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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Book Reviews, Annotation, and Web Technology
6 - 8
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Students work in groups to create annotated book reviews with links to topics of interest related to their book.
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Choose Your Own Adventure: A Hypertext Writing Experience
6 - 8
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Students analyze "choose your own adventure" stories and brainstorm to develop setting, characters, and plots for their own adventures stories and related Websites.
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Story Character Homepage
6 - 8
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Students analyze personal homepages, as well as a character in a book they have read, and then create a homepage for the character.
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Students as Creators: Exploring Multimedia
6 - 8
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Students are introduced to the genre of multimedia presentations through a review and analysis of online presentations. They then apply what they have learned to create their own multimedia presentations.
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Twenty-First Century Informational Literacy: Integrating Research Techniques and Technology
6 - 12
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Students develop their reading, writing, research, and technology skills using graphic novels. As a final activity, students create their own graphic novels using comic software.
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Tell and Show: Writing With Words and Video
6 - 8
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Writers and film buffs alike will sharpen their skills in this multimedia unit as they work together to author and design a digital video.
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Astronomy Poetry: Combining Poetry With the Content Areas
6 - 8
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Students' responses to this lesson will be out of this world after they've researched astronomy to write poetry and compile a poetry book.
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3-2-1 Vocabulary: Learning Filmmaking Vocabulary by Making Films
6 - 8
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Bring the vocabulary of film to life through the processes of filmmaking. Students learn terminology and techniques simultaneously as they plan, film, and edit a short video.
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When I Was Young In...A Literature to Language Experience
6 - 8
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Past meets present in this lesson in which students practice verb tense when they write personal short stories that they then publish in a flip book.
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Traveling the Road to Freedom Through Research and Historical Fiction
6 - 8
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Students learn how to walk a mile in someone else's shoes by reading historical fiction about the Underground Railroad.
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Crit Lit for Kids: From Critical Consciousness to Service Learning
6 - 8
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Students take their ideas from the classroom page to the community pavement when they participate in a service-learning project based on their multimedia presentations.
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Digital Reflections: Expressing Understanding of Content Through Photography
6 - 8
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Striking images can leave lasting impressions on viewers. In this lesson, students make textselfworld connections to a nature- or science-related topic as they collaboratively design a multimedia presentation.