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Lesson Plan Name |
Grades |
Subtle Conversations |
6 to 12 |
      (5.0 stars, 1 ratings) Subtle Conversations is design to give 60 students an opportunity to research current events and teen issues. Students will select various news, entertainment, sports, or locate events and teen topics to research and create a weekly talk show. Each group will design a production company to write, video, edit and prepare for broadcast. |
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. |
Teacher Appreciation Week |
9 to 12 |
      (5.0 stars, 1 ratings) Students will create a design to give to a current/previous teacher in honor of teacher appreciation week. |
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. |
Teching Up the Nature of Science |
2 to 5 |
      (5.0 stars, 1 ratings) Fourth grade GPS Standards:S4CS8. Students will understand important features of the process of scientific inquiry & S4CS7. Students will be familiar with the character of scientific knowledge and how it is achieved. Students will explore these standards while keeping a video diary of developing results & an online log for their peers to "question" as well. |
Technology Time Capsule |
3 to 4 |
      (5.0 stars, 1 ratings) Creating a personal electronic portfolio of a students 4th grade journey. |
Telling Your Story |
K to 4 |
      (5.0 stars, 2 ratings) Students will take pictures of their daily lives and focus on what is unique and special about an ordinary experience in the medium of writing. The photos and writing will be bound and compiled into their own book, making them an author. |
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 "FLIP IT" Experience |
9 to 12 |
      (5.0 stars, 1 ratings) This lesson uses technology, multimedia, business, and journalism skills in a real-life application to produce a high school yearbook. Journalism is a class that captures memories for historical reference. It requires many academic and social skills in collaboration for the preservation of intangible treasures.
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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 American Revolution: It Takes Two to Tangle, but Three to Decide a War! |
5 to 12 |
      (5.0 stars, 1 ratings) This unit on the American Revolution is designed to provide students with a deeper understanding of the complexities of war. The goal is for students to gain knowledge of history from several different points of view. |
The Autobiography of a Middle School |
6 to 8 |
The multidisciplinary project would use the Olympus Digital Cameras and Tool Factory Software to help define and build school unity, self-esteem, and culture through student-made pictures, essays, biographies, and art. The final goal of this project will be an autobiographical photo-essay slide show that the student council will present to their peers, parents, faculty, and school board at their eighth grade graduation ceremony. |
The Bird's Word Video Podcast |
K to 12 |
      (5.0 stars, 1 ratings) Students collaborate in small groups to write a script which explains, demonstrates, and gives examples of a specific part of a large topic (for example, one part of the water cycle). Each group films themselves using Flip Video Cameras and then the parts are assembled into one video which explains the large topic. |
The Flip Side |
6 to 8 |
      (5.0 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 Flip Side: A Multi-Genre Occupational Research Project |
7 to 12 |
      (5.0 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. |
The Greatest Generation: Capturing Their Stories with Digital Images |
K to K |
      (5.0 stars, 1 ratings) Digital Storytelling with the Greatest Generation is the focus of this basic primary source recording of extended family members. |
THE LONG AND SHORT OF IT - SHADOWS |
K to 2 |
Kindergarten through Second Grade students will explore light and shadows in science. |
The Physics of Sports: An 8th Grade Physical Science Project |
P-K to P-K |
      (5.0 stars, 1 ratings) Many physics concepts and principles of motion can be observed and studied through sporting events. This activity offers you the opportunity to examine these principles using sporting events as examples. For this activity, you may work alone or as a team of two people. We strongly encourage you to work with a partner due to video-recording and due to the amount of time and effort required to create an I-Movie.
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The Poetry of Photography: What is the Essence of our School? |
6 to 12 |
      (5.0 stars, 1 ratings) Teaching students to capture elements of the world around them utilizing principles of photographic elements. Compositing digital images into poetic language by utilizing photo editing software. |
The Very Important Me Project |
K to 2 |
      (5.0 stars, 2 ratings) First Grade Students will create a project using various computer applications to show their skills they have learned in first grade, including the use of Microsoft Word, Paint, and the Video Star App. They will be combining these skills with ones they are learning in the classroom including sentence structure, punctuation and capital letters. |
The World Around Me |
5 to 8 |
      (5.0 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. |