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Lesson Plan Name |
Grades |
"The Know Show" (Think: Saturday Night Live meets Bill Nye meets Fifth Grade) |
P-K to 5 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 4 ratings) My fifth grade students will use video editing software with the flip camera we have in the class to produce 'The Know Show' every other week. The students will write skits, perform songs they pen, display historical reinactements, act in joke segments, and describe scientific drawings all during each15 minute show. |
Fifth Grade Physical Science - Atoms |
5 to 12 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 1 ratings) Using PowerPoint presentations, realia, and various visuals and websites, students will understand that elements are made of atoms, and know the basic structures of an atom (nucleus, electrons, protons, and neutrons). |
Memoirs of a Fifth Grader |
5 to 5 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 1 ratings) Fifth grade students will write an auto-biography and create a correlating video diary. |
Celebration of Cultures |
K to 5 |
In the CELEBRATION OF CULTURES unit, students study one country related to their family heritage and complete multiple assignments to illustrate their understanding of that culture. They also create "family legacy books" in which they put Family Trees, Interviews with relatives and personal "Snapshot" Writings about important incidents and remembrances in their own lives. |
Be Aware of Bullies! |
5 to 5 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 2 ratings) This webquest is designed for 5th grade recess monitors. This teaching-to-learn webquest is intended to involve students in the examination of bullying behavior and how they can help younger students prevent it from happening. |
Claymation Video Lessons |
5 to 12 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will create simple 3D oil-based clay characters, which will move through 2D student-created environments(stop-action videography). Students will narrate the stories thus created. |
Computer and Technology Lab Projects |
1 to 8 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 1 ratings) Students develop significant projects in our Computer and Technology Lab, and we require a safe, easily accessible repository of digital images and audio for student use. These various projects are theme related and correspond to specific grade levels. |
Design Team Challenge |
4 to 8 |
Students use technology and engineering skills to create robots. These robots are used to test various math applications, and data tables are used to compare data. |
Digital Video Yearbook |
3 to 5 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 1 ratings) Students grades 3 through 5 will use digital photography and video to create a video yearbook. Students will be taught how to appropriately use and apply the technology within the classroom. |
Germ Busters! |
P-K to 5 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 1 ratings) This lesson is for health education and involves the application of learned material and allows for peer teaching. Students will create podcasts about germs, the ways they are spread, and how to keep everyone safe! |
If Hornets Could Talk... |
5 to 5 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 2 ratings) As a teacher, I find myself constantly challenged to integrate the state and parish standards, grade level expectations, ILEAP test preparation, and multi-disciplinary lessons, at the same time keeping my students engaged, excited, and learning. At times I find the students either bored or discouraged with basic assignments, in particular reading, writing, and researching. I find that no matter how important the components being taught, without a “catch” or “hook,” the students view the assignments as redundant and see no connection with real life. I’ve found a “hook!” |
Integrated Curriculum, student- led Environmental Project |
P-K to 12 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (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. |
Preposition. Preposition Starting with an A |
4 to 6 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (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. |
PROJECT H.O.P.E. (Highlighting Opportunities for Potential Employment) |
4 to 5 |
This is an exciting Career Exploration Unit that allows students to integrate technology skills while researching various careers. |
School Renovation -- What's Your Idea?! |
5 to 8 |
Students visited area elementary schools to seek ideas for the renovation of their school. Presentations were made to architects and the school board. |
Science Claymation - Which Came First, the Chicken or the Egg? |
3 to 6 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 2 ratings) Students in 3rd - 6th could use the Tool Factory Movie Maker, Stop Motion Pro Software to make Claymation videos about science topics such as life cycles, natural cycles, phyics, and space phenomena. These lesson plans are integrated cross-curricula and incorporate multiple 21st Century skills. |
Shake it up…Cisne! |
3 to 5 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (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. |
Shark Tank: Industrial Revolution |
5 to 6 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will read "Immigrant Kids" and create a business idea that they will each present in front of a group of "sharks" (teachers and parents). Students will present ideas using imovie and then make a commercial promoting their inventions. |
Students Are the Best Teachers |
4 to 12 |
Students will take an active role in the teaching and learning process by creating digital presentations that review basic concepts that are the foundations for all courses. These may include focused mini lessons on such areas as vocabulary, grammar, figures of speech, math problems and concepts, historical events, scientific elements, or technology operations. |
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. |
The Planet Mars |
5 to 8 |
I created this lesson plan so that my fifth grade students would be able to compare and contrast the planets of Mars and Earth, and further build their knowledge of the solar system. |
The Secret Stairway |
3 to 5 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (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. |
Tracing the World |
P-K to 5 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 1 ratings) Using an interactive white board in Social Studies so students can label places on a map and show how maps changed through the years. |
“Through the Eyes of a Child- Student Photography” Elementary Level – Visual Arts |
2 to 5 |
![](/images/lesson_gear_one_star.jpg) (0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will experience the beauty of literacy through the use of photography. Teacher guided photography instruction will focus on the subject areas of reading and writing skills to help students become better readers. |