Listeners learn about the cities and places that California authors lived, worked and played in and wrote about. |
| "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. |
| "The Five Life Zone Research Project" |
7 to 8 |
(0 stars, 3 ratings) Students in grade 7 and 8 will travel from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to the Grand Canyon in Williams, Arizona to investigate and measure the soil and water quality (if water can be found) for each of five life zones. The five life zones are the Lower Sonoran or low hot desert; the Upper Sonoran or desert steppe; the Transition or open woodlands; the Canadian or fir forest; and the Hudsonian or spruce forest. This is equivalent to studying the life zones found from Mexico to Canada. The latest technology will be used to complete the field studies and record and communicate their findings. |
| (PART 3) Applied STEM: Rocketry and its Components |
6 to 8 |
| See Part 1 for following sections with the exception of Lesson Plan Description. |
| 9th Grade ELA Project-Based Learning |
9 to 10 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This is a project-based learning unit that I taught with one of our 9th grade teachers. Students learned different persuasive techniques as they developed their own charitable organization to fight child abuse. |
| A 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. |
| A New Way of Looking |
5 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will be able to understand the concepts of light and lens using the life of Galileo as a guide. Students will be given opportunities to experiment just like Galileo. Students will be given a variety of opportunities to learn about the complexity of light using many different mediums. |
| A New Way of Looking |
5 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will be able to understand the concepts of light and lens using the life of Galileo as a guide. Students will be given opportunities to experiment just like Galileo. Students will be given a variety of opportunities to learn about the complexity of light using many different mediums. |
| A New Way of Looking |
5 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will be able to understand the concepts of light and lens using the life of Galileo as a guide. Students will be given opportunities to experiment just like Galileo. Students will be given a variety of opportunities to learn about the complexity of light using many different mediums. |
| A Zoo Book for All |
1 to 3 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) The purpose of this lesson is for my students to be able to research information about animals and communicate in written form using the Four Stages of Writing. They will use Tool Factory Workshop and MultiMedia Lab V to create two pages for our class book and a presentation for our Friday Morning Assembly. |
| Abstract to Concrete |
P-K to P-K |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Students will utilize Apps in Ipads to draw illustrations of buildings in the communities such as; where they live, places they visit, or community helper facilities. Students will them use hands-on manipulative such as blocks, megatiles, or K'necs to construct their plans into a community. |
| Addition Addiction |
3 to 5 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Using interactive whiteboard technology, the students will show different ways of adding multi-digit numbers. The students will present their thinking to the class. |
| Addressing the Nation |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) My goal is to connect my students to the past by applying it to the present thus making it relevant to their lives. I want my students to start asking the questions like: “How would history be different if Abraham Lincoln was not the president during the Civil War?” “How do certain people affect how our past has been shaped?” Once they begin to ask these questions they will then be forced to see that history is shaped by the people who are involved. Therefore, it is our responsibility to elect effective leaders to government. |
| Advertise a State Vacation |
5 to 7 |
(0 stars, 3 ratings) Students will be able to use internet research, Microsoft Publisher, and video tools to create advertising materials for one of the 50 states. |
| African Kaleidoscope Music Visions Project for GT Music Students |
3 to 5 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will explore the culture and music of an African country of their choice. They will present a short PowerPoint or Flipchart for the class, students could also use iPads to create iMovies. Students may choose to present it on a traditional poster. Students may wish to provide samples of African Tribal music. Students should also write a brief song in 4/4 meter and C pentatonic about African music. |
| African Kaleidoscope Music Visions Project for GT Music Students |
3 to 5 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will explore the culture and music of an African country of their choice. They will present a short PowerPoint or Flipchart for the class, students could also use iPads to create iMovies. Students may choose to present it on a traditional poster. Students may wish to provide samples of African Tribal music. Students should also write a brief song in 4/4 meter and C pentatonic about African music. |
| American Cities |
7 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) In this lesson, groups of students will work collaboratively online to create informational worksheets about a major American city through the ages. |
| An Interview With the Past: Ancient Roman and US Government Leader |
6 to 12 |
(0 stars, 4 ratings) This is a project-based learning opportunity where students compare the government of ancient Rome to that of the United States. In this, students were placed into groups of three and given a political character from both sides. They must role-play an interview in a modern day television interview. |
| 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. |
| Apparel Design technology. |
11 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students in the 11th & 12th grade fashion class will be able to: 1. design a fashion apparel line using the ipad sketch, and textile design soft ware application. |
| Art and Life: Where Do We Use Art? |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This lesson increases the relevance of not only art classes, but also all academic disciplines by engaging the students to research how art is used in all aspects of their education and their lives. They will create videos that will collect factual information and visual examples that will educate the viewers on how art is used in a variety of settings and how historical people and socities have depended on the coexistence of art and non art subjects. |
| At the Movies |
1 to 2 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students respond to books, poems and literary genres by using flip cameras to make movie trailers, "behind-the-scene-clips", never before seen footage, movie reviews and commercials as the use imagination, innovations and 21st century digital tools to show their understanding. |
| At the Movies |
1 to 2 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This lesson plan attempts at creating a framework for creativity, innovation and global collaboration while allowing students to create different movies as they respond to books and poems from different literary genres. The lesson plan allows for student-driven learning, with choices and project-based learning. |
| Author Study - Tomie de Paola |
K to 2 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Students use Tomie de Paola books to explore different themes and ideas as well as make connections between Tomie de Paola's books and connections to real world scenarios and situations. |
| Behind the Camera |
5 to 8 |
| Students create a documentary-style video that speaks to an organization within the community. |
| 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. |
| Biographical Timelines |
2 to 3 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Overview: Students will choose a biography or an autobiography to read and create a timeline on the person's life. |
| 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. |
| Bringing Young Architects to Surface |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) The town of Gastonia is full of architectural history. Many students are unaware of all the architectural details in old buildings. The goal of this project is to introduce the students to past architectural design and have them bring some of these design elements into their own scale model buildings |
| Can You See What I See? |
5 to 8 |
(0 stars, 3 ratings) In this lesson, students will take digital pictures to represent various forms of energy and the steps involved in energy transfers and transformations. They will then create a Rebus story that can be solved using these pictures. This activity will bring to life a science concept that is usually difficult to see and understand. |
| Capturing 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. |
| Capturing History |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) This lesson allows for students to gain an appreciation for local history and preservation through the use of photography and art. |
| Celebrations Summative Project - Kindergarten |
P-K to K |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) (8 week lesson)After studying the holidays and traditions of autumn and winter throughout the world, kindergarten students are challenged to create their own unique holiday. While presenting their holiday, students will be digitally recorded to assess their understanding of holidays as a summative assessment.
*International Baccalaureate PYP* |
| Character Education Podcasts |
4 to 6 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Each month a different character trait will be focused on. Students will create and record a podcast highlighting the character trait. |
| Class Memory Book |
9 to 12 |
| The entire class will create a memory book for each student in the class. Pictures and paragraphs will tell a short story about each student. |
| 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. |
| 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 |
| Comparing and Contracting modern and colonial children |
2 to 4 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will compare and contrast their 'modern' life with the lives of 'colonial' children. Students will complete a Venn Diagram, and take the information on the Venn Diagram to write a paragraph comparing the different time periods. |
| Connecting Our World |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This lesson utilizes FLIP video cameras and a wikispace page. The goal of the unit is to advocate positive global thinking and the need for a team effort to preserve our resources. |
| Constructing collaborated constructed responses for the Common Core World |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will be able to get instant peer feedback to better collaborate for correct answers. Students will also be able to get a better sense of peer writing styles to help develop their own. |
| Creating Authors With Technology! |
2 to 5 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) With this lesson, students should be able to look at a classmates projected writing (via a HoverCam Document Camera) and give aapropriate feedback. The student author will get a notated printout with suggestions for improving writing. |
| Cubelets Challenge Beginner |
P-K to 5 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) The challenges are aimed at thinking about building something to meet a need, solve a problem or make something that that can help us to understand or do something. |
| Cultural Awareness in Omaha: Entering the Golden Door |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) The Jr. High students at Holy Name School will develop their cultural awareness through a technology project using tablet computers. The tablets will be used to record interviews with community members of a minimum of 8 different cultures and to develop an innovative presentation about their discoveries and incites based on those conversations. |
| Dietrich Bonhoeffer Unit |
7 to 8 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) We will spend 2-3 weeks reading the biography of Dietrich Bonhoeffer in 7th and 8th grade History class. |
| Digital Doubles |
1 to 2 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Adding doubles is a great strategy for adding numbers and gaining number sense. First grade students will use virtual manipulatives to add doubles. |
| Digital Research Animal Project |
1 to 2 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will research an animal of choice and use an iPad app to create a trading card to inform peers of their new learning. |
| Digital Storybooks |
5 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will use an online story-starter to produce a creative short story. Students will then illustrate and animate this story using Microsoft PowerPoint software. |
| Don't Laugh At Me |
3 to 5 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Third graders create a music video for the song 'Don't Laugh At Me'. They use their connections and synthesis to illustrate the points made in the book and song. |
| Electricity - how it works and how we measure and pay for it! |
6 to 12 |
| What is electricity, and where can we see it in our daily lives. This lesson is primarily informational, providing an easy-to-understand description of electricity and how it is literally all around us. |
| Engage in Literature Circle discussion. |
7 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students discuss readings from selected texts, done the previous night, with the goal of engaging text, interacting with each other, and exhibiting ordered but collaborative work. |
| Expert Projects: Sound, Heat and Light |
4 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students researched, wrote a report and created a class website teaching their newly gained expert knowledge on a specific topic related to sound, heat or light. Students presented their webpage to the class to teach their topic. |
| 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. |
| Farming and Economics Problem Based Learning Unit |
3 to 5 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Third graders will be introduced to basic economic principles through an assistance-seeking memo from the Future Farmers of America (FFA). Students will engage in this problem-based learning (PBL) unit for nine weeks and will be guided by mini-lessons throughout the unit that provide background knowledge and various examples of vocabulary and basic economic principles for students to extend to their products. Various technology is used throughout the unit.
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| Fitness and Math - It All Adds Up |
7 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Combining principles of fitness and mathematics, students will see how math is used in the real world. |
| Flip into Technology! |
6 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students use Flip cameras to gather information and integrate it into any classroom activity. |
| Flip My Writing |
3 to 4 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Students will create their own video based on a book by creating a sequel to the book and acting it out for a video. Students will write a skit, film it and learn to import and create a video using a Flip Camera and Movie Maker. |
| 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". |
| Fractals in Nature |
P-K to P-K |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will be introduced to the concept of fractals and look at examples of fractals, find fractals in nature, and create fractal cut outs. |
| Fractions in Action |
5 to 5 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) We will learn fraction using the Blended Classroom method and kicking them off with an Engaged Learning Unit. Students will learn to add and subtract fraction with unlike denominators. |
| Frogs: ELA and Science 1st grade |
1 to 2 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This is a first grade ELA and science unit. This unit integrates technology and allows students to apply real world application with scientific inquiry, while critically analyzing literary and informational texts.
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| From Photos to Poetry |
8 to 12 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Students will create photographs and poems which have meaningful themes through a thoughtful and deliberate process. |
| Geographical Literacy through Building: A Minecraft Project |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will use Minecraft for Education to build a community from a specific geographical area and understand how land forms, resources and spatial organization can affect human settlement
patterns and housing.
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| Get to know me |
3 to 12 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) The beginning of the year is difficult for all levels of students. Using a free download, Windows Movie Maker, this lesson will allow students to each shine in a different way. |
| Going Green Collaboratively |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) A collaborative effort from Technology, Science and Art teachers to focus on the environment. Students capture images and process photographic and digital
prints for display that depicts what the local community is doing toward saving the environment. |
| Google Classroom interactive lesson |
6 to 6 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) students use google classrooms to take assessment as well as read informational text and refocus their thinking. |
| GPS Treasure Hunt for Knowledge |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Working in groups, students will walk around the school community and stop off at 10 areas to complete a task related to what is being taught in the classroom. |
| Harlem Renaissance Research Project |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will research an aspect of the 1920s and/or 1930s in order to gain an understanding of the setting in terms of the time and place of the novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God. |
| Healthful Living |
3 to 3 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will use digital cameras to photograph other students and staff at school engaging in healthful activities. Students will use their photographs to make PowerPoint presentations about healthful living choices. |
| Hero Within |
3 to 10 |
| Students set on a year-long integrated heroes journey. They relate heroic efforts found in their studies to their own lives. |
| 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 Slow Can You Go? |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will document the process of oxidation using apples and then write a procedure for slowing down the oxidation process. |
| In Touch with Nature |
K to 5 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Ipod touches will be used in conjunction with our Nature Space/Bird Habitat, on school grounds, community programs, local businesses, Cornell University, and volunteers. These members will aid in constructing a Bird Watch and Feeder program to collect data to be analyzed through the touches, student interaction, and Cornell Labs. |
| Input and Output and Processing...Oh My!!! |
2 to 5 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will go on a Scavenger Hunt with the digital camera to find input, output, and processing devices. This allows them to learn how to, not only learn about computer devices, but digital photography and multimedia presentations as well...all while having FUN! |
| 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. |
| Integrated Video Technology |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will utilize camcorders, digital cameras, editing software, and different types of media to create a Mother's Day video. They will reinforce previously learned objectives. |
| 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? |
| Invasion of the Germs: We Fight Back! |
3 to 4 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) The news today can be scary for our children hearing the stories of the H1N1 virus. This unit will teach common, quality health practices to serve our community and remove fear and uncertainty out of this disease. Personal hygiene, scientific investigation and fun will mesh in this unit for 4th grade students entitled “Invasion of the Germ: We fight back”. The students will investigate hygiene and determine what habits will help their bodies fight infections. They will create clay animation videos with podcasts to teach younger students and our community how to fight germs and the H1N1 virus. |
| Invasive Species |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Invasive species can disrupt and use natural resources that are necessary for endemic species to survive. Students will conduct a field study of an invasive plant species to learn how their community and the endemic species have been affected. |
| iPod review |
7 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) By using iPods, students can review for tests at their own pace. Group work, review at home, auditory learning, individual pacing, all occur with the use of iPods. |
| It's Challenging Being Green! |
3 to 5 |
| Students will delve into botany by planting a seed and watching it grow or die based on what they do to take care of it. Prior knowledge of human anatomy and physiology will be the entry point as students connect these two very different areas of biology. By the end of the unit, students will be able to defend plant conservation the way they could any other organism they study. Ultimately, students should have increased awareness of the lack of green spaces in urban areas and the need for more parks and gardens |
| 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. |
| Jack and the Beanstalk |
2 to 3 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) - Students will be able to demonstrate appropriate use of login procedures and network printing.
- Students will be able to compose a document that applies intermediate formatting
- Students will use digital creativity tools to create original works.
- Students will use the Paint Application for designing
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| Kandinsky on Computers |
6 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This lesson explores the Expressionist art style, specifically, the works of Wassily Kandinsky. Students listen to music and then create a poster expressing the mood oe feelings of the music. |
| Kindergarten Memories |
P-K to K |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) We will create a Kindergarten Memory Book. Each month we will create a monthly memory page regarding our experiences during the month and world happenings. |
| La Presencia Escondida: Spanish Speakers in Our Community |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Using skills learned in Spanish class and technology students will venture out into the community to become more familiar with native Spanish in the area and how they have come to live and work locally. |
| Legacy Project: Using Flip Cameras to Connect Generations |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This lesson will enable students in Ms. Barb Ressler's English classroom at Wahlert High School to capture insights from senior citizens by utilizing flip cameras. As a result, the students will be able to learn many important life lessons and build important connections with senior citizens. |
| Lesson Plan Using iPads |
K to 5 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Standards (Common Core): Read and write whole numbers and decimals; identify places in such numbers and the values of the digits in those places; use expanded notation to represent whole numbers and decimals. |
| Let 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. |
| Linear Relationships in the Real World |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) The student will use problem solving, mathematical communication, mathematical reasoning, connections and representations to solve multi-step equations in one variable with the variable on one of two sides of the equations while identifying at least 3 careers which utilize this skill. |
| Local Geography’s Effect on Temperatures |
6 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will gather data from weather websites and learn that inland cities’ temperatures can be more extreme than coastal areas. |
| Louisiana Cinquains |
P-K to P-K |
| Overview: Students review language and grammar skills taught throughout the year. Students will also utilize the writing process in order to compose a form of poetry (cinquains). Finally students will incorporate our study on Louisiana as a focus on their poems. |
| Louisiana Graphs (Can be adapted) |
2 to 3 |
| Overview: We are studying Louisiana for the next 5-6 weeks. As part of our study, students will conduct surveys centered around Louisiana. We are also reviewing the parts of a graph and the steps in creating a graph. |
| Making Butter- From a Liquid to a Solid |
1 to 3 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will make butter and design/engineer hands-free butter-shaking apparatus. Students will record and graph the length of time of the butter changing process (change of state of matter). |
| Military Families |
P-K to P-K |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Improving student vocabulary through interactive spelling games and a short story. |
| Mitosis |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) This lesson is modified for technology infusion in a typical classroom for students to better understand Mitosis and be creative learning the concepts collaborative environment. It has also been modified for students with disabilities who have been integrated into the regular classroom setting. |
| Modern Day Pen Pals, Connecting Our Art Room to the Rest of the World! |
P-K to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) We have all heard of pen pals writing letters, but why not have “Modern Day Pen Pals” connect through the web using video streaming and pod casting technology! |
| Modern Day Piracy |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will lean about copyright laws and how use the internet legally and safely. |
| MOON PHASE |
3 to 5 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) What role has NASA played in space exploration?
What role has the Moon played in human history?
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| Musical Centers with i-pad apps |
3 to 5 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will work independently or with a partner to use a variety of i-pad apps. Students will demonstrate understanding and application of musical skills in pitch matching, rhythm and composition at their grade level. |
| My Digital Story |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Digital storytelling is one of the most creative ways to encourage students to write narratives. The project allows students to use existing writing, photography and computer skills, and gives them a challenging platform to create more intense, interesting and personal stories. |
| Nature of Science, Like a Scientist |
5 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) The first week of school is all about introducing students to the school and my classroom. I like students to explore the classroom (and expectations), create norms for a safe learning space, and explore what it means to be a scientist. |
| Objective Weathering and Erosion |
7 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This lesson is contains the learning of the erosion and weathering process. Students will study their own time-lapse photos to determine if their object of study has gone through the process of weathering. The student will have to determine which weathering process has occurred and illustrate what the future product would be. |
| Ocean's 4 |
4 to 6 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Integrating technology in the curriculum is vital for the students to learn 21st century skills. By collaborating with the fourth grade classroom teacher and combining science in the computer class the students can learn subject matter in an interactive, self-directed method. |
| One is a Snail, Ten is a Crab |
2 to 3 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) In this activity students decompose numbers in order to create math pictures. |
| Our Past is our Future: We will repeat it if we don't learn from it |
8 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Purpose and Overview: Create a multimedia social science project where students collect the oral history from elder volunteers who live in the surrounding neighborhoods. The purpose is to prepare students with severe emotional and behavioral disabilities for transition into the community and work world after graduation from high school. |
| Outdoor Learning |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) School Forest Digital Learning Project |
| Owl Pellets Up Close And Personal |
3 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will explore the food chain, the concept of predation, and the hierarchy of species through a dissection of an owl pellet. |
| Pair Ideas:Parody |
6 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) After studying a poem, play, or novel considered to be a "literary canon," students will write and videotape a parody of it utilizing live musical or acting performances, LEGO animation, or puppet theater to share with peers and then serve as mentors for middle school students to recreate this process. All videos will be accessible on a web blog site or through a Google Drive or dropbox. |
| 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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| Photographical Ecology |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Students will photograph and understand differences in organisms and the roles they play in our environment. |
| Pod-Casting for Parents |
P-K to P-K |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) This lesson would provide parents with an incite into what their child is learning on a daily basis. It would allow parents to reinforce classroom concepts at home. |
| PODCASTING IN THE CLASSROOM |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Podcasting in the classroom will empower students and challenge them to create projects as authentic assessments and as supplemental resources for other students |
| POP ART Lesson Plan |
5 to 6 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will make computer generated art based on Andy Warhol's Pop art and use Pop culture imagery of today. |
| Presentation Blogs |
P-K to P-K |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Create a series of audio/video blog entries in the target language as a means of assessing progress and skill/content acquisition throughout the course of language learning. |
| Preserving Living Legacies |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This is an oral history lesson which engages students to research a top of United States History as related to the actual life experience of a senior member of our town community. Students will research, prepare interview questions, interview a senior, videotape their interview, and publish their findings in book form. |
| Question Pocket |
3 to 5 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) We will use ClassFlow, a presentation product to introduce and provide background knowledge for ELP Standard 4 of making claims and supporting them. This will be how we start the lesson which will take place over several days. My students have an influence of another language at home. I regularly use technology to help with instruction and vocabulary. |
| Rap it up! |
3 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Using a recitation or original poetry, turn poem into a rap, and accompany with a video montage and apple loops. |
| Reader's Theater with a Twist |
1 to 5 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will use a FlipVideo to create and share student-created scripts for their curriculum reading stories. Video will be uploaded to www.voicethread.com to share as a parent-classroom connection. |
| Reading Blog Log |
6 to 12 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Students will create blogs in which they will share ideas about literature we are reading in class - kind of online Socratic seminars. In addition they will create podcasted informational reports, and then open the forum up to others in the library media center during celebrations of READING WEEK. |
| Restoring Memories and Planning Autobiography |
4 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This plan utilizes Google Maps for autobiography writing in response to the mentor text Knots in my Yo-Yo String” by Jerry Spinelli. |
| River Reflections |
3 to 11 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students have been conducting river studies for over five years in 6th grade. A true reflection of the experience is necessary for true learning. Writing advocacy projects and sharing them through podcasting helps to reflect on the experience. |
| Robotics for KINDERGARTNERS |
K to 2 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) LEGO Education WeDo Robotics kits are designed for students at the lower elementary level; These kits cover the STEM areas of science, technology, engineering, and math. Students will be provided the opportunity to design, build, program, and test robotic models. |
| Science Circles Podcast |
5 to 12 |
(0 stars, 3 ratings) Science Circles Podcasts will feature small groups of 3 to 4 students holding round table discussions on weekly science topics. Students will prepare statements presenting their ideas about the topic. A student facilitator will direct the flow of an open, round table discussion after opening ideas are presented. |
| 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 |
| Score it, Take 2! |
3 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Create a score for a puppet opera based on a children’s story book; could be a whole class project or small group project |
| Selfie vs Self-portrait |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This activity combines contemporary technology with archaic photographic processes the end result a one of a kind tangible self-portrait from a 200 year old process using modern technology. It challenges the students to further understand the difference between our cultural image capture and the power of a image when it's seen as an entity, not a digital thumbnail. |
| Sequencing in Kindergarten |
K to 2 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will learn the the basics of sequencing and how it relates to the word around us. Students will use this as a guiding lesson to introduce the basics of coding using codable.org. |
| Shake it up…Cisne! |
3 to 5 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Fifth grade students will give an earthquake broadcast. Students become cameramen, meteorologists, reporters, eyewitnesses, and anchor people describing the effects of recent earthquakes. |
| Show What You Know-Solving Subtraction Problems (K/1st Grade) |
P-K to 5 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) The purpose of this lesson is to help students understand the concept behind the abstract symbols used in subtraction. Specifically, Kindergarteners are still learning number symbols and alphabets as well as the plus sign so distinguishing symbols and what they represent when presented with them are extremely important. All students need concept development to retain such skills. This lesson will teach students a new strategy for solving subtraction as well as provide a pictorial representation of subtraction. Language development of vocabulary like minus, take away, less and fewer is also important for all students in math progression as these terms will be used in word problems and comparing amounts throughout school and in the real world. First graders will have a combination of addition and subtraction with subtraction word problems. Students will discuss these concepts, learn and practice a new strategy and then use the strategy that works best for them in their independent and partner tasks. Upon completion of tasks some students will interview each other to discuss which strategy they used and why and how they used it. Others will create an avatar cartoon video or a song to share their strategy for solving subtraction problems. |
| Silent Films with a Flip Cam |
4 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will analyze a variety of silent films, the roles and responsibilities of film careers and work together to create a film that demonstrates the basic storytelling concepts of conflict and resolution. |
| Sim's Cities - 5th grade (would work wonderful at the middle school level) |
P-K to P-K |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Creating with Visual Arts through the 21st Century -Core Curriculum Skills |
| Simile Applications |
P-K to P-K |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) In this lesson students will learn about similes and how to use a simile
correctly in a sentence.At the end of this lesson, students will be able to
• Identify similes in sentences.
• Create simple similes to describe themselves and others. |
| Speaking Our Truths: Podcasts as Relevant Research |
10 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students are creating informational podcasts as an alternative to a traditional research project. Students will be able to show mastery of the skills required to do a traditional research paper but in a way that is relevant to their lives. |
| Stations: Equation of a line and Slope |
8 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This is a stations lesson to check the learner's understanding of graphing lines and slope. The learner will receive immediate feedback at each station to determine if they fully understand the concept. |
| Students Are the Best Teachers |
4 to 12 |
| Students will take an active role in the teaching and learning process by creating digital presentations that review basic concepts that are the foundations for all courses. These may include focused mini lessons on such areas as vocabulary, grammar, figures of speech, math problems and concepts, historical events, scientific elements, or technology operations. |
| Studio Photography |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This project involves shooting long exposure photography in the school portrait lighting studio. |
| Super Sleuth |
K to 5 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will explore the Fibonacci numbers in Nature by examining flowers, pine cones, tree trunks in our neighborhood park. They will record their "evidence" in pictures and will create a school wide exhibit. |
| Symmetry in Nature and Congruent Shapes All Around |
2 to 2 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) All students will work in groups to investigate nature and their surroundings to find symmetry in nature and congruent shapes all around. Students will take photos using a digital camera and help create a multimedia presentation of their geometric findings. Students will share the final project with their peers. |
| Target the Question! Daily Math Problem Solving (Smartboard) |
1 to 5 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students utilize Smartboard software daily to experience, plan, strategize, communicate & evaluate applied math problem solving. Through integrated technology, students develop flexible & efficient math problem solving skills and make connections to their everyday world. |
| 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. |
| The Five Senses |
K to K |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) •.This unit will focus on the use of the five senses to develop a heightened awareness of the world. Skill development is centered on observing, describing and classifying objects. Students will use their senses to describe objects and identify common properties. Students will develop more refined methods of observation, ability to make more detailed descriptions and an increasing ability to differentiate among similar objects on the basis of one, and then
multiple, characteristics. Describing objects will involve making measurements of various properties and comparing them to other reference points (e.g., a color chart). |
| The 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 Human Body |
8 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will synthesis the body systems. Students will explain the function of each body system and how they work together. |
| The Peace Project |
K to 2 |
| What does "peace" mean to second graders? Students will create artwork and personal videos to communicate their reflections about "peace" to share with the world. |
| The Planet Mars |
5 to 8 |
| I created this lesson plan so that my fifth grade students would be able to compare and contrast the planets of Mars and Earth, and further build their knowledge of the solar system. |
| The Soundtrack of Your Life |
6 to 12 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Every sound tells a story. In this Language Arts lesson, students learn about poetic elements, tone, and personal connection by creating their own soundtrack of the major events, experiences, passions in their lives. The final product is a Glogster page. |
| The Wonder of Seeing the Best in Ourselves- A+ Attitude |
6 to 6 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will read the novel Wonder by RJ Palacio, learn about theme, character, perspective and the steps of writing a research paper. The students will then create a research paper, an oral presentation and a citizenship project that promotes compassion. |
| Time to Vote |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 11 ratings) The students will learn about the three branches of U.S. government by creating and simulating the election and campaign processes. They will utilize not only their textbooks and classroom materials, but will also take a hands on approach with various technologies to enhance their outcome. |
| Title: Digital Photo Storytelling on Five Senses, a project based learning activity by Mary Gore |
P-K to 2 |
| Learning about the five senses is a very exciting and fun experience that students in the primary grades are eager to engage in as well as share with others, in and out of the classroom. Through digital photo storytelling project learners are able to document their experiences and take on various roles as they create a presentation project.This is a project based learning activity. |
| 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. |
| Topography: Know the topography of your neighborhood |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Students will examine the relationship between the topography of their neighborhood on digital topographic maps and the actual topography of their neighborhood. Students will walk around their neighborhood while taking pictures and videotaping the area to see how these compare to the topographic maps. |
| Understanding light and sound through visual representations and robotics |
3 to 5 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) In this lesson, students will use robotics to learn about sensing and reacting to stimuli, particularly the input magnitude of light. They will make comparisons with what they have learned about the changes in magnitude of sound and how the human body senses and reacts to sound. |
| Using Repeat Photography to Map Environmental Hazards |
6 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will collect historical photos from libraries, newspapers and family collections for comparison to recent photos to be taken by the class. Students will compare photos to assess changes in landscape, industry and neighborhoods and blog their results. |
| Virtual Book Talk |
K to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students present their oral book reports in a video format. They will work in partners or teams of three to plan, record, and edit their videos. |
| Virtual Travel Plan |
4 to 8 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) This lesson was created for 4th grade students in North Carolina. It integrates many areas of the curriculum including mathematics, social studies, and language arts. Students design a virtual trip through North Carolina to learn about the history and symbols of North Carolina. |
| Visual Dictionary for Root/Prefix/Suffix Meanings |
4 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will Define the meaning of common prefixes, suffixes, and roots. They will then find clip art to serve as a visual reminder of these meanings. |
| Waste Water Research |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will engage in a year long study of the impacts of waste water and its impacts on the local community and the Hudson River. Students will evaluate the impacts that various green technology can have on improving the quality of runoff waste water. |
| Weather Watchers |
2 to 5 |
| Students will observe weather collecting data from hand made and scientific instruments and the internet weather resources. They will correspond with weather professionals and devise their own weather forecasting video using their knowledge and vocabulary. |
| What can we learn from a box of crayons? |
K to 5 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Working in groups of 3-4 students, students will collaboratively (using a storyboard to plan and organize) create a time lapse stop motion movie through iMotion that expresses one unique characteristic about each child. |
| What Do You Put Stock Into? |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Overview: In this unit, students will learn basics about the stock market. Students will choose and “buy” stock in a company. He/she will check the price of the stock each day and record in a spreadsheet. At the end of the allotted time, students will create a graph depicting losses and gains. After evaluating their data, students will compose a summary report which will include their losses/ gains and possible reasons for the outcome. |
| What Time is it? |
P-K to 5 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) I have several centers that deal with the concept of time and telling time. Computers are highly motivating and a great way to reinforce skills. |
| What We Don't See |
2 to 4 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This lesson integrates science and technology in an effort to illustrate the parts of a plant that we do not see. Students will use a digital microscope to create still images of plant parts, then create slideshow presentations to demonstrate their findings. |
| 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. |
| Wiki Comment: The News and You |
5 to 8 |
| Writing Prompt Option for Students
Create a wiki with a page for this student writing prompt.
The activity is a a page for writing clear and cohesive comments that connect students to the news. The goal is for students to write concisely about their connection to the news in the world, sharing and commenting on each others' ideas.
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| World of Quadrilaterals |
7 to 12 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Why is it important to know the properties of quadrilaterals? How can we use it in our real life? |
| Writing Classroom Agreements using Inspiration & Word to Go |
3 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) At the beginning of the year, the class will create a "Classroom Constitution" using Inspiration software and, as an option for classrooms w/ Palm Pilots, Word to Go. Students will brainstorm as a class a list of behaviors that they think will help the classroom environment be conducive to learning & to show how they can become better citizens in their class. |
| Writing Equivalent Expressions |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This involves writing equivalent expressions using area model and exploring difference of squares through an interactive activity. |
| “Go Green” – A lesson in Movie Maker: Using digital cameras to make it personal. |
7 to 12 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) This multi-class period lesson includes the use of digital cameras and Move Maker (or other video editing software) to create a presentation of ways in which students can take environmentally friendly actions in their everyday lives.
This lesson can be flexible to different age levels and different time constraints. Other songs can be used to convey the "Go Green" theme based on teacher and student preferences. |
