Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Skillful Slideshows
During this technology-based lesson, students learn how to create slideshow presentations that are creative and inviting to the audience. They use fonts, graphics, effects, etc, to capture audience attention.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Leaders of Our School
For 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.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Exploring Customs and Cultures Part 2
Learners meet both language arts and social studies objectives in this interdisciplinary unit on customs and cultures. In part 1 of the unit students practice research and writing skills to create a slideshow. In part 2 of the unit...
Discovery Education
Discovery Education: Tour of South America
Familiarize your students with South America by having them create a slideshow of a "Tour of South America" that focuses on its culture, geography, and history. This will help the students learn more about South America's people and places.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Memory Preservation One Relative at a Time
After organizing and conducting an interview of a grandparent/senior citizen, students create a slideshow presentation using the information and memorabilia collected at the interview.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: The Big Dropper the Life Cycle of a Raindrop
Students will research the Internet, Alabama Virtual Library, online and printed encyclopedias, and other reference material to gather information on the water cycle. Students will then use the gathered data to create a slideshow...
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Alex: Researching Mark Twain's Early Life and Experiences
This lesson requires students to use the Internet to research the early life of Mark Twain and the influence of his childhood experiences on his writing. The lesson includes letter writing, reading, role playing, and working in a group...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Movie Madness
This language arts projects motivates learners through being a movie-based project. This instructional activity will have a duration of five days. The students will view a movie of their choice and analyze the movie to complete a chart...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: The Challenges of the Great Plains Farmer
Young scholars will work in groups of four to create presentations using their research on a particular farming invention that was created from (1837-1867) and also research specific elements about life on the Great Plains. Each group's...
PBS
Pbs News Hour: Water Recycling
PBS and the Online NewsHour have created this multimedia website about water recycling. You can see how this process is different than other waste water treatments by reading interviews, watching a slideshow or investigating a map of...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Pickle Ball
Lesson plan where students first learn about pickle-ball through a provided slideshow presentation. Next, students create a newsletter about the sport. Meanwhile, students will learn how to play pickle-ball and end with a singles and...
Common Sense Media
Common Sense Media: Keeping Games Fun and Friendly
Social interaction is part of what makes online gaming so popular and engaging for kids. But online communication can come with some risks. This lesson helps students understand how to keep their gaming experiences fun, healthy, and...
National Pest Managment Association
Pest World for Kids: Report Writing
Do you need to write a paper for your Science class? Want to create a public service announcement to broadcast during your school's morning announcements? Or, do you need to make a digital slideshow for a small group project? If so,...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: All About Us: Writing and Presenting Poetry
In this lesson students write a poem about their class and classmates. Students then transfer their poems to individual presentation slides which are combined with their classmates' slides to create a class slideshow presentation. This...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Now and Then and Back Again: Study of Transportation
By using a slideshow presentation and a Conestoga wagon project, students will experience different ways people have conquered the human and social need for transportation in America. Students will begin by studying ancient and Native...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Digital Autobiography
In this lesson plan, students will create original poetry and prose and will assemble a written autobiographical booklet in a middle school language arts class. After all poetry and prose are written, students will create a digital...
Other
Tagxedo
Tagxedo is a tool for making word clouds for visual displays and graphic use. Students insert a piece of text and the words are laid out to form a shape. A Tagxedo can also be created by pulling text in from a website, Twitter handle,...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Grammar and Literature Through Digital Storytelling
In this lesson students create digital stories in cooperative groups using multimedia tools to demonstrate comprehension of the elements of grammar, literature, and technology introduced in the lesson. Students become actively involved...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: At Home in a Biome
This lesson allows students to study and learn the names and characteristics of Earth's six major biomes. The biomes are introduced with a slideshow presentation. A paper-folding poster activity gives students the opportunity to...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Our African American Heroes
Students will create a short digital slideshow presentation and brochure on a famous black American.
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Alex: Narrative Writing: The Autobiographical Incident
After organizing their thoughts using a graphic organizer, students write a narrative essay which relates an autobiographical incident. Students present their essays in a slideshow which allows their classmates to practice predicting an...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Weapons of World War I
The middle schoolers will use the Internet and the school's media center to discover the weapons of World War I. They will compare and contrast the weapons used during that time period with the weapons that are used in warfare today. At...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Who's Who on Olympus and Why Should I Care?
References to mythology extend far beyond the basic exploration of a genre. This unit will serve as an exploration of the creation myth across cultures, an introduction to the major Greek gods and goddesses, and an opportunity to link...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: This Business Called Learning: Advertising
After analyzing the techniques of propaganda in commercial advertising, middle schoolers work in cooperative "business" groups to create an advertising campaign for a new product called Giggle Gum. Campaigns include a press release,...