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A Living Alphabet

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students have a greater familiarity with the letters of the alphabet and use letters for other alphabet projects..
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Movie Books- Children's Stories

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students create movie books that make their stories come alive. They share these movie books with non-readers in an attempt to inspire them.
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iPoetry: Modern Interpretation of Classic Poetry

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners interpret a piece of poetry with images and music in a movie project.
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War Story Documentary

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers review research skills and determine an aspect of war to research. They research an aspect of a war experience and bring history to life through iMovie.
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War Story Documentary

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students research and create an aspect of a war. They practice on writing a bibliography and essays.
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Rights and Responsibilities in History

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students research rights and responsibilities in historic themes using primary source documents. They produce an iMovie including appropriate images and sounds.
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State Issues: The Native People of Hawaii

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students research issues about their state and community. They work in groups to create a multi-media presentation highlighting the issues.
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Poetry in Motion

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students choose a poetry theme. They write a poem, illustrate it with digital images and record it using a digital video camera.
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Feelings From A to Z

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders express and interpret information and ideas. They identify a variety of feelings and their effect on people. They explain how someone's actions can cause someone else to have a specific feeling.
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Our Pattern Book

For Teachers K
Students demonstrate their understanding of patterns and create patterns to share with others. Each student selects a different set of materials to create a pattern. Digital photographs are taken of each student and his or her pattern.
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Student Artist Screen Savers

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars collect and compile digital photographs in order to create a screensaver slide show that show the artist and their work.
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Feelings From A to Z

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders create a class A to Z Feelings book to explore emotions, discover new words, pose for a "feeling" icture, and write about the feeling.
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Rights and Responsibilities: Grass Born to Be Stepped On

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students use the Internet and other resources to research an aspect of history that illustrates rights and responsibilities, including historical events, issues and ideas, and the people involved.
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Past and Present

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students research their community history and choose on aspect to create an iMovie on. They use digital photographs and old images of community place that show how they have changed.
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Protest Music Video

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners create an iMovie that expresses the meaning of a protest song from the 1960's or 1970's. They investigate the emotional and political overtones of the times and use images to interpret the song's meaning.
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Poetry Pals

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students create the components for a slideshow featuring their own poetry, illustrations, and music. This activity uses auditory, visual and kinesthetic (signing and clapping) learning styles.
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Candles in the Dark

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students analyze and apply their personal responses through poetry and film to a challenging and disturbing event-the Holocaust. They use a digital video camera to film each student reading their poem.
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Creating an Animated Film

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers develop an understanding of the animation process by working collaboratively to create an animated film. This lesson suggests using digital cameras, iMovie, Photoshop, and GarageBand.
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Weather Forecast

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students forecast the weather. In this weather lesson, students are assigned a day to give the weather forecast. Students write a script and video their weather forecast.
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Alphabet Adventure Lesson Plan

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Pupils explore the alphabet. In this Alphabet Adventure lesson plan, students work with their prior knowledge of the alphabet to discuss different print and non-print sources.
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Oral Histories

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students investigate the theme of what it means to be American in a pluralistic society. They conduct oral histories with a family member and create a presentation of the interview. Students develop a better comprehension of their own...
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Writing Scripts For Math Podcast

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students create podcasts of student-created review questions using iPod, iTalk, iTunes, GarageBand, and Keynote. This lesson is intended for as a mathematics review but could be adapted to fit any subject across many different levels.
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Fraction and Decimal Review Podcast

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students create podcasts of information for reviewing fractions and decimals in this math-based creative project. The lesson uses GarageBand, iTunes, iTalk, and Keynote to accomplish tasks.
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An Immigrant's Journey

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students use books, resource CDs, and the Internet to research and collect images of the experiences of immigrants in 1907. They are divided into groups of four to write journal entries for a fictional, yet historically accurate, immigrant.