Students explore a range of resources on fair use and copyright then design their own audio public service announcements (PSAs), to be broadcast over the school's public address system.
Campaigning for Fair Use: Public Service Announcements on Copyright Awareness
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Inquiry on the Internet: Evaluating Web Pages for a Class Collection
6 - 8
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Students use Internet search engines and Web analysis checklists to evaluate online resources then write annotations that explain how and why the resources will be valuable to the class.
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Picture This: Student Created Online Vocabulary Flashcards
7 - 12
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| Standard Lesson
Let the students be the vocabulary experts! Prior to whole class instruction, students create online flashcards and teach the class the new vocabulary.
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Blending the Past with Today's Technology: Using Prezi to Prepare for Historical Fiction
6 - 10
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| Standard Lesson
To prepare for literature circles featuring historical novels, students research the decades of the 1930s to the 1990s and share their information using Prezi, a web application for creating multimedia presentations.
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Vote for Me! Making Presidential Commercials Using Avatars
6 - 12
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| Standard Lesson
After researching political platforms of past presidents through primary sources and other resources, students create commercials for these presidents using Voki, an online web tool that produces speaking avatars.
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Book Report Alternative: Getting Acquainted with Farcebook
7 - 12
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| Standard Lesson
In this alternative to the traditional book report, students report on their novel choices using Facebook-like pages.
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Animate that Haiku!
5 - 8
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| Standard Lesson
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.
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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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Sharing Information about Careers with Infographics
6 - 9
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| Standard Lesson
Students research careers of their own choosing. Then using Piktochart, students create their own infographics to illustrate their research.
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Highlighting Out-of-School Language Expertise with Pop Culture Dictionaries
6 - 12
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| Standard Lesson
Students compose dictionary entries for words and phrases from pop culture texts (e.g., television shows, movies, lyrics, YouTube videos), connecting their definitions to their personal use of the terms.
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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
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| 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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Summarizing with Haikus
6 - 12
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| Standard Lesson
Using the Haiku Poem App or the Haiku Poem Interactive, students summarize papers they have written using the traditional format of a haiku.
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Greetings from the Biomes of the World
6 - 8
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| Standard Lesson
To share their research on biomes, students use iPads to create postcards from all over the world.
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Getting Graphic with Alternative Energy Sources
7 - 12
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| Standard Lesson
After researching alternative sources of energy, students create online comic books to present their information.
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Trading Information about Minerals Through Trading Cards
6 - 8
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| Standard Lesson
Using the free Trading Cards Mobile App, students create trading cards to share properties of various minerals with their classmates and connect the use of minerals to their own lives.
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Poppin' Fun with Physical and Chemical Changes
6 - 9
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| Standard Lesson
Students will enjoy learning about physical and chemical changes as they turn their own photos into a narrated video using the iPad app SonicPics to illustrate (and eat) their results from a popcorn lab.
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Using Mobile Devices to Illustrate Literary Devices
6 - 8
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| Standard Lesson
Using mobile devices, students capture images to represent literary devices. Students then reflect on why their images depict the literary devices.