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Vocabulary Puzzle
Students create vocabulary puzzles using the computer. In this vocabulary puzzle activity, students create vocabulary puzzles using computer software. Students include synonyms of the words and illustrations. Students trade the finished...
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Listening to Learn: Podcasting as an Assessment Tool
Learners use podcasting and iPods to take tests rather than reading. In this podcasting lesson plan, students learn how to use a podcast rather than have a test read to them.
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Title: Digital Photo Storytelling on Five Senses, a project Based Learning Activity by Mary Gore
Students explore the 5 senses. In this technology skills lesson, students participate in digital storytelling workstations that feature each of the 5 senses. Students create digital cameras and digital voice recorders to explore their...
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Louisiana Cinquains
Students enhance their understanding of parts of speech by writing a cinquain poem about Louisiana. In this cinquain poem lesson, students read example cinquain poems and study the format for a cinquain poem. Students create a class poem...
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Christmas Around the World
Students 'travel' around the world gathering Christmas traditions. In this Christmas tradition instructional activity students sing songs, listen to stories and legends, and make crafts associated with different Christmas traditions...
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Local Heroes
Students discover the importance of physical fitness. In this personal health activity, students learn messages and receive demonstrations about good physical fitness practices, health messages, and safety tips.
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What Time is it?
Students participate in three centers focused on developing time-telling skills. For this time lesson, students create their own paper plate clock face, play "Time Concentration" using times on the hour and half hour, as well as,...
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You Can Do It: Creating How-To Videos
Students create instructional videos. in this video lesson, students choose a subject area and topic to make their own how-to video. They research this topic and film their video using a flip-camera.
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How Does Your Garden Grow?
Students discover gardening by documenting plants grown on school grounds. In this botany instructional activity, students utilize digital cameras to capture images of plants on photo hikes which are turned into a slide show....
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USA States Mini-book
Students create 6 slides about one state that they researched. In this state research lesson plan, students create their slides in PowerPoint and present it to the class.
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Read and Review
Pupils create presentations to discuss a book they've read using a video format. In this reading and speech lesson, students video tape a presentation about a book they've written a summary for. Pupils then produce an in-house morning...
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A Year to Remember
Students create calendars. In this technology skills lesson, students collaborate to prepare calendars that include special days of the year as well as digital photograph collages.
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Smart Board Literacy Center
Students practice spelling their names. In this technology and early emergent literacy lesson, students locate the letters in their name among a cluster of letters on the Smart board, then click and drag each letter to the other...
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Gingerbread Math
Students practice addition facts. In this addition lesson, students get an addition problem to solve. If they get it correct, they open up a door on a gingerbread house which gives a decoration to add to a gingerbread man.
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Silly Sally
Students examine character traits. In this literary elements lesson, students read 2 short stories paying special attention to the actions and descriptions of the characters. Students add themselves as characters in the story.
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Small Moments
Students select a personal photo for an experience to write about. In this personal experience lesson, students find a photo of themselves that contains a 'small moment.' Students write about the personal experience in the picture.
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Crater Lakes and the Volcanoes of the Cascade Mountains
Students study volcanoes. For this Earth science lesson plan, students read, discuss and take notes on the volcanoes of the Cascade Mountains. This lesson also includes an art project.
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Kids With Cameras Make a Difference
Students use cameras to take pictures of their community and create an exhibit to raise money. In this cameras lesson plan, students learn basic photography techniques and send their money to the "kids with cameras" project.
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Living / Non-living
First graders shoot photographs of living and non-living things. In this living and non-living organism lesson plan, 1st graders discuss the attributes of living things, take digital photographs of living and non-living things, and...
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Reader's Theatre for 1st Grade
First graders participate in reader's theatre. In this drama lesson, 1st graders choose a Scholastic play and use stick masks to perform the story. The students are videotaped and analyze their performance
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Reader's Theater with a Twist
Second graders create a Reader's Theater script. In this reader's theater lesson, 2nd graders create their own script of a story in groups. They make props and act them out on FlipVideo and voice thread.
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Stacy Bodin's "Digesting a Story" Unit
Second graders create a story and role-play the story using edible items to create a final story-video project. In this edible story lesson, 2nd graders write their own stories using literary format and elements. Students then create a...
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Family History
Students create photographic family histories. In this technology skills lesson, students create family trees with digital photographs that they take of the family members.
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The Fifty States
Students research to find information about the U.S. States. For this fifty states lesson, students choose a state to research and locate it on the map. Students research to find the population of that state and record by color coding on...