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Author Cards
Eighth graders create an informational card for a selected author. They read and analyze a book by their chosen author, conduct research about the author, and create an author card that includes a written critical response to the...
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Point Of View Poem
Students discuss a chapter from the book, The Phantom Toll Booth. They choose a common object and attempt to examine it from a different point of view. Using Kid Pix, students create a slide show for each line of their poem.
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Idioms/Figures Of Speech
Students are given a list of idioms by their teacher. Each student creates a Kid Pix document, chooses one of the idioms then uses the tools and stamps to portray their idiom. All of the student's creations go into a slide show.
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What are Quarters Made of?
Learners study the meaning, symbolism, and value of U.S. coins,
especially the quarter. They l research why in 1965 the U.S. Mint decided to
change the metal composition of the quarter to copper coated with zinc. In addition, they...
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Making E-Books in the Kindergarten Classroom
Students produce e-books using themselves and their physical surroundings to demonstrate content standards, such as number sense or color recognition. They provide evidence using a digital camera, props, and the presentation tool.
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Moving to the Frontier
Students explore the Frontier House website, examining the challenges of frontier settlement in the American West in the late 1800's. They develop budgets, and create displays based on their own research.
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Art Curators
Students use the Internet to select various works of art around a theme. They create a PowerPoint exhibit of these works and create the written documentation to accompany their presentation. They critique the class exhibits.
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Glorieta Battlefield
Young scholars examine how important combat was in Mississippi during the Civil War. They analyze the Battle of Glorieta Pass and soldiers movements and actions during the conflict. They also examine local war memorials.
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Five Senses-Introduction
Students explore the parts of the body that are used to develop the five senses. They conduct a nature walk. Students identify the things they see, hear, smell, and touch. They create a graphic organizer to organize their answers.
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Soaring Through Space With a Kid Pix Slide Show
First graders create a slide show on Kid Pix about space. For this space lesson plan, 1st graders will explore the earth, sun, moon, and planets. After exploring their motions and locations around the sun, they create a 4 page slide show...
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Spider Webs
Learners create spider webs. In this spider webs lesson, students research various types of spider webs then write a report about a spider of their choice. Learners also make their own web similar to an orb spider.
National Gallery of Art
National Gallery of Art: Paint Box
This isn't your typical paint program. Cool buttons let players vary brush stroke size, color, and transparency and then let them animate, or warp, their drawings.
Other
Danger Rangers: Danger Games: Paint!
Use your creative side while painting these Danger Rangers. Choose the Ranger you want to paint and then pick the colors from a variety of paint offered.
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Tux Paint
Install a simple to use paint program onto your classroom computers for FREE! You can read reviews of the product before downloading, see sample art products, and view video of how Tux Paint works.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Scientific American: Pet Tech: Animal Training
Research color awareness in animals. Design a set of experiments to determine if animals see colors by using a computer-based paint program to create specific color characteristics, based on their "gray values".
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Calimero
A great site that allows young students to play with the computer and create postcards, read jokes and other stories and print out the alphabet or table decorations to color manually or import into a paint program to color with the...