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Black, White and Digitized All Over

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students examine the pros and cons of getting news from print newspapers and from their online counterparts, compare and contrast a printed newspaper with its online version, and then compose letters to editors of print and online...
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Computers In Our School

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students tour the school to find out where computers are being used. In groups students use a digital camera to take pictures of people on campus using computers. The students interview the people they take pictures of and then post the...
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Edward Hopper's House by the Railroad: From Painting to Poem

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students analyze Edward Hopper's painting and Hirsch's poem to explore the types of emotion generated by each work. In this literary and art analysis lesson, students discuss how Hopper establishes tone and analyze Hirsch's use of...
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Creating Scrolls Based on the illustrated TALE OF GENJI

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Young scholars identify formal elements that characterize the scroll, work in a variety of media, from traditional to digital, to create their own scrolls, work into digital printout with at least two media, and engage in meaningful...
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An Encyclo-ME-dia for Every Child

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students create a digital scrapbook that shows information-text and pictures that are specific to each child. They make charts and graphs. They use digital cameras, scanners, software, to write captions, stories, poems, letters, and...
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Celebration of Cultures

For Teachers K - 5th
Students create a multimedia project to represent their own culture and personal identity. They design a personal Coat of Arms using a computer graphics program and digital camera, write a script and film an interview, and contribute a...
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Mosaics of Cyprus

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students create digital mosaics. In this visual arts lesson, students discover the attributes and history of mosaics in a teacher-led discussion. Students use an educational program to make their own digital mosaics.
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I Am a Person on Character

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders explore the portrayal of males and females in mass media. In this language arts lesson, 6th graders create a digital collage and write a description about themselves using similes and metaphors.
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What's the Difference?

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explore the differences between acoustic and digital pianos. For this music lesson, students listen to an acoustic piano and digital piano. Students play both types of pianos and discuss the differences.
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Torn Paper Collage Portrait

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students watch demonstrations on how to create a collage out of different materials. Using town paper, they create their self-portrait and view art by Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein. To end the lesson plan, they discuss a career in...
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Pysanky: Not Just a Pretty Egg

For Teachers K - 6th
Students examine the art of Pysanky. Using the Internet, they identify the cultural similarities and differences between the United States and the Ukraine. Using Pysanky's art, they discover the symbolism he used in his artwork and...
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Mother's Day Flowers

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Learners complete a circle map describing why they love their mom and use a flower template to type the ways. Then they insert a digital picture into the center of the flower. The flowers are then printed out and given to their mothers...
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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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SKYPE Pals

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students use the program SKYPE to speak to a pal in a Latin American country and describe their life and compare and contrast it to the other's. In this SKYPE lesson plan, students create digital presentations about life in North...
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We're Going to the Zoo!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars write and publish a poem as part of a class poetry collection after analyzing the poetic structures of haiku, limericks, sound poems and free verse. After viewing a multimedia demonstration of the poetic structures, and...
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PowerPoint Presentation of Fudge Comic Strips

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders create comic strips for presentation to the class. They make drawings, record them digitally, transfer them to a KidPix program and then arrange them in a PowerPoint presentation in a comic strip format.
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Promoting Reading Posters

For Teachers 10th - Higher Ed
Students create a series of large posters to encourage reading on the campus. In this reading posters lesson, students use a camera to take pictures of students reading in order to promote reading on their campus. Students use digital...
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A Different Perspective

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students participate in a show called "A Different Perspective" that recognizes previously unnoticed talents of wheelchair bound kids. They assess how to attach an Olympus digital camera to their wheelchairs and take pictures from their...
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Book Making

For Teachers K - 8th
Students make connections with real life experiences and the two languages, including Spanish and English. They create their own books in this project lesson plan to take home and read with their families. Students also use a digital...
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Pride in Diversity - Our Similarities and Differences Make Us Strong

For Teachers K - 8th
Learners find similarities and differences between themselves and a partner using a digital photograph to illustrate them. They use Multimedia Lab to create a multi-grade interactive multimedia presentation using the digital photos,...
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Our Town

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Young scholars discover what makes a community run smoothly by reading signs and visiting various places in their community. In this social studies lesson plan, small groups of students take photographs of community signs and places and...
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What's so Special about SFX?

For Teachers K - Higher Ed
Young scholars work individually or in small groups to design a series of special effects images. They use image editing software to explore how visual information is interpreted and manipulated digitally. Students create new, blank...
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Picture This in Your Community

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students participate in learning proper interview techniques to interview people in our community. They engage in this project in order to develop interviewing skills, to develop a better understanding of various jobs in our community...
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Language and Literacy Support through Photography

For Teachers K - 8th
Students experience creating realia with digital photos to increase their vocabularies. They practice creating meaningful digital photo books that the students can take home and read with their families. Each student interacts with a...

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