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| Lesson Plan Name |
Grades |
| Dot and Dash Global Ambassadors |
3 to 6 |
 (0 stars, 1 ratings) Combining communication , collaboration, critical thinking , computer coding, real world writing, geography, research skills and creativity. |
| Phantom Tell Booth |
K to 12 |
| A small "booth" set up in the classroom where individual/small groups of students can document their solutions or methods of solving a variety of class and/or independent study problems. This will give students a chance to show their thinking, especially for those students who find it difficult to share in whole group settings. |
| 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. |
| The Three People I Would Like to Invite for Dinner |
7 to 9 |
| This is a 7th grade presentation project designed to get the students to think about the qualities of a real hero. The students will decide on 3 persons to invite to a special dinner party, the first person is a historical figure whom they admire, one a contemporary (in their lifetimes), and one person they know well. |
| A Ripple of Hope-Using History¡¦s Powerful Stories to Teach Tolerance |
3 to 8 |
(0 stars, 5 ratings) The overarching goal of this project is to develop conscious and responsible citizens of society.The culminating project will be a student created DVD. Students will select a role such as a journalist, history detective, or author and will record their reflections through genres such as poetry, interviews, stories, and plays. After obtaining parental approval for students to be videotaped, DVD copies of the student¡¦s performances will be shared with colleagues. |
| "Marchen or Sagen" - A Digital Story Telling Experience |
10 to 12 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Storytelling is as old as time itself! Every culture that exists or has ever existed had a strong storytelling aspect. Stories are used for entertainment, teaching and passing on knowledge and wisdom. Each of us has a story and it has been said, "We are the stories that we tell about ourselves." |
| 4th Grade Life Science Unit: Animals |
4 to 4 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Our fourth grade teaching team will use technology tools to meet the description of Colorado’s 21st Century learning skills: critical thinking and reasoning, information literacy, collaboration, self-direction, invention. Through the use of technology, we will appeal to our student’s senses and teach to a variety of learning styles with meaningful, authentic learning opportunities. |
| Addition Addiction |
3 to 5 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Using interactive whiteboard technology, the students will show different ways of adding multi-digit numbers. The students will present their thinking to the class. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Building a School Archives: The First Twenty Years |
3 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) History can be close at hand and relevant to students! My students will improve their literacy, critical thinking, and collaboration skills as they become historians and create an online school archives of the first twenty years.
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| Celebrations Summative Project - Kindergarten |
P-K to K |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) (8 week lesson)After studying the holidays and traditions of autumn and winter throughout the world, kindergarten students are challenged to create their own unique holiday. While presenting their holiday, students will be digitally recorded to assess their understanding of holidays as a summative assessment.
*International Baccalaureate PYP* |
| Character Education Podcasts |
4 to 6 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Each month a different character trait will be focused on. Students will create and record a podcast highlighting the character trait. |
| Collaborative learning through technology assisted projects |
K to 6 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) My class is a computer literacy class at an arts integrated charter school. Elementary students form Kindergarden to 6th grade will learn computer skills and Google's collaborative tools through project based learning. Problem solving, teamwork and critical thinking skills will be required to complete projects successfully. |
| 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. |
| Create A Keychain using 3D design |
P-K to 9 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) In this lesson my students will be able to utilize online 3D software to create a "marketable" keychain and print it out on a 3D printer. This will let students take ownership of this process by making it their own and understanding how to begin an entrepreneurship. |
| Create a News Program |
3 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will create their very own news program complete with commercials. They will explore writing, reporting, operating a video camera, and using digital tools such as chroma-key. This lesson will spark their interest in reporting facts and writing for a purpose. |
| Daily Announcements Made Easy! |
3 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will create daily (or weekly) announcements for their school or classroom using a webcam. |
| Dear Future Writing Assignment |
1 to 4 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will be writing to future residents through a Time Capsule. |
| Digital Student Portfolios |
9 to 9 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) 9th grade students will create individual digital portfolios throughout the year. Portfolios will consist of digital book trailers, published blogs, uploads to the school website, writing in all content areas, digital autobiographies, etc. |
| Digital Time Capsule |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) In this lesson students use digital cameras to create a time capsule of digital images of their communities and families. They will use higher-order thinking skills to contemplate how digital images will be stored in the future and how we can present our life and time to people living 50 years from now. |
| Exploration Journal |
4 to 8 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) We use Pixlr.com, a free photo editing site, to explore various regions of the world according to the new Social Studies standards in 7th grade. Students will edit a picture to portray themselves exploring the region and then create exploration journals documenting their trip. |
| 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. |
| Flipping the Science Classroom: iEnergy |
4 to 5 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) What if homework was done in the classroom and the teacher lesson was watched at home? With the help of this grant I plan to flip my classroom as I engage students in creativity and interactive learning. |
| Geometry with Dash |
3 to 5 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This lesson will have students interact with Dash & Dot robots and programming to support geometry lessons in identifying, classifying, describing, and finding the perimeter of quadrilaterals. Students will also produce quadrilaterals by building a pen attachment for Dash and using loops and angles. |
| Get a Job! |
6 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will learn how to prepare now for a successful career and explore how to choose a career. |
| Ghost Stories in Spanish |
11 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) In this lesson, students will study Hispanic folk tales like "La Llorona" and use flip cameras and ToolFactory software to create a movie version of one of the tales. The lesson could also be approached as a podcast! |
| Grade K Learns About Robots - Ozobots! |
K to 1 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) My Grade K Technology students will use the Ozobots to learn about Robotics! They will draw shapes, and then use the Ozobots to show the coding of the colors used. |
| Graphing quadratic equations of the form f(x) = ax^2 + c |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) In this lesson, we explore the effect of the constant C in the quadratic function f(x) = ax^2. Students will be able to observe that C shifts the quadratic function up/down. |
| How Much does it Cost Project |
7 to 9 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) In this project, students investigate pricing schemes for various entry fees and determine which is the better option depending on their situation. |
| Iditarod |
4 to 8 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) This lesson provides students with a point of view experience while tracking Iditarod mushers online live. |
| LEGO Learning Station |
K to 4 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) I use technology at every center in my special education classroom and would like to add a lego education station for my students. They enjoy technology and this would add to their educational experience. |
| Matching Times |
P-K to 3 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will match time on digital clocks with analog clocks. |
| My Add on Sentence Story. |
K to 3 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Everyday have students write/type one sentence in their journal. Daily, students will be asked to write/type an additional sentence to the previous one to eventually have a weekly short story. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Our Place In The Rio Grande Rift Valley Watershed |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) An arroyo that bisects our campus is the setting for student groups to explore the influence of flora, fauna, humans, land, water, and weather in this watershed environment. Students will use flip cameras and digital still cameras to document their observations and create digital presentations. |
| Peeps Project for Watership Down |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students create a video of key scenes in the novel Watership Down. Student first create a storyboard timeline of the key scenes by using skills they have learned for determining importance and sequence of events and then they choose one to recreate using Peeps marshmallow treats. |
| PLTW APP CREATOR |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will learn to code apps using Android Tablets. Using the knowledge of coding, students will create games and apps to submit to the Google Play Store. |
| Podcast, Podcast, Read All about It |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will be able to create a podcast. They will practice submitting a podcast onto an iPod Shuffle. |
| Preserving History for Illuminating Today's Values and Traditions |
5 to 12 |
| Students will use the processes of oral history and the latest technology to engage in historical inquiry and the preservation of the past. They will work in cooperative work groups or individually to discover and capture the past by interviewing family members and people in the community about a variety of folk traditions and/or significant events that occurred in their past. |
| Science Simulation Using BBC Science Simulations 3 |
3 to 6 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will be able to create virtual experiments in the classroom using the software and interactive whiteboard. |
| Stacy Bodin's "Digesting a Story" Unit |
1 to 5 |
(0 stars, 4 ratings) Digesting a Story (Written by Stacy Bodin, submitted by Schuyler Poche) Retired teacher (and current Dozier Tech Specialist/webmaster) Stacy Bodin wrote the and worked with this project several times during her teaching career. As librarian, I am submitting this with permission from Stacy Bodin. |
| Student-created digital portfolios |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) In this lesson, students will create a google site that will be their digital portfolio for the semester. They will learn how to upload images of their art, as well as write goals before they start their art and reflect after they are finished with their art, and collaborate with others inside and outside of the classroom. |
| Studio Photography |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This project involves shooting long exposure photography in the school portrait lighting studio. |
| The Butterfly Effect |
P-K to P-K |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) After studying the rise of Hitler and the Nazi regime, students are asked to think about the "butterfly effect" regarding negative events that happened in various countries because Hitler was the Fuhrer. This project begins with research, includes history, contains digital tools, incorporates fiction, and ends with a classroom presentation. |
| The Great Depression-A tale of misery and hope |
7 to 12 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) This lesson will seek to explore images using Smart-board technology while making observations and inferences in describing the period of the Great Depression. Was it a time period that was misery, or was there a tremendous hope for the United States during this period? Students will use photographs shown to support their answer to this essential question. |
| 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. |
| Time Capsule Essay (A Letter to Future Students) |
2 to 4 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Dozier Elementary's Time Capsule Project Link shows all information @http://www.vrml.k12.la.us/dozier/eye/09_10/TimeCapsule09_10/projects.htm |
| What Time is it? |
P-K to 5 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) I have several centers that deal with the concept of time and telling time. Computers are highly motivating and a great way to reinforce skills. |
| Who's the Man? Men of the French & Indian War and Road to the Revolution |
5 to 6 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Who's the Man? Men of the French & Indian War and Road to the Revolution |
| Windsor Opposes Waste - WOW! |
2 to 6 |
| We propose a year-long, problem-based learning between grades 2 and 6. Teams of students will meet and discuss and identify the problem(s), brainstorm solutions, implement their solutions and throughout the year evaluate and reexamine their decisions and actions. |
| 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. |
| Writing Equivalent Expressions |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This involves writing equivalent expressions using area model and exploring difference of squares through an interactive activity. |
