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| Lesson Plan Name |
Grades |
| Lesson Plan: Us and Them |
10 to 12 |
 (5.0 stars, 2 ratings) Students will conduct exercises using cell phones, online applications, and word processing software to study and report on some of the dynamics of societal grouping, with a focus on inclusion/exclusion based on group identity. |
| Let's Party like its 1849 |
4 to 6 |
(5.0 stars, 1 ratings) This lesson puts student on the Oregon trail. Students write a daily diary and take pictures on the trail. |
| Let's Rock and Roll |
K to 5 |
| Photograph rock formations in the area and how the land was formed through erosion, land upheavals, and sediment building. |
| Lifecycle Learning |
K to 3 |
(5.0 stars, 1 ratings) Classroom children can watch lifecycles by having a camera set on an egg or a seed planted and projected on a large screen. In return, they learn the sequence of each lifecycle by seeing it first hand. |
| Listening to Learn: Podcasting as an Assessment Tool |
P-K to 12 |
(5.0 stars, 1 ratings) Students use teacher created podcasts to study for and complete science tests. |
| Literature Circles |
9 to 12 |
(5.0 stars, 1 ratings) Recording literature circles via podcasts; modeling/highlighting one reading strategy. |
| Living History Video Project |
5 to 5 |
(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 History Guided Tour Podcasts |
5 to 12 |
(5.0 stars, 2 ratings) Students will research local history, choose significant landmarks and create a short audio tour of the area. Students will learn about local history in their area while also learning how to use podcast technology. |
| Magnificent Metamorphosis: A Podcasting Lesson |
P-K to 2 |
(5.0 stars, 1 ratings) This lesson incorporates podcasting and the use of technology (iPads) to teach students about complete and incomplete metamorphosis. This lesson was designed for Kindergarten, but could be used with Pre-K-2. |
| Mentors' Podcasts for New Middle School Students |
7 to 8 |
(5.0 stars, 1 ratings) Students in 7th and 8th grade will work in groups to create podcasts to be shown to incoming 6th graders about life in Middle School. The older students will learn how to create podcasts using Tool Factory Podcasting with Video Site License. |
| Meterologist/Journalist for a Day |
4 to 4 |
(5.0 stars, 1 ratings) This covers a wide range of skills that EVERY student can be succesful in doing. Each student has the opportunity to be Weather meteorologist or Journalist for the day!! |
| Mi dia |
9 to 12 |
(5.0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will work in groups of 2 or 3. They will create an electronic story of a "day in the life" of 1, 2, or all 3. |
| Middle School Masters of the Web - Video Newsletter |
7 to 8 |
(5.0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will interview, script, edit, and produce a web-based newsletter/ video newscast for school and district viewing. |
| Modern Day Pen Pals, Connecting Our Art Room to the Rest of the World! |
P-K to 8 |
(5.0 stars, 1 ratings) We have all heard of pen pals writing letters, but why not have “Modern Day Pen Pals” connect through the web using video streaming and pod casting technology! |
| Moon Craters Lab |
3 to 12 |
(5.0 stars, 1 ratings) By dropping a rock from three different heights, students were able to employ al the steps of the scientific method while conducting an investigation. They explored the limitations of models and connected the relationship of mass, height, and impact. |
| More than Just an Essay... |
5 to 12 |
(5.0 stars, 1 ratings) Students write essays, we grade them, and when returned these essays either get trashed or buried in a back pack never to be seen again. By turning an essay into a PODCAST and uploading it to a class website, students take ownership of their work. |
| 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. |
| Multiplication and Division Strategy Podcast |
3 to 5 |
(5.0 stars, 1 ratings) The students will draft, edit, and publish a podcast explaining their favorite strategy for solving multiplication and division word problems. |
| My Colonial Life |
3 to 5 |
(5.0 stars, 1 ratings) This is a culminating project for a social studies unit on colonial times. Students synthesize their learning and create interviews to be turned into podcasts. In the interview, a student takes the part of a person in colonial times and is interviewed by a "reporter" about his/her colonial life. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Not so Simple Machines |
6 to 8 |
(5.0 stars, 1 ratings) Students create a machine, using a combination of simple machines, to solve a problem. Students produce a podcast commercial, a photo story, and digital presentation to 'sell' their invention. |
| Patchwork Quilt Class Project Thematic Unit |
3 to 3 |
(5.0 stars, 1 ratings) This is a thematic unit that integrates social studies, math, reading, and writing. |
| 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. |
