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Making a Family Newsletter: Using a Word Template

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students create a one-page family newsletter about a selected person in their family. They bring in a photo or use a digital camera to take a picture of their selected family member, and use a newsletter template to write and publish...
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Let's Roll Robots!

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students write a story about robots. In this creative writing lesson, students read a story about robots, make their own robot, and write a story about their robot. In addition, the lesson plan suggests taking photos of the robots to add...
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Economics: Products of South Louisiana

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students explore the economy of Louisiana. In this economics lesson, students examine the roles of farmers, processors, and distributors in food production and consumption. Students use flip cameras to record how selected products are made.
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Where We Come From - A Culturally Responsive Writing Lesson

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students create a group poem. In this poetry lesson, students make a cultural poem titled "We Come From." They share their poems using the document camera and SMARTboard. 
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Reflecting On The Past, Looking Towaards The Future

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers engage in a lesson that is concerned with the formation of a multimedia presentation to create a documentary of a middle school. They take photographs with a digital camera and use computer software to create a school...
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Job Transition -- The Great Adventure

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students review how to use a digital camera. Individually, they document their work related experience and gathering new skills by taking pictures. To end the lesson, they put the photographs into a portfolio to show their progress in...
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I Am Special

For Teachers K
Students conclude and acknowledge that each person is unique and special. In this I Am Special lesson plan, students compare their digital photograph to pictures of people in magazines to determine likenesses/differences. They describe...
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Reflective Decoupage

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students decoupage a wooden item with pictures. In this visual arts activity, students take pictures and use a computer program to print them out. This activity includes all the steps needed to decoupage. 
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Essential to Autumn: Line, Shape, Color, Texture, Pattern, Rhythm, Emphasis, Movement, Balance, and Unity

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore the environment by learning about nature. In this art lesson, students go on a walk and find objects to help in creating a picture, or collage representing whatever season is being discussed. Students write similes or...
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I Have a Dream

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students use flip video cameras to film a speech about the 'I Have a Dream' speech. In this poetry and speech lesson, students listen to the speech from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Students memorize part of the speech.
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American History Digital Movie

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders create a video. In this historical presentation, 5th graders watch a video clip of a dramatization of a historical event in American History. Students discuss how this video was put together. Students divide into small...
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Dramatizing Your Story

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Pupils write a script, planning and recording improvisations based on personal experience and heritage, imagination, literature and history.
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Digital Portfolio

For Teachers K - 6th
Students work together using The Tool Factory Workshop to create memories for the entire school year. They (sixth graders) help the kindergarten with field day, grade level parties, local field trips, learning computer applications, and...
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Roman art- Triumphal Teacher

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders are introduced to the purpose and design elements of the triumphal arch. They utilize digital media (camera and computer) to create a triumphal arch design that highlights their " triumphs" in life. Students save their...
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Friendship Book

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students author friendship books. In this technology skills lesson, students take digital photographs of their friends and write about things they like to do with their friends to create friendship books.
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Digital Photography Project: My Special Place

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students read an except form, "The House on Mango Street" by Sandra Cisneros, as a prompt for a family discussion about the history of their name. They use this discussion to express their personality by creating a Power Point slide...
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Camera Investigations

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students listen to a read aloud, participate in word work and work with video clips at a website. They make a zoetrope to demonstrate animation.
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Language Arts: Creating Original Fiction

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders create fictional stories and demonstrate the use of various writing techniques. After selecting their main ideas, they find appropriate graphics to use as illustrations. In groups, 4th graders apply Hyperstudio in...
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To Be a Drum

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students use a scene from a book and make it come alive in movie clips.
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Concordia College Archives

History and Musical Aesthetics

For Teachers K - 12th Standards
What are the musical elements that characterize a school's fight song or its alma mater? Class members listen to examples of fight songs and alma maters from various schools, play a listening game, and then create a list of the...
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All About Me

For Teachers 4th - 9th
Using technology, learners create and deliver a multimedia autobiographical presentation to present to the class. This ambitious lesson has learners use a variety of sources both old and new; magazines, poster board, the Internet, and...
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J. Paul Getty Trust

Portraits That Capture Character

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
One of the great things about technology is that it lets youngsters visit museums that may be many miles away. With this resource, middle and high schoolers can visit the portrait galleries at J. Paul Getty Museum, located in Los...
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Picturing a Story: Photo Essay about a Community, Event or Issue

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
Picture this. Class members follow in the footsteps of W. Eugene Smith, Dorothea Lange, James Nachtwey, and Lewis Hine by creating their own photo essay about a local event or issue.
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Literature Through Silent Movies

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars watch Charlie Chaplin films and discuss film elements. They select a story written by Edgar Allen Poe to write and produce a movie of. They film scenes, edit, and create a final iMovie project.

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