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Lesson Plan Name |
Grades |
Input and Output and Processing...Oh My!!! |
2 to 5 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will go on a Scavenger Hunt with the digital camera to find input, output, and processing devices. This allows them to learn how to, not only learn about computer devices, but digital photography and multimedia presentations as well...all while having FUN! |
Word Processing |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) A lesson that teaches students how to use a word processor |
Animal Trading Cards |
2 to 4 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This is a collaborative unite in which students research an animal and create a trading card like a baseball trading card using Microsoft Word or other word processing software. |
Biography Report - Learning Microsoft Word |
5 to 7 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will learn about Microsoft Word features while creating an autobiographical report. |
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. |
My Giving Tree |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will use language arts, social studies, and technology skills to write their own personal stories of a native tree that they have adopted. The stories will center on identifying and learning about the benefits that they receive from their trees. |
Nature Inspired Digital Alphabet |
2 to 5 |
Through digital photography and basic computer skills students create their own nature inspired digital alphabet. Students find letters of the alphabet in objects made from nature, for example: ground erosion makes the letter “y,” or the veins of a leaf make the “A.” |
Technique is the Key |
3 to 6 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) The main focus of this lesson is improving students' keyboarding skills - specifically speed and accuracy. This lesson is taught at the beginning of the school year and is appropriate for 3rd-6th grade students. |
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. |
"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. |
"A" is Awesome |
P-K to 5 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students respond to the book, The Absolutely Awful Alphabets by Mordicai Gerstein by taking digital pictures of alphabets occurring naturally throughout the school. |
"I Believe..." Podcast Style |
10 to 11 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will read John F Kennedy's speech "I Believe in an America Where the Separation of Church and State is Absolute" and Martin Luther King's speech "I have a Dream." After comparing both speeches students will write their own speech about their personal beliefs, podcast their work and present their speeches to our local veterans at our Veteran's Day Celebration. |
"The ABC's of Sunshine" |
K to 1 |
(0 stars, 3 ratings) Kindergarten students will photograph things around our school. Focus on the ABC's and publish a book for the library. |
"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. |
1 STEP SUBTRACTION WITH WORD PROBLEMS |
P-K to 5 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Solve one step subtraction problems |
A Zoo Book for All |
1 to 3 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) The purpose of this lesson is for my students to be able to research information about animals and communicate in written form using the Four Stages of Writing. They will use Tool Factory Workshop and MultiMedia Lab V to create two pages for our class book and a presentation for our Friday Morning Assembly. |
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. |
Animals Classification |
4 to 6 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) - Classify animals with backbones into groups of mammals, reptiles, birds, amphibians, and fish based on their features and description. |
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. |
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. |
Autism Through the Eyes of Technology |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Statistics show that All children benefit from the use of technology in the classroom, however, children with Autism participate, communicate, and engage MOST effectively by using technology. In addition, most of my students have difficulties with fine motor skills, and using technology in the classroom for various lessons would help them grow tremendously. My project will enhance learning and motivate my students to initiate communication participate and collaborate with their peers in order to reach their greatest potential. |
BDA Lesson PLan |
7 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) A plan that introduces the entire Microsoft Office Suite. Allows students to see all the potential uses and what program to use when. |
Behind the Camera |
5 to 8 |
Students create a documentary-style video that speaks to an organization within the community. |
Beyond the Basic Research Paper |
8 to 8 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Students will use technology to demonstrate understanding of immigration and create unique technology enriched products of specific research topics. |
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.” |
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. |
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. |
Cell Community |
7 to 7 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students design a "cell community" as a visual analogy of the structure and function of a cell. |
Class Memory Book |
9 to 12 |
The entire class will create a memory book for each student in the class. Pictures and paragraphs will tell a short story about each student. |
CSI: Chemistry Student Investigators |
10 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students master scientific inquiry skills as they design investigations to solve mysteries based on scientific concepts, use hand held computers and digital cameras to capture data generated in their investigations, and use Tool Factory software to compile data and lab reports to create electronic lab journals.
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Digital Portfolio |
K to 6 |
Students in kindergarten and sixth grade will document their field trips using digital photography in order to share the experiences. |
Discovering Strategies to Divide |
5 to 5 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will solve real life story problems by modeling, writing equations, and justifying their use of operations and strategies. Strategies and solutions are then shared with the whole group to encourage flexible math thinking. |
Documentary-Style Research Projects |
4 to 6 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Students will research a topic related to the social studies curriculum, and then create a report and a short documentary video using iMovie. Along the way, students will learn how to narrow topics, take notes, keep citations, and make editing choices. This is an ideal lesson for a computer lab setting. |
Earth Science Group Project |
5 to 6 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students work in small groups to research and create a presentation on one of three Earth Science topics. |
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 |
Finding Solutions to Hunger |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This is a project plan more than a lesson plan. It is a 10-week project using a wonderful online collaboration tool designed to be used by educators. Besides teaching the curriculum objectives—the goal is to open the students’ eyes to hunger in the world. |
Flip into Technology! |
6 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students use Flip cameras to gather information and integrate it into any classroom activity. |
History of Manufacturing |
9 to 10 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Students will research the history of manufacturing and document the evolution of it pre-industrial age to now. Students will choose an Ag related product and trace its development from raw material to finished product. |
Hollywood is Southeast Georgia |
3 to 5 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Using digital cameras and Microsoft Movie Maker on desktop computers, students will create stop action movies with storylines of their own creation. |
If Hornets Could Talk... |
5 to 5 |
(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!” |
Inspirational Essay: Video |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will create an inspirational movie using both video and text. Partners will choose a famous person who has inspired them. Using quotes and filmed clips, students will create a video detailing how and why this person inspired them. |
Introduction to Atomic Structure |
10 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This is an introductory lesson to atomic structure for a high school level chemistry class. It is a student self-paced lesson that allows for easy differentiation and student choice. |
Johnny Appleseed or John Chapman: Which Character is Your Favorite? |
2 to 3 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Johnny Appleseed or John Chapman: Which Character is Your Favorite? Students will learn about Johnny Appleseed's fictional character and real life character and write about it. |
Keyboard BINGO |
4 to 5 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Practice appropriate keyboarding skills while playing a game and identifying categories of various topics. |
Lights, Camera, Action! A Filmed Chemistry Demonstration. |
10 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) In this authentic high school chemistry assessment, students use FLIP cameras to write, film, and edit a chemical reaction demonstration. Students will practice using safe lab practices and include a discussion of the chemical reaction theory. This lesson is designed to take place during a 90-minute block period with the subsequent 45-minute period used to edit the films. |
Long Term Projects - Jobs in your future |
8 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This lesson takes place over 4-5 weeks in the technology / computer lab. Students Explore productivity suite applications (like Microsoft Office, Open Office, Etc..) while opening or running a business that suits their interests. |
Movie Music |
5 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students study music in movies and create a sequel to a popular childrens movie. |
My Family - Bookmaking for Social Studies |
P-K to 5 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will create a "My Family" book using digital images and text to share their knowledge of the roles and responsibilities of each member of their family. They will have a copy to keep at home and one to share with classmates and their families through the.classroom lending library. |
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. |
Nature of Science, Like a Scientist |
5 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) The first week of school is all about introducing students to the school and my classroom. I like students to explore the classroom (and expectations), create norms for a safe learning space, and explore what it means to be a scientist. |
Newspaper for Inner City School |
K to K |
The project is to promote fluency both oral and written 2 languages. |
Newton's Laws for One and All! |
8 to 10 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) In this unit, students will create a digital portfolio of their learning. Students will collaborate on portions of this unit, while other parts are individual. This unit focuses on learning, applying, and working with Newton’s Laws of Motion. It is a layered curriculum unit which has students progressively building in their understanding and use of the laws. |
Ocean's 4 |
4 to 6 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Integrating technology in the curriculum is vital for the students to learn 21st century skills. By collaborating with the fourth grade classroom teacher and combining science in the computer class the students can learn subject matter in an interactive, self-directed method. |
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. |
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 the Computer |
P-K to P-K |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) A lesson to teach students to learn the parts of the computer and to identify whether an item is input or output. |
Passport to Ancient Civilizations |
3 to 6 |
This will be a collaborative project between the classroom teacher and the technology teacher, me. Students will create their own passports of the ancient places they visited virtually. |
Photo-Based Reading Projects |
K to 12 |
Special Education students use digital cameras and word processing software to enhance reading and writing skills. |
PODCASTING IN THE CLASSROOM |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Podcasting in the classroom will empower students and challenge them to create projects as authentic assessments and as supplemental resources for other students |
Portrait of a Year |
7 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Using the Internet, you will investigate a year of the twentieth century. After researching the year, you will create an electronic image commemorating that year. You will select images from the Internet representing your research. Using graphics software, you will modify those images and place them together into a single image representing all you have learned of that year. |
Public Service Announcements for Our School |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will work in co-op groups to brainstorm, plan, write scripts, keyboard scripts and then use digital video camera to film public service announcements. They will edit on the computer and we will show on morning announcements and connect to website. |
Question Pocket |
3 to 5 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) We will use ClassFlow, a presentation product to introduce and provide background knowledge for ELP Standard 4 of making claims and supporting them. This will be how we start the lesson which will take place over several days. My students have an influence of another language at home. I regularly use technology to help with instruction and vocabulary. |
Reading Blog Log |
6 to 12 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Students will create blogs in which they will share ideas about literature we are reading in class - kind of online Socratic seminars. In addition they will create podcasted informational reports, and then open the forum up to others in the library media center during celebrations of READING WEEK. |
Reporting News About Rosa Parks |
4 to 6 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) You are a news reporter and your boss needs for you to write a newspaper article on Rosa Parks. |
Scanning Pictures |
2 to 5 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will scan a picture from home and edit it! |
Student Solutions- Saving Our Surroundings |
4 to 8 |
Students will investigate plants, animals and their habitats creating several products to educate and share their fellow classmates. During the process of research, students will also develop ideas to help solve the problem of endangered habitats, animals and plants. |
Students will FLIP for the News |
4 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Incorporating technology skills with both written and verbal communication skills, students will create news programs to be shared on School Tube. |
Studio Photography |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This project involves shooting long exposure photography in the school portrait lighting studio. |
Super Science Slueths Explain It All: Circumnavigating the Circulatory System |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Students work in pairs to develop podcasts about the circulatory system as a capstone unit project to display what they have learned. The podcasts can take the form of dramas, sports casts, etc. requiring the students to do more than just memorize information. |
The Differences Among Us |
5 to 8 |
In this beginning of the year activity, students will get to know each other by sharing cultural differences which make their families unique. Students will experience the personal stories of their peers, understand that all families are different, and accept that it's okay to be different. |
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 Pumpkin Patch |
P-K to 4 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students use digital images and drawing software, in this case Kid Pix 4, to create a pumpkin patch illustration. Students use their product to write a paragraph on a writing prompt provided by the teacher. |
Tour of African History |
3 to 11 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Students will explore African history by taking a gallery walk through an interactive museum, exploring Africa's geography and taking a virtual field trip. |
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). |
Use of technology to write and edit a composition in Literacy. |
K to 5 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) The student will demonstrate the skill to use to technology to write properly compositions using good grammar. |
Using Repeat Photography to Map Environmental Hazards |
6 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will collect historical photos from libraries, newspapers and family collections for comparison to recent photos to be taken by the class. Students will compare photos to assess changes in landscape, industry and neighborhoods and blog their results. |
V.I.P. Project |
K to 12 |
Students interview each other and practice social skills while practicing reading and writing activities. |
Want to Drag?! (: |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This lesson plan will present 7th & 8th grade students with engaging, motivating, and fun hands-on engineering opportunity to create, design, fabricate, test, and competitively race scale model cars for aerodynamics and performance |
Wanted - Dead or Alive |
3 to 6 |
After learning about trickster tales, students will create clay models of a trickster, create a mug shot which will be used on a life-size wanted poster. Students will also photograph and animate the trickster using the Claymation software in Whole Class Fresco. Finally, students will design games based on a trickster tale for younger students. |
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. |
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. |
Who stole the Halloween candy? |
4 to 6 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Our school's Fall Festival is just around the corner and the candy has been stolen. Students will investigate by videotaping evidence, collecting fingerprints and teeth impressions, and recording their step by step processing of this crime. |
Zoom into Writing |
1 to 4 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) To work on focusing on a specific topic, students will take digital pictures around the school yard. They will then use the zoom on the Olympus camera to focus on one part of the picture. Their stories will be based on the zoomed picture. |