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Native American Cultures
Young scholars investigate the Native American Heritage and explore their customs cultures. They discover characteristics of the Native Americans through the study of their art, artifacts, stories and symbols.
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Dr. Teeth and Dr. Gums To The Rescue
Second graders role play as dentists researching teeth and their care. They create a slide show showing how a character, Bear, can take care of this teeth explaining habitats, diets and teeth.
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Mysterious Creatures
Learners create drawings of animals. The project is research based and teaches learners how to use encyclopedias. The focus is upon finding useful illustrations. The fun of the instructional activity is displaying student work for...
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Alien Story:
Students choose 10 aliens (or any character) from the alien palette in Kidspiration. Have students write what the aliens are saying to each other in the text boxes. Use the listen tool to actually hear them talk to each other.
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Children, Children, What Did You See?
Students listen to a read aloud of Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? They write a story based on naming and drawing things they saw when they visited the Black Bayou Lake refuge.
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Texture Scavenger Hunt
Students work together to complete a scavenger hunt searching for objects with different textures. After finding the object, they make full page rubbings of each and later make a complete drawing of the item. They collect all of their...
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Charlotte's Web Venn Diagram
Students, together as a class, construct a Venn diagram of characteristics they see in two classmates. Then, they independently create another Venn diagram comparing/contrasting two characters from the story Charlotte's Web. They share...
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Hidden Collages
Students work together to decide on a theme for their "Where's Waldo" type of puzzle. Using magazines, they collect pictures of the animal, toy or object which is the focus of their puzzle and paste them onto a paper backing. They send...
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Our Little Town
Students draw a map of their local community using a drawing program. Using the internet, they locate various landmarks and identify famous people living or coming from their town. They participate in interviews with the community...
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Egg Hatching into Sequencing
Pupils create an egg. In this language arts instructional activity, students create an egg and then take photographs as the egg is being hatched. Pupils write about the sequence of the hatching.
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Flickr of Idea on a Gaming Project Led to Photo Website
Students explore the concept of technology. In this technology lesson, students read an article about the creator of Flickr. Students discuss how Flickr grabs the attention of its audience. Students describe a technology that they think...
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Write to Read
Middle schoolers discover how to write to improve their reading skills. In groups, they take pictures of a variety of school events and compile them into a PowerPoint presentation. To end the lesson, they add a narration to the slides...
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Literacy through Photography
Pupils photograph scenes from their lives and use the images to become a catalyst for related writing exercises. They explore the themes such as self portrait, family, community, visual storytelling, and dreams to encourage them to find...
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Diazo Prints and Technology
Fifth graders watch a demonstration and then they make photographic prints using Diazo paper and ammonia. They photograph the demo, compile the pictures, and add text to make a PowerPoint presentation of the original demonstration.
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Transforming Negatives to Positives
Students create double-exposed photographs, poetry, and multimedia presentations to celebrate their Open Court "City Wildlife" unit.
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Revolutionary Idea
Students take a field trip to watch a reenactment of the Revolutionary War. In groups, they participate in the same daily chores as the soldiers and examine the contributions of the colonies. To end the lesson, they eat a typical...
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Communication -- Part Two
Students practice on becoming an effective listener and speaking clearly. They experiment with one another in which only one student of a pair can speak.
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Preserving History for Illuminating Today's Values and Traditions
Young scholars use the processes of oral history and the latest technology to engage in historical inquiry and the preservation of the past. The work in cooperative groups or individually to discover and capture the past by interviewing...
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Introduction of Primary Sources
Students will use the internet to access information about artifacts to justify their use as primary sources of information. The activities can be done as a whole class or in groups. The differences between primary and secondary sources...
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Photographs as an Artist's Tool
Students learn about Eakins use of photography as a tool for painting. They apply use of photography in their own painting or drawing. They incorporate time of day, composition and positioning of human subject in their own painting or...
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Beginning Sounds-What sound does each picture begin with?
Students view a multimedia presentation to identify beginning sounds. In this phonics lesson plan, students recognize beginning sounds. Students navigate a website for addition phonics sounds.
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Effective Photojournalism
High schoolers determine what makes a quality photo and take and edit appropriate photos that relate to their assigned articles. They select good pictures for their publication.
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Zooming In!
Young scholars observe an area of the schoolground, choosing a particular viewpoint or line of vision. At various times, students take photographs and videos of the observed area. Young scholars write a news article based upon their...
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Exploring Heroism
Students research heroism online. In this heroism lesson plan, students use the documentary of Heroes of Ground Zero to explore the theme of heroism. Students complete five days of activities to research and participate in activities...