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Language Arts: Bringing Verbs to Life

For Teachers K Standards
Kindergarteners create action words collections to use in their own writing projects. After listening to several books, they select action verbs to dramatize and take digital photographs of their acting. Once the photos are printed, they...
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Vitamin D and Me

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students create a graphic organizer showing the importance of Vitamin D intake. In this Vitamin D lesson, Students list problems with Vitamin D deficiency and create poster boards in small groups. Individually, students will create menus...
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Illustration: Self Portrait in a Masterpiece

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Technology and art combine in a creative lesson. Kids discuss portrait art and they search online and save a portrait created by one of their favorite artists. They have their picture taken exactly like their chosen portrait, then...
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Graphics Integrates Fun

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Young scholars take digital pictures of themselves before using a stylus pen on to trace their facial features on a graphic pad. Using an Internet gallery of body drawings they complete a caricature of themselves. In two other...
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Creating a digital Self-Portrait

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders use a digital camera and take photographs of each other wearing a "costume" of their choice in front of a blue screen. They work cooperatively to complete the photographs by placing it into a background and setting...
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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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Language Arts: Creating Multimedia Reports

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders create multimedia presentations about their backgrounds and family heritage. They discover how to use the necessary computer skills and practice them in pairs. Students present their projects to the class and have a general...
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Digital Self Portraits

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students use digital cameras and computers to create their own self-portrait. After taking their picture, they download the image and use brush and shape tools, colors and the elements of design to create a distorted portrait of...
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Life Snapshots

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Learners create Inspiration webs using graphics or photographs that depict high and low points in their lives. This technology-based Language Arts lesson for the upper-elementary or middle-level classroom is excellent for improving...
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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 students. Each group must work collaboratively to create a multimedia project that relates...
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Click! Writing Through Digital Photography

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students take their own digital photographs and scan them onto the computer. For each photograph, they write about them and use the internet to research their subject in the photo more throughly. They are graded based on a rubric and...
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Digital Parts of Speech

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners investigate different parts of speech by creating digital skits. In this digital education lesson, students collaborate in groups to research the Internet for clips and music that represent the different parts of speech....
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Painting Botanicals by Computer

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students increase their computer graphics skills and trace and paint botanicals from digitals photographs they take of prairie plants using computer-aided artistic techniques.
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Advertising for Healthy Habits

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers create ads based on provided topic. In this digital art lesson, students role play as graphic designers working on a project for a client. They research about certain health issues and prepare a public poster about it.
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Elements of Art iMovie

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students are introduced to how to use the iMovie software. Individually, they write down their personal beliefs and feelings to use in their movie. To end the lesson, they use the elements of design to develop and create their movie to...
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ELA.CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.11-12.5

For Teachers 11th - 12th Standards
If you allow the space for your class members to be creative with technology as they make a presentation, they will make you proud with their inventiveness. The resource suggests an open research project for which pupils look up...
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Dear Peter Rabbit

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Write dear old Peter Rabbit a letter with this lesson. First, youngsters listen to the story Peter Rabbit and analyze the story elements. Then they complete a story map graphic organizer in order to write a letter to Peter...
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What's the Story

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students create a narrative story from an image taken by a classmate. Each student takes and downloads a digital picture containing some sort of interesting action. They print and exchange photographs without discussing the photos....
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Creative Color Wheel

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore graphic design by using color wheels to color images.  In this art analysis lesson, students utilize Adobe Photoshop to experiment with coloring old images and removing all color as well.  Students self...
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Illustrated Children's Books

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students create their own illustrated book. In this illustration lesson plan, students review books given the Caldecott award. They create their own illustrations for a book and digitally scan them to a computer to make their pages. 
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A Day in the Life

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students create a movie or slide show depicting a typical day at school through the eyes of a student. Students will use knowledge and experience to tell about events. Students will use multimedia to tell about events.
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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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Digital Picture Books

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders create digital picture books reflecting their experiences during the school year on field trips and various classroom activities. Using digital pictures taken during the year, they write captions for each picture and...
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Book Report Alternative

For Teachers 2nd - 8th
Young scholars create a video book report. In this literature lesson plan, students read a book independently and fill out a graphic organizer. Young scholars use a digital camera to record their book review.