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Lesson Plan Name |
Grades |
Mondrian - Primary/Secondary Color Study |
7 to 12 |
Students will use photoshop to create a painting similar to Mondrian's with primary and secondary colors. Students must create the secondary colors from the primary colors and not select them from the color palette |
Monsters Inked |
P-K to 6 |
(5.0 stars, 1 ratings) Middle school and elementary classes collaborate to write and illustrate monster stories, taking inspiration from the younger students' original monster drawings. |
More than a Game |
3 to 5 |
(5.0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will create a video game using what they know about narrative writing. |
Movie Music |
5 to 8 |
(5.0 stars, 1 ratings) Students study music in movies and create a sequel to a popular childrens movie. |
Movies for Mothers |
P-K to 5 |
Students will use photos, drawings, and videos to create a movie using Tool Factory Movie Maker as a heartwarming gift for their mother on Mother's Day. |
Multi Media Urban Stories: "This is who I am" |
1 to 12 |
Students will take pictures of their community, home, friends and family and provide written captions for an artistic display in the City Heights Mid City Building as well as publish their work to our classroom website and provide podcast audio captions that express description, sentiment, opinion, questions, and facts. |
Multi Media: Television Show Production |
10 to 12 |
(5.0 stars, 1 ratings) OST class offered for students in grades 10-12. Introduction to multi-media production careers with partnership with local university students, radio station and cable TV. |
Multiplicity - Creating a photo composite in digital art |
P-K to P-K |
(5.0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will create a multiplicity composite image of themselves in the same photo by using a tripod with a partner to control the location, lighting, shadows, and perspective. They will then upload their photos into photoshop and by layering the photos, composite the images together so that they are in the one photo, 5 times.
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Music Video |
P-K to P-K |
(5.0 stars, 1 ratings) Students record their own voices using Garageband and karaoke songs purchased from itunes, and turn their song into a music video. They create a storyboard, shoot, edit, and mix the video with the audio track and burn it to a DVD to be viewed. |
My Add on Sentence Story. |
K to 3 |
(4.0 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. |
My Art Teacher Ate... |
4 to P-K |
(5.0 stars, 1 ratings) This was an integrated lesson based on the book, "My Little Sister Ate One Hare" by Kevin Hawkes who was a visiting author at our school. Students created their own short stop motion animation movies that we put together to create one longer movie. |
My Digital Story |
9 to 12 |
(5.0 stars, 1 ratings) Digital storytelling is one of the most creative ways to encourage students to write narratives. The project allows students to use existing writing, photography and computer skills, and gives them a challenging platform to create more intense, interesting and personal stories. |
My Famous Face |
9 to 12 |
(5.0 stars, 1 ratings) The students will take a 'portrait' picture of themselves with their device using a selfie-stick if need. They will recreate their portraits in the style of an artist who made many 'selfie' portraits of themselves during their lifetime (EX; Van Gogh, Warhal, etc.) |
My Giving Tree |
6 to 8 |
(5.0 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. |
My Ideal World |
8 to 12 |
After reading the book To Kill a Mockingbird in English, students will use adobe Photoshop or GIMP Photoshop to create their own ideal worlds. |
Mystery Game |
P-K to 3 |
(5.0 stars, 2 ratings) Use a Karaoke Machine, a digital projector (or smart board technology), speakers, computer, document camera, Digital Microscope, Digital Camera to determine if an item is living or nonliving according to its physical characteristics. |
New and Different Civilizations- A Claymation Dreamer's World |
5 to 8 |
The book 'Westlandia' by Paul Fleischman is the inspiration for this claymation unit because the ultimate message is that it is o.k. to be different. In Art, I am an advocate for thinking outside the box and communicating what you are about through your art making experiences and explorations. With this in mind, I let Wesley's feelings and ideas be the seeds for our project. The only thing I change from the book is having students work in teams of 3 or 4 throughout this unit. |
New School Mural |
P-K to 12 |
Students will use digital images to create a mural for one of the walls next to the breezeway doors. |
New Version of the Story Claymation Movies |
7 to 8 |
(5.0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will work in groups of 3 to create a 30 second movie where they take a classic story and rework it into a funny version of the story |
News Broadcasts |
3 to 12 |
(5.0 stars, 1 ratings) After writing and practicing a script, the students present a news broadcast about a topic in the news. This is made with a Flip camera and sent to other classrooms. |
NIce to Voki You! This is my Family Cyber Safety Glog |
5 to 8 |
(5.0 stars, 2 ratings) Students create voki avatars that speak and introduce themselves to the class
Create a famous historical figure voki
Digital Family Tree for the Entire Family
Cyber Safety Glog |
Of Mice and Men, Migration, and Photography |
6 to 8 |
(5.0 stars, 2 ratings) Over the course of the month of December, students will read the novel, Of Mice and Men, and explore the concept of the American Dream through the migrant experience of the 1930s. Students will then take the classroom outside in the community and document the migrant experience and concept of the American Dream in their own neighborhood to juxtapose the possible changes of the dream since the 30's. |
Once Upon Technology |
4 to 8 |
(5.0 stars, 1 ratings) Students re-write fairy tales adding current technology to change the ending. Then they make their new story into a movie to record and edit in class. |
Our Family Histories |
2 to 6 |
(5.0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will research their own histories by interviewing family members (their elders, and extended relatives), collect information, pictures, etc...The students will put their information together using creativity and technology and at the same time apply their knowledge of language arts, math, and social studies. |
Our Town |
1 to 3 |
A walk through our town will unveil several reasons for reading and the culture and history of our town. Students will photograph signs and scenes from the downtown area and create a digital scrapbook detailing the experience. |