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Lesson Plan Name |
Grades |
Using Performance Assessments in the Technology Classroom |
7 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will use Flip video cameras to take video of various technology activities that are to be evaluated. The performance based assessment is a way for students to explain themselves and what they learned. |
A Family History |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 4 ratings) The students will create a movie about their family. They will have to use their digital cameras to take pictures of their old family pictures, and new pictures of their actual family. The students will be involved in an activity in which they can work closely with their family and also find more information about their ancestors and to appreciate their ethnic backgrounds. This project introduces students to new vocabulary in Spanish and they will develop their ability to write full sentences in Spanish and make it a fun project by using technology and digital cameras the student can use movie maker and photo story 3 to create a movie of their families. |
Crusaders! |
7 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This lesson covers the Crusades. Students are to choose which particular Crusade they wish to study. Students will map the route taken, choose a major city along the way, evaluate the city and explain whether or not there were any benefits from hosting the Crusaders, and they will consider the forts built along the way. |
La Casa de Mis Sueños/My Dream House |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will use present tense conjugation and learn vocabulary that describes a house. Students will create visual representation of their dream house using presentation tool of their choice. Students will “walk us through” their houses in small group presentations (6 students + teacher) while we roll a dice to ask questions about each presentation and providing verbal feedback, all in Spanish.
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"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. |
"Board" Games |
6 to 6 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) The Teacher will use the Promethean Board to create interest and review for tests in the classroom. The lesson reviewed will be for adjectives. |
"Coming to a Library Near You!" - Book Trailer Grant |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will read their chosen books and create book trailers using clip art and sound bites. These book trailers will be played on the district's television channel to share with all students. Book trailers will entice other students to read more books! |
"Geotown" Scrapbook |
3 to 5 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Students will use digital cameras to take photos of architecture and nature that represent geometric concepts. The photos will be used to create a digital scrapbook for the fictional town of "Geotown". |
"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. |
"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 |
"SMART" Science |
7 to 7 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) The following description of our 10 week Energy unit (Colorado Science Standard 3) in the life science curriculum demonstrates how I will integrate the SMART board system into my classroom and use it to engage, excite, motivate and challenge my students in order to help them learn and understand essential life science concepts. |
"Teach it to Me"-Seasonal Calendar |
K to 2 |
(0 stars, 3 ratings) Students the use digital technology to pictorially depict weather conditions and environmental changes throughout the months and seasons. Then, they will use photographs to complete a seasonal calendar.
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"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 1) Applied STEM: Rocketry and its Components |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This unit plan walks students through the entire model rocket design, construction, and test launch phase complete with diverse evaluations and using video technology to view every aspect of a rocket launch. All rockets are homemade - no kits involved. |
(PART 3) Applied STEM: Rocketry and its Components |
6 to 8 |
See Part 1 for following sections with the exception of Lesson Plan Description. |
1 Picture = 1,000 Adjectives |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) When learning parts of speech, my students tend to have a difficult time thinking of powerful, creative adjectives, especially since I have a list of adjectives they are not allowed to use. The students groan when told to look at a thesaurus but having them complete an activity keeps them interested and actually causes them to ask for a thesaurus without being told. |
1920's Personalities Podcasting Project |
7 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students research people of the 1920's create a written report. Next students create a podcast finished with pictures and music if it enhances the "personality of the 1920s" that will be posted on the school website. |
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. |
26 Days/Weeks in Our World Writing Project |
3 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will each take one photo during their assigned week on a class digital camera. Students will share there photo and the class will write a descriptive journal entry about what they see in the photo. |
4th Grade Life Science Unit: Animals |
4 to 4 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Our fourth grade teaching team will use technology tools to meet the description of Colorado’s 21st Century learning skills: critical thinking and reasoning, information literacy, collaboration, self-direction, invention. Through the use of technology, we will appeal to our student’s senses and teach to a variety of learning styles with meaningful, authentic learning opportunities. |
7th grade- Adding Rational Numbers |
7 to 7 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) -Adding integers using a horizontal or vertical number lines.
Adding integers using counters/chips
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8th grade Math-Intro toTransformations |
8 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) A week of lesson plans to introduce students to the different Transformations. |
A Day in the Life of a World War II Soldier |
7 to 12 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Students complete a webquest where they look at first hand accounts of WWII soldiers and nurses. |
A Different View |
7 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) A visual art lesson which involves writing and technology.
Essential Question: "How do you see yourself?" |
A Utopian Revolution |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students are introduced to the ideas of utopia and totalitarian states before reading George Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty-Four" by actively participating in the creation of a utopia and its fall into a totalitarian society. Students will document the rise and fall of their society and reflect upon the changes that allowed a dictator to take control. |
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. |
Adapting to Life by the Wild Myakka River |
6 to 9 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Students will use digital still and video cameras to capture organisms adaptations to their local environment while on a field trip to Myakka River State Park. Students will then use the captured media to create a digital interactive poster (Prezi) that they will present 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. |
All about me |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Getting to know all the students. An all about me project for grades 6-8. |
Alphabet Group Project |
10 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students work in groups to locate alphabet letters in ordinary items and scenery. This is not a dictionary project, but rather an awareness of lines, shapes, angles, and level. |
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. |
America’s Roaring 20’s Decade Silent Movie Project |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Using video as a medium to provide a visual presentation of the 1920’s can help students gain a better grasp of its effects on today’s society. In this project students will be asked to research and describe the 1920s and analyze cause and effect relationships within the 1920s and the effects of society on today. |
Amusement Park LegoWeDo Engineering Challenge |
P-K to 5 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) LegoWeDo Challenge K-5. Parents and community can support this event in the school yard. |
Analyzing Fiction Text with Nearpod |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will complete a Nearpod interactive lesson with a partner in live time in class. Students will mark text with colors coordinating to specific criteria, as well as make predictions of what will happen in the story. |
Anatomy & Physiology/Healthcare Applied Therapeutic Services: "So Doc, what's the prognosis?" |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will take on the role of a medical intern in a hospital cardiovascular rotation whose focus is to communicate through modeling the process of and treatment options for a specific cardiovascular related disease/disorder to a newly diagnosed patient. To assess their ability to communicate this knowledge, students will create a Flip Video presentation of their role play for which self and peer review commentary is provided. |
Ancient Chinese Inventions |
6 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will be selecting an ancient chinese invention and researching it. They will then create a marking campaign to market the product. |
Ancient Wonders of the World |
P-K to P-K |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will learn about the 7 Ancient Wonders of the world and make connections to the content we are studying about Ancient Civilizations. Teacher used Smart Notebook software and interactive features to create lesson. |
Animal Ambassadors |
K to 1 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) My class is starting a year long animal research project. We will be covering all academic subjects throughout the year as we research, read, learn, write, and observe all types of animals and their habitats. |
Animals on Parade |
3 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Fourth grade students will research rainforest animals of the world and hold what is known as a shoebox parade. Each student will decorate a shoebox to resemble a parade float and create a podcast. |
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 Pre-Production |
3 to 12 |
(0 stars, 6 ratings) Students will learn the process of animation from concept to a short storyboard/ comic strip. They will walk through the steps of developing a character creating a story around that character and imagining what they will look like. |
Annotating and Analyzing Readings with Tablets |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This lesson plan shows how tablets and/or computers with internet access would be used in my ELA classroom to enhance engagement and independence reading and analyzing Common Core texts. |
Around the World in 10 Days - Landmark Project |
4 to 6 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) An integrated reading/writing/geography/technology unit focused on identifying famous landmarks around the world. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
BackYard |
5 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Interactive lesson that leads into student completion of a Backyard fencing task (including construction of the fencing, locating materials, etc). |
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. |
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. |
Biography Report - Learning Microsoft Word |
5 to 7 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will learn about Microsoft Word features while creating an autobiographical report. |
Biome Survivor |
5 to 7 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will learn how to survive in one of the world's Biomes. Students will collaborate on their experiences as they take on a job that will help educate them about their ecosystem. |
Biotic and Abiotic Factors in Your Environment |
5 to 8 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Students will be able to distinguish the biotic and abiotic factors in their environment and how they affect each other. |
Book Report |
1 to 1 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) The Kids Book Report App will allow students to create their own book reports by filling in information on the IPad. Students can print their book reports on a wireless printer and staple them together to keep. |
Book Report: Movie Trailer (Elements of Narration) |
P-K to P-K |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Instead of the old "write a summary" book report, students will tell the parts of the plot by writing an interactive movie trailer. |
Breaking Color Barriers |
3 to 5 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Students use the scientific method to compare what is on the outside is not what's on the inside. Using white eggs and brown eggs as the comparison. |
Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Evaporate? |
2 to 3 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Using BBC Science Simulations 3, students will recognize that matter changes depending on the temperature applied to it by running a simulated experiment, observing the results, and analyzing the tables, graphs or charts generated by the program.
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Butterfly Life Cycle |
2 to 3 |
Students will describe and research the Butterfly Life Cycle. |
Cabezas Arriba! |
11 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will practice the preterite tense using Quizlet Live, then present short skits where they use the tense in conversation, and then students will play Cabezas Arriba (Heads Up) with a Google Doc that is displayed on the ITV. Students have to describe the words behind the student (can't see word) using the target language. |
Caching in Pine's Treasures |
6 to 12 |
Project ‘Caching in Pine’s Treasures” was designed to increase student knowledge of Social Studies’ topics in a non-traditional way. Students will use digital cameras and GPS units to learn historical information outside the classroom walls increasing student motivation, content knowledge, and knowledge of “technology-based gadgets.” |
Camera Settings |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students learn about the different settings on a DSLR camera. Technology students sharpen skills to help them take better pictures. |
Campaigning Kids! |
5 to 6 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Junior Student Government Association candidates use camcorders and digital cameras to create campaign videos that express their views on "school politics" and demonstrate why their peers should elect them into office. |
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. |
Canada Geography PowerPoint |
5 to 12 |
Students will create a PowerPoint presentation about a geographic region or country. This project will take five 45 minute class periods. |
Captured at the Farm |
K to 2 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Kindergarten students will capture digital photos and/or video while visiting a local farm to represent "life" (animals, gardens, milk, butter, etc.). Students will collaborate with a second grade class to create a multimedia digital storybook about their field experience. |
Cellcraft Game |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students learn the cell organelles' location, structure, and functions by playing Cellcraft game while taking Cornell notes on the cell structures as they "discover" them, in the game. |
Cemetery Restoration Project |
K to 8 |
An old abandoned cemetery is given the opportunity for new "life" through the efforts of its new owners, a Catholic school, and a new parish in the beautiful Frederick Valley near the foot of the Catoctin Mountains. |
Chemical Change in the Kitchen |
3 to 7 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will photograph the different stages of a food item being cooked. They will then put their photos into a slide show with captions describing the photos and any evidence of chemical change. |
Chemical Reaction Demonstration |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Identify and classify chemical reactions based on the five following types of reactions: synthesis, decomposition, single replacement, double replacement, and combustion. |
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 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 |
Code the Bots! Block Coding in Javascript |
K to 5 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will learn and code with Javascript, initially using a block-based curriculum free at code.org on existing technology already in the school. Students will progress to programming a variety of robots like Dash and Dot for the Wonder League Competitions; Ozobots; Sphero’s BB-8 and SPRK+ Lightening Lab; Osmo Code, and Parrot’s Rolling Spider Mini-Drones. Students will also create and code Javascript programs, digital stories, and computer programs. |
Colonial America |
4 to 6 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Fifth Graders are researching information on a variety of topics dealing with Colonial America in preparation for Colonial Day that the school holds every other year. They will be taking their research and creating a power Point presentation which needs to include an audio piece. |
Color Poem Collage |
3 to 6 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Students are engaged in poetry writing and creating an accompanying collage using technology. This lesson is great for helping students use more descriptive writing. |
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. |
Communicating with E-Pals in Kindergarten to learn about culture diversity |
K to K |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Learning about people and cultures in different parts of the world using technology as a means of communication. |
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. |
Cool Commercials CRITIQUE |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will watch TV commercials and complete provided critique sheet.
A nice mini-lesson that provides the opportunity to connect with commercial media in a critical way. |
Cow Eye Dissection |
6 to 7 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) The student will identify and locate the part's of a cow's eye. The learner will exhibit proper lab safety procedures during class. |
Create a descriptive writing piece using descriptive words |
2 to 2 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) In the first part of the lesson we will use Kahoot to make sure all students know what adjectives and adverbs are. The second part will involve researching an animal and coming up with a one paragraph writing to describe how the animal moves and looks. |
Creating a Digital Newspaper |
P-K to 5 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Lesson plan for creating a digital school newspaper. This includes some modifications for students with disabilities. |
Creating an Effective Ad Campaign |
10 to 12 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) The student will create an ad using technology tools to promote membership in FBLA (Future Business Leaders of America). |
Cubelet Fluency |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) The students will be able to explain the function of each Cubelet. They will be able to construct simple robots out of the Cubelets. |
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. |
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. |
Data Collection Project |
8 to 8 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) My students will create a survey and use data collection to showcase the results. Technology will be used to put it in a video format for the school to see the results. |
Defining the Difference Between Prokaryotic and Eukaryotic Cells--An alternative to direct instruction. |
7 to 12 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) This inquiry based lesson plan helps students define the difference between prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells using microscopes (one equiped with a camera), a smart board and a powerpoint/pictures of prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells (slides). |
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 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 Science Fair |
P-K to P-K |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students use various productivity applications and Internet sites to create a digital science fair presentation. The presentations will be shared with the school and community. |
Digital Storytelling |
5 to 12 |
Students write more when they are inspired either by the topic or by the process. Using Movie Maker, students bring their creative stories to life and have a Windows Media Player as their final version of their work. |
Digital Time Capsule |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) In this lesson students use digital cameras to create a time capsule of digital images of their communities and families. They will use higher-order thinking skills to contemplate how digital images will be stored in the future and how we can present our life and time to people living 50 years from now. |
DROP BY DROP WE CAN CHANGE THE WORLD |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) The purpose of the unit is for students to acquire information and knowledge about water, its structure, its properties, its usage, and its importance as a resource. Many students inherently know about water because they consume and use it every day. Many students however think there is an infinite supply of fresh water and all they have to do to get fresh water is to turn on the faucet. To acquire water usage statistics and appreciate the unique properties of water will help student accomplish their final task. |
Duck, Duck, Duck...Goose! |
K to 4 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Learn all about the development of a duck and goose. Students will keep a daily diary of the growth and development of a duck and goose from day 1 inside an egg until they are returned to the farm at 2 weeks old. |
Dude, Be Nice Essay |
4 to 7 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students personally choose a member of the teaching/support staff at Keyport Central who they feel has changed their life for the better to type a well-thought out essay about. |
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. |
Ecosystem Study Outdoor Lab |
6 to 9 |
Students make careful observations of three different ecosystems on our school property (hopefully using digital cameras, to add to their data). They compare and contrast, in order to learn about interactions between living and non-living components of each. |
Element Advertisement! |
6 to 8 |
Using digital voice recorders, students will create radio advertisements to inform their audience about the specifics of different elements found on the Periodic Table. The advertisements will then be uploaded to a class blog and presented to the class. |
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. |
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. |
Exploration Journal |
4 to 8 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) We use Pixlr.com, a free photo editing site, to explore various regions of the world according to the new Social Studies standards in 7th grade. Students will edit a picture to portray themselves exploring the region and then create exploration journals documenting their trip. |
Explore and Collaborate: Career Choices & Resume |
6 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Explore and Collaborate Lesson Plans - Google Docs: Career Choices & Resume
A lesson that teaches students about career choices and how to build their own resume. |
Exploring Climate Change Using the Eyes In the Sky |
8 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Using NEO (NASA Earth Observations) satellite images and NIH ImageJ to animate the images, students will explore various aspects of climate change. From the montage of images, students will write a report describing various areas of climate change.
Grade level: secondary |
Exploring the cellular basis of life using real life object for project |
10 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This lesson is intended to familiarize students with different categories of cells. Emphasis will be placed on the comparison and contrast of plant and animals cells and the structures within them. They will explore the real world of cells by exploring using the digital microscopy. This concept will integrate with technology based hands on with the students as they engage doing a cell project out of the real object.
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EXTRA! EXTRA! Hear all about it!! |
P-K to 5 |
(0 stars, 6 ratings) Parents can now hear the excitement in their child's voice and see the smile on their child's face as their children share what they did throughout the week with this podcast newsletter. |
Family Artifact Research Project |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) The Family Artifact project is an introductory project for sixth graders to begin their life long journey of research, writing and presentation. The students will evaluate the differences between primary and secondary sources in both documents and artifacts. |
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. |
Family History |
2 to 5 |
Students will take photographs of their family and gather pictures to create a family tree. |
Farm Animals |
P-K to P-K |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Rodeo - Farm Animals
Elementary Zone Grant |
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. |
Festivals, Fairs, and Fun and Unit Exploring Spanish Festivals |
6 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will compare and contrast the cultural traditions and festivals of Spanish speaking countries with their own culture. It is our desire that students understand, value, and respect people and places outside of their own environment. |
Figurative Language |
4 to 5 |
Students create a visual image using Kidpix of an example of hyperbole or personification. |
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 |
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. |
Flip Into Reading by Using Voice |
K to 5 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Goal: To teach the importance of adding “voice” when reading aloud. To improve fluency skills and writing skills. |
Flip into Technology! |
6 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students use Flip cameras to gather information and integrate it into any classroom activity. |
FlippEd Geo Buddies |
3 to 6 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will create videos that incorporate geometric shapes in the real world. They will also collaborate with other classrooms in a social network, uploading and commenting on each others videos using Edmodo.com. |
Flipping the Science Classroom: iEnergy |
4 to 5 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) What if homework was done in the classroom and the teacher lesson was watched at home? With the help of this grant I plan to flip my classroom as I engage students in creativity and interactive learning. |
Forces and Motion Scavenger Hunt |
P-K to 5 |
Students will work in small groups to identify and photograph things that we push or pull in our real world. |
Forming Author's Perspective |
2 to 5 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will be introduced to the concept of Author's Perspective by identifying specific opinions and adjectives from a specific article. This lesson plan is aligned with Marzano. |
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. |
Fredrick Douglass...A digital History |
7 to 7 |
Using technology, the students will create projects that depicts the stuggles of slaves with a focus on Fredrick Douglass and his determination to abolish it. |
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 photo to printed word: Getting second-graders to write! |
K to 2 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) By taking pictures and focusing on the basics (capital letters and periods), second graders get the beginning concepts of writing a story by taking compelling images. |
Frontal Impact Safety Challenge |
8 to 10 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Design and construct a vehicle that will protect an egg if the vehicle is in a front end crash. |
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. |
Geography Postcard Podcasting |
7 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will produce four postcards that will show the major landforms and describe the climate of the different regions of the U.S. and Canada. Students will then write a description of their travels in the form of a friendly letter. Each student will create a podcast using the postcards and letter. The podcast will be posted to the class website. |
Get a Job! |
6 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will learn how to prepare now for a successful career and explore how to choose a career. |
Getting to Know the Characters in The Tempest |
P-K to P-K |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This lesson is about characterization and Shakespear's play, The Tempest |
Glad to Meet You, Newfane |
2 to 5 |
This project takes a look at the resources, businesses and services within a community. At each location, the children get an abbreviated look at how that location benefits the community. |
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 Ecosystem (Ecotone) Scavenger Hunt |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Using GPS's and your surroundings to make going outside fun for students! |
GRAMMAR SHOTS |
K to 8 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Have fun creating a progressive grammar portfolio. |
Graphing quadratic equations of the form f(x) = ax^2 + c |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) In this lesson, we explore the effect of the constant C in the quadratic function f(x) = ax^2. Students will be able to observe that C shifts the quadratic function up/down. |
Graphing Weather |
2 to 3 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Graphing Weather and writing about the results |
Great Depression Gallery Walk |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Students will analyze the impact of the Great Depression on U.S. society and populations by analyzing primary source images from the Library of Congress website. |
Heads or Tails? Studying Regeneration in Planaria |
10 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will brainstorm stem cells, help create a concept map, and view a video lecture or clip prior to performing an experiment (found at HHMI's Biointeractive site) in which they investigate regeneration in Planaria. They will relate this flatworm's ability to regenerate to stem cell study. |
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. |
Hey! How'd you get so big? ( The Story of Mitosis) |
9 to 10 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) How do we grow from the size of an egg to the size the average human reaches at adulthood? The student will investigate this question through several different sources: hands on, use of technology and research. |
History and Architect Through Digital Photography |
10 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will take a walking tour of our historic downtown district and take pictures of our history and architectural features. They will then create their own powerpoint to tell our city's history and identify architectural features and home styles. |
Hopping Good Tales |
4 to 5 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) After reading several fairy tales, students will write, edit and illustrate original fairy tales based on The Frog Prince. Using Tool Factory Slide Show students will plan and organize story events, edit and prepare a fairy tale to share with the class. |
How Much does it Cost Project |
7 to 9 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) In this project, students investigate pricing schemes for various entry fees and determine which is the better option depending on their situation. |
How to "Write Right"! |
K to 1 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) One to two sentences will be written on the board with an appropriate/relevant illustration underneath. Students will be given the opportunity to review and practice their oral, reading and writing skills in this lesson. |
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. |
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. |
Immigration to U.S. |
P-K to P-K |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students analyze a photograph from the early part of the 20th century to find underlying ideas popular at that time regarding immigration to the U.S. |
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. |
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. |
Internet Research Grade 6-8 |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) As a result of participating in this lesson, students will be able to research the internet for information pertaining to their robotics prompt question and use that information to present findings in their PowerPoint journal. |
iPad Ecology |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This "iPad Ecology" lesson will incorporate pressing ecological issues that students will investigate through an ecology app, watch a video on how people are "up-cycling" used items, blog about local environmental issues, and read and take a short quiz on an online current issue article. |
IPad Literacy: Engage and Enrich 21st Century Learners |
2 to 3 |
Students will use the iPads as literature and reading response resources during partner or listen to reading. The teacher will use the iPad to formatively assess and keep track of student progress. |
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 a Buggy Bug World |
1 to 1 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will read text and watch videos to learn about insect characteristics. Students will compare and contrast different insects by their characteristics. |
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. |
iZOO |
3 to 5 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This is the cumlinating project for a unit on animal adaptations and habitats. Students will complete a WebQuest, create a slideshow or animated movie, and a podcast. |
JOB POD Career Podcasting Project |
7 to 12 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) The purpose of this project is to provide students with an opportunity to demonstrate the knowledge gained and maturity achieved during their high school career so far. This project gives students the chance to choose an area of study, to combine different disciplines, to satisfy specialized curiosity, and to utilize talents in a productive way. The project gives them the chance to make their high school experience a more meaningful and practical one. |
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. |
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. |
Keeping an Inventory of Greenhouse Plants |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Stores keep inventories to know what they have and use this to work with customers as well as know when to reorder. It is important to keep a good inventory of what you have in your greenhouse as well. |
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. |
Kindergarten E-Pals and Measurement |
K to K |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) in this class, Kindergarten classes use questioning in mathematics, along with digital communication to figure out how to measure/compare with non-standard units. |
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. |
Learning About Colonial Times |
5 to 6 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Learning About Colonial Times |
Lego Robotics WeDo Drawbridge and Cubelets |
3 to 5 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Using the Lego WeDo Construction kits, students will build and program a mechanical drawbridge that moves using a worm gear configuration. The motion sensor will allow the drawbridge to raise and lower for passing boats made from the Cubelets and Lego bricks. |
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's Collaborate! |
5 to 8 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Students will work in groups using the digital storyteller website, www.storybird.com, in order to collaboratively create a story that includes all story elements. |
Let's Party like its 1849 |
4 to 6 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This lesson puts student on the Oregon trail. Students write a daily diary and take pictures on the trail. |
Let's Take a Trip! |
4 to 5 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students use Google Maps, images, and weather data to plan a trip to a destination within the continental United States. They need to calculate mileage, time, and check upcoming weather data. |
Let's Write a Book About Trees |
K to 2 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Kindergarten students have concluded learning about trees and seasons in science class. They will now work together in groups of 4 to write a book about what happens to trees throughout the seasons. Students will collaborate with their group to create this book using Storybird.com. |
Let’s Get Excited about Roller Coasters! |
5 to 9 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) An amusement park has decided to open a theme park to be located in Waikoloa Village, Hawaii. It is an exciting time for the citizens of Waikoloa Village. Finally, this small town will be put on the map for something big. The residents are anxiously anticipating the grand opening of the amusement park. However, the operators of the amusement park need your help. They want to design a new roller coaster with a car that runs as smoothly as a marble would down the track. Your team has been hired to design this new roller coaster track for this theme park. Your task is to design a model of the track you would like to build for this amusement park. Your model must demonstrate the law of conservation of energy, gravity, force, momentum, and especially kinetic and potential energy. |
Let’s Get Excited about Roller Coasters! |
5 to 9 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) An amusement park has decided to open a theme park to be located in Waikoloa Village, Hawaii. It is an exciting time for the citizens of Waikoloa Village. Finally, this small town will be put on the map for something big. The residents are anxiously anticipating the grand opening of the amusement park. However, the operators of the amusement park need your help. They want to design a new roller coaster with a car that runs as smoothly as a marble would down the track. Your team has been hired to design this new roller coaster track for this theme park. Your task is to design a model of the track you would like to build for this amusement park. Your model must demonstrate the law of conservation of energy, gravity, force, momentum, and especially kinetic and potential energy. |
Listening on the Go |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) To encourage students with Special Needs that they are able to enjoy reading and being read to with the latest technology. This technology does not have to look like the typical, Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) devices or be software directly loaded onto a computer where they have to sit in a chair to access. |
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. |
Locating Lost Ladybugs. |
1 to 4 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) The students will observe and then photograph ladybugs that they encounter on school grounds and outside homes. Pictures and data collected will be emailed to the Lost Ladybug Project which is a national based program coordinated through Cornell University Department of Entomology. |
Long Beach History Digital Scrapbook |
3 to 4 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Students create digital scrapbooks for their city's local history, including the Tongva Native Americans, settlers and newcomers to the land, and how the city was created. Students attend field trips to local historical sites and current landmarks, documenting their visit and reporting on it in a scrapbook. |
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. |
MAGIC WORMS! |
3 to 3 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) This is a fun and relevant Common Core math activity to help third grade students measure their 'worm' to the nearest quarter inch. To conclude the activity, a class line plot is created. |
Many Hands Make Miraculous Mechanisms |
4 to 6 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) e-NABLE is a global online community of 3000 individuals (and growing daily!) who are using 3D printing technology to create free 3D printed hands and arms for those in need. Volunteers from all religious and political backgrounds, races, ages, occupations, cultures and educational levels from around the world are coming together to work for the greater good and make a difference in the lives of many by using their talents, creativity and ideas to produce assistive devices for underserved populations and individuals who were born missing portions of their upper limbs or have lost fingers and arms due to war, disease or natural disaster. Our class wants to build these devices to Make a Difference! |
Map the Civil War |
7 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This lesson asks students to describe, locate, and plan a trip to important battlefields of the American Civil War. Using Google My Maps, students can map out a journey that takes them through the events of important Civil War battles. |
Math Vocab Videos |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students create short videos describing a vocabulary word or process from each unit. Students work in groups of 4 to film, edit and save or upload their videos to present to the class as a review before the unit test. |
Matter in this World: Video Presentation |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students in groups of 3-4 will create a video presentation (following the rubric below) representing their knowledge of understanding of energy and matter, such as physical and chemical properties and it’s changes. |
Mitosis and Meiosis Field Project |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) A Biology class composes a documentary on Mitosis and Meiosis using themselves (i.e., holding hands, creating a circle) to diagram and perform the different phases of cell reproduction. The students will then be able to evaluate their performance through watching themselves on the video. |
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! |
Movie Music |
5 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students study music in movies and create a sequel to a popular childrens movie. |
Music Video |
P-K to P-K |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students record their own voices using Garageband and karaoke songs purchased from itunes, and turn their song into a music video. They create a storyboard, shoot, edit, and mix the video with the audio track and burn it to a DVD to be viewed. |
My trip to Spain |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Using the Flip cameras during our trip to Spain, we are going to be able to show our experiences and blog about it. |
Native Americans |
3 to 6 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This unit on Native Americans encourages students to read print and online informational texts focusing on Native American tribes of various regions. They will create, practice, and present digital presentations based on the information they found. |
Never Forget (Memorial Day or Veterans' Day Pre-Activity) |
5 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This activity encourages students to record and think about the words people use as they recall their experiences in defending our country. Student will create word art from their interviews and the teacher will run a discussion on the words and how they tie into the freedom we enjoy in America. |
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. |
Now and Long Ago: Immigration and My Family |
3 to 5 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This lesson introduces the concepts of immigration and family history. Through the exploration of immigration events and issues in American history, students will learn that all Americans are immigrants with cultural differences and that all have ancestors and a family story that is unique and of value to share. |
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. |
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. |
One L.E.S.S. (Partners in Education Campaign Initiative) |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Through this social marketing campaign - One L.E.S.S., the students will assume the role of a business professionals using different types of marketing media. The students’ initiative will increase collaborations between community leaders, the school, and youth. The concept is simple - One Leader Engaged in Student Success (L.E.S.S.) equals one less youth involved in juvenile delinquency and other destructive decision making. |
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. |
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. |
Our Place In The Rio Grande Rift Valley Watershed |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) An arroyo that bisects our campus is the setting for student groups to explore the influence of flora, fauna, humans, land, water, and weather in this watershed environment. Students will use flip cameras and digital still cameras to document their observations and create digital presentations. |
Our World With Maps! |
K to 1 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Our World With Maps! Computer Lessons |
Painting with Sound |
3 to 8 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Push student thinking on how they can use composition as well as their own creativity with this visual arts-crossover activity! |
Paper Airplanes |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Applications of Scatter Plots, Lines of Best Fit, Dependant & Independent Variables through the making and flying of paper airplanes. I have the class research several designs of airplanes, we discuss aerodynamics, construct a their desired model, fly the model, gather information and plot the results. |
Parts of Speech Identification |
6 to 7 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) During this lesson, students will use technology to engage in grammar instruction while identifying various parts of speech. |
Parts of Speech Slide Show |
1 to 4 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Students create a slide show demonstrating their knowledge of the parts of speech (noun, verb, adjective, adverb). |
Past tense verbs |
2 to 2 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This lesson is focused on verb tenses. We can complete most of the lesson in our computer lab. The independent practice cane be done in small groups with classroom chromebooks, if necessary. Class set of chromebooks is preferred. |
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. |
Paul Revere's Ride featuring EduBlogs |
5 to 5 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) In this lesson, students will use the program Edublogs to create a blog post comparing and contrasting the three accounts of "Paul Revere's Ride". |
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. |
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. |
Photo Transfer Mixed Media Collage |
8 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students create a mixed media collage incorporating a digital image. Design must be created from a memory or tell a story about the students life. Composition must be created in layers. Students may create a background that is abstract or a background that emphasizes a message or story by use of imagery, pattern or words. |
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. |
Photographing touch |
5 to 12 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Blind students can do photography too! Students will locate natural material (plants or animals) by touch, and take a photo of what they feel. |
PhotoTalk! |
K to 12 |
Images communicate without written or spoken speech. Linking images to simple text in the target language is a powerful tool for helping second language learners speak and read! |
Physical Descriptions - World Languages |
P-K to P-K |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) To practice parts of the body leading to physical descriptions. Novice mid level. |
Podcasting for Reading Fluency |
1 to 5 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Students will podcast weekly a short high interest piece of literature. They will save these podcasts as part of their digital portfolio for the year. One student will be selected each week as the "Featured Reader" of the week to have their podcast featured on the class website. |
Podcasting Gone Digital |
P-K to 5 |
(0 stars, 13 ratings) Using your digital camera to capture student artwork and emotions can personalize and add excitement to your podcasting efforts. |
Podcasting Our Way Through Nature |
3 to 5 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Student created podcasts guide other students along the nature trail which is located on our school grounds. The podcasts point out interesting features and teach others about the plants and landforms found along the trail. |
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! |
Polar Bears |
K to 4 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) In this lesson students will learn about polar bears. They will create a writing piece about the characteristics of a polar bear. They will extend this activity by developing ideas about the extinction of the polar bear. |
Political Campaign Commercial Project |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Standards 6d. The student will demonstrate knowledge of State and Local elections by analyzing the influence of mass media and campaign advertisements and public opinion polls.
Purpose: The purpose of this lesson is to introduce students to political advertisements and help them understand how those advertisements influence the issues and candidates in campaigns.
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portraits |
12 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will compare the daguerreotype of Edgar Allan Poe by an unknown photographer with
Poe’s writings in an effort to discover the character of this mysterious author.
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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) |
Preposition. Preposition Starting with an A |
4 to 6 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) After an introduction to prepositions, students will create a hands-on Powerpoint slideshow using a digital camera, Lego figures, and their laptops. This slideshow will showcase their knowledge of prepositions and prepositional phrases. |
PRESCOTT, PHOTOGRAPH AND MODERN ART |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) STUDENTS WILL LEARN ABOUT THE STYLES OF MODERN ART, THE WORKINGS OF A DIGITAL CAMERA AND THE TECHNIQUES AND SKILLS OF OIL PAINTING. THEY WILL ACHIEVE THIS BY BY USING A DIGITAL CAMERA TO CAPTURE A LOCAL LANDSCAPE BRINGING IT INTO THE CLASSROOM AND PAINT IT IN OILS. |
Primary and Secondary Documents for Colonial Times |
5 to 6 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Primary and Secondary Documents for Colonial Times Lesson Plan |
Probability- How Likely Is It? |
5 to 6 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will use online manipulatives, Web 2.0 sites, Excel/spreadsheet software, Glogster.com, and a class wiki to conduct an experiment and communicate their results. This is a culminating activity/project for any probability unit in grades 5-6. |
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. |
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. |
Quadratics in Nature and Architecture |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 3 ratings) Students will discover real-life applications of quadratic functions using video cameras. The students will learn how to write equations for the parabolas that they find in real-life. |
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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Rainforest: Creating Globally Conscious Students |
2 to 2 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will be able to apply their knowledge of the rainforest ecosystem to create peer interviews with Flipcams. These interviews will be edited and posted on our district website as well as sites such as www.teachertube.com for students to convey their understanding of:
• The various strata of the rainforest, and the role that each plays in the overall health of the ecosystem.
• The interdependence humans have with the rainforest for health needs.
• The great diversity of the animal kingdom that resides in the rainforest as well as the effect deforestation has on these species.
• How our actions can directly impact the rainforests. Students should be able to persuade others to take simple steps to protect these regions of the world.
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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. |
Real-World Probability |
11 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will use digital media to complete a culminating project relating probability concepts to real-world events. |
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. |
Regions of the USA |
4 to 4 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) In this unit students will use the internet to research the physical and human characteristics of the four regions of the United States and decide which one they would like to live in. |
Renaissance Digital Story Project |
9 to 11 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Assignment: To produce a quality 2 minute speech and a quality 2 minute digital story that tells the tale of a Renaissance artist, inventor, or scientist. |
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. |
S.C.A.N.M.E. |
P-K to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students Creating A New Method of Evaluation |
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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Save Trees, Use the Mini to Complete Our Assignment! |
2 to 2 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will learn that by using technology in the classroom, they will be saving trees from destruction to create our textbooks and workbooks and how we can stop filling our landfills with mounds of paper. With our reading program online, students will have access to the program and will be able to complete assignments directed by the teacher and have immediate feedback on their performance. |
School Motto/School Expectations |
3 to 5 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Students in GATE, grades 3-5, will teach and demonstrate the school rules and expectations to students in grade PreK-2. They will also, help model the expectations of our newly implemented school motto through the use of video and technology. |
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 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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Science Video Journal Through Earth's Systems |
6 to 6 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Collaborative groups will be used to create video lessons for classmates in a modified jigsaw type activity. Students will become experts on their topic and teach peers using creative video lessons to explain concepts on Earth's dynamic systems. Video lessons can be demonstrations, skits, interviews, songs, etc. |
ScreenPlay Writing |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This a two-week unit that includes screenplay writing and video editing |
Sea Scallop Data Mining Research Project |
10 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students develop a research question and then gather the data to answer that question using the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Sea Scallop Survey database. Students present the results in a formal classroom presentation and a scientific poster session which is open to the public. |
Self-Portrait |
6 to 7 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) For students in middle school, the self-portrait is timely, as it is during these years, between the ages of 11-14, that young people are immersed in “the self”-exploring identity, finding his or her place in the world, building perception of self in relation to others. In the lesson plan, students delve into these artistic qualities as they first explore famous artists’ portraits, which grounds them in a range of styles and art history, all of which students reflect on as they design their self-portraits, which they will create using Photoshop using both the standard desktop computer and the WACOM tablet to compare/contrast the impact of the different technologies on the design process and final product.
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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. |
Shadow Hands |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Using Photoshop, Pictures taken of Shadow/Hand figures, and Pictures of students to create realistic images. |
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. |
shared reading book trailer creation |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) After completing a "shared reading" with a literature group, students will re-create portions of the book through various media and will create a short "book trailer" of the project to share with students, teachers and parents. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
Similarities and Differences Across Cultures - In Modern Times and Throughout History |
1 to 1 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will use technology and literature to research past cultures and modern cultures. The objective of the lesson is for the students to recognize and define the similarities and differences between past cultures and modern cultures in areas related to daily living, food, art and music.
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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. |
Simulations and Tools for STEM Skills |
6 to 5 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Incoming 6th grade students will use STEM Software Bundle for Upper Elementary (4-6) to learn and enhance their STEM and problem solving skills.
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Sixth Grade - Quinceanera vs. Sweet 16 |
6 to 6 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will be able to compare and contrast a few differences and similarities between American and Hispanic cultures, specifically regarding a “coming of age” celebration. |
SKYPE PALS Project Share NC |
4 to 12 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Students studying Spanish as a foreign language collaborate to create digital presentations depicting everyday life and culture in North Carolina. Students establish friendships and exchange cultural and language information with students in Latin America via SKYPE and video sharing websites. Students create a SYPE PALS documentary which will be shared with the community at a special celebration in which students, parents, and the community come together to meet one another, to watch and discuss the documentary and to experience typical food and music from the Latin American country. |
Slavery and Oral History |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) As part of a unit on antebellum slave culture in North America, students will learn about the role oral history plays in forming and transforming a culture among African Americans. A comprehensive oral history project utilizing video and podcasting technology will be the unit's summative assessment |
Smart Understanding of Characters w/ Smartphones |
5 to 8 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Students will demonstrate an understanding of how characters change throughout a novel. They will also be able to identify 1st and 3rd person point-of-view.
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Solar system patterns and movement |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) In this lesson, students will learn about the solar system's movements and patterns. They will explore the inner and outer planets, explore deep space, determine how planets move around the sun, describe the necessity for the movement of the planets and the sun, and learn facts about each planet. |
Solving 2-step Inequalities |
7 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students/teachers can do entire lesson on line w/videos and examples to enhance learning. |
Sound Stations |
6 to 6 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students complete a series of stations to help them understand sound waves. |
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. |
Spanish I Going Places and Invitations |
10 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This lesson plan is multifaceted and provides a week of introduction, modeling, practice and review before the actual video cameras are put into use. Day five begins our video camera use with the students creating clips to be used with an interactive white board in order to play a vocabulary game featuring the students. The end of the unit culminates in a Multimedia project where students will divide into groups to create and perform dialogues and rap videos with the assistance of props also created by the students. |
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. |
STEMing Mobile Devices |
8 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Incorporating STEM and mobile devices into the physical science curriculum in an engaging and interactive way. |
Story Development |
3 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This lesson can be used in the initial stages of developing a digital story using media literacy skills taught beforehand. |
Story Telling through Photography |
4 to 9 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will use photographs to form the basis for a narrative story. This is lesson will be part of a series of lessons that will lead to a book of stories and student created images. |
Storytelling with a Document Camera |
3 to 5 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will use the document camera to retell and put on a presentation of a Native American folktale, legend, or story that they read. This project aims to help students practice and enhance their reading fluency, comprehension, and speaking skills, as well as understand Native American history and culture. |
Student Voice/Service Learning |
1 to 4 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Giving students ownership, a voice, & group decision making in service learning.
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Student Voices |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) To provide a media where our students are able to create a video that allows them to have a voice about something that they may be passionate about (i.e. sports, reading, family, &academic teams). This will allow our students to have a creative outlet to express themselves in a non-traditional way. |
Teacher Appreciation Week |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will create a design to give to a current/previous teacher in honor of teacher appreciation week. |
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. |
Tech Savvy Naturalists |
P-K to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) While technology is the way of the future, the future of endangered plants and animals are our responsibility. Students will learn about ecology and biology of animals and plants in our community and create movies and picture books as their culminating projects. |
Technology Across the Curriculum |
K to 5 |
Students will be using digital cameras in Math, Language Arts, and Science. They will be producing symmetry pictures, a scrapbook, and learn how a camera and an eye are similar. |
Technology-Assisted "7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens" |
9 to 10 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This unit teaches teens the underlying principles that are essential to achieving their goals and personal success. The activities, described in detail below, support an understanding of each of the 7 Habits along with any important terms and the application of those habits into the daily lives of the students through the implementation of “baby steps” that will be monitored twice a week by the students’ personal mentor and supplemented with a wide range of technological hardware and applications. |
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 Bill of Rights in Action |
8 to 8 |
In this lesson, students will view short video clips illustrating various rights in the first ten amendments to the Constitution. In groups, students will have to identify the right(s) in the video, discuss, and explain how that right is being celebrated. |
The Butterfly Effect |
P-K to P-K |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) After studying the rise of Hitler and the Nazi regime, students are asked to think about the "butterfly effect" regarding negative events that happened in various countries because Hitler was the Fuhrer. This project begins with research, includes history, contains digital tools, incorporates fiction, and ends with a classroom presentation. |
The Daily Scoop |
K to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) With this lesson plan, students get a chance to be the classroom reporter, record their newscast, and then upload the video to the classroom website. This is a great way for students to practice their writing and speaking skills while sharing the classroom events with their parents and community. |
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. |
The Family Tree |
6 to 8 |
Families are a wonderful resource of support, traditions, and stories. In this unit, my students will write a series of essays about their families that will be put together in a book that can serve a record that can be shared with family now and in the future. |
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 Power of Images |
9 to 12 |
A 2 minute Multi-media presentation using colors, textures,images,drawings, photographs, video clips, etc. To portray a political or social issue in the school, community or country. |
The Science of Balls |
3 to 5 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Lesson will have studnets examining why each sport requires a different ball. Measurement, science, math are incorporated. |
The Shape of Things |
K to 3 |
The students will use digital cameras to find examples of circle, squares, and triangles around them. |
The Water Cycle: A Green Screen Movie |
4 to 5 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) After learning about the water cycle through hands on experiments, texts, and multimedia, students produce a video of the water cycle. You will be using the green screen effect. It is important that students have already had some video making experience and experience with the green screen effects prior to this lesson. |
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. |
The Year Is New, The Bugs Are Too! |
3 to 5 |
The yearly theme for the elementary library is"Go Buggy For Books." This science theme is used to teach library skills. |
There's No Place Like Home |
3 to 6 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will create a claymation video about an animal's habitat and two other habitats for the animal to visit. |
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. |
To High School and Beyond |
8 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This a project that my 8th grade students do to get them thinking about career and life goals. It is completed in four parts. |
Traditional Tribal Homelands of Washington's Plateau Nations |
6 to 12 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) This WebQuest is the first part of a four part unit or can be used alone. It challenges students to think critically about the conflicts before, during, and after the Walla Walla Treaty Council of 1855. |
Tree Trekkers |
4 to 5 |
Students will photograph, identify, classify and write about trees in their school yard, the immediate neighborhood and in their own neighborhood. The will publish a booklet and/or a slide show about their trees. |
Trigonometry in Right Triangles |
9 to 10 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This lesson plan is being submitted for the IPEVO Mirror-Cam Grant. |
Ummm Pizza! Give Me a Half |
P-K to 3 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) This lesson is about making a "whole" putting two "halves" together. |
Underground Railroad |
4 to 6 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This project is to enhance the learning in the classroom by researching information on a variety of topics and creating a tri fold with the computer teacher, learnign a song and the meaning of it with the music teacher, and creating art with the art teacehr . In addition to the art and music pieces, the research will be used in a tri fold (which is a technology goal for this grade). |
Understanding Interactions Among Local Species and the Local Environment |
11 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will use digital cameras to observe and investigate a variety of species in the schoolyard ecosystem. Students will research the species and construct food chains and food webs from their photos. Students will use their observations to write hypothesis and develop experiments. |
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 Our Senses |
1 to 1 |
We will go on a nature walk and use digital cameras to capture the things we learn about using our five senses. |
Using Podcasts to teach about the Constitutional Convention |
7 to 8 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Using Netbooks with webcams and a Smartboard to create and share Podcasts. Students will participate in discussions and the creation of Podcasts by taking advantage of the interactive nature of table Netbooks and a classroom Smartboard. |
Video Scavenger Hunt: Is It Alive? |
1 to 1 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This is a 5-day lesson in which students learn the characteristics of living and nonliving things. Students will go outside to find living and nonliving things and film themselves describing their objects and explaining how they classified them. |
Video Social Stories |
P-K to 5 |
Let children see and hear what appropriate behavior looks and sounds like. |
Virtual Math Portfolio |
7 to 9 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will create a customized web page to post a series of unit-based math projects. They will keep a copy of the web page as a virtual portfolio of their exciting math year. |
Virtual Museum of Musical Instruments |
4 to 8 |
Students create and build their own musical instruments based on existing characteristics of the four families of the symphony orchestra. They will take photographs of their completed instruments, record the sounds and post them to an existing web site which showcases student work. They will also create their own web page which will be attached to the teacher web site. |
Visualizing Vocabulary in an Ecosystem |
6 to 6 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Learning about the pond ecosystem will be combined with a creative communication project, greatly enhanced by photographs taken with NEW DIGITAL CAMERAS!! |
Vocabulary Puzzle |
P-K to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) My students need lots of opportunities to learn new vocabulary. Making puzzles with the vocabulary words and definitions gives students opportunities to use hands-one activities to learn the new words. |
Vocabulary Taboo Review |
3 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This lesson is a twist on the card game "Taboo", where people aim to describe a word at the top of the card, but are not allowed to use the "Taboo" words printed on the card in their description. |
Water Unit |
6 to 8 |
In this unit, students will learn about the essential and valuable properties of water. Students will learn through hands-on activities. |
Weather Forecast |
4 to 5 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will use weather terms, tools and current weather conditions to create a 4-day forecast and present it to the class. |
Weather or Not? |
2 to 3 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students become junior meteorologists and create forecast for their fellow students. |
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. |
Webquest - Westward Ho! |
3 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Work as a group to investigate life on the trail using various resources and Internet links. As a result of the research, students will write an article. |
Weebly Website Report |
7 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will make a free weebly website about a topic they have researched. |
What are Numbers?: Learning to Add |
K to 1 |
Students explore digital camera use while learning basic math concepts and simple number identification. |
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 Message Are You Sending? |
P-K to P-K |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Since I teach about technology in our middle school, my students are always online. We will role play, online sites and classroom discussions to learn about staying safe and how to use netiquette on the Internet. |
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. |
What's Living in the Water? |
6 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students assess water quality of a local pond through observation and testing. Students link changes in seasons to changes in water quality. |
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. |
Where should we go? |
4 to 5 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) For this lesson, students are to create a digital poster using the program called Glogster EDU. (edu.glogster.com) On their poster, students are to describe three places that they would like to visit within a state found within the United States. |
Where We Come From—A Culturally Responsive Writing Lesson |
4 to 5 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Goals: (1) Students will communicate and collaborate listing details that represent their learning group; (2) Students will write a “We Come From” poem that represents their learning group; (3) Students will create a Wordle that represents their learning group. |
Who's in the Hot Seat- Characterization and Point-of-View |
6 to 7 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Students will be able to demonstrate how characters change throughout a story, as well as describe how the author develops the point-of-view of the characters. Students will use the Smart Board, along with Smart Board Slates, to complete the interactive activities, in order to master these objectives. |
Whose Slipper |
1 to 5 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) In this unit students will explore multiple versions of various fairy tales. This is one of five lessons in which students read an original fairy tale and compare story elements of another version of the same fairy tale.
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Wishing for Wells |
2 to 2 |
Students of all ability levels will learn about the water crisis in Africa. They will use iPads to conduct research, make PSAs to broadcast on the morning announcements, and complete other technology-infused projects to raise awareness (such as an interactive QR code exhibit about a region in Africa). The unit will culminate in a fundraiser to try to fund the construction of a well in Africa. |
Women and the Right to Vote |
7 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Change can not happen unless someone chooses to take a stand and have a voice that will not be silenced. Women fought for change and were not willing to be put on the shelf. Both men and women need to be able to speak up for things they believe will make changes in the world today. |
Wordle It |
3 to 5 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students learning about adjectives or character traits, can integrate this technology and practice these concepts in an artistic fashion. Using wordle.net, students will create a word cloud with their selected traits or adjectives. |
World Civilizations |
7 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This project is an effort to incorporate interactive video games (Civilization 4) and collaborative internet tools (Google Docs and Wikispaces) with an understanding of historical knowledge and themes to better understand the interaction between culture, geography, government, and people over large periods of time. To do this, groups of students will play a networked version of Civilization 4, keep records of events which occur in this game, write a history of the nation created in the game, and publish the history online for others to use. |
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? |
World Traveller |
6 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students groups will research various countries of their choice, create artifacts reflect culture and monuments from their researched nation, and students will take "tourist" photos of themselves in front of their artifacts and monuments. Photos will be complied in a "World Traveler Gallery" on our class website |
Writing and Illustrating a Digital Children's Picture Book |
6 to 8 |
Students will use digital cameras and Photoshop to create the pictures for a children's picture book which will be made into a hand bound book. |
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 Prompt "Living With Fame!" |
4 to 4 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Writing Prompt "Living With Fame!" |
Writing using sequencing phrases |
P-K to P-K |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will learn how to use sequencing phrases to organize their writing in the order of the events took place. |