Technology and Media

Don't let a precious second go to waste! This lesson, created by rochellejn, provides you with a meaningful sponge activity that integrates JogNog, an online competitive (and super fun!) learning game that motivates players to learn more, faster. With use of a Smartboard or projector, a teacher can choose from hundreds of topics on JogNog and easily play a fun and engaging class quiz game that reviews current or past curriculum content.

Students work together in groups to create a short movie, which will be entered into the Golden Clapper Board Award. This contest aims to inspire and reward young talent in the field of video making and is awarded to the ‘Best Newcomer’ of the year. There are four categories your students can choose from: Music Video, Documentary, TV Commercial, and Movie Trailer. Their video clip must be at least 30 seconds long, and no longer than 5 minutes.

Read The Shelf Elf by Jackie Mims Hopkins and discuss the organization of the library. Prepare workseet to encourage exploration of the nonfiction sections (sample included)

Looking for more creative ways to get your students thinking about nutrition and healthy lifestyles? Get them working in groups to create a website for an organic café and educate them about the importance of food businesses promoting healthy eating choices.

Use an online inventory to determine students' learning strengths and intelligences.

Typical vocabulary building begins with looking up words in the dictionary for their meanings, and this approach was used initially with the project, DA_7_8_RYSS by having the students go online and look up the definitions for their assigned words to begin to have an understanding. Retention of this understanding was the important component of the project, and a second approach was used by having the students visualize the meanings in photo software such as GIMP [freeware and Photoshop equivalent] to begin to move towards remembering the word concepts and to also create digital art … a product or byproduct, if you will, as a part of the process.

In keeping with the programming section of one of the chapters of the Grade 7 Technology Applications textbook ... HTML or Web page building in this case ... the students will be using these acquired skills [source code writing] to incorporate stories for children as Web-based.

A web banner or banner ad is a form of advertising on the World Wide Web. This form of online advertising entails embedding an advertisement into a web page. It is intended to attract traffic to a website by linking to the website of the advertiser. The students were asked to create banners of the standard size to advertise various products and/or promote causes and ask for donations

Using Your Senses “Human beings are sensory creatures – that is, we operate not just through what we know but through what we see and hear and feel. Reading about something brings us understanding, but our senses of sight, hearing and touch deepen that understanding. Multimedia – combinations of words, sounds, images, video and animation – can provide that sensory input. Multimedia productions can take many forms, including an encyclopedia CD-ROM, a television commercial, a full-length movie, a short video on the Internet or an animated introduction to a Web site.” [Technology Applications, Grade 7/8, Pearson Education, Inc., New Jersey (ISBN 0-13-036333-2)]

PowerPoint project involving research about President Obama’s Agenda via www.whitehouse.gov. The students were assigned various categories within President Obama’s Agenda: Civil Rights, Defense, Disabilities, Economy, Education, Energy and Environment, Family, Foreign Policy, Health Care, Homeland Security, Immigration, Iraq, Poverty, Seniors and Social Security, Service, Taxes, Technology, Urban Policy, Veterans, Women.

Install Google Earth on the students' computers, and then show the students how to use the flight simulator ... even young children can master this because it's fun ... to "fly over" [and around] specific sites to look at the geographic detail and how the particular cities/towns and villages are configured amongst the natural environs. They can begin at pretty good altitude, then swoop down, and bank for a little bit of excitement in between mountains, following rivers, banking 360 degrees around lakes, etc. Have them find important landmarks mentioned in the textbook by flying and actually trying to pinpoint them from the cockpit ... again, exciting. Google Earth and the flight simulator can be structured around adventure and exploration that would relate to social studies, history, and geography lesson plans ... and again, the flying aspects would be fun and exciting for the students.

The geometry and mathematical calculations of the squares, circles and sections will be equated with the real-world applications of the farmer.

At the beginning of this lesson, the students are expected to know the organizations and developments of any types of essays including an argumentative essay, how to present an argument with PROS and CONS, have had some information about what the global warming is and what the consequences of pollutions among the environment are.

Ever wished you could be in more than one place at the same time? Show your students how to create the illusion of having their very own clone with this fun and easy lesson plan on creating multiplicity images using photo editing software.

Total music classroom resource with lessons, assignments, hand picked inspirational lessons from youtube etc.