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Digital Literary Portfolio

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Scholars choose between a variety of digital media in order to present literary concepts from To Kill a Mockingbird. Technology-heavy, the lesson requires that your class has computers, Microsoft Office Suite, and other devices such as...
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Portable Art Portfolio

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students create an electronic art portfolio. In this visual arts lesson, students use a pen drive and save a digital image of the projects they made in art class. Students view a Powerpoint presentation at the end of the year of their...
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Digital Portfolio

For Teachers 10th - 12th
In need of a good way to asses the work your art class has been working on all quarter? This quick-and-easy idea has young artists take digital photographs of each of their art pieces in order to create a digital portfolio. This is...
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Group Rotation Digital Pictures

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders enhance digital photographs. They modify and combine the images to design composite images using Adobe Photoshop. They complete projects in their technology rotation and answer associated questions about the process of...
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The Digital Cat-A Purrfect Solution!

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students explore anatomy through digital photography. In this digital art lesson plan, students create a portfolio of various animals and label the structures of each.
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Great Online Art Sites

For Teachers K - 8th
Young scholars complete an online study of art websites. In this art and technology lesson plan, students explore the links and try the activities to learn about art online.
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Andy Warhol/Digital Self-Portraits

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers research the life and art of Andy Warhol and create a digitally manipulated photographic self-portrait. Students conclude the assignment by writing a poem to describe the point-of-view taken in their digital photo.
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Digital Portfolios

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students determine how to use a digital camera, edit the photos using PhotoShop Elements, and how to make a PowerPoint presentation. They use the PowerPoint as a digital portfolio which is an archive of their work. Finally, they write a...
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Digital Storytelling

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students write a personal narrative and convert the story into digital format. In this digital storytelling lesson, students write a personal narrative, record the story, create images for the story, add animations or transitions, and...
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Hero Holiday and Portfolio Completed

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars summarize the unit on heroes and present picture books to younger students.  In this hero activity, young scholars compile their portfolios, in which they have presented heroic characteristics of their own...
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Creating Children's Books

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students collaborate to create a children's book. In this visual arts instructional activity, student study the components and procedures that go into making a children's book including the shape, size. layout, biographical information...
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Communication Technology

For Teachers 9th
While working in groups, learners refine the negative prints, floppy disks, and photographs they've been working on. They rotate to different stations on paper cutting, airbrushing, and computers. Special attention is placed on the...
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Out and About-Creating Design

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students demonstrate the elements of design by creating a digital photography portfolio of photos taken in and arond the scool. The edit photos using Photoshope to emphasize the element of desing in each phot.
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Novel Creation

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students create an alternate ending with digital animations to illustrate their text.  In this novel creation lesson, students read a novel and analyze the plot in small groups.  Students collaborate on an alternate ending...
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How To KidPix II

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students practice using KidPix to create illustrations. In this visual arts lesson, students define key vocabulary words, such as "palette" and "toolbar" to familiarize themselves with the KidPix program. Students create...
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How to Web 2.0 Accessorize Your Classroom

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Become a digital citizen. Follow the scripted directions of this resource to create a technologically integrated webpage for your classroom. Class members learn how to create a class blog, an Internet start page, a classroom wiki, and...
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Community Connections

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders with a number of disabilities visit people and places in their community while using digital cameras to record their visits. They take digital pictures which they include in books, posters, and other publications which...
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All About Me

For Teachers K - 4th
Learners produce a slide show documentary designed to help them recognize their individuality, respect each other's differences, and discover what makes them unique. They examine the concept of digital portfolios. It is designed to...
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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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Tolerance Through My Eyes

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore multiculturalism. In this visual arts lesson, students consider how visual arts may provide service opportunities and create artistic pieces inspired by service.
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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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The Scoop Through Desktop Publication

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Drafting, revising, and editing is all apart of the publishing process. Using a series of documents as inspiration, young journalists compose a class Newspaper. They work independently and in groups to publish their own articles.
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Communication Technology

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders, after several demonstrations as well as working in groups, create a four-fold greeting card with Coral Draw after examining three thumbnail sketches and a rough layout.
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Communication Technology

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders, working in groups, explore/examine/produce an Airbrush Video in group rotation. In addition, they describe the various stages of their end product, the creation of their Airbrush Video.