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A Day with FractionsLainie McGannStudents from Newport Coast Elementary, CA, call on their knowledge of fractions to make real-world connections as they identify ways fractions are us...
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Preserving Memories: Creating iPhoto BooksGayle Berthiaume, Apple Distinguished EducatorKindergarten children interview their grandparents or other older adults about their memories of Kindergarten or First Grade. The results were used i...
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Alphabet Photo BookGayle BerthiaumePhonemic awareness is essential to early reading skills. Learning the letters and their sounds provides the building blocks for beginning reading. Alp...
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Rights and Responsibilities: Grass Born to Be Stepped OnJon HandIn this project, students from Mansfield Middle School in Storrs, CT research an aspect of history that illustrates a topic involving rights and respo...
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Literature Through Silent MoviesRhonda McDanielsStudents participate in an engaging, alternative assessment activity: making a silent film of an Edgar Allen Poe story. This project offers them an ad...
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The School SongTina SaitoThe students write individual poems regarding their school. They then combine their poems into one. Using this new poem, they work in small groups to ...
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Core Democratic Values LIVEGabriella MeyersThis unit is a cross-grade level activity between senior government students and fifth grade social studies students. Teams of students created deskt...
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Solar SystemGina MerrillSmall groups of first graders used internet, books, and class handouts to create 3 facts about their planet. The facts and photos of their planets w...
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All About Me: High School PerspectivesRuth WilsonThis Digital Media project was designed for students in high school to create self portraits that show symbolism expressing how they see themselves, ...
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Special Places in Our CommunityAnne Magill, Karen ThompsonElementary students in Springfield, Illinois, study the difference between urban, suburban and rural communities and describe what makes them similar ...
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The American Flag and the Pledge of AllegianceMellissa Davsko, Karen ThompsonAs American citizens, we often say The Pledge of Allegiance, but do we ever stop to understand the meaning? These second grade students in Springfield...
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A Counting Photo BookGayle BerthiaumeOne red apple, two green pencils, three friends…. Learning to count and match objects to a numeral is essential to beginning math skills. Younger st...
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Fluency in Foreign Language Using iMovieKathy Scruggs, Julene ReedWhat better way to analyze one's fluency in a language than to create a movie speaking in that language and then have the class translate the dia...
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What is GeometryKurt JohnsonIn this lesson, students from Logan, Utah, find examples of specific geometry terms in their surrounding environment.
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Elements CommercialsKaren Thompson, Jason BurgerIn this project, student teams use a digital camcorder and iMovie to create a commercial about an element explaining important properties of that elem...
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Miwok Storytelling Legend MovieElaine Wrenn, Marci VogelIn this project, studets analyze and describe the key elements of a story and the methods of storytelling as a performance art. They then perform the ...
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Movie Books - Children's StoriesBart FreeseIn this project, upper elementary students use iMovie to write, illustrate, and narrate a movie book to bring their story alive visually and capture t...
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Don't Laugh at MeBrian CrosbyQuarreling, teasing, and bullying stigmatize children and steal valuable learning time in the classroom. In this project, students create their own mo...
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Musical PatternsTheodore LaiIn this project, students work in small groups to create a composition in GarageBand that stresses musical patterns. In their composition, they create...
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Symmetry in MotionGabriella MeyersThis lesson engages students in the understanding and real world application of identifying symmetrical translations, rotations, reflections, and dila...
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Music Book AccompanimentsWilliam I. Bauer, Associate Professor, Music EducationProviding students with accompaniments to use with their
music books increases student motivation by giving them an
interesting harmonic and stylist...
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Revolutionary War News TonightNathanael BrandtStudents will learn about the Revolutionary War. For their final project they will create a news program of three important events from the war.
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Exploring Balls and RampsPamela StavlundFirst graders explore properties of balls and ramps, then define accurate testing methods so their peers can duplicate experiments and results.
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Memory BookChristine DicksonStudents will create a memory book of 2nd grade.
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Laboratory Technique: Cutting and Polishing Glass TubingMr. KranichHigh school students are required to demonstrate with iMovie one of 20 different laboratory techniques that were studied earlier in the course.
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