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| Lesson Plan Name |
Grades |
| Memoir - The Gift of Memories |
7 to 8 |
| This project incorporates the writing of either a memoir or a memoir poem- focusing on a favorite person or pet. Students create either a Power Point or Windows Movie Maker movie showcasing this person or pet-giving it as a gift. |
| Introduction to Programming the Recon Rover 6.0 |
2 to 3 |
 (0 stars, 1 ratings) This lesson will demonstrate to the students how to begin programming the Recon Rover 6.0 from SMART Lab as well as introduce them to the online program code.org as they begin to explore coding in the classroom |
| Plant, Point and Record the Life Cycles of Plants |
1 to 6 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will photograph the life cycles of growing plants. Using continuous photographs, they will monitor the scientific data collection of their plants' growth for online photo journals that they will posted on their student-created website. |
| 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. |
| Blogging In Kindergarten! |
K to K |
(0 stars, 3 ratings) All of my 18 Kindergarten children have their own kidblog that they use to record their learning. Kindergarten life is full of day long discoveries and kid blogging is just one of the many ways I am documenting the excitement of the discoveries made. |
| My Altered Life, Exploring Mixed Genre Writing |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) The purpose of this project is to present the students with a structured activity in which they are able to develop and enhance their reading fluency and comprehension skills in a fun and creative way. The mode of exploration will be that of mixed genre writing and altered books. |
| "A Portrait of Success" Elementary Student Portfolio Building |
K to 4 |
| Students use digital photography and appropriate software to record their work into a manageable portfolio to document personal progress. |
| "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! |
| "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 2) Applied STEM: Rocketry and its Components |
6 to 8 |
| See Part 1 for all following sections with the exception of Lesson Plan Description. |
| (PART 4) Applied STEM: Rocketry and its Components |
6 to 8 |
| See Part 1 for the following sections with the exception of Lesson Plan Description. |
| 30 Ways In 30 days |
5 to 6 |
| Learners are challenged with the essential question, "How can I make a significant difference in the world in just 30 days?" To highlight their experience, the learners must keep a log book, create a documentary, and publish an original book. |
| A Matter of Fact |
5 to 6 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) A math and science unit on matter. |
| 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. |
| African Kaleidoscope Music Visions Project for GT Music Students |
3 to 5 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will explore the culture and music of an African country of their choice. They will present a short PowerPoint or Flipchart for the class, students could also use iPads to create iMovies. Students may choose to present it on a traditional poster. Students may wish to provide samples of African Tribal music. Students should also write a brief song in 4/4 meter and C pentatonic about African music. |
| African Kaleidoscope Music Visions Project for GT Music Students |
3 to 5 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will explore the culture and music of an African country of their choice. They will present a short PowerPoint or Flipchart for the class, students could also use iPads to create iMovies. Students may choose to present it on a traditional poster. Students may wish to provide samples of African Tribal music. Students should also write a brief song in 4/4 meter and C pentatonic about African music. |
| 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. |
| Birthdays, Everyone Has One! |
P-K to 3 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Specific purpose/ objective
The student will practice retelling and explaining to build social studies and vocabulary skills. The student will connect the information with prior experiences and insights to his or her own birthday. |
| 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. |
| Building Vocabulary with Digital Fotos. |
8 to 12 |
| Presents ways that students could use digital cameras to develop Spanish vocabulary. |
| 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. |
| Claymation Video Lessons |
5 to 12 |
(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. |
| Collaborative Writing using Blogs Lesson Plan |
1 to 6 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Students will create a paragraph that shares details of our weekly classroom learning. They will illustrate their paragraph with one or two appropriate pictures or photos. Then it will be put into our classroom blog. |
| 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. |
| Comparing and Contracting modern and colonial children |
2 to 4 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will compare and contrast their 'modern' life with the lives of 'colonial' children. Students will complete a Venn Diagram, and take the information on the Venn Diagram to write a paragraph comparing the different time periods. |
| Cyber Safety |
3 to 5 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) In this lesson, students discuss the dangers, as well as, the positive side of having internet and real life friends. |
| Digital Storytelling - My Special Story |
4 to 6 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will learn the techniques of Digital Storytelling in order to complete a narrative about an important event in their lives. Students will compose a narrative, collect images and photographs. Students will then create a digital slideshow, complete with spoken narration, images, music and transitions appropriate to the mood they want to set for their story. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Fantasy Fusion |
K to 12 |
| Creating fantasy books with students as characters. |
| 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. |
| Flip Video Cultural Exchange between students in Texas and New Zealand |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students create a class YouTube video comparing the differences/similarities between the Hurricane Ike disaster in Houston, TX to the earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand. The video was sent to all schools in Christchurch, New Zealand - expanding students' world view to include more than just their immediate concerns. |
| FLIP, FLOP AND FLY YOUR WAY THROUGH ADJECTIVAL ENDINGS |
9 to 12 |
| A fun, yet creative way of learning the German adjectival endings adjecives following "the" and "a". Using a flip recorder, a group is selected to write and act out a skit designed specifically to teach the usually boring concept of adjectival endings. |
| From Athena to Zeus: Digital Stories Through the Eyes of Greek Gods and Goddesses |
5 to 6 |
| Students will use digital technology to create digital storybooks of a Greek God or Goddess. |
| From Future Flight to Past Flight |
5 to 8 |
| By integrating a virtual learning environment with a real-world, hands-on experience, students experience a higher level of understanding. Furthermore, by teaching others, students exercise their own creativity and long term recognition. |
| Genius Hour Technology |
K to 5 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Our K-5 Gifted classroom would like to have 4 iPads (with protective cases) and/or video cameras to aid with our project based instruction. This technology will allow our students to research multiple fields and present authentic products to an audience. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Lewis and Clark Webhunt |
6 to 9 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Webhunt questions with corresponding websites that take students on the internet to learn about the Lewis and Clark expedition |
| Making Butter- From a Liquid to a Solid |
1 to 3 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will make butter and design/engineer hands-free butter-shaking apparatus. Students will record and graph the length of time of the butter changing process (change of state of matter). |
| Meteorologist For a Day! |
4 to 7 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will use their knowledge of meteorology, weather forecasting, and weather maps to become meteorologists for a day! |
| Movies for Mothers |
P-K to 5 |
| Students will use photos, drawings, and videos to create a movie using Tool Factory Movie Maker as a heartwarming gift for their mother on Mother's Day. |
| NIce to Voki You! This is my Family Cyber Safety Glog |
5 to 8 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Students create voki avatars that speak and introduce themselves to the class
Create a famous historical figure voki
Digital Family Tree for the Entire Family
Cyber Safety Glog |
| Out to Lunch |
6 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will look through menus (pictures of items with prices on them) and pick what they would buy for lunch. Students will calculate the cost of their meal and pay for it using exact change. |
| Pair Ideas:Parody |
6 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) After studying a poem, play, or novel considered to be a "literary canon," students will write and videotape a parody of it utilizing live musical or acting performances, LEGO animation, or puppet theater to share with peers and then serve as mentors for middle school students to recreate this process. All videos will be accessible on a web blog site or through a Google Drive or dropbox. |
| 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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| Positive Vibe Lesson - A Line for Everyone |
3 to 7 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) The learner will be able to create a table and fill in two or more positive statements for every member of his or her class that will then be compiled and printed as
a holiday gift for each student by the teacher. |
| 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. |
| Ready SET go! |
P-K to 1 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Students will use the Digital Camera Lab to take pictures to identify and create sets of objects. |
| 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. |
| safety on the internet |
3 to 6 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) this lesson explores the security of real friends vs the online "friends" |
| 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. |
| Self Portrait |
10 to 12 |
| The students will create a self portrait within a masterpiece. The objectives are many. Students will learn new tools within the program, learn how to create a self portrait, and learn, in detail, about a masterpiece of art and the artist.
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| Self portrait in a masterpiece |
10 to 12 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Students will create a self portrait using the wacom tablet and Adobe Photoshop. This portrait will incorporate a Masterpiece of art, where the Alternative high school student places themself in the picture. using the Wacom tablet the students will be able to recreate the texture and subtle line variations that the original artist has done. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Succession in the Classroom |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Students will observe and record with digital cameras the process of succession as it occurs in a 55 gallon tank that the students set up with soil from their own backyards. |
| Technology for the Likes of Shakespeare and Poe |
7 to 12 |
(0 stars, 3 ratings) Digital Storytelling, a wonderful way to incorporate technology and other disciplines into the Language Arts classroom, despite endorsement from the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), is not a priority for most schools. I believe that to incorporate digital storytelling, you must have the technology necessary to enable the teacher to adjust her pedagogy and see her role as story coach instead of technology teacher, allowing digital storytelling to enable students to represent their voices in a manner rarely addressed by state and district curriculum while practicing the digital literacy skills that will be important to their 21st century futures while supporting whole language literacy practices. . |
| 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 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 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. |
| 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. |
| Virtual Travel Plan |
4 to 8 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) This lesson was created for 4th grade students in North Carolina. It integrates many areas of the curriculum including mathematics, social studies, and language arts. Students design a virtual trip through North Carolina to learn about the history and symbols of North Carolina. |
| Walk a Day in my Moccasins |
P-K to 5 |
| Using a video camcorder to record a day in the life of another student who either is ELL or ESL or Special Needs (Austism) so that other students can see how these students deal with the challenging day at school. |
| We Are Authors! |
2 to 2 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will use Clip Art Station and Microsoft Word to create a book. |
| 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. |
| WORDS: A Lesson in Collaboration (Disguised as a Lesson on Homophones/Homonyms) |
6 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students work in groups to plan, create, edit, and share a collaborative, creative video on homophones and homonyms to share with the world. |
