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| Lesson Plan Name |
Grades |
| FlipVideo Poetry: Teaching Narrative Poems Through Community Service Learning |
7 to 8 |
 (0 stars, 3 ratings) In order to promote literacy as part of our district improvement plan, 7th grade students will work in pairs to draft, write and illustrate a narrative poem to be presented on National Read Across America Day to primary school students as part of a 'Seussical". Performances will be videotaped so that teachers can show the presentations over and over to varied classes for instructional purposes. |
| Make narrative writing authentic and exciting!!! |
3 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This is a simulated police officer lesson. Secretly assign students to do things while you are teaching. After the lesson, have students write down witness reports. |
| Accommodations for Expressive Lanaguage Assignments in the Inclusive Classroom |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Using the I-pad, students will be able to generate expressive language responses to complete written assignments in the regular education classroom. Students will use content vocabulary to create cartoons which convey their understanding of an assignment. |
| Digital Storytelling - My Special Story |
4 to 6 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will learn the techniques of Digital Storytelling in order to complete a narrative about an important event in their lives. Students will compose a narrative, collect images and photographs. Students will then create a digital slideshow, complete with spoken narration, images, music and transitions appropriate to the mood they want to set for their story. |
| Let's Take a Trip! |
4 to 5 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students use Google Maps, images, and weather data to plan a trip to a destination within the continental United States. They need to calculate mileage, time, and check upcoming weather data. |
| Monsters Inked |
P-K to 6 |
(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. |
| My Digital Story |
9 to 12 |
(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. |
| Stop Motion Animation with Photographs |
5 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Have students move objects in a scene and take a series of photographs that create the illusion of movement of said objects. The students will then put the photos in a video editing program to make a short video of their characters in action. |
| The Flip Side: A Multi-Genre Occupational Research Project |
7 to 12 |
(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. |
| "Marchen or Sagen" - A Digital Story Telling Experience |
10 to 12 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Storytelling is as old as time itself! Every culture that exists or has ever existed had a strong storytelling aspect. Stories are used for entertainment, teaching and passing on knowledge and wisdom. Each of us has a story and it has been said, "We are the stories that we tell about ourselves." |
| 1920's Personalities Podcasting Project |
7 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students research people of the 1920's create a written report. Next students create a podcast finished with pictures and music if it enhances the "personality of the 1920s" that will be posted on the school website. |
| A Different Perspective |
6 to 12 |
| Teaching wheelchair bound students the joys of photography. |
| An Explorer's Virtual Sea Chest |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Students will be assigned an Explorer to study. They will create a photo story depicting the voyage as a crewmember of a ship that belonged to a famous explorer. One aspect of the job required that they document the voyage and create a virtual sea chest to document the explorer’s findings in the new land.
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| Analyzing and Synthesizing Propaganda Techniques in Film |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will analyze the non-verbal techniques used in films that attempt to manipulate audiences through political or commercial propaganda. In teams, students will then create their own videos demonstrating a synthesis of these techniques. |
| And Action ........ Stop Motion Style |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Cross-Curriculum project integrating Art (sculpting) and Technology (Video Editing, Web 2.0 (Video Sharing), |
| Animation |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Through the exploration of animation techniques, students will be able to describe and depict emotions and expressions with processes, traditional tools, and modern technologies used in the arts. |
| At the Movies |
1 to 2 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students respond to books, poems and literary genres by using flip cameras to make movie trailers, "behind-the-scene-clips", never before seen footage, movie reviews and commercials as the use imagination, innovations and 21st century digital tools to show their understanding. |
| At the Movies |
1 to 2 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This lesson plan attempts at creating a framework for creativity, innovation and global collaboration while allowing students to create different movies as they respond to books and poems from different literary genres. The lesson plan allows for student-driven learning, with choices and project-based learning. |
| At the Top of Mississippi: Southaven |
6 to 8 |
(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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| Bring Black History Month to Life! |
P-K to 12 |
(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. |
| Capturing Conic Sections with Digital Cameras |
9 to 12 |
(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 |
(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. |
| Collaborative Wriitng and Debating |
4 to 5 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Through discussion, students will formulate opinions and defend their own positions in writing |
| Collaborative Writing in 4th Grade |
4 to 6 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This lesson incorporates writing, listening and speaking skills in order to have each group of studnets produce a piece of publishable narrative writing. |
| Creating a How-To Video |
3 to 6 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will complete an essay and short video using iPads, transitional words and power verbs. Students will choose from a list of "how to" ideas, create a video explaining and demonstrating the steps. Students will also use laptops/computers to compile a narrative essay. |
| Cubelets Challenge Beginner |
P-K to 5 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) The challenges are aimed at thinking about building something to meet a need, solve a problem or make something that that can help us to understand or do something. |
| Digital Literacy |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Plan designed to improve reading comprehension and writing skills for high school english students through script writing and film adaptation. |
| Digital Storytelling |
5 to 12 |
| Students write more when they are inspired either by the topic or by the process. Using Movie Maker, students bring their creative stories to life and have a Windows Media Player as their final version of their work. |
| Digital Storytelling |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will be challenged to create a digital story using digital cameras and powerpoint. |
| Digital Storytelling: At-Risk Students Find Their Voices |
9 to 12 |
| Students will use technology and sound writing practices to relate personal narratives. |
| Essential to Autumn: Line, Shape, Color, Texture, Pattern, Rhythm, Emphasis, Movement, Balance, and Unity |
3 to 5 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will observe their natural environment to experience the changes that occur when Autumn arrives.
Students will create artworks based on personal observations and experiences with their environment in Autumn. |
| Fairytale tale rewrite video presentations |
6 to 6 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) The students have rewritten fairytales and made them more modern. They will be video taped and students will also create a power point presentation involoving the video and pictures taken during the project. |
| Family HIstories Alive! |
2 to P-K |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will conduct a family interview, curate family photos through narration, and reflect on a family heirloom/artifact. Students will use a video camera to document their interview, photo narration, and heirloom/artifact reflection. |
| Flat Stanley |
1 to 2 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will read the book Flat Stanley, take him home for a week and write and film their adventures with Flat Stanley at home and report back what they did with him to the class. |
| FlippEd Geo Buddies |
3 to 6 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will create videos that incorporate geometric shapes in the real world. They will also collaborate with other classrooms in a social network, uploading and commenting on each others videos using Edmodo.com. |
| Fredrick Douglass...A digital History |
7 to 7 |
| Using technology, the students will create projects that depicts the stuggles of slaves with a focus on Fredrick Douglass and his determination to abolish it. |
| Frogs: ELA and Science 1st grade |
1 to 2 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This is a first grade ELA and science unit. This unit integrates technology and allows students to apply real world application with scientific inquiry, while critically analyzing literary and informational texts.
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| Great Depression Gallery Walk |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Students will analyze the impact of the Great Depression on U.S. society and populations by analyzing primary source images from the Library of Congress website. |
| Greetings, Introductions, and Farewells in Spanish. |
9 to P-K |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) The student will learn some basic phrases for greeting another person and introducing yourself.
The student will understand the meaning of the sentences of their own dialog and practice with their classmates.
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| HMS Book Review Podcast |
4 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students in 8th grade reading will create podcasts to recommend books for other students to read. The book is one that they really enjoyed during the semester in reading. |
| If a Picture is Worth a Thousand Words... |
4 to 4 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) I will be using photography as a way to focus and enhance students' writing. |
| Inspirational Essay: Video |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will create an inspirational movie using both video and text. Partners will choose a famous person who has inspired them. Using quotes and filmed clips, students will create a video detailing how and why this person inspired them. |
| Integrating Technology into our 1st grade classroom. |
K to 1 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) I have different activities for the students to accomplish by using technology. |
| Intro to Photography for Middle School |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This is an entire curriculum, not just one lesson plan. Students will take a six week course that teaches them the fundamentals of camera operation and shot composition. |
| iTeach iLearn |
6 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) The iTeach iLearn Project is the artful mixing of video, narratives, images, music, sound and special effects into a digital story teaching about any concept. These digital stories reflect the student’s understanding of the themes of science. Science is a way of learning about the natural world, science has built a vast body of changing and increasing knowledge described by physical, mathematical, and conceptual models, and science’s effect on technology and society. |
| Kindergarten Memories |
P-K to K |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) We will create a Kindergarten Memory Book. Each month we will create a monthly memory page regarding our experiences during the month and world happenings. |
| Learn and Serve Video |
10 to 12 |
| Students in my Multimedia class create a video on any topic related to the K-12 curriculum. They partner with a teacher in that subject / grade for ideas and then they script, video, edit, and publish a video that teaches the topic. |
| Life Map |
11 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This is a lesson plan that helps you to get to know your students and also helps you determine their computer/writing skills. For this lesson students use a computer that has Adobe Illustrator to design a life map. Then they need to submit a one page typed paper that explains their life map, I suggest using Microsoft Word. |
| Literacy through Self-Ethnography |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Linking photography to writing encourages the students to lead a writing life. They will begin to see that the things they come across each day are worth writing about. |
| Make a Memory with Movie Maker |
3 to 12 |
| Students create an original story, plan the illustrations and create an audiofile to tell the story. Put everything together on Movie Maker and you have students begging to write more. |
| Mommy, Watch Me! |
8 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This lesson plan is designed to be part of a Parenting curriculum for teen mothers who attend an alternative high school program where their children are on site with them. It could be used by any child development class where students have an opportunity to regularly observe babies and/or children. |
| More than a Game |
3 to 5 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will create a video game using what they know about narrative writing. |
| Mrs. Valgos' Amazing Race |
5 to 5 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) In this lessons students will learn to assemble and program Cubelet Robot Blocks. The students will be divided into groups and program and race their robots over a course they created. |
| Ocean's 4 |
4 to 6 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Integrating technology in the curriculum is vital for the students to learn 21st century skills. By collaborating with the fourth grade classroom teacher and combining science in the computer class the students can learn subject matter in an interactive, self-directed method. |
| Oregon Trail Webquest |
P-K to 5 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will use chrome books to work through a Web quest online. The Web quest focuses on answering questions using text, point of view and narrative writing. |
| Our Place In The Rio Grande Rift Valley Watershed |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) An arroyo that bisects our campus is the setting for student groups to explore the influence of flora, fauna, humans, land, water, and weather in this watershed environment. Students will use flip cameras and digital still cameras to document their observations and create digital presentations. |
| Perspectives on a Shoe |
4 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will photograph a shoe in various locations and then take the photo(s) to create a short story or poem from the perspective of their shoe |
| Political Campaign Commercial Project |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Standards 6d. The student will demonstrate knowledge of State and Local elections by analyzing the influence of mass media and campaign advertisements and public opinion polls.
Purpose: The purpose of this lesson is to introduce students to political advertisements and help them understand how those advertisements influence the issues and candidates in campaigns.
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| Presentation Blogs |
P-K to P-K |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Create a series of audio/video blog entries in the target language as a means of assessing progress and skill/content acquisition throughout the course of language learning. |
| Preserving Living Legacies |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This is an oral history lesson which engages students to research a top of United States History as related to the actual life experience of a senior member of our town community. Students will research, prepare interview questions, interview a senior, videotape their interview, and publish their findings in book form. |
| Reading Rainbow for Second Graders |
2 to 2 |
| Students will collaborate to develop a multimedia presentation based on a theme using a Reading Rainbow format consisting of book summaries, a team documentary, and original writing with illustrations. Teams of students with similar interests would be selected to work together on an eight to nine week project which will allow for differentiated learning opportunities. |
| S.C.A.N.M.E. |
P-K to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students Creating A New Method of Evaluation |
| Save Trees, Use the Mini to Complete Our Assignment! |
2 to 2 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will learn that by using technology in the classroom, they will be saving trees from destruction to create our textbooks and workbooks and how we can stop filling our landfills with mounds of paper. With our reading program online, students will have access to the program and will be able to complete assignments directed by the teacher and have immediate feedback on their performance. |
| Self-Portraits: Photography and Memoirs |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Students will read a collection of memoirs, short-stories and personal reflections about being a preteen or teenager and will write their own creative non-fiction piece about being 13 years old. This will be paired with a photography unit in which students will learn the guidelines for better photography and create self-portraits to accompany their creative writing. |
| Song Creation: Of Mice and Men vs. The Greatest Game Ever Played |
9 to 12 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) After reading Of Mice and Men and watching The Greatest Game Ever Played, compare and contrast George Milton and Francis Ouimet and Lennie Small and Eddie Lowery in a song to be written and recorded. |
| Stain Glass |
P-K to 12 |
| This is 5 lesson plans in sequence from introduction through Glass History to the current methods applied in Glass Forms: lesson 1, stain glass history; lesson 2, community impressions; lesson 3, stain glass design; lesson 4, color theory; lesson 5, form and application. Wrap up includes reflection. |
| Story Telling through Photography |
4 to 9 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will use photographs to form the basis for a narrative story. This is lesson will be part of a series of lessons that will lead to a book of stories and student created images. |
| Techno Lit |
3 to 5 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) This lessons includes a variety of technology to publish expository texts so they can be viewed on iPod touches and iPads. |
| Technology and your Future: Using SmartPhones and IPads in the classroom |
4 to 5 |
(0 stars, 3 ratings) Using research from the internet, via Smart Phone or I Pads, studnets will "open their eyes" as to what they will need to do and have in order to attain the life they desire for their future. |
| Technology for the Likes of Shakespeare and Poe |
7 to 12 |
(0 stars, 3 ratings) Digital Storytelling, a wonderful way to incorporate technology and other disciplines into the Language Arts classroom, despite endorsement from the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), is not a priority for most schools. I believe that to incorporate digital storytelling, you must have the technology necessary to enable the teacher to adjust her pedagogy and see her role as story coach instead of technology teacher, allowing digital storytelling to enable students to represent their voices in a manner rarely addressed by state and district curriculum while practicing the digital literacy skills that will be important to their 21st century futures while supporting whole language literacy practices. . |
| The Butterfly Effect |
P-K to P-K |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) After studying the rise of Hitler and the Nazi regime, students are asked to think about the "butterfly effect" regarding negative events that happened in various countries because Hitler was the Fuhrer. This project begins with research, includes history, contains digital tools, incorporates fiction, and ends with a classroom presentation. |
| The Flip Side |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will use their Flip cameras to chronicle their experience at a local food pantry and share their experience with the rest of the school and local community organizations. |
| The World Around Me |
5 to 8 |
(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. |
| Through Our Eyes |
9 to 9 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) “The House on Mango Street” by Sandra Cisneros is a novel that addresses many important themes, but none more important than poverty. But simply talking about a world problem does not teach my students as much as a hands-on problem solving project would! Upon completing the novel, my students will tackle the final project “Through Our Eyes.” |
| TRI-SCI 1 Video Launch |
K to 4 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Student(s) will construct and fly a model rocket with a video camera onboard. Video will alos be made of the construction and shared with other students/grades. |
| Video Modeling for Children with Autism |
2 to 5 |
(0 stars, 4 ratings) This lesson uses videos to teach children with autism. The current skill being worked on is playing a game. |
| Writing and Illustrating a Digital Children's Picture Book |
6 to 8 |
| Students will use digital cameras and Photoshop to create the pictures for a children's picture book which will be made into a hand bound book. |
| Writing Classroom Agreements using Inspiration & Word to Go |
3 to 8 |
(0 stars, 1 ratings) At the beginning of the year, the class will create a "Classroom Constitution" using Inspiration software and, as an option for classrooms w/ Palm Pilots, Word to Go. Students will brainstorm as a class a list of behaviors that they think will help the classroom environment be conducive to learning & to show how they can become better citizens in their class. |
| Written in Bones |
6 to 8 |
(0 stars, 2 ratings) Students will read literary and informational texts about the stories of our past to understand how different texts offer unique historical perspectives and how authors sometimes alter details of history to serve a purpose. Students will express their understanding by corroborating details of the past, deciphering an author’s purpose, and writing their own fictionalized version of a historical account.
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