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Campaigning for Fair Use: Public Service Announcements on Copyright Awareness
Grades
6 - 8
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Unit
Campaigning for Fair Use: Public Service Announcements on Copyright Awareness
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.
Book Reviews, Annotation, and Web Technology
Grades
6 - 8
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Lesson Plan
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Unit
Book Reviews, Annotation, and Web Technology
Students work in groups to create annotated book reviews with links to topics of interest related to their book.
Choose Your Own Adventure: A Hypertext Writing Experience
Grades
6 - 8
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Lesson Plan
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Unit
Choose Your Own Adventure: A Hypertext Writing Experience
Students analyze "choose your own adventure" stories and brainstorm to develop setting, characters, and plots for their own adventures stories and related Websites.
Story Character Homepage
Grades
6 - 8
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Lesson Plan
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Unit
Story Character Homepage
Students analyze personal homepages, as well as a character in a book they have read, and then create a homepage for the character.
Students as Creators: Exploring Multimedia
Grades
6 - 8
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Lesson Plan
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Unit
Students as Creators: Exploring Multimedia
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.
Twenty-First Century Informational Literacy: Integrating Research Techniques and Technology
Grades
6 - 12
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Lesson Plan
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Unit
Twenty-First Century Informational Literacy: Integrating Research Techniques and Technology

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.

Grades
6 - 8
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Lesson Plan
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Unit
Tell and Show: Writing With Words and Video
Writers and film buffs alike will sharpen their skills in this multimedia unit as they work together to author and design a digital video.
Astronomy Poetry: Combining Poetry With the Content Areas
Grades
6 - 8
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Lesson Plan
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Unit
Astronomy Poetry: Combining Poetry With the Content Areas
Students' responses to this lesson will be out of this world after they've researched astronomy to write poetry and compile a poetry book.
3-2-1 Vocabulary: Learning Filmmaking Vocabulary by Making Films
Grades
6 - 8
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Lesson Plan
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Unit
3-2-1 Vocabulary: Learning Filmmaking Vocabulary by Making Films
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.
When I Was Young In...A Literature to Language Experience
Grades
6 - 8
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Lesson Plan
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Unit
When I Was Young In...A Literature to Language Experience
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.
Traveling the Road to Freedom Through Research and Historical Fiction
Grades
6 - 8
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Lesson Plan
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Unit
Traveling the Road to Freedom Through Research and Historical Fiction
Students learn how to walk a mile in someone else's shoes by reading historical fiction about the Underground Railroad.
Crit Lit for Kids: From Critical Consciousness to Service Learning
Grades
6 - 8
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Lesson Plan
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Unit
Crit Lit for Kids: From Critical Consciousness to Service Learning
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.
Digital Reflections: Expressing Understanding of Content Through Photography
Grades
6 - 8
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Lesson Plan
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Unit
Digital Reflections: Expressing Understanding of Content Through Photography
Striking images can leave lasting impressions on viewers. In this lesson, students make text–self–world connections to a nature- or science-related topic as they collaboratively design a multimedia presentation.

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