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| Lesson Plan Name |
Grades |
| A Snap at Geometry |
5 to 6 |
 (4.5 stars, 4 ratings) This project focuses on analyzing objects and discussing their math attributes. After learners explore and build background knowledge about polygons, polyhedrons, and other geometric figures, they will complete a webquest. Students will create, explain, and evaluate their understanding of geometric shapes through activities.
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| Literary Tour of California via Vodcast |
9 to 12 |
(4.3 stars, 3 ratings) Students study California authors and create a podcast telling about each author. Listeners learn about the cities and places that California authors lived, worked and played in and wrote about. |
| "I Believe..." Podcast Style |
10 to 11 |
(5.0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will read John F Kennedy's speech "I Believe in an America Where the Separation of Church and State is Absolute" and Martin Luther King's speech "I have a Dream." After comparing both speeches students will write their own speech about their personal beliefs, podcast their work and present their speeches to our local veterans at our Veteran's Day Celebration. |
| "The Five Life Zone Research Project" |
7 to 8 |
(5.0 stars, 3 ratings) Students in grade 7 and 8 will travel from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to the Grand Canyon in Williams, Arizona to investigate and measure the soil and water quality (if water can be found) for each of five life zones. The five life zones are the Lower Sonoran or low hot desert; the Upper Sonoran or desert steppe; the Transition or open woodlands; the Canadian or fir forest; and the Hudsonian or spruce forest. This is equivalent to studying the life zones found from Mexico to Canada. The latest technology will be used to complete the field studies and record and communicate their findings. |
| 3A is Going Batty |
3 to 8 |
(5.0 stars, 1 ratings) Third grade students conduct research on a Frequently Asked Question about Bats. They will take the information they discover and create an informational video about bats. |
| 55 Word Video Stories |
7 to 12 |
(5.0 stars, 2 ratings) Using the literacy skills of the 21s Century stidents will create original 55-word short stories, or re-write well known stories in 55 words, and then turn them into short movies using video cameras. They will then publish their finished products on YouTube and the class blog, and have an opportunity to submit their original stories to the fifty-five fiction contest. |
| 6 Word Digital Memoirs |
6 to 12 |
(5.0 stars, 2 ratings) Taking inspiration of Hemingway's infamous 6 Word Story, “For sale: baby shoes, never worn,” students will write their own memoir using only 6 words. Then, students will use digital cameras to shoot 6 photos illustrating their memoir. Students finally combine these images and text to create a YouTube digital memoir or Blurb.com book. |
| 9th Grade ELA Project-Based Learning |
9 to 10 |
(5.0 stars, 1 ratings) This is a project-based learning unit that I taught with one of our 9th grade teachers. Students learned different persuasive techniques as they developed their own charitable organization to fight child abuse. |
| A Cleaner Today for a Greener Tomorrow |
6 to 8 |
(2.0 stars, 1 ratings) Students become environmentalists through community activities. |
| A Day in the Life on Tech’s Campus |
7 to 12 |
(5.0 stars, 1 ratings) Multimedia assignment to capture what is happening on campus from multiple perspectives with photos, stories, video and blogs |
| A Digital Walk Through Chatham |
6 to 8 |
(4.0 stars, 2 ratings) Our project is a digital storytelling activity using MultiMedia Lab V and digital cameras. Students will photograph important landmarks in town, write descriptive articles, and share them with other students through the school newspaper and web site. |
| A Fishy Environment 'We need 'em Clean!' Web Lesson |
6 to 8 |
(5.0 stars, 1 ratings) Create a website that documents our field trip to a local fish hatchery, where we will learn the how the effects of methyl-mercury can impact us and our environment. |
| A Moment in Time |
5 to 5 |
(3.5 stars, 2 ratings) Students will research a year in United States history, and create a visual representation of what their life would have been like in the selected time period. |
| 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. |
| All About Safety |
9 to 12 |
(5.0 stars, 1 ratings) Robotics Class students will learn about safe operation of equipment in the robotics lab. As groups, students will create pod-casts summarizing their learning and teaching others about safely using machinery and tools. |
| Alternative Modes for Alternative Ed |
P-K to P-K |
(5.0 stars, 1 ratings) To provide media information in the form of a DVD library centrally located at Seminole County District Office in order to provide various learning formats for struggling and at risk incarcerated learnes. |
| Ambassador (Program Based Learning) |
6 to 12 |
(5.0 stars, 1 ratings) I assign a country to groups of 2 Principles of Technology students. They become the "Ambassadors" of their countries and must create a brochure in Publishers highlighting the countries, resources, exports, etc. They also create a PowerPoint highlighting the tourism, strengths of the country. They use Microsoft Word to write a letter to the "President" of the country introducing themselves, etc. They are given a budget to prepare a meal that would include items that are traditional favorites from their selected country. They will prepare a spreadsheet with formulas that tracks expenditures, costs, etc. Each group will have an entire class period to present their PBL, and the meal they have prepared in advance, the day of their presentation. |
| Ancient Egypt |
P-K to P-K |
(5.0 stars, 1 ratings) Throughout this two week unit, my students will learn about the many contributions that have come from ancient Egypt. |
| Animal Trading Cards |
2 to 4 |
(5.0 stars, 1 ratings) This is a collaborative unite in which students research an animal and create a trading card like a baseball trading card using Microsoft Word or other word processing software. |
| Animals in Inspiration |
2 to 4 |
(5.0 stars, 1 ratings) Second grade students use books and the internet to research an animal and then the computer program "Inspiration" to create a graphic organizer. |
| Animals of Florida |
K to 3 |
(4.0 stars, 1 ratings) Journey with us as students discover Native Florida Wildlife. |
| Animals of Louisiana |
P-K to K |
(5.0 stars, 1 ratings) Kindergarten students will become familiar with animals of Louisiana. The students will learn about their habitats,environments, young, diets, etc. |
| Animation Pre-Production |
3 to 12 |
(5.0 stars, 6 ratings) Students will learn the process of animation from concept to a short storyboard/ comic strip. They will walk through the steps of developing a character creating a story around that character and imagining what they will look like. |
| AP Chemistry Video Lab Book |
10 to 12 |
(5.0 stars, 1 ratings) The AP Chemistry Test is quickly approaching! Students need to review laboratory techniques and descriptive chemistry. The "solution"? Go to our AP Chemistry wiki page that contains a video scrapbook of the labs we have done throughout the year. |
| At the Top of Mississippi: Southaven |
6 to 8 |
(5.0 stars, 2 ratings) Project – At the Top of Mississippi: Southaven
Students will report and record personal events, people and places that are important to them in their daily lives. They will then, with their classmates, combine their efforts and produce a DVD that will be presented to the City of Southaven and the Southaven Chamber of Commerce to give to families that are interested in relocating to our city. This will promote Southaven in a positive manner through the eyes of our youth.
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