After researching various natural disasters, students share their findings with each other using glogs, or through poster presentations.
Glogging About Natural Disasters
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Learning about Clouds with Haikus
4 - 6
Lesson Plan
| 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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Greetings from the Biomes of the World
6 - 8
Lesson Plan
| 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
Lesson Plan
| Standard Lesson
After researching alternative sources of energy, students create online comic books to present their information.
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A Blast from the Past with Nuclear Chemistry
11 - 12
Lesson Plan
| Standard Lesson
After researching the history and basic facts of a nuclear chemistry topic, students utilize the Web 2.0 tool Timetoast to create an electronic timeline that they use to present their research to the class.
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Trading Information about Minerals Through Trading Cards
6 - 8
Lesson Plan
| 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
Lesson Plan
| 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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Power of Picture Books, The: Using Content Area Literature in Middle School
5 - 9
Professional Library
| Book
Featuring descriptions and activities for fifty exceptional titles, Mary Jo Fresch and Peggy Harkins offer a wealth of ideas for harnessing the power of picture books to improve reading and writing in the content areas.
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Teaching with Zooming Slideshows through Prezi
Grades
6 - 12
Strategy Guide
Through Prezi, a web application, students create "zooming" presentations for various purposes, such as presenting research, defending an opinion, or sharing a digital story.
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Bringing Lessons to Life with Animoto
Grades
5 - 12
Strategy Guide
Using Animoto, a free Web 2.0 tool, students can develop short digital videos that include music, photos, video clips, and text as well as share their creations electronically.
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Speak to Me: Teaching with Voki
Grades
6 - 12
Strategy Guide
Through Voki, a Web 2.0 tool, students create customizable avatars for class presentations for various purposes, such as presenting biographical information, expressing an opinion, or reading a poem.
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Technology and Copyright Law: A "Futurespective"
6 - 8
Lesson Plan
| Standard Lesson
Students research and report on instances of how copyright laws have adapted to encompass new technologies. They write articles predicting copyright issues that may arise with new and future technologies.
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Critical Literacy in Action: Multimodal Texts on Global Warming
6 - 8
Lesson Plan
| Standard Lesson
Students will really warm up to this lesson about global warming as they study multimedia materials and use a variety of comprehension strategies.
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Hoax or No Hoax? Strategies for Online Comprehension and Evaluation
9 - 12
Lesson Plan
| Standard Lesson
Are your students easily fooled? You'll find out in this lesson in which students carefully and critically examine hoax websites to determine their validity.
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Weather: A Journey in Nonfiction
K - 2
Lesson Plan
| Unit
Questions about weather clear up when students use what they learned from their books to create a presentation to share with the rest of the class.
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Astronomy Poetry: Combining Poetry With the Content Areas
6 - 8
Lesson Plan
| Unit
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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Finding Solutions to Food Waste: Persuasion in a Digital World
7 - 9
Lesson Plan
| Unit
Using various reading strategies and resources, students explore the issue of food waste. They also create persuasive arguments and blog posts examining this topic.
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Inspire Healthful Reading Using Unconventional Texts
K - 2
Lesson Plan
| Minilesson
This minilesson encourages children to seek out and appropriately react to nutrition labels and to make healthy food choices, integrating science, math, health, and literacy.
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Engineering the Perfect Poem by Using the Vocabulary of STEM
7 - 10
Lesson Plan
| Standard Lesson
Students research engineering careers and create poetry to understand the vocabulary of STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics).
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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.