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Lesson Plan Name |
Grades |
"I Have a Dream" Podcasts |
K to 12 |
 (0 stars, 2 ratings) Students will watch Martin Luther King Jr's, "I Have a Dream" speech, then write their own speech about their own dreams. The speeches will recorded and turned into podcasts. |
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. |
Analyzing and Synthesizing Propaganda Techniques in Film |
9 to 12 |
 (0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will analyze the non-verbal techniques used in films that attempt to manipulate audiences through political or commercial propaganda. In teams, students will then create their own videos demonstrating a synthesis of these techniques. |
Creating a TV Commercial to Air on Morning Announcements |
6 to 12 |
 (0 stars, 1 ratings) Focused advertising is everywhere; and the goal is to make the student more aware of how they are targeted negatively and/or positively and the choices they have as consumers. Students learn about various types of media and advertising tactics, create their own commercial, and learn how they fit into our economy as consumers. |
CSI Podcasts |
P-K to P-K |
 (0 stars, 3 ratings) Students will create a reference library of podcasts to help them solve crime scenes and later review for tests. |
Dazzling Digital Poem Project ¨C 7th grade |
7 to 10 |
 (0 stars, 1 ratings) 7th grade students will take one of their original poems and create a digital poem on PowerPoint. This poem will include a student narration of poem, a collage of pictures representing their poem's ideas and background music. |
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. |
Electronic Poetry Project |
6 to 12 |
 (0 stars, 2 ratings) Students will utilize digital technology to create a presentation of a chosen or original poem. The project will include creating photos/videos, voice overs, original background music, and character generation to interpret a poem for classroom and podcast presentation. |
Electronic Poetry Project |
6 to 12 |
 (0 stars, 1 ratings) The Electronic Poetry Project is a student-generated, project-based learning experience in which students utilize technology to develop skills in research, writing, and creativity to produce an audio/video presentation. Student-driven, project-based learning enhances lasting knowledge rather that just momentary learning. |
Encourage reading and fluency! |
P-K to P-K |
 (0 stars, 1 ratings) Good readers read fluently. Fluency means that they read just like they talk, smoothly, in small phrases, and with expression.
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Endangered Animals Podcast |
3 to 5 |
 (0 stars, 2 ratings) Students will be researching endangered animals on the internet, writing a report about why they are endangered and how we can save them on Microsoft Office, recording their report with MP3 players and uploading them online to a podcast. |
Engaging Presentations of Research |
3 to 4 |
 (0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will use a Z5 Hovercam Document Camera to help present information gathered through a research project on the American revolution. Presentations include recording an 'interview' with a Revolutionary patriot. |
First Graders, Fluency and FUN! |
1 to 1 |
 (0 stars, 1 ratings) When beginning readers can listen to fluent reading modeled by others they will ultimately read more fluently themselves. As a teacher, I would like to go one step further....I would like to give my students the opportunity to record themselves reading throughout the year. This will help them track their own progress and determine the goals they need to set to improve. |
Flip Lipdub |
10 to 12 |
 (0 stars, 1 ratings) Spanish students translate a song from English to Spanish, memorize the lyrics and create a lipdub video using a flip camera. |
Greek Mythology Movies |
6 to 6 |
Students will learn about Greek myths. Then, students create a script based off of a Greek myth, film, and edit their movies. |
Interview with Benjamin Franklin |
7 to 12 |
 (0 stars, 1 ratings) This is a cross curricular ELA / History lesson wherein students will create a mock-interview with Benjamin Franklin (and/or other historical figure from the American Revolution Era) and then post that podcast on to an established Google Classroom website. |
Lights! Camera! Action! |
5 to 12 |
 (0 stars, 1 ratings) In this lesson, students will use resources to explore the functions of digital cameras. Students will then use a digital camera to take photos which will utilize simple photography configuration principles. Students use their photos to share ideas and information in the community and with peers, both in person and online. |
Listening to Learn: Podcasting as an Assessment Tool |
P-K to 12 |
 (0 stars, 1 ratings) Students use teacher created podcasts to study for and complete science tests. |
Make a Memory with Movie Maker |
3 to 12 |
Students create an original story, plan the illustrations and create an audiofile to tell the story. Put everything together on Movie Maker and you have students begging to write more. |
Moon Craters Lab |
3 to 12 |
 (0 stars, 1 ratings) By dropping a rock from three different heights, students were able to employ al the steps of the scientific method while conducting an investigation. They explored the limitations of models and connected the relationship of mass, height, and impact. |
More than Just an Essay... |
5 to 12 |
 (0 stars, 1 ratings) Students write essays, we grade them, and when returned these essays either get trashed or buried in a back pack never to be seen again. By turning an essay into a PODCAST and uploading it to a class website, students take ownership of their work. |
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. |
Pod Review |
3 to 3 |
 (0 stars, 2 ratings) Students from the gifted and talented class will create pod casts to review science concepts and vocabulary. These pod casts will be shared with ELL students and other science learners. |
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. |
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. |
See the Music |
4 to 5 |
 (0 stars, 1 ratings) Students create PowerPoint presentations featuring famous musicians, singers, or a piece of music |
Singing en espanol |
10 to 12 |
 (0 stars, 2 ratings) Students will work in pairs to write a song in Spanish about a famous hispanic musician and their country of origin. |
Stop Motion Animation Lesson |
10 to 12 |
 (0 stars, 1 ratings) Students are to create a stop motion animation video from scratch. Students will plan, story board, take pictures, and edit a video to complete the stop motion animation project. |
The Soundtrack of Your Life |
6 to 12 |
 (0 stars, 2 ratings) Every sound tells a story. In this Language Arts lesson, students learn about poetic elements, tone, and personal connection by creating their own soundtrack of the major events, experiences, passions in their lives. The final product is a Glogster page. |
The Wonder of a Wordless Book |
3 to 5 |
 (0 stars, 1 ratings) The students will create stories to accompany wordless books. They will record a podcast of their story to present to the class. |
Vivid Visual Vocabulary |
3 to 12 |
 (0 stars, 1 ratings) The Vivid Visual Vocabulary Project is a student-generated, project-based learning experience in which students utilize technology to develop skills in research, writing, and creativity to produce weekly vocabulary presentation on root words. Expanding vocabulary enhances reading skills. |
Vivid Visual Vocabulary |
K to 12 |
 (0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will create weekly presentations of their vocabulary words utilizing Flip Cameras, iMovie and Powerpoint. Computer generated, student driven learning always leads to life-long knowledge, but making videos to enact vocabulary words in context is fun. |
Vivid Visual Vocabulary |
4 to 12 |
 (0 stars, 1 ratings) The Vivid Visual Vocabulary Project is a student-generated, project-based learning experience in which students utilize technology to develop skills in research, writing, and creativity to produce an audio/video presentation. As students share projects that are developed individually and through cooperative, small learning communities, they become both teacher and learner. |
Writing and Podcasting |
2 to 5 |
 (0 stars, 1 ratings) Based on just a few pictures, students can write and podcast their own story. |