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We Can Dance!

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore a variety of creative body movements and practice speaking the terms used to demonstrate the movements and shapes. The creation of a video provides an opportunity to learn the vocabulary and practice their speech.
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Living Yesterday's History Today

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students describe and contrast life as it was in colonial days. They plan, compose, and produce a student movie. They reflect on what they have learned. They share their experience with others in digital format.
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Historical Interview Project

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students practice effectively interviewing a subject and then use that interview to create a movie.
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The American Flag and the Pledge of Allegiance

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students create a movie from the material they have learned during the unit covering the American Flag and the Pledge of Allegiance.
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Rights and Responsibilities: Grass Born to Be Stepped On

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students research an event in history in which rights and responsibilities are involved. They create a movie of the information they find.
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An Immigrant's Journey

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students collect photos of immigrants coming to the United States. They write fictional journal entries for one of the photographs.
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I Served in the American Civil War

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students research soldier's lives in the American Civil War. They create a video about a soldier's life
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African Folktales

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Young scholars study the elements of folktales. They write, perform and produce their own African folktales using camcorders and movie software.
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Rap Your Way Through Integers

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Your resource or special education class will have fun with this interesting approach to learning about integers. They use rap, movement, and an interactive online game to reinforce the rules of integers. A well-rounded lesson that...
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Anti-Smoking Jingle or Rap

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students read information about tobacco and describe the problems associated with smoking. They work in groups to create a presentation to discourage teenagers from smoking. They present their songs to the class and digitally record...
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African Folktales

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students examine the art of storytelling. In groups, they write their own African folktales, design costumes, props and scenery, and videotape folktale presented in dramatic form.
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Multimedia Presentation on Roll of Thunder Hear Me Cry

For Teachers 6th - 8th
What a wonderful way to follow up on the reading of, Roll of Thunder Hear Me Cry! The lesson has pupils split up into small groups of two to four learners. Each group must work collaboratively to create a multimedia project that relates...
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Stories of the American Experience

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students interview a veteren of any of the major U.S. wars. They must identify one quote from the veteren that sums up their experience.
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Nature Poems

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students explore the visual, auditory, and verbal worlds offered by iLife applications to create a project that engages all learners and learning styles. They create a class book and CD of nature poems and artwork.
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Candles in the Dark

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers read about and research the Holocaust using the Internet. They write poetry about an image of their choice and create a digital movie of their poetry readings.
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Multimedia Storytelling

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
Experiment with multimedia storytelling. After watching a segment of American Family, first, middle and high schoolers tell a story about their families, clarifying the setting, characters, and script. They work on setting their story in...
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Digital Video Lesson Plan: Brine Shrimp

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students participate in classroom experiment to gain better understanding of type of environment brine shrimp can best survive. Students then explore effects of common saltwater pollutants on survival of animals in sea.
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Forces of Flight - Lift

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students design and test paper airplanes to understand the concept of lift and how it affects flight. This technology-based Science lesson is excellent for use with upper-elementary and middle-level learners and uses spreadsheet software...
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Roger Recycle

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students investigate the uses of aluminum and the importance of recycling. they then write a script and produce an informative and entertaining video about about aluminum recycling.
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Poetry in Depth

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Scholars use technology to explore poetry and its related elements, such as theme, figures of speech, and other literary devices. They complete four poetry projects including a poem analysis with a concept web, an interactive poem...
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Poetry In Motion

For Teachers 5th - 8th Standards
Explore poetry with your class by having them film themselves reading different types of poems. They explore different elements in all types of poetry. They choose images to accompany their poems and learn to create video presentations...
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Adoption Stories

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Although originally designed for young film makers who wanted to enter their videos in a contest, the step-by-step instructions included here would serve as a guide for any video project. Classes with no access to video editing software...
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Movie Books- Children's Stories

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students create movie books that make their stories come alive. They share these movie books with non-readers in an attempt to inspire them.
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Poetry Pals

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners create the components for a slideshow featuring their own poetry, illustrations, and music. This lesson uses auditory, visual and kinesthetic (signing and clapping) learning styles.

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