Following the traditional form of the haiku, students publish their own haikus using Animoto, an online web tool to produce slideshows that blend text and music.
Animate that Haiku!
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Glogging About Natural Disasters
5 - 8
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| Standard Lesson
After researching various natural disasters, students share their findings with each other using glogs, or through poster presentations.
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Book Report Alternative: Glog That Book!
5 - 8
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| Standard Lesson
In this alternative book report, students identify the elements of fiction in books they have read by creating glogs, interactive multimedia posters, and then share their glogs.
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Digitally Telling the Story of Greek Figures
5 - 8
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| Standard Lesson
In this lesson students research Greek gods, heroes, and creatures and then share their findings through digital storytelling.
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Huge Mistakes that Led to Catastrophe: Learning about Human-made Disasters throughout History
5 - 8
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| Standard Lesson
After researching various human-made disasters such as the BP oil spill, the sinking of the Titanic, and the Great Chicago Fire, students share their research in oral presentations. Then students pair up to compare and contrast their disasters using the Venn Diagram Student Interactive or the Venn diagram Mobile App.
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Picture This: Using Instagram to Report
4 - 8
Lesson Plan
| Standard Lesson
After taking a field trip that students document using mobile app Instagram, students become new reporters as they use the interactive Printing Press to tell about their experiences.
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Learning about Clouds with Haikus
4 - 6
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| Standard Lesson
Using a mobile app or Interactive activity, students write haikus describing various types of clouds that they have studied.
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Website Planning in a Bilingual Classroom
3 - 5
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| Standard Lesson
Students complete a family survey and plan a website to share the responses, increasing their understanding and appreciation of their own families and cultures, and their classmates as well.
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Thoughtful Threads: Sparking Rich Online Discussions
5 - 12
Lesson Plan
| Standard Lesson
Today's students love chatting online with friends. This lesson combines that love with literature. Students form literature circles and have meaningful online discussions about a literary work.
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A Musical Prompt: Postcards From the Concert
3 - 5
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| Standard Lesson
Students won't miss a beat in this musical lesson that combines listening with personal response on a postcard.
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Vote for Me! Developing, Writing, and Evaluating Persuasive Speeches
4 - 5
Lesson Plan
| Standard Lesson
This lesson encourages students in grades 4 and 5 to think critically and write persuasively by focusing on preparing, presenting, and evaluating mock campaign speeches.
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Thundering Tall Tales: Using Read-Aloud as a Springboard to Writing
3 - 5
Lesson Plan
| Standard Lesson
Imagination and application are key to this tall tale lesson in which students take what they know about tall tales to spin a yarn of their own.
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Blogging in the Primary Grades? Yes, Indeed!
2 - 5
Lesson Plan
| Standard Lesson
Give students an authentic reason to read and write by researching blogs written by their peers around the world and then writing their own.
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e-Book Reading and Response: Innovative Ways to Engage with Texts
5 - 12
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| Standard Lesson
Students in grades 5 through 12 read and respond to electronic books by using e-book tools and features, including digital note-taking capabilities.
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Skimming and Scanning: Using Riddles to Practice Fact Finding Online
3 - 5
Lesson Plan
| Standard Lesson
Students will learn to skim and scan to make sure they don't flounder when they're surfing the Internet for facts to help them complete riddles about the United States.
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Alaska Native Stories: Using Narrative to Introduce Expository Text
3 - 5
Lesson Plan
| Standard Lesson
Tradition and technology come together in this lesson in which students learn about Alaskan animals through Native American tales and their own online research.
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Multimedia Responses to Content Area Topics Using Fact-"Faction"-Fiction
3 - 5
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| Standard Lesson
Students climb into the mind of a spider in this lesson that asks them to compose a spider diary using spider facts, fiction, and "faction"fiction that sounds like fact.
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Exploring World Cultures Through Folk Tales
3 - 5
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| Standard Lesson
Journey around the world with students as they read a Japanese, African, or Welsh folk tale, create a visual depiction of the tale, research the tale's culture, and present findings.
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Sharing Favorite Books Using Interactive Character Trading Cards
3 - 5
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| Standard Lesson
Using selected characters from a text of their choice, students put their literary analysis skills to work by creating fictional character trading cards.
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A Race With Grace: Sports Poetry in Motion
3 - 5
Lesson Plan
| Standard Lesson
In this lesson, athletics, aesthetics, and poetics intersect in new ways as developing literacy learners experiment together with the forms of language.