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| Lesson Plan Name |
Grades |
| Solar System Planet Research Project |
3 to 5 |
 (5.0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will study the solar system through a variety of collaborative research based activities, culminating in a Google Slide presentation and a "Scratch Jnr." coding planet commercial. |
| 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. |
| Sounds of ... Assignment |
10 to 12 |
(5.0 stars, 1 ratings) This intermediate PodCasting assignment focuses and strengthens students' scriptwriting abilities by having them weave audio elements throughout their work. Sounds are no longer ancillary or used merely as aural illustrations; sounds are central and are enhanced by the script. |
| SPARTACUS!!! Wait...what? |
9 to 12 |
(5.0 stars, 3 ratings) The student will be able to create a Claymation version of their favorite movie using the skills that were learned in class. They will also create a stop motion version using their classmates as the objects.
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| Special Reporters for School Daily Announcements |
7 to 8 |
(5.0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will create multi-media segments to be played during the School’s daily announcements. These will be multi-part, pre-recorded reports about school events and issues. These segments will include video, animation, graphics and still photography. |
| State History Acting and Podcasting |
3 to 5 |
(5.0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will research and critique different periods of their state's history, and then create "digital archives" and podcasts based upon their research. |
| Stop Motion to Jump Start Thinking! |
3 to P-K |
(5.0 stars, 5 ratings) For this project, students will be able to display their knowledge gained from an inquiry project or book reading using the stop motion techniques. |
| Story Telling |
9 to 12 |
| Students learn about the art of story telling and practice this art through performance. |
| Student Solutions- Saving Our Surroundings |
4 to 8 |
| Students will investigate plants, animals and their habitats creating several products to educate and share their fellow classmates. During the process of research, students will also develop ideas to help solve the problem of endangered habitats, animals and plants. |
| Student Voices |
6 to 8 |
(5.0 stars, 1 ratings) To provide a media where our students are able to create a video that allows them to have a voice about something that they may be passionate about (i.e. sports, reading, family, &academic teams). This will allow our students to have a creative outlet to express themselves in a non-traditional way. |
| Super Science Slueths Explain It All: Circumnavigating the Circulatory System |
6 to 8 |
(5.0 stars, 2 ratings) Students work in pairs to develop podcasts about the circulatory system as a capstone unit project to display what they have learned. The podcasts can take the form of dramas, sports casts, etc. requiring the students to do more than just memorize information. |
| Technology for the Likes of Shakespeare and Poe |
7 to 12 |
(5.0 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. . |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Thanksgiving Feast |
6 to 8 |
| Every year the students in our Life Skills Support class at Beaty Warren Middle School take on the huge task of planning and preparing a Thanksgiving dinner for approximately 80 family, faculty, and staff. Under the direction of the special education teachers and classroom aides, the students decide who to invite, develop a menu, find recipes, make grocery lists, and begin to shop at the local grocery store. The students make placemats, decorations, signs, and a place card for each guest. |
| The "Important" Podcast |
1 to 3 |
(5.0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will create a theme-based podcast to recap and detail what they have learned for that period. The podcasts will be used for younger students and for parents. |
| The Greatest Generation Voice Thread |
6 to 8 |
(5.0 stars, 1 ratings) After hearing a guest speaker(s) from the Greatest Generation, create Voice Threads that showcase their lives, and their contributions to America during WWII |
| THE LONG AND SHORT OF IT - SHADOWS |
K to 2 |
| Kindergarten through Second Grade students will explore light and shadows in science. |
| The Power of Images |
9 to 12 |
| A 2 minute Multi-media presentation using colors, textures,images,drawings, photographs, video clips, etc. To portray a political or social issue in the school, community or country. |
| The Rise of Advertising in the 1920's |
6 to 8 |
(5.0 stars, 1 ratings) After having studied the rise of a consumer society in the 1920's and the importance that advertising played, students will create their own video advertisement. |
| The Tales of Nerdy Norm |
8 to 12 |
(5.0 stars, 1 ratings) In this lesson, students will create a stop motion video that showcases the transformations of quadratic functions by creating a clay model of "Nerdy Norm the Normal Parabola." Students will add audio to their movie to tell the tale of how a shift in Nerdy Norm's "mood" changes his graph! |
| The Water Cycle: A Green Screen Movie |
4 to 5 |
(5.0 stars, 1 ratings) After learning about the water cycle through hands on experiments, texts, and multimedia, students produce a video of the water cycle. You will be using the green screen effect. It is important that students have already had some video making experience and experience with the green screen effects prior to this lesson. |
| The Wonder of a Wordless Book |
3 to 5 |
(5.0 stars, 1 ratings) The students will create stories to accompany wordless books. They will record a podcast of their story to present to the class. |
| Think It, Write It, Create It, |
K to 5 |
(5.0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will author, illustrate, and create digital book collections to share with the school and to promote reading through the use of technology. |
