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| Lesson Plan Name |
Grades |
| Audio Storybooks |
3 to 6 |
 (0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will turn their original stories into audio storybooks using the Tikatok website, and screen-capture software. |
| Digital Storybooks |
5 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will use an online story-starter to produce a creative short story. Students will then illustrate and animate this story using Microsoft PowerPoint software. |
| Keynote Animated Storybook |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Junior high students learn to use the Move, Magic Move and Scale animation tools of Apple Keynote presentation software to create an animated storybook. Finished projects to be shared with primary classes for viewing on SmartBoards. |
| Score it, Take 2! |
3 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Create a score for a puppet opera based on a children’s story book; could be a whole class project or small group project |
| The Lady in the Tower |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students participate in a debate of whether not a certain character from a story is responsible for the death of one of the characters. Once a character is determined, a digital storybook is created to portray the footsteps of the character who is found guilty.
Comments:
My students work from a portable classroom, so tablet would be helful with internal computer labs are not accessible.
Cross Curriculum Ideas:
Follow-up Activities:
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Example: "Link to CNN" http://www.cnn.com
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Author Credits:
Jennifer Frugard
Teacher, Oscar Smith High School
1994 Tiger Dr
Chesapeake, VA 23320-6855
Phone: 757-548-0696
Fax: 757-548-0531
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| Apps for Egypt |
6 to 6 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Middle school students will create a digital storybook explaining various aspects of Egypt to elementary school students. Final product will be a collection of stories told and "digitized" by the students! |
| 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. |
| Cellcraft Game |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students learn the cell organelles' location, structure, and functions by playing Cellcraft game while taking Cornell notes on the cell structures as they "discover" them, in the game. |
| Creating a Digital Story as a Summative Assessment |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) As an end of the unit performance task, my chemistry students will create a digital story that shows evidence of the learning that took place throughout the unit. The digital story will showcase digital pictures/videos of the labs/experiments/activities that proved useful in learning about chemical reactions. |
| Fantasy Fusion |
K to 12 |
| Creating fantasy books with students as characters. |
| FlipVideo Poetry: Teaching Narrative Poems Through Community Service Learning |
7 to 8 |
(0 stars, 3 ratings) In order to promote literacy as part of our district improvement plan, 7th grade students will work in pairs to draft, write and illustrate a narrative poem to be presented on National Read Across America Day to primary school students as part of a 'Seussical". Performances will be videotaped so that teachers can show the presentations over and over to varied classes for instructional purposes. |
| From Book to Script to Claymation |
3 to 6 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Guide to creating a Claymation movie from a children's book. More than LIGHTS, CAMERA, ACTION, it's writing, editing, designing, and building sets, creating characters, filming, recording voices, and oh yes save those out-takes. |
| iThink: iWrite |
2 to 5 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Kids will create a story using the Story Kit app for the iPad. They will share their stories with the class using Airplay on our Apple TV. |
| Monroeton Preschool's "Down by the Bay" (with help from Raffi) |
P-K to P-K |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This preschool classroom will come up with four rhyming verses to Raffi's "Down by the Bay" song. The children will then demonstrate the rhymes throughout the classroom and it's centers, (with a little help from their teachers, if and when needed). |
| 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! |
| 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. |
