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| Lesson Plan Name |
Grades |
| Blogging In Kindergarten! |
K to K |
 (5.0 stars, 3 ratings) All of my 18 Kindergarten children have their own kidblog that they use to record their learning. Kindergarten life is full of day long discoveries and kid blogging is just one of the many ways I am documenting the excitement of the discoveries made. |
| La Casa de Mis Sueños/My Dream House |
9 to 12 |
(5.0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will use present tense conjugation and learn vocabulary that describes a house. Students will create visual representation of their dream house using presentation tool of their choice. Students will “walk us through” their houses in small group presentations (6 students + teacher) while we roll a dice to ask questions about each presentation and providing verbal feedback, all in Spanish.
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| You're my Hero |
3 to 12 |
(5.0 stars, 1 ratings) Children will create a hero and an arch rival. We use a Manga 8 1/2 heroic proportion guide and discuss complementary colors for costumes. |
| "Coming to a Library Near You!" - Book Trailer Grant |
9 to 12 |
(5.0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will read their chosen books and create book trailers using clip art and sound bites. These book trailers will be played on the district's television channel to share with all students. Book trailers will entice other students to read more books! |
| "In the News!" |
2 to 8 |
(4.7 stars, 3 ratings) A newscast that can be writen, produced and created by elementary or middle school students. Co-Authored with Stacy Bodin |
| "Know Your Rights" Bill of Rights- Stop Motion Video Project |
8 to 8 |
(5.0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will create a stop-motion video short based on one of the ten amendments in the U.S. Bill of Rights. |
| 3D printing for Math and for projects |
6 to 12 |
(5.0 stars, 1 ratings) The ability to figure out the equations necessary to print basic shapes and the ability to print useful items needed for robotics, drama productions, math/history/geography/all subjects demonstrations would be amazing!! |
| A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words |
5 to 6 |
(5.0 stars, 2 ratings) We currently have 7 display televisions on our campus. They run all day with a presentation created by me. The presentation includes quotes, vocabulary words, success stories... Last year was our first year for this project. All presentations were created by me. I would like to expand this to be student created. I would like to teach students how to created the presentations and have the televisions reflect student work rather than be teacher created. |
| A tribute to Willis. |
11 to 12 |
(5.0 stars, 1 ratings) A culmination of a semester's worth of prep which includes, the history of stop motion animation, clay character design and production, writing story concepts, creating storyboards and building dioramas. All leading to the production of a digitally animated stop motion film. |
| A Trip to the Mall... Washington D.C. |
3 to 5 |
(5.0 stars, 2 ratings) This project incorporate our Nation's Capital into a board game that integrates curriculum not only across subjects, but grade levels. |
| Adding Creativity to Science Inquiry |
6 to 12 |
(5.0 stars, 2 ratings) Students create flip videos that enhance scientific investigations performed in class by having students think metacognitively while fusing the fun of creativity with the science of analytical thinking. |
| Advocate for Something! Flip Cam Media Advocacy Project |
9 to 12 |
(5.0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will find an inner passion to support cause through the power of Media Advocacy campaigns using Flip Cameras. This lesson is a basic introduction on online research, video team roles, field reporting, collecting video interviews and video editing interviews into a short 2-3 minute video. |
| And Action ........ Stop Motion Style |
9 to 12 |
(5.0 stars, 1 ratings) Cross-Curriculum project integrating Art (sculpting) and Technology (Video Editing, Web 2.0 (Video Sharing), |
| Animals and Algorithms |
K to 2 |
(5.0 stars, 2 ratings) Students will develop the ability to design simple algorithms and
implement them digitally on an ipad. Students will consider why humans make things
with technology as well as how humans control computers. Students will work in small groups to design and program a simple digital animation about an animal in its habitat. |
| Animation Book Report |
6 to 12 |
(5.0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will read a non-fiction book of choice and express their understanding of the book through an animation project. Students may choose clay animation, white board animation, sticky note animation or human subject/stop animation. |
| Animation Festival |
5 to 6 |
(5.0 stars, 1 ratings) 5th and 6th grade students will create claymation and object animation shorts to be produced as a short film festival. This lesson is actually a unit on animation comprised of several weeks of group work and filming. |
| Apps for Egypt |
6 to 6 |
(5.0 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! |
| art tech club |
5 to 7 |
(5.0 stars, 1 ratings) Interested and motivated students in various grades join one of my Friday "art club" groups. At least one group spends their time making an animated movie. |
| Autism Through the Eyes of Technology |
6 to 8 |
(5.0 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. |
| Boston Tea Party |
3 to 5 |
(5.0 stars, 1 ratings) Students simulate the Boston Tea Party. Students use the Smart Board to sequence the events of the Boston Tea Party and discuss the consequences that followed. Students create their disguises and chant a poem as they dump tea into the "Boston Harbor". Students will create a digital account of the simulation. |
| Bring Black History Month to Life! |
P-K to 12 |
(5.0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will research the life of a historically significant African-American and create a first person account of their accomplishments. Then the students will create a three dimensional video of the person to educate others about this person. |
| Can You Hear Me? |
6 to 12 |
(5.0 stars, 1 ratings) Humor in forms of nonverbal communication (political cartoons and comic strips) is often used in place of a narrative form of communication.
This nonverbal form of communication provokes the reader to infer, use imagination, and prior knowledge to interpret the author’s purpose.
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| Capturing Conic Sections with Digital Cameras |
9 to 12 |
(5.0 stars, 2 ratings) This project will help students to make connections between math and the real world by having them identify conic sections in art and architecture in their communities. Students will photograph these examples of circles, ellipses, parabolas, and hyperbolas in the real world with digital cameras and then write the equations for the graphs. |
| Career Creation |
5 to 12 |
(5.0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will do career investigations based upon personal interests, skills assessments, counselor recommendations, dreams, parental guidance, etc. and develop a "Build Your Own Destiny" Google Form. Included in the Form will be pictures, videos, and links. |
| Claymation |
7 to 8 |
(5.0 stars, 1 ratings) My students will create a Fairy Tale Remake with clay animation using photography (digital pictures), writing, directing, and editing skills. The computer application iMovie will be used to create the animated video. |
