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| Lesson Plan Name |
Grades |
| 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. |
| You'll Flip Over Forces & Motion |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) This hands-on, culminating lesson engages learners and reinforces terminology related to forces and motion learned earlier during the intensive, week-long course.. Essentially, the scavenger hunt was used as a formative assessment to determine students' understanding in a creative and thought-provoking way. |
| Literary Tour of California via Vodcast |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 3 ratings) Students study California authors and create a podcast telling about each author. Listeners learn about the cities and places that California authors lived, worked and played in and wrote about. |
| 3-D Point of View |
4 to 4 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will identify and build a three-dimensional object from a two-dimensional representation of that object and vice versa. |
| A Matter of Fact |
5 to 6 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) A math and science unit on matter. |
| 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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| 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. |
| Around the World in 180 Days |
1 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will create a culminating activity of places they have "visited" (actually, studied) throughout the school year. They will do this through downloading pictures found or taken from units of study on various countries and creating a powerpoint presentation of facts learned. |
| 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? |
| 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. |
| Convince Me to Read |
5 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will use persuasive writing to convince me to read their novel. They will use technology to assist them in their presentation. |
| Digital Citizenship unit |
7 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This wiki teaches 7th and 8th graders about Mike Ribble's 9 elements of Digital Citizenship -- using Internet links, online videos and podcasts. Digital Citizenship is one of ISTE's NETS-S. |
| Digital Civil War Timeline |
3 to 12 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) In this project students develop and design a video of photographs taken of the major events from the Civil War. |
| 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. |
| Fantastic Feathers |
P-K to P-K |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Inquiry student pairs will use a combination of technology and hands-on techniques, to learn about the form and function of bird's feather. |
| From Floundering with Flaws to Flawlessly Fluent |
K to K |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This lesson will demonstrate to our children the power of rereading. Students will compare before and after practice performances to demonstrate how important rereading is to becoming fluent readers. |
| Hatchet Through the Eyes of Forest Animals |
4 to 5 |
| Students will use a Flip Video Camera to tell the story of Brian in Hatchet from the perspective of one of the forest animals. The video will show six important events from the animal’s point of view of Brian’s time in the Canadian Wilderness while student voices narrate the observations, thoughts, and emotions of the animal. |
| Living and Nonliving Things |
P-K to 5 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Students will use digital technology to compare size, shape, structure, and basic needs of living things. |
| Oral Tradition-- digital storytelling |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students work to create an original tale from the oral tradition. Instead of publishing a formal written document, students create a stop action video depicting the tale. |
| Patchwork Quilt Class Project Thematic Unit |
3 to 3 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This is a thematic unit that integrates social studies, math, reading, and writing. |
| Penguin Pals |
1 to 3 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Utilizing a cross curricular theme based lesson, this multi-sensory approach will allow my second grade struggling readers to experience activities in reading,writing,speaking,listening,science,technology, and integrated art. |
| Potlatch Weather Reporter |
8 to 9 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will learn to collect weather data, interpret it and make three-day weather predictions. They will use their predictions to create video weather reports for the school digital bulletin board. |
| Reading Strategies for Decoding Tricky Words |
1 to 1 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) The Flip Ultra Camcorder will be used to create a video toolbox of reading strategies demonstrated by students. These strategies, which develop independent readers who self-monitor and self-correct as they read, will be shared with parents. The video toolbox will provide a balance between reading strategies, self monitoring, and cross-checking behaviors.
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| Revolutionary Idea |
3 to 8 |
| Students will participate in a revolutionary war living history. |
| 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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| SO WHAT ABOUT THE WORLD?!?!? |
6 to 12 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Students will investigate world countries currently at war/conflict and the impact on the United States. Students will create a news podcast/broadcast video available on youtube.com, schooltube.com, and Kozlen.com. |
| Text and Technology Based Literacy |
3 to 3 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will demonstrate understanding of character traits, central message, and how chapters build on one another in the book The Stories Julian Tells. This will be accomplished through Learnzillion.com, the use of collaborative groups, independent reading, and teacher scaffolding. |
| The Effects of Chemical and Physical Weathering on Gravestones |
5 to 5 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will visit the historical Magnolia Cemetery located in Augusta, Georgia to record digital pictures of the effects of weathering and erosion on gravestones.Students will take pictures and, using previously learned chemical and physical weathering concepts learning in class and recorded in their science journals, create a Prezi or a Glogster media presentation. |
