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Postcards For Your Ears

For Teachers K - 2nd
Here is a great way to have your students make audio postcards to share by recording a message on the computer. They write and revise an appropriate message about an object from home, choose a background, and font colors for the...
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Literacy Through Photography

For Teachers K - 5th
Students practice using words to describe photographs they have taken.  In this descriptive writing lesson, students utilize a disposable or digital camera to take 5 pictures of their life after school.  Students create slides from their...
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Welcome to our Classroom

For Teachers 2nd Standards
Second graders create a classroom resource book for substitutes to help them feel more comfortable and familiar with faces and procedures in our classroom and school. They develop skill in using a digital camera and computer technology.
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Ready, Aim, Focus!

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Use photography as a tool to improve writing skills. Provide pupil pairs with a digital camera and challenge them to capture images of the classroom they find visually striking. Each class member then composes a descriptive piece about...
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Pop Art People

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students research art history by creating an illustration in class. In this popular art lesson, students identify Keith Haring by researching information on the web. Students draw people in different athletic poses and mount their...
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Creating a Digital Newspaper

For Teachers Pre-K - 6th
Students create a digital newspaper. In this digital newspaper lesson, students review the sections of a newspaper and brainstorm ideas for their paper. Students complete a schools news report, student interview, opinion page, sports...
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Zoom into Writing

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students take a picture and create a writing piece. In this creative writing lesson, students use a digital camera to take a picture and then zoom in on what interests them. They use this picture as inspiration as the character, setting,...
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Heart Collage

For Teachers K - 2nd
Explore the visual arts by creating a construction paper art project. In this collage lesson, young artists research the Internet to examine styles of famous artists including Keith Haring. They create cut-outs of hearts using...
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The All About Me Poster

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
First and second graders become familiar with the components of a biography. In this language arts lesson, pupils create an "All About Me" page using components of a biography. They also create an interractive poster, and work with a...
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Techno PC: Computer Lessons for Elementary Students

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students explore computer science by participating in mini activities. In this graphic design lesson, identify the different components on a personal computer and define their purpose. Students utilize Microsoft Paint to create a digital...
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A Zoo Book for All

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
A visit to the local zoo launches an integrated life science/ language arts research project into the habitat, feeding habits, offspring, lifespan, and other interesting facts about animals. Each group selects two animals to photograph...
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My Alphabetical Autobiography

For Teachers K - 12th Standards
Design a pictorial autobiography using the letters of the alphabet. For each letter, writers select visual images that represent life events and interests. Younger writers add words or sentences of explanation while older writers narrate...
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Walk in My Shoes: A Shoe's Perspective

For Teachers 1st - 8th
Help learners write a creative story from the viewpoint of a shoe. The teacher brings a variety of different types of shoes to the classroom and each person chooses one. They then write a story from the point of view of the shoe,...
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My Favorite Story

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students discuss their favorite book. In this book discussion lesson, students name the title and tell what makes the book special. Students also review the setting, plot, conflict, and resolution. Students make a book that tells all of...
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Career Education for Early Elementary Grades

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
It's never too early to connect children with the real world meaning of their work. A series of four one-hour sessions, plus a field trip, make up this unit on college and career readiness for first and second graders. After viewing a...
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Bookmaking

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students make and assemble parts of a book, read and respond to classmates' work, read aloud from their own book of poetry. They use the writing process and written language skills, participation in fine arts experiences, appropriate and...
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Extra! Extra! Hear All About It!

For Teachers Pre-K - 5th
Students summarize their weekly class activities by writing a newsletter.  In this journalism instructional activity, students create a multimedia presentation for their parents based on the classroom events that took place during the...
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Pizza Muffins & Podcasting

For Teachers K - 6th
Students investigate life skills by participating in a voice recording activity. In this baking instructional activity, students identify the ingredients needed to create pizza menu items and the steps which should be taken to bake them....
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Where in the World is Flat Stanley?

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders analyze the proper form of a friendly letter and send flat Stanley letters all over the United States. For this letter writing lesson, 2nd graders read the book Flat Stanley by Jeff Brown and create their own Flat...
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Cryptid Zoo

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore cryptids.  For this story writing and technology lesson, students define "cryptid," write a short script, and draw an illustration for an imaginary animal character. Students read their script aloud into a microphone and...
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Anty-Bodies

For Teachers K - 2nd
Learners compare and contrast likenesses and differences to others by creating a life-size picture of themselves. In this character building lesson, students dictate a sentence about comments on sharing and display them with their...
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Newsmakers

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students create a newsletter that tells others about themselves and their family. They use publishing software to create their newsletters.
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The All About Me Poster

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students write about themselves and create a poster to illustrate who they are.
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Defining Technology

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students explore technology by completing word processing assignments in class. In this software activity, students utilize the software KidPix and familiarize themselves with the options, techniques and content the program offers....

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