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| Lesson Plan Name |
Grades |
| Students Are the Best Teachers |
4 to 12 |
| Students will take an active role in the teaching and learning process by creating digital presentations that review basic concepts that are the foundations for all courses. These may include focused mini lessons on such areas as vocabulary, grammar, figures of speech, math problems and concepts, historical events, scientific elements, or technology operations. |
| Teaching Digital Citizenship through Stories of Immigration and Diversity |
K to 2 |
 (5.0 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. |
| Technology Lesson Plan: Pre-K Photography for Geography |
P-K to P-K |
(5.0 stars, 1 ratings) To get the children familiar with pictures of people and places in their community.
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| Technology-Assisted "7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens" |
9 to 10 |
(5.0 stars, 1 ratings) This unit teaches teens the underlying principles that are essential to achieving their goals and personal success. The activities, described in detail below, support an understanding of each of the 7 Habits along with any important terms and the application of those habits into the daily lives of the students through the implementation of “baby steps” that will be monitored twice a week by the students’ personal mentor and supplemented with a wide range of technological hardware and applications. |
| The Bird's Word Video Podcast |
K to 12 |
(5.0 stars, 1 ratings) Students collaborate in small groups to write a script which explains, demonstrates, and gives examples of a specific part of a large topic (for example, one part of the water cycle). Each group films themselves using Flip Video Cameras and then the parts are assembled into one video which explains the large topic. |
| The Flip Side: A Multi-Genre Occupational Research Project |
7 to 12 |
(5.0 stars, 1 ratings) This lesson will provide students with the authority of the "naked eye" to give way towards finding their own truth, place, and ability to communicate efficiently in a global community. |
| The World Around Me |
5 to 8 |
(5.0 stars, 2 ratings) Students will take pictures of landscapes, nature, the environment, etc. They will choose one picture that will be used as their "muse" to write a story that describes that specific picture. |
| Total Physical Response Storytelling |
5 to 12 |
| Students will take pictures and make books to tell a story in a foreign language. |
| Tour Guide of WIllow Bend |
K to 6 |
(5.0 stars, 1 ratings) Second language learners (ELL) will create a tour of Willow Bend School reflecting on what a newcomer would need to know. Students will use their past experiences to compare and contrast Willow Bend to other schools around the world. The video will include all aspects of school; teachers, support staff, locations, activities, etc. |
| Traveling Abroad to Dine! |
3 to 4 |
(5.0 stars, 1 ratings) Students incorporate the communication skills they have learned in Spanish class during the restaurant unit to produce a mini-drama. They show their advancement in the second language in an authentic setting. |
| Tuning the World One Note at a Time |
6 to 8 |
| This project is intended to broaden the horizon for our small town students. Students will produce a DVD movie/music video highlighting the world of music as its focal point. |
| Ummm Pizza! Give Me a Half |
P-K to 3 |
(5.0 stars, 2 ratings) This lesson is about making a "whole" putting two "halves" together. |
| Un anuncio comercial |
10 to 12 |
(5.0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will create their own comercial using movie maker |
| Video Buddies |
K to 8 |
(5.0 stars, 1 ratings) Hamden elementary students and Beijing elementary students will correspond with each other through technology which includes use of the Flip Video Camera. Students will use the video camera to introduce family members, pets, and record important events such as birthdays and holiday celebrations. |
| Vivid Visual Vocabulary |
3 to 12 |
(5.0 stars, 1 ratings) The Vivid Visual Vocabulary Project is a student-generated, project-based learning experience in which students utilize technology to develop skills in research, writing, and creativity to produce weekly vocabulary presentation on root words. Expanding vocabulary enhances reading skills. |
| Vivid Visual Vocabulary |
K to 12 |
(5.0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will create weekly presentations of their vocabulary words utilizing Flip Cameras, iMovie and Powerpoint. Computer generated, student driven learning always leads to life-long knowledge, but making videos to enact vocabulary words in context is fun. |
| Vivid Visual Vocabulary |
4 to 12 |
(5.0 stars, 1 ratings) The Vivid Visual Vocabulary Project is a student-generated, project-based learning experience in which students utilize technology to develop skills in research, writing, and creativity to produce an audio/video presentation. As students share projects that are developed individually and through cooperative, small learning communities, they become both teacher and learner. |
| Vocabulary Taboo Review |
3 to 12 |
(5.0 stars, 1 ratings) This lesson is a twist on the card game "Taboo", where people aim to describe a word at the top of the card, but are not allowed to use the "Taboo" words printed on the card in their description. |
| Weather Report |
7 to 12 |
(5.0 stars, 1 ratings) Students create and film a weather report as seen on the evening news. |
| Who are you? (quien eres) |
9 to 12 |
(5.0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will create an animation in Spanish describing themselves and their interests. |
| Wiki Jisho |
8 to 12 |
(5.0 stars, 1 ratings) This is a student-created and student maintained thematic Japanese-English dictionary. |
| World Travelers |
K to 12 |
(5.0 stars, 1 ratings) Students in grades K-8 and Visual Art students would choose destinations to "visit" by grade levels, which would enable classroom teachers to use this project as a learning tool for many other subject areas. Classes would then photograph their ideas of locations, settings, places to visit, plant life, perhaps even life of that area to create a travel brochure for future visitors. |
| Writing and Podcasting |
2 to 5 |
(5.0 stars, 1 ratings) Based on just a few pictures, students can write and podcast their own story. |
