Curated OER
What Is It; Whose Is It; Where Did It Come From?
Pupils discover which elements are most threatening to outdoor sculptures. In groups, they determine the steps that are needed to preserve them. They locate and assess the condition of those sculptures in their local community. They...
Curated OER
Can You Dig It?
Students investigate a fossil site and diagram a site map. They role play as paleontologists.
Curated OER
Immigration to the United States
Students work together as a class to create a videotape examining their different family histories. They interview their families about their experiences immigrating to America. They draw illustrations of their family to be included on...
Curated OER
Lesson 9-Our Local Community
Second graders brainstorm and create a list of important features/characteristics that they would want to include in a community setting. They include physical features, economic activities, kinds of housing, etc. This lesson is a...
Curated OER
Marty and Me
Students read 'Marty and Me' by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor. They compare their lives with Marty's life, which in most cases, is very different. They find similarities and differences and create a montage. They include information about...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Ambiguous Pictures/abstract Art
In this lesson students will use art, writing, and technology to explore abstract art. Students will use digital cameras to take extreme close up shots of objects that will resemble abstract art.
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Alex: What Is It?
Technology is incorporated into this "riddle" lesson as students select an image to capture using a digital camera. This is a fun lesson designed to introduce students to the use of digital cameras. After editing the picture, they...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Soaring With Literary Elements and Devices
In this lesson, students will observe literary elements and devices in a variety of chapter books. Students will be paired with a partner and allowed to choose one book to identify literary elements. Using digital cameras and a computer,...
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Alex: On the Loose With Dr. Seuss
Students will survey teachers in order to find out the titles of their favorite Dr. Seuss books. They will work in small groups and use digital cameras to take pictures of each teacher and his/her favorite book.
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Alex: Getting to Know You
The students will go on an in-school scavenger hunt to get to know the many kinds of people that make up an elementary school community. They will work in small groups and use digital cameras to take pictures of the workers they find. By...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Leaders of Our School
In this lesson, students will interview administrators and faculty within the school in order to learn the importance of leadership and teamwork. Then students will create a slideshow using digital cameras and presentation software.
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Alex: Tech Tours Using Google Earth
Grab your passport and head around the world as K-2 students become reporters using Google Earth and podcasting to learn and share about maps, globes, people and places around the community, state and world. Tools featured include:...
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Alex: Photography: Past to Present
In the lesson, students will create and use a pinhole camera to take a picture and then develop the negative in a darkroom. They will use photo software to change their negative image into a positive one.
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Alex: Picturing Parts of Speech
For this lesson plan students use digital cameras to take pictures which illustrate various parts of speech, then insert the pictures into a digital slideshow presentation and write sentences about the pictures.
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Alex: Camp Add "Em Up Ii
At Camp Add 'Em Up it's time to or "2" find patterns in the environment. Students will work in pairs as they build understanding of how to count by 2's. Students will use digital cameras to capture "2's" in their classroom (2 shoes, 2...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Angles in the Mix
For this lesson, students explore straight, acute, and obtuse angles in artwork. Then students will use digital cameras to take pictures of objects in their environment that demonstrate these types of angles. Students will use these...
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Alex: Angle Scavenger Hunt
For this lesson, students will explore straight, right, acute, and obtuse angles. Students will go on a scavenger hunt throughout the school to search for examples of these types of angles. The students will use digital cameras to record...
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Alex: Machines All Around Us
Student will examine different rooms in the school looking for simple machines. They will use digital cameras to take pictures of the simple machine they have found in the school and Microsoft PowerPoint to create a presentation of their...
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Alex: What Are You Wearing?
Students will use a digital camera to take pictures that will be used to create a multimedia project that illustrates the appropriate and inappropriate dress code for a high school.
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Alex: That's the Story!
This is a fun lesson where the young scholars use thinksheets and digital cameras. The students take an "interesting" picture using the digital camera. After they have printed them they are given at random another student's picture. They...
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Alex: Fried Green Tomatoes & Cultural Crossroads
Having read Fannie Flagg's Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe, learners will conduct research through an interview with an elderly person from the community (a field trip to local nursing home facility) to determine the...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Html Personal Web Site
Students will create a personal Web site consisting of a home page and three additional pages. A variety of images will be used including images from digital cameras, scanners, and the Internet. The Web site must also include a theme,...
University of South Florida
No Strings Attached: Family Heritage
Students bring in an object from home that represents their family heritage. Students then use cameras and scanners to import their object into the computer. The lesson has the students complete a writing piece but you could expand into...
Utah Education Network
Uen: Discovering Ourselves in Literature and Life
This lesson plan, provided by the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE), encourages students to evaluate literature in a variety of multimedia formats and answer the question, "Who Am I?," Students are then asked to...