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Pride in Diversity - Our Similarities and Differences Make Us Strong

For Teachers K - 8th
Students 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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Job Transition -- The Great Adventure

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers review how to use a digital camera. Individually, they document their work related experience and gathering new skills by taking pictures. To end the instructional activity, they put the photographs into a portfolio to...
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Idiom Ideographs

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars explore idioms. They divide into groups of three. Each group is given an idiom and three sentence clues. They discuss the meaing of their assigned idiom. Students create a new sentence using their idiom and dramatize the...
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Rag Coat Lesson Plan

For Teachers K - 6th
Young scholars discover ways to help those in need within their community. In this early childhood lesson plan, students gather clothing donations for use in a fundraiser for their community shelter. Young scholars also create posters...
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The Brooklyn Museum of Art Newspaper

For Teachers 8th - 11th
Students create newspapers. In this technology skills lesson, students create a newspaper layout using a word processor program. The newspaper features stories regarding the Brooklyn Museum of Art.
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Listening to Learn: Podcasting as an Assessment Tool

For Teachers Pre-K - 12th
Students use podcasting and iPods to take tests rather than reading. In this podcasting lesson plan, students learn how to use a podcast rather than have a test read to them.
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Cave Art

For Teachers K - 12th
Students explore cave art. In this Neolithic Age lesson, students get into groups and research a given topic. Students create a poster with information and visual aids. Students then look a pictures and watch a DVD about artifacts...
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Community Words

For Teachers K - 2nd
Learners participate in a community walk. In this communities lesson, students use a digital camera to take photos during a community walk. Learners take photos of store signs and street signs. Students design a poster with their pictures.
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Smart Board Literacy Center

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students practice spelling their names.  For this technology and early emergent literacy lesson, students locate the letters in their name among a cluster of letters on the Smart board, then click and drag each letter to the other...
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Cultural Celebrations

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students create a presentation for their assigned country. In this cultural diversity lesson, students use a WebQuest to research a country. In groups, they decide upon a way to present the information they have learned. Students create...
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Silly Sally

For Teachers K - 1st
Pupils examine character traits. In this literary elements lesson, students read 2 short stories paying special attention to the actions and descriptions of the characters. Pupils add themselves as characters in the story.
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Our Town

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students discover what makes a community run smoothly by reading signs and visiting various places in their community. In this social studies lesson, small groups of students take photographs of community signs and places and then ask...
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Math All Around Us!

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Students walk around their neighborhood and school to find objects that remind them of a math concept or vocabulary term. In this real world math lesson, students find math concepts in various familiar locations and take pictures of...
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P & P "Portraits and Perspective" Digital Photography for Kids

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students use digital photography as a lesson plan on portraits and perspective. In this photography lesson plan, students explore their school grounds and take pictures using their cameras. Students' goal is to create architectural and...
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Exploring our World through Video

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Student develop their technology skills. In this video production lesson, students create a movie featuring their day-to-day lives. Students use flip video cameras to film the movie and use software editing programs to prepare it for...
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Biographical Time lines

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Young scholars create a time line. In this biography lesson, students define biography and autobiography and then read short examples of each. Young scholars create a time line using a read aloud.
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School Announcement Blog

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students become bloggers. In this technology instructional activity, students use video and image editing to add to an online school announcement blog that they maintain.
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River Reflections

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders create podcasts and video public service announcements. In this environmental advocacy lesson, 6th graders study the local watershed and become advocates for their local environment. In the process, they create podcasts and...
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How the Test Was Won

For Teachers 3rd - 11th
Students create 'Wanted' posters based around their state testing activities. In this state technology integration lesson, students take pictures of themselves in sepia tone in an Old West pose. Students write captions for the photos...
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What in the World..?!?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students photograph mystery images. In this observation skills lesson plan, students gather everyday objects and place them under a digital microscope. They magnify the image and take a photograph of it. The image is then displayed on...
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Adopt a Tree

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students adopt tress on their school campus for scientific observation purposes. In this tree science lesson, students adopt a tree at their school, observe the season changes for the tree, and create a PowerPoint presentation about the...
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The Food Pyramid

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders study the food pyramid and photograph food choices from their school to create a healthy meal guide. In this food choices lesson, 4th graders study the food pyramid, photograph healthy food choices at their cafeteria, and...
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"Geotown" Scrapbook

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students create a scrapbook. In this geometry instructional activity, students use digital cameras to take pictures of geometrical concepts. Students use the pictures to create a "Geotown" scrapbook.
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Invasion of the Germs: We Fight Back!

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Learners fight off germs. In this technology skills lesson, students create claymation videos with accompanying podcasts that educate others about the H1N1 virus and methods to fight germs.

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