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| Lesson Plan Name |
Grades |
| Save the Rainforest in South America |
6 to 8 |
 (5.0 stars, 1 ratings) 7th Graders: Geography affects the characteristics of a country. Natural resources can determine
the success or failure of a country. Each country is rich in culture, even if they are a
poor country. Each student will appreciate his or her life‐styles, and opportunities
compared to poverty stricken countries. Global issues are complex, and the student
will explain the challenges the rainforest ecosystem is facing, and will develop a plan
of action they can do to help
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| Seed to Plate |
2 to 3 |
(5.0 stars, 1 ratings) Teaching children gardening and nutrition. Using digital cameras students will record the journey of growing a school garden begining with soil and seeds. They will also learn the important value of nutrition in the foods they grow and how to use them in cooking. |
| Seeing the World Through the eyes of a Veteran |
7 to 8 |
(5.0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will be assigned a Veteran to interview, get a military photo of and take a recent picture of. They will write a short story about the person and present a Power Point using the photos, or a movie with Movie Maker. A few selected ones will be used for next year's Veterans Day Program. |
| Shake it up…Cisne! |
3 to 5 |
(5.0 stars, 1 ratings) Fifth grade students will give an earthquake broadcast. Students become cameramen, meteorologists, reporters, eyewitnesses, and anchor people describing the effects of recent earthquakes. |
| Short Film Project: Architecture In My Community |
11 to 12 |
(5.0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will create short videos featuring the unique architecture in Sacramento, CA. They will work in teams to write, film, and publish short films that will persuade people to visit buildings here in our own community. |
| Similarities and Differences Across Cultures - In Modern Times and Throughout History |
1 to 1 |
(5.0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will use technology and literature to research past cultures and modern cultures. The objective of the lesson is for the students to recognize and define the similarities and differences between past cultures and modern cultures in areas related to daily living, food, art and music.
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| Simile Applications |
P-K to P-K |
(5.0 stars, 1 ratings) In this lesson students will learn about similes and how to use a simile
correctly in a sentence.At the end of this lesson, students will be able to
• Identify similes in sentences.
• Create simple similes to describe themselves and others. |
| SKYPE PALS Project Share NC |
4 to 12 |
(5.0 stars, 2 ratings) Students studying Spanish as a foreign language collaborate to create digital presentations depicting everyday life and culture in North Carolina. Students establish friendships and exchange cultural and language information with students in Latin America via SKYPE and video sharing websites. Students create a SYPE PALS documentary which will be shared with the community at a special celebration in which students, parents, and the community come together to meet one another, to watch and discuss the documentary and to experience typical food and music from the Latin American country. |
| SO WHAT ABOUT THE WORLD?!?!? |
6 to 12 |
(5.0 stars, 2 ratings) Students will investigate world countries currently at war/conflict and the impact on the United States. Students will create a news podcast/broadcast video available on youtube.com, schooltube.com, and Kozlen.com. |
| Solutions to Real World Economic Problems in the Classroom |
6 to 12 |
(5.0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will investigate real world American economic issues that are effecting the average family. In this project, students will conduct research to identify the causes of the struggling United States economy. They will examine the effect it has on the average American citizen. They will create strategies to help the struggling American family. The final product of this project will be a documentary about the direct effect of the struggling economy on the DuPage county community. |
| Sonoran WebQuest |
5 to 6 |
(5.0 stars, 1 ratings) Ultilizing some of the most advanced technology available today, you and your team of scientists will create a multi-media presentation to share with the world on the internet! |
| Spring, Summer, Winter, Fall: Dress and Play for Them All |
2 to 5 |
(5.0 stars, 1 ratings) This activity will engage students to work in pairs to make up short stories about activities they can do during each of the four seasons. They will also focus on identifying clothes and activities which are appropriate for each season. |
| STEMing Mobile Devices |
8 to 12 |
(5.0 stars, 1 ratings) Incorporating STEM and mobile devices into the physical science curriculum in an engaging and interactive way. |
| 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. |
| Succession in the Classroom |
6 to 8 |
(5.0 stars, 2 ratings) Students will observe and record with digital cameras the process of succession as it occurs in a 55 gallon tank that the students set up with soil from their own backyards. |
| T-shirts build school and community pride |
6 to 8 |
| This lesson is designed to bring a sense of community to a very diverse team of students in a large, urban middle school. It is also designed to bring a sense of pride in a community struck down with poverty. In this lesson, students will go out into their community and homes and take pictures of what they most identify with to be eventually placed on a T-shirt. |
| Take a Picture, It will last longer! |
3 to 5 |
| Begin a Camera Club after school hours that will enhance learning through cameras and technology. Students should be able to express themselves creatively with technology and gain a curiosity of the world around them through photography. |
| Teaching and Learning: Using iPods in the Classroom |
P-K to 5 |
(4.5 stars, 2 ratings) My students need an iPod touches, apps, and software so I can facilitate the implementation of activities that are in step with the 21st century classroom. |
| 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. |
| Tech Savvy Naturalists |
P-K to 8 |
(5.0 stars, 1 ratings) While technology is the way of the future, the future of endangered plants and animals are our responsibility. Students will learn about ecology and biology of animals and plants in our community and create movies and picture books as their culminating projects. |
| Technology made easy: Scholastic News Magazines |
P-K to 6 |
(5.0 stars, 1 ratings) This lesson will help your young readers develop the essential literacy and critical thinking skills they need to become successful students. |
| Technology Time Capsule |
3 to 4 |
(5.0 stars, 1 ratings) Creating a personal electronic portfolio of a students 4th grade journey. |
| Telling Time through Digital Devices and Photo Story Telling in the Classroom |
K to 5 |
(5.0 stars, 1 ratings) To engage learners physically, mentally, digitally and help them to develop the following time telling skills through an array of digital devices and human interactions |
| Thanks for Your Service |
P-K to 12 |
(4.5 stars, 2 ratings) Students need to learn to be thankful for what they have. What better way than to honor those who have fought for their freedom. |
| The "Point" of Me... and GeoMEtry |
3 to 5 |
(5.0 stars, 3 ratings) This is an interactive story in which geometry vocabulary is introduced and associated with each other as a story unfolds. The students not only listen to the story but create a story board in which the geometry vocabulary becomes clear in differentiated ways. |
