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| Lesson Plan Name |
Grades |
| Fit or Fat? |
6 to 8 |
| Students will be involved in a Science and Health lessons that involve nutrition and exercise. They will create Healthy Snacks and exercise profiles for the class. |
| Health, Fitness and Technology |
4 to 7 |
 (0 stars, 1 ratings) SWBT obtain accurate height and weight measurements, plot stature and weight percentiles on clinical charts, evaluate growth and fitness and identify methods of improving health and fitness. Students will use a variety of technology tools and resources to research, calculate,analyze and present their information. |
| 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. |
| Physical Education Deal or No Deal |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Students will demonstrate and be engaged in a variety of activities/exercises that contribute to improvement of overall fitness by playing a game show called Deal or No Deal.
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| A Snap at Geometry |
5 to 6 |
(0 stars, 4 ratings) This project focuses on analyzing objects and discussing their math attributes. After learners explore and build background knowledge about polygons, polyhedrons, and other geometric figures, they will complete a webquest. Students will create, explain, and evaluate their understanding of geometric shapes through activities.
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| A Trip to the Mall... Washington D.C. |
3 to 5 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) This project incorporate our Nation's Capital into a board game that integrates curriculum not only across subjects, but grade levels. |
| art tech club |
5 to 7 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Interested and motivated students in various grades join one of my Friday "art club" groups. At least one group spends their time making an animated movie. |
| 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. |
| Cold War Virtual Museum |
10 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students create virtual museums on the Cold War using a PowerPoint template. I collaborate with a World History Teacher in order to achieve projects from the East and West. Then I set up computers in a common room to allow students and staff to look at these projects throughout the day during free periods. |
| Colors colors what do you see? |
P-K to P-K |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) I teach Pre school special needs. This lesson will improve reading literacy ,the students will create an album. The student will take pictures under the teacher directions. |
| Community Based Instruction |
P-K to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Community Based Instruction involves functional academics, independent living , self-help, interpersonal as well as speech and language development/skills. Most activities require the student to demonstrate learning through a hands on approach assessed with measurable goals in which a rubric or percentage is obtained. The best part of CBI is that the activities allow students with various abilities, skill levels, and various learning styles an opportunity to be successful. |
| Differentiating Through Audiobooks |
8 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Advanced readers stage and record audio versions of novels for less-able readers, who will listen to audio recordings using MP3 players and listening stations. |
| Elaborative Detail- Write it right! |
4 to 10 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This lesson teaches the importance of using elaborative and sensory details in writing. Children may think they are using good details until they see how many details are necessary to make the right picture pop into a reader's mind. |
| Exploring My Environment for Speech and Language |
K to 5 |
| Student will photograph objects containing their targeted speech sounds and/or items in selected categories. These photographs will be used in a power point slide show for individual drill and copied to establish a "visual library". |
| Exploring Tenths |
4 to 4 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will explore the relationship between fractions and decimals in this introductory lesson to decimals. This lesson will focus on tenths and represent decimals with number disks, on number lines, and in expanded form. |
| Factors and Multiples |
4 to 4 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will model and investigate math problems. Using a document camera, students will model arrays to discover the factors of the number six. |
| Fitness and Math - It All Adds Up |
7 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Combining principles of fitness and mathematics, students will see how math is used in the real world. |
| Fractions, Decimals and Percents |
3 to 4 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) We will be able to convert a fraction to a decimal and a percent after this lesson using an ELMO. |
| French Family Member Names and Possessive Adjectives (easily adapted to other World Languages) |
6 to 6 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This lesson would be the third in a unit. Students practice using family member names and learn their meanings. They also practice using the possessive adjectives. This lesson is for a block period class of 68 minutes. |
| 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. |
| Historical Scavenger Hunts |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Students explore the history of their community by paying attention to the details of architecture, monuments and area artifacts. This is a multi-step lesson that allows students to practice historical fieldwork, pre-reading strategies, acting skills, research skills, writing skills and public speaking skills. |
| How to be Safe in Cyber Space |
4 to 5 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Through discussion, 4th graders will reach the conclusions that cyber space can be a dangerous place if one is not careful about what is revealed on the net. |
| If Spielberg Can Do It, So Can I!! |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Students learn to make a movie using digital video cameras and video editing technology. |
| Integrated Curriculum, student- led Environmental Project |
P-K to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) A student-led environmental project based on cooperative learning with a cross-curricular base in order to address many subject areas and work towards the goal of creating positive change. This is an amazing project that empowers the children, helps them to discover and utilize their gifts to create change in the world. |
| Internet Security Basics |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) The goal of the lesson is to educate the learners in the responsibilities of using the Internet's resources in a safe, secure, and ethical manner. In addition, students will be able to apply new knowledge to correct unsafe practices currently used by them on social networks and other Internet sites. |
| Intro to the Cardiovascular System Hybrid Lesson |
3 to 6 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) In this lesson, students will learn about their cardiovascular system, using three different stations.
1) Independent Station 2) Collaborative Station 3) Teacher Centered Station |
| Introduction to Rhetoric |
P-K to P-K |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This lesson uses a primary text excerpt on Google Docs, a video clip, and a Google Presentation to teach students about the art of rhetoric. |
| Inventive Thinking - Future Inventions |
4 to 12 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) The class does extensive research on the invention process. The students are then asked to create, make a prototype and market their invention/ |
| 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. |
| Literacy through Photography |
4 to 5 |
| Literacy through Photography encourages children to find their unique voice through original photographs and written text. Students photograph scenes from their lives, and these images drive related writing activities. |
| Literacy through Self-Ethnography |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Linking photography to writing encourages the students to lead a writing life. They will begin to see that the things they come across each day are worth writing about. |
| Moving the Brain |
5 to 6 |
| Students will lead short exercise routines that can be performed in the classroom. Classroom teachers will then be able to use these videos to get their class up and moving when they are in need of a quick brain break! |
| Poetry Video Project |
P-K to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) We will use the website, www.favoritepoem.org to inspire students to read poems with emphasis, memorize their favorite poems, and use technology to create their own poetry videos. This is a lesson designed by an ESOL teacher, but can be used with any population of students, and highlights the diversity of a student population. |
| Programming with Alice |
6 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Learn computer programming skills in a fun and creativity way using Alice, free software developed by Carnegie Mellon University. Create 3-D movies and video games while learning traditional programming concepts such as loops, nesting, if/else statements, and functions. |
| Public Service Announcement Project |
5 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Using a digital media form, students will create a Public Service Announcement to inform peers on a topic of social interest or need. These PSA's will be shared through journalism or school mail to reach the target audience. |
| 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. |
| Radio Station Podcasting Throughout History |
3 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Using Podcasting as a radio station to engage students in Social Studies and improve their fluency. |
| Reading for Life: Preparing Students to Function in Educational and Community Settings |
K to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Building confidence through literacy. Children are provided with 1:1 and small group support while navigating an online curriculum to boost overall fluency, assessment outcomes and success in community. |
| Reflective Decoupage |
7 to 12 |
| Cameras and art go hand and hand way beyond pictures and portraits, right? In this project, the cameras are going to help our students produce their reflective art through decoupage! |
| Science of the snowflake |
1 to 1 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) I use this lesson to reinforce knowledge of the Caldecott awards and also to teach the children how to navigate their way around the Macbook touchpad as First Grade is their first formal introduction into the use of laptops. |
| 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 Identity |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students research into their experience, culture and life to create a self portrait learning facial proportions. Viewing a variety of artists with different interpretations of involving expression in their portraits. |
| Short Vowel Discrimination |
P-K to 5 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) The integration of Dr. Seuss rhymes creates an engaging study of onsets and rimes. Students will discover patterns in words, sort words based on their vowel patterns, and apply their knowledge in reading and writing activities. Using a Promethean Board and Active Inspire software will add educational technology to the lesson.
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| 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 Outsiders Unit Plan |
7 to 9 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) The students will read The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton and complete a digital-based lesson plan that incorporates the novel. |
| The Secret Stairway |
3 to 5 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This is a lesson that continues work on the recorder by providing music projection to allow hand-free music reading, composing opportunities and interactive music collaboration. |
| The Wealth Effect |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) “The Wealth Effect” is a comprehensive based learning activity that engages and promotes sound financial thinking and planning by incorporating numerous aspects of the Personal Financial Literacy NJ core curriculum content standards through a series of integrated lessons. |
| TRI-SCI 1 Video Launch |
K to 4 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Student(s) will construct and fly a model rocket with a video camera onboard. Video will alos be made of the construction and shared with other students/grades. |
| Using Macs to Understand the Computer language |
K to 3 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Using macs along with other cd programs, students can learn various subject matter and feel secure while learning new information to use through out their lives. |
| Voice of Democracy |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Record your original 3 to 5 minute (+ or - 5 seconds) essay on a standard cassette tape or CD on the 2010-11 theme "Does My Generation Have a Role In America's Future" Label your cassette or CD and neatly typed essay with your name and completed entry form. |
| Who Am I? |
4 to 5 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will use the digital cameras to take profile pictures of themselves and then insert them into a word processing document where they have typed an acrostic poem with their name, giving clues about themselves. The pictures are then formatted to be black and white so that the photo looks like a silouette. |
