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Poetry With the Sages
Students write poems and input them into a word processing program. In this poetry lesson, students listen to Chinese poems and draw mental images. Students compose poems and illustrate them. Students share their work.
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Techno Letters
Young scholars explore the alphabet by completing a computer activity. In this letter identification lesson, students utilize Kid Pix to create artwork based upon each letter of the alphabet. Young scholars utilize drawings,...
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Combining Technology with Literature
Students develop a picture using the computer with an education computer program. In this technology lesson plan, students draw a picture on the computer based on a book that they have read.
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Geographical Features
Fourth graders explore geographical features through the creation and construction of an original island. In small groups they write a description and draw a blueprint of their island using a draw/paint computer program, and using...
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Portrait Drawing
Eighth graders, in a computer lab, transform their images into a full face using the paint & draw tools.
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Native American Storytelling
Eleventh graders examine the background of Native American myths and legends. In this American History lesson, 11th graders read a myth out loud to their classmates. Students compare and contrast their myths with other...
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Art and Technology - Design - Alexander Calder
Students gain an awareness for the work of Alexander Calder, study a variety of utilitarian objects and discuss their purposes, and create graphic of a utilitarian piece using computer graphic software.
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Life Cycles
Using computers, Students work in small groups and progress through the roles of Explorer, Researcher, Designer, and Evaluator as they study the life cycle of plants, insects, butterflies and frogs.
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What Type of Community?
Students compare and contrast suburban, rural and urban communities. They read books such as The Little Red Hen and identify the type of community in each book. Using computer software, they write about each type of community and...
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Symmetrical Shapes
Students find symmertical shapes around their school. In this symmetry lesson, students create symmetrical shapes. Students print symmetrical shapes from Kidworks Deluxe and take pictures of objects around their school that are symmetrical.
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Computer Aided Cubism
Students engage in a study of the artistic style of cubism with the integration of technology to aid them create a unique work of art. They are shown the works of Picasso and Braque in order to serve as examples to create a context.
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Communication-Do You Hear What I See?
Learners role play as flight controllers and astronauts, and attempt to replicate drawings using a draw/paint software program such as Microsoft Paint. Through this experiment, students study how hard it is to communicate clearly with...
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Van Gogh Self-Portrait
Students explore using digital cameras to take their own photograph and then download them to the school's Dell computers. They then utilize the Tool Factory Workshop program to manipulate the photograph to only a few basic colors and...
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Exploring Plants
Students examine plants using adiotapes, Internet research, and print media. They name the plant parts and discover their functions. Students create computer-generated pictures of their plants and label the parts. Other activities...
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Introduction to Photoshop - Appropriated Portraits
Fourth graders hone their computer skills through practice with Adobe Photoshop. They choose a famous portrait painting, working on seamless integration of their own face into the picture. They work on the skills of using filters,...
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Monochromatic Self Portraits
Students use a photograph of themselves and the photoshop computer program to create a posterized portrait showing mood and feelings through color. Students then paint their portrait using a mix of warm and cool colors.
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Bringing Surrealism into the Digital Realm
High schoolers write a three page article on two famous surrealist artist of their times. Then, they compare and contrast their similarities and document in the article website references used on footnotes. Students also use...
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Beyond The Earth Part I
Learners explore the solar system. In this space science lesson, students take notes on the solar system provided by their instructors. Learners then collaborate to design a computer-generated drawing of the solar system.
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Excel Turns Data Into Information
Students use excel to analyze data. In this technology lesson, students enter data into the excel program to find averages and organize data.
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It Looked Like Spilt Milk
Class rereads book It Looked Like Spilt Milk and reviews what a good sentence looks like. They look at websites which contain cloud pictures and then use their imagination and draw on the computer their cloud pictures.
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Vocabulary Review
In this sentence building worksheet, students practice sentence completion skills. Students finish eight sentences by inserting the correct vocabulary word or phrase into the sentence.
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Complete the Sentences 1: Intermediate Level
In this complete the sentence worksheet, students read 10 sentences and select the appropriate sight words to complete each of the sentences.
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Gerunds and Infinitives 2
In this online interactive grammar skills worksheet, students answer 10 fill in the blank questions regarding the use of gerunds and infinitives. Students may submit their answers to be scored.