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| Lesson Plan Name |
Grades |
| School Yearbook |
P-K to P-K |
 (0 stars, 1 ratings) Student centered school yearbook. Using digital photography and technology, students will document activities throughout the year and publish them into a final bound project. |
| "FLIP-iT" - Where Do I Go From Here? |
12 to 12 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Graduating seniors find themselves at a pivotal point in their lives. By doing four Flip Camera interviews of themselves, on a series of topics, they will take a closer look at their values and goals, and gain potentially insightful reflections for the future as they prepare for the next step. We will burn all four videos to disk and they will also have a nice souvenir for their Senior year. |
| "Teach it to Me"-Seasonal Calendar |
K to 2 |
(0 stars, 3 ratings) Students the use digital technology to pictorially depict weather conditions and environmental changes throughout the months and seasons. Then, they will use photographs to complete a seasonal calendar.
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| 1 Picture = 1,000 Adjectives |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) When learning parts of speech, my students tend to have a difficult time thinking of powerful, creative adjectives, especially since I have a list of adjectives they are not allowed to use. The students groan when told to look at a thesaurus but having them complete an activity keeps them interested and actually causes them to ask for a thesaurus without being told. |
| 1st Grade Memories |
1 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will make a mini photo album compiled of pictures taken throughout the school year. They will write a caption to go with each picture. |
| A Tree for all Seasons |
K to K |
(0 stars, 3 ratings) Using digital photography and a slideshow program, Kindergarten students observe, document, and represent data of a tree’s seasonal changes. |
| A Virtual Tour of our School -- in Spanish! |
10 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Spanish 2 students film a video tour of our school in Spanish using Flip video cameras and exchange with cooperating schools in other states. |
| Adopt a Tree |
3 to 3 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This activity allows students to adopt a tree within the schoolyard to study throughout the year. Students will photograph the different parts of the tree at different points of the year to observe seasonal changes. |
| All About Safety |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Robotics Class students will learn about safe operation of equipment in the robotics lab. As groups, students will create pod-casts summarizing their learning and teaching others about safely using machinery and tools. |
| American Cities |
7 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) In this lesson, groups of students will work collaboratively online to create informational worksheets about a major American city through the ages. |
| Animal Ambassadors |
K to 1 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) My class is starting a year long animal research project. We will be covering all academic subjects throughout the year as we research, read, learn, write, and observe all types of animals and their habitats. |
| Animal Science Research Report |
4 to 6 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will visit Squam Lake Science Center, meet animals and scientists, take interview notes, photograph the animals and then return to school to complete a research report and post their data to our class blog. |
| AP Biology & Inquiry-Based Labs |
11 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Instead of carrying around an encyclopedic textbook, students will have their text downloaded onto an iPad where they can highlight, bookmark, and find definitions instantly without ruining the book next year. Students will also be using their iPad for creating, reviewing, and sharing their own labs. |
| Architecture: Re-Designing our School |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Architecture is the catalyst for teaching students to be curious, informed, and empowered to positively impact the built environment around them. Our students have the unique opportunity to correspond with real architect mentors from across the nation to re-design an area of their school. We need Samsung Google Chromebooks and 3D printers to bring their projects to life. |
| Around the World in 180 Days |
P-K to 8 |
(0 stars, 4 ratings) To kick-off our Global Cultures curriculum we are implementing a year-long interdisciplinary school project titled, Around the World in 180 Days. Teachers and students will use digital cameras, smart board technology, Web Cams, Kidspiration software, and partnerships with schools around the world. |
| 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. |
| Big Things-Small Packages |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Every year, students enrolled in the media 3 & 4 program are required to create, for the purpose of public instruction, personal work experience, sales and marketing, a Portfolio Project using computers to edit, store digital video files, music and images. Those files will be used in a short film, documentary and the annual senior video-a video yearbook for the graduating class. |
| Bill Nye Science Videos |
5 to 5 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) The students will choose a topic from the list of science standards that we covered in the school year. They will teach the topic the Bill Nye way using a Flip Video camera and a detailed rubric. The students will be scored by multiple criteria. The movies will be watched by all of the students and then used in the years to come as a hook before I teach each area. |
| Blogging in the Classroom |
10 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will use laptops/chromebooks to create their own student blogs, where they will respond to literature, evaluate media, and collaborate with their classmates. |
| Book Discussions via Web 2.0 |
7 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Teens will create book discussions via web 2.0
Web 2.0 will consist of wiki and podcasting |
| Book Report |
1 to 1 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) The Kids Book Report App will allow students to create their own book reports by filling in information on the IPad. Students can print their book reports on a wireless printer and staple them together to keep. |
| Book Trailers |
4 to 4 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) 4th Grade Students create book trailers for incoming students to their grade level for the following year. |
| Capturing Animals through Technology |
2 to 5 |
| Students will use digital recoding photograpgy equipment to take pictures of animals at our local zoo. They will then insert the photography into a variety of audio-visual technology -based reports featuring thier animals. |
| 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. |
| 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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| 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. |
| Digital Pen Pal |
K to 8 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Partnering with Spanish students in our local area, the students at my school will be exchanging video messages, emails, and performances with each other to create a language learning community. |
| Digital Photography for Movie Making |
5 to 5 |
| Students photograph the world around them to create a digital movie in the computer lab. Photos are linked to homeroom lessons to expand on research skills. |
| 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. |
| Digital Portfolios |
9 to 12 |
| Students create digital portfolios of their artwork using PowerPoint. |
| Digital Video Yearbook |
3 to 5 |
(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. |
| Documenting Science Through an Active Inquiry Process |
4 to 12 |
| Students will engage in active learning about science topics and document findings, experiences, and insights with point and shoot cameras. |
| Enhancing Friendships Through Photography |
P-K to P-K |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Young learners will use digital photography to create new friendships with pen pals at another school. |
| Flip into Technology! |
6 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students use Flip cameras to gather information and integrate it into any classroom activity. |
| Fruit / Vegetable Jigsaw |
10 to 12 |
| A cooperative learning plan where students learn about categories of things relating to their curriculum, while creating a permanent learning, reviewing, reference, and assessment tool for future use. Using technology, research and "real life" experience students will collaborate to show and teach each other. |
| GPS Treasure Hunt for Knowledge |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Working in groups, students will walk around the school community and stop off at 10 areas to complete a task related to what is being taught in the classroom. |
| Gumby Rules! |
5 to 6 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Using Responsive Classroom ideas, students will brainstorm classroom rules, examples of those rules, ways to apologize when rules are broken, and possible consequences. Each student will then pick one part to animate with the software. |
| Haikus for All Seasons |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This project involves a combination of nature photography, writing haikus to match the photography, and publishing a book of the finished work. |
| High School Energy Audit |
9 to 12 |
| You will take scientific measurements, question school staff, and obtain various kinds of information related to how your school uses energy. As you finish each investigation, you will write a scientific report with graphs and recommendations and present it to school
officials. |
| Introducing Multiplication |
2 to 4 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This lesson shows a hands-on way to introduce basic multiplication concepts, mainly in how multiplication relates to addition. |
| Introduction to Stop Motion |
2 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This is basically accomplishing three things: teaching kids the process and technology involved with stop-motion animation, working on the editing side of making a movie, and creating two projects (one to practice application and one for synthesis). |
| Keyboarding Capers |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Using keyboarding software and productivity tools, students learn touch typing. Students will also be in teams and compete during timed keyboarding. Their records will be recorded in a spreadsheet and each month a "team of the month" will be chosen to recieve incentive rewards. |
| Keynote Digital Parts of Speech |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) We use Keynote from iLife '09 to write a super powerpoint for a parts of speech video |
| Kindergarten Memories |
P-K to K |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) We will create a Kindergarten Memory Book. Each month we will create a monthly memory page regarding our experiences during the month and world happenings. |
| Lego Mindstorms Robotics |
4 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) The 5th, 6th, and 7th grade students of St. Catherine of Siena participate in Lego Mindstorms Robotics Initiative. By designing, building, programming and documenting robot performance, students will use science, engineering technology, mathematics and writing skills in hands-on projects that reinforce their learning.
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| 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. |
| Living History Video Project |
5 to 5 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Students record an interview that they have with a senior in the community. This video is then edited by the students and turned into a short documentary. |
| Local Heroes |
P-K to 4 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will use videos created by local community leaders and High School students they look up to (i.e. ball players, tutors, cheerleaders etc.) to learn messages and receive demonstrations about good physical fitness practices, health messages, and safety tips. |
| Math Time and Measurement Rap |
2 to 5 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Students create a rap on their own to help them remember their Time and Measurement facts we learn in 2nd grade. |
| Maxi's Amazing Adventures |
P-K to K |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This fun, family activity, which encourages both reading and writing through the use of modern technology, is called Maxi’s Amazing Adventures. Maxi is a friend that we have in our classroom. He is a soft and cuddly bear friend that travels home with each child. |
| Memory Book - A Cooperative Learning Experience |
5 to 8 |
| 8th graders create a memory book that includes pictures and writing (English), their heritage (history), calculated growth patterns (math) and genetic heritage (science). |
| Multiplying 2-digit Numbers |
4 to 4 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will use several strategies to multiply two-digit numbers by two-digit numbers. They will use area models, partial products, and the standard algorithm. |
| Music and Math together?? YES! Bringing the Fun Back to Math! |
3 to 5 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Students will use a flip-video camera to create paper-slide and music vides using different math songs that we sing every week in class. |
| 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. |
| Online - On Stage - and ACTION! |
P-K to 5 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This year-long 4th grade project integrates information literacy skills with the arts, character education, and social studies. |
| Patchwork Quilt Class Project Thematic Unit |
3 to 3 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This is a thematic unit that integrates social studies, math, reading, and writing. |
| PhotoTalk! |
K to 12 |
| Images communicate without written or spoken speech. Linking images to simple text in the target language is a powerful tool for helping second language learners speak and read! |
| Picture Books: A School-Wide Genre Exploration |
K to 6 |
| English Language Students from a low-income neighborhood will have the opportunity to access technology by learning how to use digital cameras in a self-directed genre study. Students will synthesize the knowledge they gained from their project, and then proceed to teach other students how to create their own picture book focusing on a genre of their choice. The books will then be available for check out at the school library. |
| Picture the Future |
4 to 9 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Using various types of technology, students will assemble an electronic portfolio of their high school work to demonstrate their competencies, honors and achievements. |
| Podcast Book Buddies |
2 to 5 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students from one class would read books from all different genres through a podcast to students at a different school. After they read the book, they would pose questions about the book and continue in dialogue with their book buddy for two weeks. |
| Poetry In Motion |
2 to 6 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Student come to hear the language , rhythm, and motion of poetry as they read and select images to represent their poems. |
| Readers Theater In Action - Take 1 |
P-K to 3 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Students will be working in five groups of four to come up with their own Readers Theater. They will be designing their own backdrop, creating the script for the story, and filming the entire step from beginning to end of the production to be displayed on the class smartboard. |
| Red Ribbon Week |
4 to 8 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) During this week we will perform shows that teal with the topics of Bullying and Cyber-bullying. The students will write parts of the shows and they will be performed over three days for the entire school which has an enrollment of about 720 students. |
| See How They Grow |
1 to 5 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Student growth can be documented through digital scrapbooking of his school year. |
| Seed to Plate |
2 to 3 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Teaching children gardening and nutrition. Using digital cameras students will record the journey of growing a school garden begining with soil and seeds. They will also learn the important value of nutrition in the foods they grow and how to use them in cooking. |
| Solutions to Real World Economic Problems in the Classroom |
6 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will investigate real world American economic issues that are effecting the average family. In this project, students will conduct research to identify the causes of the struggling United States economy. They will examine the effect it has on the average American citizen. They will create strategies to help the struggling American family. The final product of this project will be a documentary about the direct effect of the struggling economy on the DuPage county community. |
| Subtle Conversations |
6 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Subtle Conversations is design to give 60 students an opportunity to research current events and teen issues. Students will select various news, entertainment, sports, or locate events and teen topics to research and create a weekly talk show. Each group will design a production company to write, video, edit and prepare for broadcast. |
| 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. |
| Super Hero High |
P-K to 9 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) To make a movie with special needs high school students (students have multiple disabilities) about "Super Heroes." Students will create characters for themselves and decide what "Super Powers," they have and how they would use them. |
| Take a Picture, It will last longer! |
3 to 5 |
| Begin a Camera Club after school hours that will enhance learning through cameras and technology. Students should be able to express themselves creatively with technology and gain a curiosity of the world around them through photography. |
| Teaching Digital Citizenship through Stories of Immigration and Diversity |
K to 2 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This is Cross-Curricular Unit that addresses the Social Studies Big Ideas of diversity, and our personal connections to immigration in our community. These lessons plan to increase awareness and understanding about our diverse, ethnic and racial backgrounds from specific underrepresented minorities (who speak Nepali, Khmer, Chinese, and Spanish), through innovative uses of technology. Using Smartboards, interactive language-learning websites (in various languages), and developing cyber pen-pals between like-minded schools in our neighborhood and abroad, we will acquire more sensitivity to cultural and linguistic diversity in our community, and become better-equipped global citizens for the 21st century. |
| Technolgy and Thematic Lessons in Literature |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will use the Flip VideoT cameras to record their book reviews and Socratic Circle discussion groups while analyzing the thematic lessons of their books and how they apply to real-wolrd isssues. These videos will then be linked by the students to the Media Center online web site for school-wide viewing. |
| Technology Time Capsule |
3 to 4 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Creating a personal electronic portfolio of a students 4th grade journey. |
| The Autobiography of a Middle School |
6 to 8 |
| The multidisciplinary project would use the Olympus Digital Cameras and Tool Factory Software to help define and build school unity, self-esteem, and culture through student-made pictures, essays, biographies, and art. The final goal of this project will be an autobiographical photo-essay slide show that the student council will present to their peers, parents, faculty, and school board at their eighth grade graduation ceremony. |
| The Flip Side: A Multi-Genre Occupational Research Project |
7 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This lesson will provide students with the authority of the "naked eye" to give way towards finding their own truth, place, and ability to communicate efficiently in a global community. |
| Thorne Comm |
6 to 8 |
| Technology can help teachers communicate more effectively with parents. Photographic evidence of student's performance is very effective! |
| Total Physical Response Storytelling |
5 to 12 |
| Students will take pictures and make books to tell a story in a foreign language. |
| Trigonometry in Right Triangles |
9 to 10 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This lesson plan is being submitted for the IPEVO Mirror-Cam Grant. |
| TVTV News |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) We are a technology-rich school that wants to take things to the next level! We would like to introduce students to the world of news broadcast journalism and create a daily newscast to deliver that day's announcements. |
| UNIVERSAL BUS STOP |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) As a culminating activity, my Advanced Placement seniors create a script and storyboard combining literary characters and historical figures. The presentation must begin at a bus stop, and the identity of the characters / people should be made evident through dress, dialogue, and actions. |
| Using Technology to Create a Portfolio, One Letter At a Time |
4 to 4 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will create a variety of written assignments, covering all subject areas, using Tool Factory Workshop. Throughout the year the students will write poems, essays, summaries, book reviews and they will create graphs, presentations, and spreadsheets to show their learning throughout the school year. |
| V.I.P. Project |
K to 12 |
| Students interview each other and practice social skills while practicing reading and writing activities. |
| Virtual Math Portfolio |
7 to 9 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will create a customized web page to post a series of unit-based math projects. They will keep a copy of the web page as a virtual portfolio of their exciting math year. |
| Vocabulary Taboo Review |
3 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This lesson is a twist on the card game "Taboo", where people aim to describe a word at the top of the card, but are not allowed to use the "Taboo" words printed on the card in their description. |
| WCCS News 78 Investigative Report |
K to 8 |
| Several television stations in the St. Louis metropolitan area feature a news investigative reporter who acts on tips received from local viewers. The West County Christian School seventh/eighth grade students will research/investigate a news tip, send their own news investigative team to the site to document digitally their findings, write the script to produce a news report, and then videotape that presentation. |
| Welcome to Our School ! |
6 to 8 |
| Overview - using a camera for an ongoing class project will allow students to capture on film any and all projects done in classes for the year, Teacher expectations, and how to get around at our school. The selected activities will be documented and used to make additions and subtractions in an effort to make all projects more student friendly, and to familiarize parents and students with their new school. |
| What's Going On |
5 to 6 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) The 6th grade special education students are going to make a monthly newsletter for their peers on the things that are happening. This lesson helps with self esteem, organization, and written expression, and technology skills. |
| Where We Live |
2 to 2 |
| American students will communicate with Jamaican students and a Peace Corp volunteer in Albert Town, Jamaica. Both groups of students will communicate via internet and construct a book about their communities using camera equipment and technology. |
| Write to Read |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) There is nothing more motivating than teaching to the interests of students, and what middle school students' interests revolve around themselves and their friends. Digital storytelling of the school year gives them a voice and leades to improved language arts skills. |
| Year of Memories |
2 to 6 |
| Students will use digital photos taken throughout the school year to create a memory book as a keepsake of their year in third grade. |
| Yearbook Photo Catcher |
3 to 5 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students in grades 3-5 are encourage to help capture our school's history by taking photos for the yearbook. They are taught how to use the camera and how to take care of it. Then they are encourage to start catching the history by pointing the camera and getting the shot! |
