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Lesson Plan Name |
Grades |
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. |
World Traveller |
6 to 12 |
      (5.0 stars, 1 ratings) Students groups will research various countries of their choice, create artifacts reflect culture and monuments from their researched nation, and students will take "tourist" photos of themselves in front of their artifacts and monuments. Photos will be complied in a "World Traveler Gallery" on our class website |
Write A Story |
1 to 5 |
Using a wikispace, students will work together to complete a story. Each student will create a story starter, and classmates will add sentences one at a time to create a completed story. |
Write to Read |
6 to 8 |
      (5.0 stars, 1 ratings) There is nothing more motivating than teaching to the interests of students, and what middle school students' interests revolve around themselves and their friends. Digital storytelling of the school year gives them a voice and leades to improved language arts skills. |
Writers are Explorers |
1 to 2 |
      (5.0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will use the internet to research information about their favorite animal using Discovery Learning and National Geographic Kids. Students will use the information found online to write an Informational Text that will be presented to parents at a
Writers Celebration. |
Writing a Masterpiece |
9 to 12 |
     (4.5 stars, 2 ratings) When working with students to create complete sentences, I make the visual connection to a masterpiece painting. This metaphor helps struggling writers connect to the necessary components of a sentence. |
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 |
      (5.0 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. |
Writing Opinion Statements through Edmodo and Scholastic News |
2 to 4 |
      (5.0 stars, 1 ratings) In my classroom, the children use a program called Edmodo which is an online blogging system. The students read a Scholastic News article on Edmodo and post their thoughts and reactions through online conversations. |
Writing Prompt |
3 to 12 |
      (5.0 stars, 1 ratings) Students must stay on topic when given a writing prompt. This lesson will help them think about the process with the end in mind. |
Writing Prompt "Living With Fame!" |
4 to 4 |
      (5.0 stars, 1 ratings) Writing Prompt "Living With Fame!" |
Writing using sequencing phrases |
P-K to P-K |
      (5.0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will learn how to use sequencing phrases to organize their writing in the order of the events took place. |
Written in Bones |
6 to 8 |
      (5.0 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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Year in Review |
6 to 8 |
      (5.0 stars, 1 ratings) Each student will capture his/her best moments/work/events of the school year with cameras/phones or movie making program. |
Yes We Can! Students with Autism & Downs-Syndrome on the Drums! |
K to 12 |
    (3.5 stars, 2 ratings) Students with profound special needs, such as autism, Downs-syndrome, CP, & medically fragile conditions, will participate in a variety of exciting experiential activities, including adaptive percussion & drumming, Karaoke type music, and using American Sign Language to express themselves to music. Project will be documented via video and digital pictures and shown to the school body in a music video format. |
You Can Do It: Creating How-To Videos |
P-K to P-K |
      (5.0 stars, 1 ratings) Middle school students create instructional videos for other students using Flip video cameras and editing software. Students must brainstorm a topic, write an original script and create their film and audio narration, then edit and and create an original movie. Sample topics include "How to tie your shoes," "How to be organized for Middle School," and "The Water Cycle." |
Zoom into Writing |
1 to 4 |
      (5.0 stars, 2 ratings) To work on focusing on a specific topic, students will take digital pictures around the school yard. They will then use the zoom on the Olympus camera to focus on one part of the picture. Their stories will be based on the zoomed picture. |
“A Drop of Ink Makes A Million Think!” But... "A Design Can Change A Million Lives!" |
6 to 8 |
      (5.0 stars, 1 ratings) The Research Paper brought to Life.......The Tween Teen Journey in ELA Research!
After students research the history and operation of a catapult, they will write an inquiry paper and design their very own catapult! Their research will be connected to all curriculums, as the end result will require building a catapult and synthesizing their outcomes, via comparisons and DATA analysis!
Learning brought to life!
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“Flip” the Table on Bullying |
K to 4 |
      (5.0 stars, 1 ratings) Newell Elementary students will create a series of skits to promote effective social problem-solving techniques. Each skit will highlight the most common scenarios of bullying at each grade level. These videos will be shown to all elementary students in an effort to reinforce positive social skills in the classrooms. |
“Through the Eyes of a Child- Student Photography” Elementary Level – Visual Arts |
2 to 5 |
      (5.0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will experience the beauty of literacy through the use of photography. Teacher guided photography instruction will focus on the subject areas of reading and writing skills to help students become better readers. |