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Browse lesson plans by the teachers and Digital Learning Specialists of NYSSTL. These lesson plans will be created  as part of the EETT grant during the spring of 2010.

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• First Year Verbs

  Students present 30 verbs in the YO form with an illustration which shows the meaning of the verb.

• Verb Conjugation

  First year students will conjugate present tense verbs

• "Crash" Book Covers

  This lesson encourages students to utilize a new computer software program while incorporating the 7th grade English Language Arts curriculum. Students will utilize Microsoft Publisher to rename and create book covers for the book they read.

• "Finding Kip" Kidspiration

  The students will use Kidspiration to complete a web after reading "Finding Kip."

• "How to" writing using digital cameras

  This lesson is designed to incorporate technology into writing. Students will write a “how to” essay and take digital photos to document the steps in their writing. Students will learn how to print digital camera photos

• "Natural High 3" picture project

  Students will create their own "natural high" picture using Microsoft paint after watching the video "Natural High 3"

• "The Giver" Web Quest

  After reading the novel, "The Giver" by Lois Lowry, the students will complete a web quest and create their own utopia.

• "This I Believe" Audio Recording

  Students will use Audacity software (free) to record themselves reading a short essay

• "Wild Horses" Vocabulary Powerpoint

  This lesson uses a powerpoint presentation to guide the introduction of new vocabulary words for the story "Wild Horses" by Cris Peterson.

• (Lesson 1-The Launch) Planting Seeds of Thyme - Planning a Sustainable Rooftop Garden

  (Lesson 1-The Launch)This is the first lesson in a performance based unit on developing a sustainable rooftop garden that uses both modern technology combined with farming techniques dating back over 5,000 years.

• (Lesson 2-Beginning Research) Planting Seeds of Thyme - Planning a Sustainable Rooftop Garden

  (Lesson 2 - Beginning Research) This is the second lesson in a performance based unit on developing a sustainable rooftop garden that uses both modern technology combined with farming techniques dating back over 5,000 years.

• (Lesson 3 - The Design) Planting Seeds of Thyme - Planning a Sustainable Rooftop Garden

  (Lesson 3 - The Design) This is the third lesson in a performance based unit on developing a sustainable rooftop garden that uses both modern technology combined with farming techniques dating back over 5,000 years.

• (Lesson 4 - Ancient Gardening) Planting Seeds of Thyme -Planning a Sustainable Rooftop Garden

  (Lesson 4 - Ancient Gardening) This is the fourth lesson in a performance based unit on developing a sustainable rooftop garden that uses both modern technology combined with farming techniques dating back over 5,000 years.

• (Lesson 5-Sustainability) Planting Seeds of Thyme - Planning a Sustainable Rooftop Garden

  (Lesson 5 - Sustainability) This is the 5th lesson in a performance based unit on developing a sustainable rooftop garden that uses both modern technology combined with farming techniques dating back over 5,000 years.

• 23 Things - Web 2.0 Professional Development

  Teachers will be able to follow an 11 week program of professional development that will allow them to learn Web 2.0 technologies and to develop classroom lessons based on what they have learned.

• 2nd Grade Prefixes

  Students will learn about prefixes and how to identify root words.

• 3 Branches of Government

  Students will interact with a smartboard lesson that discusses the factors resulting in the constitutional convention and the development of the three branches of government

• 3D Co2 Race Cars

  In this unit, 8th grade students design draw and produce a Co2 car (Metric 500 vehicle). By using Microsoft Inventor as their designing and drawing platform, students are able to see their vehicle come to life in a three dimensional form. For this lesson

• A Line Drawn in the Graph

  Students will use the knowledge they have gained about linear equations to determine the equation of a line.

• A Snapshot of Modern Human Rights Violations

  Students will identify a modern human rights violation and educate their classmates of the urgencey of the situation.

• A Virtual tour of China/ Chinese New Year

  This lesson takes students on a virtual tour of Chinese culture and offers activities in helping students experience the Chinese New Year.

• A Year of Vocabulary...

  Students will utilize technology to learn vocabulary.

• ABC It's Me! An Alphabiography

  Students will turn a traditional autobiography into an “Alphabiography” recording events, people, objects, or feelings associated with each letter of the alphabet.

• Adding and Subtracting with Regrouping

  Students will use a teacher created template on the Smart Board to recognize place value, add, and subtract with regrouping. The created template includes numbers up to the thousands place.

• Adding With Dice

  Students will learn simple addition using dice on a Promethean Board.

• Addition Bump & Boxcar Alley-Addition Games

  Students will be using the SMARTBoard during a whole group lesson to reinforce addition skills. Addition Bump and Boxcar Alley are two separate games that the students can play either as a whole group or with just a few students. Both games reinforce add

• Addition with Regrouping

  Students with review addition problems with regrouping by utilizing an interactive website and Google Earth. Students will also review key addition words.

• Advertising in the 1920's

  This lesson will serve as an introduction to Constructed Response Questions (CRQs). Constructed Response Questions will be defined, explained, and analyzed.

• Aesop's Fables!

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• Alexander the Great Exposed

  The Rise and Fall of Alexander's Empire allows students to identify examples of cultural diffusion and acceptance while leading to the development of Hellenistic culture.

• Algebra tiles

  To write algebraic expressions and to simpilfy polynomials

• All About Me Power Points

  Students will use power point to create a personalized and creative All-About-Me slide show.

• All In A School Day

  ESL students will create a timeline about a typical school day

• Alphabet Arc Fun

  Students will be using an interactive alphabet arc on a Promethean Board to build skill and accuracy with alphabet recognition and alphabetical order.

• Alphabet Collages

  The purpose of this lesson is to introduce students to using digital cameras to make an alphabet collage. The prior learning that is necessary for this lesson is basic listening and knowledge of the letters of the alphabet. The children should be able t

• Amazing Aerial Maps

  This lesson shows students what aerial maps are and then they design their own on the computer.

• American Colonial Figure in 3D

  A collaborative project between social studies and English classes to provide a framework for students to develop a deeper understanding of what daily life was like for people during the American Colonial time period.

• An excellent, student friendly way to preview, review, and assess.

  Castle Learning is an online database that supports classroom instruction through content-related review assignments, practice lessons, and benchmark testing. The website focuses on the content areas of English, math, science and social studies.

• Ancient Rome Scavenger Hunt/Web-Quest

  The students will build upon their background knowledge as they explore various aspects of Ancient Rome through the use of the internet.

• Animal Adaptations

  The students are introduced to animal adaptations. They will learn the difference between behavioral adaptations and physical adaptations.

• Animals In Winter

  The students will be able to help create a diagram using Inspiration to tell what animals do in winter.

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• Ant Study

  Second grade students will use fiction and non-fiction to study ants.

• Antarctica Introduction

  This PowerPoint serves as an introduction to a unit on Antarctica. It includes key information, fun animal facts, and 4 mini-quizzes to serve as starting point for our unit.

• Antiderivative Introduction for Calculus 1

  This is an introductory lesson on the basic rules of antiderivatives using x to the n and the 6 basic trigonometric function rules.

• Applications of Percents Webquest

  Students will complete a Webquest to learn the different applications of percentages in math and everyday life.

• Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader Science Review for 8th Graders

  Students will play Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader for Science Review of the NYS 8th grade Test

• Are You Smarter Than A Fifth Grader: World War 2 Review

  Students will play a game to review major facts about World War 2.

• Are You Smarter Than a Sixth Grade Science Whiz?

  Using a PowerPoint version of “Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?” students will play a review game to review the “states of matter.”

• Area Under a Curve Estimation for Calculus 1

  The students will estimate the area under a curve that is above the x-axis using rectangles. They will estimate using rectangles that stop at different points on the curve.

• Artist Research Project

  This project is designed to introduce students to other famous artists.

• Ask Me Anything

  In this lesson, students get to think of their own survey question, administer a survey to an audience of their choosing, and represent their findings using a graph created by them.

• Astronomy Web-quest

  This lesson will have the students research different Astronomy topics.

• Australian Grassland Animals Research Activity

  This lesson uses different forms of technology to assist students in research and understanding about animals of the Australian grassland regions.

• Autobiography

  Students will write an autobiography.

• Beavers

  Students compare beavers in nature to a fictional beaver in a story.

• Beginning Letter Sound/ Initial Sound Fluency

  Two activities to promote initial sound fluency

• Benjamin Franklin

  Fourth grade students will complete a research project about Benjamin Franklin

• Best Friend's Venn

  Students will create a Venn diagram.

• BIG BOOK

  Students will pick alphabet letters to type and find a picture that represents the begining sound of that letter.

• Blind Musicians

  Students have just completed reading about several musicians who were blind. They will now conduct research to learn about another blind musician.

• Book Report Power Points

  Students will create a book report power point presentation to tell about a picture book.

• Bound For Oregon Brochure

  After completing the novel, Bound For Oregon, the students will complete a travel brochure to share dangers, supplies, expectations, and directions that would be needed on a trip to Oregon in the 1800’s westward movement. The students will use Microsoft

• Box and Whisker Plot for Algebra

  Students will see the box and whisker graph with color coordinated lines for the values representing 1) lower quartile 2) upper quartile 3) minimum 4) maximum 5) median

• Brian's Winter Survey

  At the conclusion of reading, Brian's Winter by Gary Paulsen, students will take an online survey to give their opinions of the book.

• Brochures of 3rd Grade

  Students will select a topic they have learned about during the school year and make a brochure sharing the important facts about that topic that can be shared with the incoming class.

• Browsing a Web-site (Internet Safety)

  The purpose of this lesson is to introduce students to browsing a web-site on a computer. Specifically, the Jan Brett web-site, www.janbrett.com, will be used. The prior learning that is necessary for this lesson is basic listening and knowledge of the

• Budget Simulation

  Students will simulate the creation of a federal budget when learning about the constitution and the roles and powers of the three branches of government.

• Butterfly Jeopardy

  This lesson is designed to be a review activity for a Butterfly Unit.

• Butterfly Lesson

  Students will listen to the book The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle and then watch a video of the Butterfly Jungle at the San Diego Zoo in California.

• Butterfly Life Cycle Powerpoints

  This lesson focuses on the life cycle of the butterfly. Students will demonstrate their knowledge of the life cycle by creating powerpoint slides on the their specific stage.

• Calculating Area with Irregularity.

  Understanding and applying area and perimeter formulas for common polygons (e.g. triangles, rectangles, trapezoids) and circles can be extended to calculate the area and perimeter for irregular polygons and figures. There are numerous applications of this

• Calendar/Morning Meeting

  Calendar or Morning Meeting is done each morning. It is typically for K-2 kids. The students learn about the months of the year, days of the week, weather, money, telling time, counting, shapes, etc. This lesson is repetitious because it is done daily

• Car Search

  In this activity students are researching different car options using a budget and Spanish websites provided to them. Students need to fill out a questioner and then present their findings through one of the four options given them.

• Career Research Paper - Paper and Presentation

  Students will utilize online resources to research careers that will fit their interests and abilities.

• Career Research Project

  students will research a career on career-based websites which they might be interested in pursuing based on their interests and abilities. Students will create a career poster.

• Career Research Project - College/Training Program Power Point Presentation

  After completing their research papers, students will sign up to investigate one of the colleges or training programs that offers the major they discussed. Each student will create and present a Power Point Presentation on a different college or program.

• Career Research Project - Vision Board

  Students will create Vision Boards as a culminating activity for their Career Research Projects.

• Cell Review Jeopardy

  A lesson to review for cell test.

• Central/South American Civilization Travel Brochure

  This assignment is designed for students to research either the Aztec, Incan, or Mayan civilizations, and use Microsoft Publisher to create a travel brochure about their civilization.

• Chapter 6 Vocabulary

  Students will create a PowerPoint to help them study for a vocabulary quiz and then complete an online vocabulary quiz based on these words.

• Characterization of Grimm's Fairy Tales

  1.Students will use the Grimm's Fairy Tales to understand how characters develop in a story. 2.Students will use the Grimm's Fairy Tale site to develop their own tale.

• Children's Story Book

  The students will create a children's book using a camera and Publisher.

• Choose an Operation

  This lesson reviews which operation to use in math word problems.

• Choosing a Pet

  Students will find out what their perfect pet is.

• Circles

  This is a comprehensive lesson on circle features such as arcs, chords, tangents, secants, etc. Students will acquire the skills for finding angle measures and segment legths along with writing the equation for the circle.

• Civil Rights Movement Overview

  Students can be reminded of or introduced to the Civil Rights movement with a touching PhotoStory.

• Civil War Jeopardy

  Review important Civil War topics using an interactive game that gets all students involved.

• Civil War Suchman

  This lesson utilizes teacher clues and students questions and hypotheses to help students figure out the election of 1860 and the secession of southern states as causes of the Civil War.

• Classification of Vertebrates

  This lesson works well as an introduction to the topic of classification of vertebrates. Students will brainstorm a list of animals and then categorize them by classes of vertebrates.

• Classroom Newsletter

  An easy solution to home/school communication! This newsletter can be written by the classroom teacher weekly or monthly to keep parents updated on what is happening in the classroom and special events to look forward to.

• Colonial Brochure

  A collaborative unit between social studies and English classes. Students create an informative brochure for their selected colonies.

• Coloring the Periodic Table

  Students will be coloring the periodic table based on the families that the elements are in.

• Commercial Unit

  Students will analyze magazine advertisements and television commercials to identify common techniques

• Communication Activity

  An activity that gets students to actively communicate with a partner and discuss problems and barriers associated with communication. Students will understand why communication skills are important.

• Comparing and Contrasting Classmates

  Students will compare and contrast two classmates by using an online venn diagram. Students will use the information on the venn diagram to write an essay comparing and contrasting two classmates.

• Comparing Groups of Money

  Using coins on the SMARTBoard, students will determine the value of two groups of coins. Then they will compare the values of the coins to determine if they groups are equal or if one group is worth more of less than the other.

• Comparing numbers on dice and identifying the greater number

  Using the promethean board dice roller, students will be able to roll dice, count and write the number of dots on each die, and identify the greater number.

• Comparison Shopping

  This lesson is based on using money in the real world to buy what we want. It gives students a concept of how much items cost and encourages them to use resources, like the internet to find the lowest prices. *** Each student worked at a computer.

• Complex Numbers

  Imaginary numbers are a new concept for the students. By expanding the number system to include the imaginary numbers, students are exposed to the complex numbers and their manipulations.

• Composing with Finale

  The student will learn to use Finale software to compose a short musical piece

• Computer parts

  The purpose of this lesson is to introduce students to the parts of the computer. The prior learning that is necessary for this lesson is basic listening and coloring skills. The children should be able to sit and listen for the duration of 15 minutes a

• Conducting Online Research

  Students will use laptop computers to research a given topic and create an outline which will be used to ultimately create a PowerPoint presentation for another lesson. This lesson is designed for a behavior management class in grades 9-12.

• Congress...Blah, Blah, BLOG!

  This lesson leads students through a variety of simulations on the responsibilities of the United States Congress and then challenges students to reflect on what they experienced by blogging responses to several questions.

• Conjugating verbs like gustar

  This is an activity to help students learn how to conjugate the verb gustar and similar verbs. It includes a PowerPoint (that I reorganized) and some games. I also included a website that is very helpful for clothing vocabulary/pictures. It can help yo

• Connect 4

  This activity/game is a good way to have the students prepare for a chapter/unit test. The length of this activity is highly dependent on what questions you provide. I have included an example of this game/PowerPoint along with a blank copy to make it y

• Connecting Random/Abstract Symbols to Text

  Students will gain deeper understanding of text by connecting symbols to text metaphorically

• Consecutive Integer Word Problems

  Internet search for extra word problems for students to solve involving consecutive integers.

• Contact the White House!

  Contact the White House! Send the White House a letter and an email and see what correspondence gets sent back to you!

• Continents

  Students will use a teacher created Smart Board template to identify the oceans and continents. Students will locate the continents and oceans in relation to the direction and location of the Prime Meridian, Equator, Hemispheres, poles, and Compass Rose.

• Coordinate Plane Gizmo

  Students will watch a tutorial video to learn how to calculate midpoint and distance and then complete an activity based on what they just learned.

• Correcting sentences

  Students will be able to identify mistakes with capitalization and punctuation in simple sentences.

• Country of Spain

  Students research the country of their new pen pals, make a PowerPoint presentation and present it to the class.

• Country Report Newsletter

  Students will use internet research and Microsoft Publisher to create a newsletter that provides information on a country of their choice

• Create a Graph

  Using a "create a graph" website, we created and discussed a class graph about snow day activities. This graph was then posted on class website.

• Create a monthly calendar

  Math/Time concept to teach calendar skills from Pre-K to 5th grade for the reader and non-reader.

• Create An Award Winning Documentary

  Students will successfully compete in the C-SPAN Classroom StudentCam contest.

• Create Your Dream Home In 3-D

  Students enrolled in the construction systems class have had the opportunity to learn about footers, foundations, flooring systems, wall framing, interior and exterior sheeting, roof framing, electrical installation, window installation, and interior fini

• Creating a Climatograph

  Students have been studying weather for the past two weeks and are now comparing climate to weather. Students will use different climate websites and Microsoft Excel to create their own climatogrpaph. Students will be able to choose any town/city that the

• Creating A Constellation

  Through this lesson children will learn what a constellation is and learn about a few well known constellations and culminate the lesson by making and sharing their own constellation.

• Creating a PowerPoint

  Students will create a PowerPoint presentation. This lesson is designed for a behavior management class. Using PowerPoint is new to the students. This lesson will familiarize students with the functionality of using PowerPoint. This lesson will take p

• Creating a Safety Poster

  Brainstorming and creating a safety poster using Microsoft Publisher

• CURRENT EVENT

  THIS ACTIVITY IS DESIGNED TO ENCOURAGE STUDENTS TO READ/WATCH NEWS REPORTS TO INCREASE THEIR CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS AND TO UNDERSTAND THE WORLD AROUND THEM.

• Current Events in the News

  This lesson is designed for a behavior management class at the high school level. Lesson's intent is to familiarize typically low performing students with skills to use technology based applications to find, read, and gather information on current events

• Cursive writing using the Promethean Board

  This lesson is designed to introduce 3rd graders to cursive writing.

• Differentiating Story Genres

  Students will determine if a story is non-fiction, realistic fiction, or fantasy.

• Dinosaurs

  Students will analyze and discuss the dinosaur species from creation to extinction through use of SMART Board documents.

• Discovering the European Union

  To develop an understanding of European Union community geography utilizing Google Earth and regional mapping websites.

• Disease Research Project

  Students will create a PowerPoint presentation using facts from various sources (internet, books, magazines, encyclopedias, etc.) about a chosen disease

• Displaced Persons and the Holocaust

  This is a continuation of the "Displaced Person" Unit.

• Do you remember the conversion formula for Celsius to Fahrenheit?Using CBL2s

  Students will collect temperature data using CBL2s and graphing calculators and then compare degrees Celsius to degrees Fahrenheit and see how the conversion formula is derived.

• Do you remember the conversion formula for Celsius- Fahrenheit? (using digital thermometers)

  Students will use digital thermometers and graphing calculators to collect temperature data, graph and analyze it and then see how the conversion formula was derived.

• Domain and range of Functions: Graphical representation (http://mathdemos.gcsu.edu/mathdemos/domainrange/domainrange.html)

  Domain and range of functions of increasing difficulties is presented for conceptual and visual understanding.

• Drawing Pictures of Fractions

  Students will learn about fractions by creating pictures.

• Earth Day/Pollution

  Students will understand the effect of pollution and how it is important to maintain our earth clean.

• Editing PowerPoint

  The New York State English Language Arts test contains an edting task for 3rd, 5th, and 7th grades. A PowerPoint helps prepare students for the editing task.

• Editing Sentences - 4th Grade

  This lesson is a quick way to reinforce grammar and writing skills that have been taught. Using ActiVote (clickers) students will be able to indicate whether they agree or disagree.

• Editing With Your Voice

  Students will use Microsoft Office Sound Recorder and a rough draft of their written work to create a grammatically correct final copy. They will edit by recording their sentences and listening for mistakes.

• ELA 2007 assessment

  This lesson is to be used early in the school year so the teacher may have an understanding of what areas students will need the most work in to get them prepared for the third grade ELA exam.

• Electrical Circuits Word Find

  This lesson can be used as an introduction or a review of the vocabulary used during the Electrical Circuits Unit.

• Electronic Music Composition

  Students will learn how modern musicians use tracks and loops to write and enhance original compositions. Using Garageband, students will compose their own original music using loops.

• Entrepreneurship

  Students will brainstorm ideas to create a "mock" entrepreneurship.

• EPALS in Europe, Learning Culture the Fun Way!

  Using a website called “Epals” students will communicate with other students around the world to learn about culture through the use of email.

• Erie Canal

  This lesson is an introduction to the Erie Canal. It includes a PowerPoint, a great web site, and a fun review game.

• Euler's Method for Calculus 2

  Student's will use Euler's Method to approximate solutions of differential equations

• Euro impact on Economics

  Exploring economics and impact of Euro in EU communities. Students will develop an understanding of EU economics. They will also analyze statistics using gap minder.

• European Explorers Part I

  This lesson introduces Christopher Columbus and Giovanni da Verrazano's explorations to the New World by using a Powerpoint presentation, video, and an audio clip. A fun art activity is used as an assessment.

• European Explorers Part II

  This lesson continues with explorers Henry Hudson and Samuel de Champlain voyages to the New World. A fun powerpoint game is used as a review and an assessment.

• Evaluating websites

  Students will analyze websites

• Evaluating Websites

  Students will learn the basics of how to evaluate Internet websites in order to determine which sites are valuable for their use.

• Exploring Contractions

  Students will explore the useability of prefixes with root words.

• Exploring Fractions with Shapes

  Using the Smart Board to explore fractions with pattern block shapes interactive with the website http://arcytech.org/java/patterns/ Pattern Blocks: Exploring Fractions with Shapes

• Exploring Parabolas

  Once the students have learned to graph parabolas we will explore how to identify the axis of symmetry and the vertex from a graph.

• Exploring Vesuvius

  This lesson can be used as an introduction to a history lesson on the eruption of mount Vesuvius, a lesson on volcanic eruptions, or as an enrichment activity to go along with a story in our Open Court reading series.

• Extra! Extra! Read All About It!

  Students will write and publish a movie critique on a recently viewed movie. This lesson is one part of a larger unit on newspaper writing.

• Facebook Page For Historical Figures

  This assignment is designed for students to research a character from history, and then to use the information to create a Facebook page for that character.

• Facts about Apples/ Johnny Appleseed

  A lesson to learn facts about apples and the social history on Johnny Appleseed

• Farms and Food

  The students will gather information about what types of food comes from farms and they will take a virtual tour of a fams.

• Fast Food, Should We Really Be Eating It?

  Students that are working on this lesson will be researching if it is really smart to be eating at fast food restaurants.

• Fifth Grade Memory Voice Thread

  The students will create a memory powerpoint of their fifth grade year. They will use the website http://ed.voicethread.com to load their powerpoint. Then they will record their voice to narrate the powerpoint and their memories of fifth grade.

• Fifth Grade NYS Math Test Review

  This lesson is a review of several topics, in preparation for the 5th grade state math test given in May.

• Find That Colony Poster

  Fifth grade students will learn how to make a poster using the Paint and Microsoft Word programs. An internet seach will be conducted to find select information. A map will be copied and pasted into Paint where the students will color one select colony.

• Finding a Line of Best Fit

  Students will create scatterplots after collecting data and then find a line of best fit

• Finding a spring constant using Hooke’s Law

  Students will find a physical property of a spring by using the graphing capabilities of Excel.

• Fire Safety with Elmo and Nina the Newt using interactive online games

  National Fire Prevention Week promotes fire safety and prevention. In anticipation of a trip to the firehouse or a visit from local firefighters teachers can use free websites to teach key vocabulary for this important theme.

• First Grade High Frequency Words Review

  This lesson will review first grade high frequency words using a Smart Board

• Fluency and Audacity

  Motivating students to reread material is not an easy task. Students will utilize Audacity (which can be downloaded for free at http://audacity.sourceforge.net/) in order to become more fluent readers.

• Folktales

  This lesson is intended to give students the opportunity to listen to, read, and write an original folktale. It can be used in three lessons as whole group or small group centers.

• Food Chains in Our Community

  Using digital cameras, students will take pictures of plants and animals that live around the school. The students will then determine if each living thing is a producer or consumer, and place the picture into the appropriate category on the SMARTBoard.

• Food Chains/Webs

  In this lesson students will learn about the food chain using a variety of resources. It is designed to be used as either an introduction to food chains or reinforcment of skills taught.

• Food Pyramid

  Students will research facts about the food pyramid on the internet. Students will use this information to plan a healthy menu.

• Foreign Policy Jeopardy Review

  This lesson is a review for the US History Foreign Policy Unit.

• Fourth Grade NYS Math Test Review

  This lesson is a review of several topics, in preparation for the 4th grade state math test given in May.

• Fractions

  Students will use their basic knowledge of fractions to create a mixed number to name and / or create a given amount.

• Friendly Letter

  Students will write friendly letters in the correct format.

• From World War To Cold War

  After the dropping of the atomic bomb warfare changed forever. There was a spiral of insecurity between the United States and the Soviet Union that led directly into the Cold War. The arms race that followed created a standoff for 30+ years.

• Fruit & Vegetable Knowledge

  A lesson geared for Pre-K through 3rd grade on the food pyramid, fruits and vegetables and food packaging

• Fun with Basic Multiplication Facts

  This lesson provides a fun and interactive way to practice/reinforce basic multiplication facts. These games are provided online and are educationally sound.

• Fun With Beginning Numbers

  The students will be able to review and practice learning numbers 0-9 and then apply that knowledge to learning their own home/cellphone number.

• Fun With Letters

  Students use Starfall on the internet to practice and reinforce letter names and sounds.

• Funtrivia and The Outsiders by SE Hinton

  While reading the novel, The Outsiders, students will go to the internet site Funtrivia and take interactive quizzes

• Garbage Gone Good

  Before the holiday’s students were assigned to make a project from any garbage item they could get their hands on! The idea was to have students make a present for someone for the holidays. Students had one week to collect garbage and one week to design

• Gas or Breaks? Fiscal Policy Decisions

  Students will review the economic business cycle and determine necessary fiscal policy actions that could help eliminate extreme highs and lows.

• Gender Testing of Female Athletes Internet

  To determine if an athlete is qualified to complete as a female in athletic events.

• Geometry Jeopardy

  Students will get in groups and compete in a jeopardy review game for the 8th grade Geometry Unit.

• Getting to the “Root” of Quadratics

  What are the roots of a quadratic function, and how can the roots be determined graphically?

• Global History Review Through Toondoo

  This lesson is designed for 10th grade Global History students. The goal of the lesson is for students to use the program Toondoo to create a cartoon that illustrates one of the major events that we have covered in Global History.

• Global Studies Review Jeopardy: Marking Period One

  Students will actively review key Global Studies concepts relating to the era of Discovery and Exploration to the French Revolution.

• Glogster--" A World Without Color"

  Students will choose three significant items from the novel, "The Giver" by Lois Lowry, take a picture of each item, and create a black and white Glogster (online poster) of a world without color.

• Goal Setting: Auction

  Students will determine what is important in life and why. The lesson is intended to motivate students to succeed in and out of the classroom.

• Going to a Pow Wow: Haudenosaunee Dance

  This lesson uses a Photostory of original photography to depict modern dance traditions of the Haudenosaunee. The assessment is written in ELA test format to provide practice in either reading or listening for understanding.

• Google Maps and Parallel, Perpendicular, and Intersecting Lines

  Students will learn about parallel, perpendicular, and intersecting lines using Google Maps and geography.

• Grade 3 Social Studies Final Answer Review

  This review game was created through the use of Microsoft Power Point and is based on the the "Who Wants to be a Millionaire" game show. This lesson uses questions in the gameshow based on the curriculum of social studies at the third grade level.

• Grammar Treasure Hunt

  Students will review grammar taught this school year by completing a worksheet containing questions based off of the school’s website. This lesson is also a way for students to explore a webpage and gather information.

• Graphing Biological Activity

  Students will graph a variety of short experiments in Excel

• Grassland Regions

  This lesson focuses on three grasslands regions: steppe, prairie, and savanna. Students will identify the climate, geography, and animals of each region.

• Great Debate: New Netherlands vs. New York

  The Great Debate’s purpose is to engage 4th grade students in a comparative analysis of early New York history. The research is focused on evaluating early Dutch settlement life in New Netherlands in contrast to British colonization of New York.

• Great Depression Images

  Students will create windows moviemaker presentations incorporating images from the Great Depression and scaffolding questions to be presented to the class.

• Great Writers

  The student will write a research paper about a famous writer and create a PowerPoint presentation.

• Guided Notes - How the Earth and Moon Compare

  This lesson is designed to help students pick out the important parts of the chapter by filling out guided notes.

• Habitat Diagram

  Students sort and identify animals belonging to a given habitat. Students will make a diagram of the habitat and show appropriate animals in it.

• Haiku Poems in Motion

  The students will write a Haiku poem, draw illustrations, and produce an animation for their poem.

• Half-Lives

  Students will be learning how to calculate the hal Students will be learning how to calculate the half-lives of elements.

• Hardy Wienburg Activity with Excel

  Since, we know the number of students that are non-tasters (aa) we can find the number of heterozygous tasters (Aa) and homozygous tasters (AA). We will use the Hardy-Weinburg equilibrium equation (p^2+2pq+q^2 equalls 1) to verify our results in the Labor

• Health Care Reform

  Students will learn the fundamental differences between Democratic and Republican ideology.

• Health Jeopardy Review

  Students will use the jeopardy game to review for their final exam.

• Healthy Relationships

  Students will list people, values, and interests that are important to them. While viewing the PowerPoint they will realize how unhealthy relationships lead teens into giving up people and things that they once valued. After doing this activity students

• High Frequency Word Practice using the Promethean Board

  Students wll write high frequency words using the Promethean Board.

• Highlighting Sight Words

  Students will use the Promethean Board to highlight sight words in teacher generated sentences.

• Hispanic Heritage Study

  Students will explore famous Hispanics in history using the internet. They will write about their findings.

• Hola! Parlez-Vous English?

  An exploration of European languages. Students will develop e-twin/e-languages relationships with European classrooms and explore common everyday language.

• Holiday Stories In Spanish

  This lesson was developed for Level III Spanish students as a way to practice the uses of the preterite/imperfect tenses in Spanish since this is a topic of much confusion! The lesson could easily be adapted for a variety of levels. The end product of the

• How an Electric Motor Works

  This lesson provides students with differentiated instruction and the ability to learn in a variety of ways. Students in this Technology class learn how a 9v electric motor operates and will be able to describe each components importance. Students will a

• How do Scientists Measure Things?

  Students will learn how scientists measure things.

• How Much Is It Worth?

  This lesson may be used after an introduction to coins or as part of a unit on money. The purpose of this lesson is to teach students the basics in recognition of coins, the dollar bill and their value in cents.

• How To Trim A Christmas Tree A Photo Story Sequencing Lesson

  An integral part of academic learning is the ability to correctly sequence classroom procedures, story events, and daily living experiences. Speech Therapy students will utilize a Photo Story in order to demonstrate their comprehension.

• How to Write a Business Letter

  The best way to teach to writing a business letter.

• How-to Power Point

  Students will take pictures with digital cameras of steps to a how to and then use them to illustrate their How-To power point.

• I learn differently- So what? Teaching students to become their own advocates using PowerPoint and fillable forms

  Students will learn about different disabilities and strategies to cope with them. They will then complete a fillable form in order to share information about their strengths and weaknesses in school.

• Iditarod Webquest

  Students will complete a webquest to familiarize themselves with the Iditarod Race prior to reading The Mystery on Alaska's Iditarod Trail by Carole Marsh

• Immigration Experience

  This lesson allows the students to experience the immigration experience through an interactive website and an in-class experience.

• Implementing a Science Literacy Survey

  Students will research levels of science literacy using a web-based survey.

• In Search of Heritage

  Exploration of Ancestry and social/cultural impact of family heritage. Students will also study migration patterns to understand population growth.

• Increase Participation in Class Using "Clickers"

  The use of wireless remotes or “clickers” is a tool that “shy” students can use to assist them in class participation activities.

• Inflectional Endings (-ed, -ing)

  This lesson will allow students to practice changing tenses of words by utilizing different rules that they have learned.

• Information Problem Solving Using Grolier's Online Encyclopedia

  Students will collect information using Grolier's Encyclopedia Online-- a free NOVEL-NY database

• Information Problem Solving Using World Book Online

  Using WorldBook Online (a subscription database), teams of students will locate, assess, and evaluate information.

• Integrated Algebra Powerpoint Review

  The students will be creating a PowerPoint in groups for the Integrated Algebra Regents Review.

• Integrated Algebra Review Units 1 - 3

  This will be a mini-midterm for our Integrated Algebra classes.

• Interactive Investigator

  Help Detective Janet Marlow and her partner Detective John Wilson find clues at a crime scene, examine evidence, and draw conclusions based on your observations.

• Interactive Star of the Week

  Students will be able to showcase things about themselves digitally.

• Interactive Word Sort for Word Families

  Students will sort short vowel word families on the computer. This interactive computer activity for kindergarten students can be used in conjunction with a classroom study on word families to help build accuracy and fluency.

• Internet Scavenger Hunt: Review Sheet for Directions & Mapping

  This lesson was done at the end of a unit on directions and mapping. It includes the key information that we covered and enabled the students to use the internet to locate information.

• Intro to Engineering

  This lesson is designed to introduce students to the concept of engineering.

• Introduction to Magnets

  This lesson uses a Powerpoint slideshow to introduce students to some items that do and do not attract magnets through the use of student experimentation.

• Introduction to Mass

  Students will be learning that mass is the measurement of how much matter makes up an object. Students will be using a balance scale to measure the mass of a banana (with the peel), the peel, the edible fruit of the banana.

• Introduction to Primary Sources

  The students will learn what Primary Sources are and will view a sample primary source document with relationship to a non-fiction book.

• Introduction to Synonyms

  In this lesson, students will be introduced to and identifying basig synonyms.

• Investing in the Stock Market

  The stock market is unpredictable. Some investors cash in on big rewards, while others lose everything. In this activity, student will grasp the fundamentals of the stock market and learn if they make it big, or if they bust.

• Iroquois Life

  Students will create a PowerPoint presentation using facts from the internet, classroom notes, and teacher lessons about Iroquois life in New York State. Students will identify the difference between the roles of Iroquois women and men.

• It's a Small World After All

  The students will use Google Earth to learn about their continent, country, state, county, city, and home address.

• It’s News To Me! How to create simple newsletters.

  Students will create newsletters based on particular unit of study. A step by step guide to creating a simple newsletter will be shared. This lesson can be used across the curriculum!

• Jackie Robinson Desegregates America’s Pastime

  This class activity uses as variety of media, including photos, text, video, and listening passages to explore Jackie Robinson’s accomplishments in light of his struggle to integrate Major League Baseball. Adjust to interest, time, & student level.

• Jealousy, Betrayal and Deceit

  Course Title: Master Classics and Film (Grade 12 elective) Specific Topic: the appropriate short story, one by Anton Chekhov entitled, “The Lady with the Pet Dog” * This lesson correlates to the Independent Reading #1 report * **This format is applic

• Joseph Stalin: Declassified

  The oppressive rule of Joseph Stalin is profiled in a way like no other.

• Keep or Cut? Creating the National Budget

  Students will pretend to be the president and create a national budget. They must consider opportunity costs as well as political and legal constraints during the decision making process.

• Kindergarten Sight Words

  This lesson will teach students to recognize and practice sight words so they are able to read them with automaticity. Developing a large sight word vocabulary will help children become better readers.

• Kurzweil and the Internet- Egyptian Note Taking

  The students will be taught how to use the Kurzweil program (an oral text reading program) while on selected internet sites to enhance their comprehension. Students will take notes on the Great Sphinx and the Valley of the Kings using two websites.

• La Catrina Bloggers - Spanish

  This lesson/project was developed for Level III Spanish students as a way to practice their writing skills as well as demonstrate their knowledge of the story, La Catrina. Students create a blog in Spanish from the point of view of the main character!

• Labor Unions & Taxes

  Students will play Jeopardy to review Labor Unions and Taxes.

• Land or Water: A Vocabulary Sorting Lesson

  In this lesson, students will review/study vocabulary words that relate to landforms and bodies of water.

• Leaping Letters: Consonants vs. Vowels

  Students will understand the differences between consonants and vowels through the SMART board activity.

• Learning Mechanics through Physlets

  Students will utilize web-based applets in presentations to increase their understanding of physics concepts.

• Learning Sign Language in First Grade

  In this lesson students will learn how to use an internet website to learn various ASL signs.

• Learning to Cite Online Sources/Creating a MLA-style Works Cited Page

  Students will learn in class how to correctly cite both online and print resources in MLA format.

• Let's Plan a Party!

  Students will plan a party and present their plan to the class. The plan must stay under the allotted budget of $200 and must include: supplies, food, decorations, materials for an activity, and favors.

• Let's Sign the Declaration of Independence!

  Let's sign the Declaration of Independence

• Life Cycle Of A Butterfly

  This lesson may be used as part of a unit study on insects or butterflies. The purpose of this lesson is to help students to understand the concept of the life cycle stages of a butterfly also known as a metamorphosis.

• Line of Best Fit

  Using the smart board and Ti-84 SmartView software students learn to construct a scatter plot and find the line of best fit.

• Literature Circle Blogging

  Students will use blogging technology to discuss the class novel they are reading.

• Living Earth

  A power point presentation reviewing the important characteristics and traits of plant and animals.

• Location, Location! Using Prepositions

  In this lesson, designed for Spanish students at Checkpoint A, students will practice giving and following directions.

• Logo Design Project: Application of Geometric Transformations.

  How can technology be used to incorporate geometric transformations into the design of an attractive company logo?

• Lure of the Labyrinth and Mathematical Reasoning

  This lesson is designed to allow students to explore their mathematical thinking. It uses the game the Lure of the Labyrinth and Jing to record students' actions and thinking process while they are working.

• Making EXCEL Percent Pictures

  Students will use excel to create percent pictures to recognize equivalents of fractions and percents.

• Making Multiplication Easy!

  Using the Elmo to realistically enhance a lesson along with the overhead enables the teacher to clearly and effectively model and communicate ideas to the students.

• Making Sense of Multiplication

  Students will understand that Multiplicatin is a simpler way of doing repetitive addition, by making arrays, watching a video and practicing their multiplication facts on line.

• Mapping My World

  Using a map utility (Google Maps) students will map and measure routes in and around their neighborhoods.

• Mathematical Expressions/Equations Written Verbally

  Notes and an activity to introduce how to change mathematical expressions and equations to verbal statements

• Mathematicians Project

  Learning about scientist and mathematicians who have shaped our world and their impact

• McDonalds Menu Activity

  Students will analyze two meals from McDonalds and create a graph to compare and contrast the nutritional value of their meals.

• Meet the Computer

  The lesson takes first graders on a tour of the computer. Teaching them the parts and functions of a computer, keyboard, and desktop.

• MI ÁRBOL GENEALÓGICO (MY FAMILY TREE)

  In this lesson students will create three-generation family tree using Inspiration 7.6

• Money Review

  Students will review counting nickels,dimes and pennies

• Motivating Reluctant Writers through Comic Strips

  As educators, we are always searching for new avenues to increase motivation during the writing process. Students built their own unique four to eight panel comic strip.

• Mountain Campsite Brochure Unit

  Students will research a mountain and its attraction, and then make a brochure to advertise this mountain.

• Muckraker WebQuest

  This assignment is designed to take students through various Internet resources to explore the role of muckrakers during the American Industrial Revolution and the Progressive Era

• Multiplication 9 as a factor

  This lesson plan helps students learn multiplication by 9's through the use of arrays and the finger-method.

• My Dog Can Book

  Students will create an original book using Microsoft Power Point.

• My Name Project

  Students will research the origin of their own names

• My Own Little Cloud

  After listening to and discussing the picture book Little Cloud by Eric Carle, students will use KidPix to create a picture of what their own little cloud will look like.

• New York State Brochure

  Students will create a three-fold brochure about New York State using a template created with Microsoft Publisher. This project can be easily modified to meet any topic.

• New York State Government Webquest

  Students are guided through the organization of state government and the budget process, how those funds are distributed to local districts, and how budget reductions affect the status quo.

• New York's First People Crossword Puzzle

  This lesson can be used as a vocabulary review by making their own crossword puzzle. It focuses on understanding the vocabulary and their definitions. It also teaches children to use the internet as a learning tool.

• Newspaper Study

  Students will read about the news in paper form newspapers and online news websites. They will compare the two different methods.

• Newspaper Writing

  In this lesson students evaluate news articles and then create a news article of their own.

• Nintendo Wii Sports

  Students will learn how to play Nintendo Wii Sports during physical education class.

• Nouns and Proper Nouns

  Differentiate between a noun and proper noun.

• Novel Soundtrack

  Create a Soundtrack CD for a Novel

• Number Recognition #1-10

  Students will listen to a counting book titled "One Hungry Monster" and then play a game in which they count out objects to match the number given.

• Number the Stars - Online Exhibition

  Students will read, listen, and explore online exhibitions from the National Holocaust Museum

• Numbers 1-20 in Spanish

  Students work in pairs and individually to practice 1-20 in Spanish

• Numbers Song

  Using the website blabberize.com, a blabber of students singing an original song was created.

• Nutrient Advertisement

  To introduce the basics about nutrients, students research from a text book or the internet to gather facts. Students create an advertisement to give the basic information about one of the six nutrients. While projects are being shared with the class, s

• Nutrient Review Jeopardy

  After doing a lesson on the six nutrients, this lesson can be used as a review before a test.

• Nutrition For Health

  The six nutrients are described by function with food examples in each category. Suggestions for planning a healthy diet to avoid obesity are given. Hints for teens to feel immediate benefits are included.

• Nutrition in First Grade

  This lesson will teach students about the food pryamid. It will teach them how to make good food choices. It will also inform the parents about ways they can improve their child's eating habits.

• Nutrition Super Hero

  Students will use internet websites provided by the teacher to research an essential nutrient. Students will create an essential nutrient poster in the form of a SUPER HERO.

• NYS 7th grade review

  Review for the NYS mathematics exam

• Online Book Reviews

  The students will input data into an online book review form. The data will then be collected and can be analyzed. Survey results will be posted, in particular, the most popular and highest-rated books will be displayed.

• Othello, Freud, and the Id, Ego and Superego

  This serves as a mini-lesson for the instructor in the beginning use of the Mimio for projecting and capturing, as well as a brainstorming tool.

• Othello, Venice and Vivaldi

  Course Title: Master Classics and Film (Grade 12 elective) General Concept: To understand the time period of a particular text Specific Topic: Othello, the text; as an introduction to “setting”, audio and video of Venice and the music of the time peiod

• Our Feelings Picture Book

  Students work in partners and use the internet to give a feeling or mood word to create a visual collage display of that emotion.

• Owl Investigation

  Learning about Owls through technology, reading and writing with investigation of owl pellets.

• Owls

  Through a literature component, the students will learn about owls. Both fiction and non-fiction books will be used. In addition, through the use of a SmartBoard and website, the students will become familiar with the characteristics of different owls.

• Pairs of Angles

  Students will watch a tutorial video to help them learn different types of angles and complete an online quiz after learning the content.

• Parts of Plant- Create Powerpoint

  Students will use their knowledge and class handouts on parts of a plant to create a powerpoint presentation.

• Paul Revere and the fiction of American history.

  This multidisciplinary (Humanities) lesson uses Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem to explore the myths/ realities of Paul Revere. It requires two class periods; the second in a computer lab environment so that each student has access to computer/internet

• Pen Pal Letters

  Students Write to Spanish Pen Pals Using Computers Via the Internet.

• Penguin PowerPoint

  This lesson teaches about the different kinds of penguins and their characteristics.

• Periodical Table Plotting

  Periodical Table Plotting Ionic Radius of Elements 1- 54

• Personal Finance - Saving & Investing

  Students are introduced to the basics of saving and investing. This includes how much to save, when to save, and options avaiable for individuals.

• Personification Poems

  The students will recall the definition of personificaion. This lesson will take place in the computer lab. The students will be using computers to write poems about personificaion. The students will use clipart to illustrate their poems.

• Photo Story 3 and Building a Class Story

  Motivating reluctant writers is a difficult task. As educators we are always searching for new avenues to increase motivation during the writing process. Students utilize Photostory 3 to write descriptive sentences about themselves.

• Photo Story 3 Poetry

  After learning about poetry and creating their own poems based on specific criteria, students will use Photo Story 3 to showcase their work. The program allows the students to incorporate different technology elements and be creative.

• Physical and Mental Action Words

  This lesson focuses on children distinguishing physical and mental action words. The children will have to demonstrate that they understand the differences between physical and mental action words.

• Physics Review with Google Earth

  Students will review basic formulas using data retrieved from google earth.

• Picture This!

  A Picture is worth a thousand words--Students will learn new vocabulary words using silly cartoons! Vocabulary usage and retention will soar!

• Picturing Adjectives

  Students will be taught that adjectives are words used to describe nouns, and students will be expected to generate adjectives in order to describe various nouns.

• Place Value

  Student will build and develop the concept of place value in an engaging way.

• Plant Growth Documentation

  This lesson encourages students to utilize a new computer software program while incorporating the 7th grade Science curriculum. Students will utilize Microsoft Excel to create a data table and graph to show their plant growth.

• Plant Life for Photo Story

  This lesson encourages students to utilize a new computer software program while incorporating the 7th grade Science curriculum. Students will research images of plants from the internet while also adding written information to their images.

• Plant Vocabulary Word Search

  This lesson provides a fun way to introduce or review vocabulary from our unit on plants.

• Plants & Seeds

  Students will be using the SMARTBoard to learn all about plants and seeds. The students will be labeling the parts of a plant and the parts of a seed. They will be sorting different seeds, measuring the seeds, and weighing the seeds. This lesson incorpo

• Plural Nouns

  This lesson teaches and reviews the rules for making singular nouns plural.

• Poetry

  In this lesson students will go to poetry website and locate a poem that want to use. They will identify author of poem. Practice reading poem and then perform in front of group.

• Poetry in "Motion"

  The students will choose a poem/song that reflects their life or a part of their life. They will use Microsoft Movie Maker and add personal photos, video clips and music.

• Polar Animals

  Students will learn about polar animals

• Political Parties

  Students will conduct an analysis and comparison of the Federalist and Democratic-Republican (Jeffersonian) political platforms and their impact on American policy.

• Popping Out Popcorn Words

  The purpose of this lesson is to introduce students to Microsoft Word and basic typing skills. The prior learning that is necessary for this lesson is basic listening, recognition of popcorn words, basic understanding of Microsoft Word and knowledge of t

• Power Point Book Report

  The students will state the elements of a story using power Point to creat a slide show.

• PowerPoint Book Report

  The students will do a book report using Microsoft Powerpoint. They will use a teacher created template for the report. The template will include hidden slides to guide the students through the creation of a slide show.

• Practice with Punctuation

  In this lesson, students will read sentences and practice placing correct punctuation marks at the ends of the sentences.

• Practicing Numbers 1-10

  Children will practice number recognition (1-10) as they complete color-by-number pictures.

• Prefixes, Suffixes, and Root Words

  To support the students daily vocabulary work I will use a BRAINPOP video along with the quick quiz at the end of the video. The students will use individual white board paddles to display their answers to the quiz questions.

• Prejudice in To Kill a Mockingbird

  Students will demonstrate their understanding of the words prejudice/discrimination and compare it to the story To Kill a Mockingbird.

• President Theodore Roosevelt intervenes in Latin America with his “Big Stick” foreign policy.

  This class activity uses a variety of media, including cartoons, text, and video to highlight President Theodore Roosevelt’s foreign policy. Discounting the pre-activity, this lesson requires 40 minutes, and requires a follow-up writing assignment.

• Preterite/Imperfect Video Skits!

  Checkpoint B students get creatively involved with the preterite and imperfect tenses. The end product is a video created by the students in which they act out various skits to demonstrate the uses of the preterite and the imperfect. My goal was for stude

• Principals of Democracy: Hangman review game

  Students will review for their final exam by playing an online hangman game.

• Producing a Video Lab Notebook

  Students will videotape physics laboratory procedures.

• Project Read

  This lesson will engage students in the beginning stages of Project Read by using the Promethean Board.

• Protractor Practice

  This lesson reviews measurement of angles.

• Public Service Announcements

  After studying any health topic students can demonstrate their knowledge by creating a public service announcement. This gives students the opportunity to create a project in many formats such as: art, video, music, or poetry. This lesson was based on

• Pumpkin Slideshow

  Students will create a slideshow about the life cycle of a pumpkin.

• Punic Wars PowerPoint with YouTube Video Clips

  This lesson will teach students about the Punic Wars of ancient Rome through the use of PowerPoint notes with YouTube video clips.

• Quintessential Quadratic Qualities

  How do changes to a quadratic equation impact the graph of the equation (parabola)?

• Rainbow Writing Using a Promethean Board

  Students will use a Promethean Board to rainbow write upper and lower case alphabet letters. This interactive tool will enhance their accuracy in writing skills.

• Rainforest Animal Webs using Kidspiration

  Using Kidspiration, students will make webs about Rainforest animals using information they have collected from the internet, books, and information provided by the teacher.

• Reading A Micrometer and a Vernier Calipers

  Learning how to use precision measuring tools in small engine repair class.

• Reading Popcorn Words off the Smart Board

  Children read popcorn (sight) words using the "random word sorter" found in the gallery of Smart Board Notebook software.

• Real word or silly word?

  In this lesson, students will review phonics skills using consonant and vowel letter dice and a graphic organizer.

• Reconstruction Political Cartoon

  In this lesson, students will use a cartoon-making website to create a political cartoon about Reconstruction

• Recording A Radio Show

  The student will setup a soundboard and record a 6th grade radio show.

• Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle

  In this lesson students will explore a song by Jack Johnson, which teaches about the importance of reducing, reusing, and recycling waste.

• Reflections using the TI 84+ and the Smartboard

  Students will use the TI84+ and the Smartboard to learn how to do reflections over the x snd y axis

• Reform Movement Photostory

  This is a photostory that introduces the Industrial Revolution, Reform Movement, and Workers Rights Movements.

• Regents Practice with Castle Learning!

  This activity is for Level III Spanish students as they prepare for the New York State Regents Exam in Spanish! This may be completed in school or at home!

• Renewable Resource Commercial

  Students have been studying Renewable Resources for a few weeks. Students have studied hydro, solar, and wind power but now it is time for them to explore other options. Students will be allowed to choose any type of renewable resource that we have not st

• Researching on The Internet

  Students will use the internet to research information about simple machines.

• Review Jeopardy - 13 colonies

  Jeopardy review game - Students will actively participate in a review activity designed to incorporate their prior knowledge of key concepts and terms

• Reviewing Algebraic Fractions

  Students use the Smart Response controllers to choose solutions to algebraic fractions problems.

• Reviewing Skills Using Jeopardy

  Using the popular game Jeopardy, you can review any of the skills taught in your classroom to prepare your students for a test. The Jeopardy games that are published here are for reading and phonics review, however there is also a blank jeopardy board ga

• Rhyming Words

  Students will first listen to a rhyming book "Miss Mary Mack" and next play a game in which they have to choose the correct words that rhyme.

• Rocking to the ABC's of Ancient Egypt

  Using a PowerPoint presentation, the students will be introduced to the main themes and content of the unit to the tune of "Walk Like an Egyptian" by the Bangles. This activity will serve as the "Table of Contents" for our study of ancient Egypt.

• Roles of the President: A Video Clip Based Essay

  Teachers will reinvigorate a traditional lesson plan using computer and video technology. Using a common essay and video clips, student knowledge will be enhanced by identifying and evaluating modern presidents fulfilling their duties on video clips.

• School Tour

  To create a tour of the school in Spanish.

• Science Review Crossword Puzzle

  This lesson will provide a fun way for students to review content vocabulary. Students will design their own puzzle to share with classmates.

• Score! With Vocabulary

  Finally, a quick and engaging vocabulary activity that doesn't inflict instant boredom! This take on the classic game where students choose letters to guess a word helps to incorporate vocabulary terms in an efficient manner.

• Show and Tell using Photo Story3

  Students will create a Show and Tell story using Photo Story3 for Windows. The goal is to have students use their own real stories to create a project in the preterit tense in the target language. Photo Story3 for Windows is a simple program to use.

• Showing Temperature Comparisons using Excel to Create Line Graphs.

  This lesson will have students collect data on a website regarding temperatures of two different communities. They will input data to create a line graph to show trends over a week of time.

• Skyping with an Anthropologist in Egypt

  The students will use skyping technology to communicate with an anthropologist working at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, Egypt. By interviewing the New York native, the students will learn more about the culture and history of Egypt.

• Slavery In America

  Students will create a 6 slide PowerPoint presentation using facts from the internet, classroom notes, and teacher lessons about slavery in America during the 1700-1800's. Students will identify slave's roles, life, and middle passage.

• Slope and Rate of Change - a data driven approach

  This lesson teaches slope as a powerful tool that is applicable in every walk of life. Slope is represented algebraically and graphically to enhance mathematical skills.

• Small Wonders at Sea World

  Students will locate and learn about new animal arrivals at Sea World.

• Smart Board Statistics

  Students gather data from smart notebook software in order to draw frequency tables and histograms.

• Smartboards Making Us Smart

  The purpose of this lesson is to introduce students to using our class Smartboard during small group instructional time. The prior learning that is necessary for this lesson is basic listening and knowledge of the letters of the alphabet or sight words.

• Snowmen at Night and During the Day

  This is a fun activity done over 4 days that allows students to use a Venn diagram to compare and contrast a fun winter character- the snowman!

• Soccer Introduction

  Students will learn different positions on a soccer field and basic soccer rules from interactions with the Promethean Board soccer diagram.

• Soccer Quiz

  Students will be given a 10-question soccer quiz on the Promethean Board using the Activotes.

• Social Studies Grade 8 Review

  This lesson uses a Jeopardy game to review major facts pertaining to the following units: The Industrial Revolution, Foreign Policy, World War 1, The Depression and World War 2.

• Softball Introduction

  Students will learn different positions on a softball field and basic rules from a website and use of the Promethean Board.

• Softball Quiz

  Students will be given a 20-question softball quiz on the Promethean Board using the ActiVotes.

• Solar System and Space TimeLine

  Students will make a timeline of important solar system and Space events in history from 1600-Present.

• Solving Equations with Fractions

  Students use SMART Response controllers to review for a unit quiz on the basics of multiplying fractions, coverting between improper fractions and mixed numbers, and greatest common factors.

• South America Hispanohablante – Countries, Capitals & Flags,

  This is a PowerPoint that I have created to work as Flashcards for students to Remember Spanish Speaking Countries, Capitals and Flags. I find that I do not have a lot of time to dedicate to this in class, but I do give them bonus points on random quiz.

• SPANISH CLASS ART GALLERY

  I designed this unit to introduce famous painters from Spain, Colombia and Mexico as part of the cultural aspect in the L.O.T.E. (Language Other Than English) program.

• Speech Bubble Fun In Speech Class

  Speech and language therapy students will use speech bubbles and quotation marks to indicate their learning and understanding of how characters feel and what they say to one another.

• Spiders vs. Insects

  The students will help to create a venn diagram comparing the similarities and differences of spiders and insects

• States of Matter

  Students will be using the SMARTBoard during a whole group lesson to learn about the three phases of matter. They will be learning about solids, liquids, and gases. Then they will be playing an interactive game to reinforce these skills that were taught

• Storming the Beaches of Normandy

  D-day is used in military terminology to denote the day when an attack is to be initiated. Its similar to x-time The best known D-Day is June 6, 1944, this is the Battle of Normandy. This was a major battle in which is noted as a turning point in WWII.

• Story Telling Using the Preterite and Imperfect

  Students tell a story in the target language which includes illustrations.

• Story writing with eVoyages B

  In this lesson students will create stories to go along with the pictures and pages in a familiar story.

• Student Book Review

  This lesson is geared toward students who are above average readers. Each student will pick an appropriate chapter book. Once they have completed the book they will be able to use the website www.alanbrown.com to write a book review.

• Students Composing Questions

  The students will read a short story and write questions to enhance their English Language Art skills.

• Survey of Holes and related activities

  Created a survey on a novel we read together to gain student input and to have students evaluate the related activities.

• Take a trip on the Underground Railroad

  Take a trip on the Underground Railroad! You will be able to experience the journey of a slave to freedom.

• Tally Charts and Bar Graphs

  Students will create a bar graph using data from a tally chart. *Students in Grade 3 are expected to create a bar graph and/or a pictograph on the New York State Grade 3 Mathematics Test.

• Tangerine Wiki

  A Wiki was created on the novel Tangerine to afford students the opportunity of discussing certain aspects of the novel over the internet to create a deeper understanding of the characters

• Taylor Polynomial Series for Calculus 2

  The students will be able to write a Taylor Series Polynomial from a given a function

• Telling Time

  Students will use a teacher created Smart Board clock template to tell the time to the hour and minute. Students will be able to drag the hour and minute hand to create a given time.

• Telling time

  Teach 1st through 3rd graders to tell time on analog and digital clocks

• Telling Time In Kindergarten

  Kindergarten students will learn to tell time on the hour by drawing the hour and minute hands on a blank analog clock and writing the time using a Promethean Board.

• Telling Time in Spanish

  Students will learn how to tell time in Spanish using the SMARTboard

• Thanksgiving

  This is a Thanksgiving lesson for first grade

• The Amazing History Race, Lesson 1

  A week long research-based game begins with Lesson One. The lessons for subsequent days will be posted in order. Combined, they constitute a five day (in a row) history "race". Students will use five different technologies to complete the race.

• The Amazing History Race, Lesson 2

  Lesson Two requires students to use Virtual Field Trips in order to obtain the necessary information to move their team forward in the 'The Amazing History Race', modeled after the hit show "The Amazing Race".

• The Amazing History Race, Lesson 3

  Lesson three is part of a week long unit where student pairs 'race' one another to complete research challenges. Lesson three focuses on the creation of an Interactive Timeline, using photos and text to tell a story.

• The Amazing History Race, Lesson 4

  Lesson four is part of a week long unit where student pairs 'race' one another to complete research challenges. Lesson four asks student pairs to create a BrowserPoint presentation, highlighting qualities of a "perfect" politician running for office.

• The Amazing Race, Lesson 5

  Lesson five, part of a five day unit, has students competing in their research 'race' utilizing a blog. Students will receive their challenges and respond to them on a teacher's blog.

• The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

  Students will explore Lincoln's assassination through online research and then use what they have learned to write a detailed newspaper article.

• The Bill of Rights

  The students will learn what rights are guaranteed by the Bill of Rights of the US Constitution.

• The Burger Rehnquist Courts

  The students will study the lasting effects of decisions made by the Burger and Rehnquist Courts. They will be given background information on the US Supreme Court and will be asked to complete a webquest for information on specific landmark Supreme Cour

• The Displaced Person

  Course Title: Master Classics and Film (grade 12 elective) Unit studied: "Displaced Person" Specific Topic: The concept of "displacement" and its effects on the persons of the world

• The First New Deal

  This lesson introduces and discusses Roosevelt's First New Deal.

• The Hero Project

  Students create scripts and use Digital Storytelling software to portray their concept of a hero.

• The Industrial Revolution in our backyard

  The students will begin to relate generalizations that they have learned about the industrialization to people, places and events in their own hometown.

• The Olympics

  Through activities on the internet, students will research information about the host country of the Olympics and specific sports represented in the Olympics.

• The Planets

  Students will learn about the planets in the solar system.

• The Raven - A Picture Book

  The students will construct a picture book for Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven.

• The Roles of the President

  The students will become aquainted with the roles of the President of the United States and find video clips on the web illustrating the President of the United States acting in each of these roles/

• The Seneca Falls’ Declaration of Sentiments Expands the Declaration of Independence

  This class activity uses primary sources to identify the influences and goals of the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848. This activity can be done as a computer lab activity or an in-class activity. There is a post-lesson writing activity also.

• The Underground Railroad

  Students will travel through history to learn about the Underground Railroad through types of conditions, slavery, capture, and freedom.

• The Vietnam War through Music and Film

  This lesson is designed to demonstrate for students how they will be analyzing a song of their choice and film of their choice related to the Vietnam War. In the assignment for students, they will analyze a song line by line, researching the meaning and

• The Water Cycle - A Powerpoint

  After studying the water cycle, students will create a powerpoint presentation to demonstrate their understanding of each part of the cycle.

• The Watergate Scandal - From the Big Screen to the Classroom.

  As part of a unit on the Watergate scandal students create a brief PowerPoint on one of the individuals depicted in the movie All The Presidents Men. Students will then analyze and critique current events in the context of the movie.

• Theoretical and Experimental Probability

  The students will use Smartboard manipulatives and lesson to learn about probability. The students will calculate theoretical probability for dice, coins and spinners. Next, the students will conduct a test with the dice, spinner, and coins to find the ex

• Theoretical versus Experimental probability

  Learning the difference between theoretical and experimental probability and to use simulations

• This Week In Music Podcast

  Students research music history events that occurred during a given week, and record a podcast on the subject

• Three Branches of Government

  This lesson introduces the three branches of government and explains their responsibilities and briefly touches on the checks and balances of each branch.

• Time Traveling Travel Agents

  Students have been studying Geological Time for the past two weeks using notes, their reference tables, videos, and labs. This project was designed to get their creative minds working in order to understand and visualize Earth’s time periods. Students wer

• Topography Review

  This lesson will be used at the end of the school year to help the students review for their regents exam.

• Trail of Tears

  This lesson plan introduces context clues to help understand the vocabulary found in The Trail of Tears reading selection. Inspiration is also used.

• Transitional Phrases

  This is a quick quiz that I will have students do for a homework assignment. This is to help upper level students study transitional phrases with the hopes that they will use them in their writing.

• TRAVEL TO A LATIN AMERICAN PARADISE

  This lesson is designed to help students explore Spain and Latin American countries.

• Treasure Hunt - Integrated Algebra Review

  This is approximately a week long project reviewing different topics from Unit 1 - Unit 4.

• Triangle Centers

  Several Internet sources were used to ease the difficulty of constructions in Geometry, especially the triangle centers.

• Tuck Everlasting Travel Brochure

  Students will make a travel brochure of Treegap in the book Tuck Everlasting

• Understanding Biographical Essays

  Students will look up past presidential biographical essays to help them to understand biographical essays.

• UNDERSTANDING SYMBOLISM

  Students will learn why authors use symbols for the words that are abstract.

• Understanding the Japanese life in Interment Camps by Reading Biographical Essays

  Students will develop a power point with 8 slides on why and how the Japanese were treated after the attack on Pearl Harbor December 7th, 1941.They are to review a personal account of Japanese life during that time period.

• Uppercase & Lowercase Letter Match

  Students will practice upper and lowercase alphabet recognition in the following lesson. In the first game children will be asked what letter comes next when the lion stops singing the Alphabet Song before completion. In the second game students play a ma

• US - Midwest States and Capitals

  This powerpoint serves as an introduction to a unit on the Midwest Region of the United States. It includes a slide on each of the states that are included in this region. It also identifies the capital, flag, nickname, and a map with major cities.

• US - Northeast States and Capitals

  This powerpoint serves as an introduction to a unit on the Northeast Region of the United States. It includes a slide on each of the 11 states that are included in this region. It also identifies the capital, flag, nickname, and a map with major cities.

• US - Southeast States and Capitals

  This powerpoint serves as an introduction to a unit on the Southeast Region of the United States. It includes a slide on each of the states that are included in this region. It also identifies the capital, flag, nickname, and a map with major cities.

• US - Southwest States and Capitals

  This powerpoint serves as an introduction to a unit on the Southwest Region of the United States. It includes a slide on each of the states that are included in this region. It also identifies the capital, flag, nickname, and a map with major cities.

• US - West Region States and Capitals

  This powerpoint serves as an introduction to a unit on the West Region of the United States. It includes a slide on each of the states that are included in this region. It also identifies the capital, flag, nickname, and a map with major cities.

• US History 11 Review for Regents Exam Web Quest

  This lesson is a web quest that allows studetns to navigate and review for their US History 11 Regents Exam.

• Using a Gizmo to Compute Volume

  Students will utilize a Gizmo (online activity/visual) to help them compute volumes of various geometric shapes.

• Using a Venn Diagram to Build a Compare and Contrast Essay

  Students will use an interactive version of a Venn diagram to visually compare and contrast information gathered from reading Cranberry Christmas by Wendy and Harry Devlin and from watching a video of the same title.

• Using Delicious.com to Organize Research Notes

  Students will use Delicious (a free social bookmarking service) to find, organize, and share their online research as a means to the successful completion of a research project.

• Using Pictures to Compare Fractions

  This lesson is designed to teach students how to compare fractions using pictures.

• Using Regular -AR Verbs

  This lesson was designed to help Spanish students at Checkpoint A understand how to conjugate regular -AR verbs and correctly use them to convey meaning

• Using Venn Diagrams to Organize Data

  The students will be able to use a Venn Diagram to organize information in a clear, concise format and get an immediate view at the conclusion of his/her project.

• Utilizing Microsoft Moviemaker to Build a Class Movie about Spring

  Students in special education classrooms are easily discouraged because of their lack of essential vocabulary or inability to spell sight words. Students will utilize Microsoft Moviemaker and design sentences about the signs of spring using a digital came

• Vascular and Non-Vascular Plants

  This lesson discusses the differences between vascular and non-vascular plants.

• Verbs: Past and Present

  In this lesson, students will review what a verb is as well as distuingish between present and past tense verbs.

• Video Time Line

  Use Movie Maker to create a visual representation, in the form of a video time line, to demonstrate how people grow and change over time.

• Videos del Pretérito e Imperfecto

  This lesson/project was developed for Spanish students at Checkpoint B as a way to get them creatively involved with the preterite and imperfect tenses. The end product is a video created by the students in which they act out various skits to demonstrate

• Virtual Field Trip

  Students will create a Virtual field Trip using the Internet. They will budget their resources of Time, People, Capital, and Materials.

• Vocabulary Tiles

  Students will use Smart Board technologies to learn and or review new vocabulary for any subject across the curriculum.

• Water Cycle

  One important concept in science is that the world works through cycles. One of those important cycles is the water cycle. In this lesson students will learn the steps of the water cycle through a fun and interactive website

• We All Grow

  The students will be able to recognize and understand the concept of growing through reading and music activities. They will demonstrate through body movement the action of growing within the poem and song.

• Weasel By Cynthia DeFelice Blog

  The Blog is designed to target gifted readers who are reluctant to share intellectual ideas in a regular classroom.

• Weather and how it impacts our lives

  Lesson to introduce my students to the concepts of weather and how it affects our lives. This lesson is designed for a secondary level behavior management class. All students are classified and have multiple behavior and management needs.

• Weather around the world

  This lesson is designed to tie to weather units. Students will gain an understanding of temperature conditions in cities around the world during a two-week period. Students will also learn how to create graphs using Microsoft excel.

• Weather in Your City

  Student will use weather website to learn about weather in their city and complete worksheet.

• Web Site Evaluation

  Through classroom discussions and activities on the internet, students will learn about criteria used to evaluate the quality of websites.

• Web-quest Creations

  Prior Learning: Students have been introduced to the metric unit but have not been introduced to any Earth Science material. This lesson will allow students to explore all topics covered in Earth Science in order to familiarize themselves for the topics

• Weekly Wordle

  Using website wordle.net, a wordle was made for the letter being studied.

• WELCOME TO ADOBE PREMIERE ELEMENTS – Organization of Data, Lesson 1

  This is a combination of several lessons where students will be actively engaged when they are introduced to Adobe Premiere Elements software as a means to create Public Service Announcements (PSA).

• WELCOME TO ADOBE PREMIERE ELEMENTS - Program Workspace and Terminology, Lesson 2

  In this lesson, students will be introduced to the Adobe Premiere Elements software workspaces. Students will complete the list of terminology definitions given by the teacher and be able to recall and identify the various workspaces in the program.

• WELCOME TO ADOBE PREMIERE ELEMENTS – Adding Audio Files – Lesson 5

  In this lesson students will learn how to insert audio clips into their project. Details for the use of copyrighted material will be stressed.

• WELCOME TO ADOBE PREMIERE ELEMENTS – Adding Titles and Copy – Lesson 4

  In this lesson students will learn how to insert title and copy slides. They will be reminded about the importance of saving their projects regularly.

• WELCOME TO ADOBE PREMIERE ELEMENTS – New Project Creation and Arranging Clips – Lesson 3

  In this lesson students will learn how to begin a new project and save it in the designated Public Service Announcement (PSA) folder. Students will also learn how to import media to their project and then arrange the clips in a sensible order.

• Welcome To My School

  ESL students will create a Photo Story in order to act as a school tour guide.

• West Point Projects

  This lesson can take as little as 1- 40 min period or as long as the instructor desires. Instructors are able to download the West Point Bridge building design software for free and compete in regional competitions with their students.

• WhaleQuest

  Students can complete this Google WhaleQuest in order to learn about whale characteristics, kinds of whales, whale migration routes, and what is being done to protect whales that are endangered.

• What A Character!

  In this lesson students will use Kidspiration Software to help them describe traits from a favorite character. Using the software they will be able to list examples of these traits from the literature.

• What career will you have?

  This lesson focuses on exposing students to various careers and trying to build an interest among the students for the process of choosing an enjoyable and rewarding career. Lesson is for behavior management class.

• What should future generations remember about the Holocaust?

  The Holocaust is a very tragic part of world history that should be remembered in a variety of ways. If students are able to express themselves through a letter written to future generations then they will be able to choose what they feel is important.

• Who Am I Presidential Posters

  The students will create unidentified Presidential Posters showing facts of a U. S. President titled, "Who Am I?". The posters will share an image and facts of a U.S. President by using the internet for research and Microsoft word to create the poster.

• Wiki Creation

  Students will use a wiki to present information from a unit project that will enable other student to view, discuss, and contribute to the wiki presentation.

• Winter Activities Day

  To create a positive school experience for all students using Google Documents

• Wolves

  Students will fluently read a nonfiction text on wolves. They will display the text on the promethean board.

• Women's Right's Webquest

  Students will create museum exhibits to be placed in a Women's Rights Museum.

• Women’s Equality in the United States: “You’ve Come A Long Way?”

  This class activity uses primary sources and internet resources to identify the progress made by the United States women’s movement since it first officially organized in 1848. It is a good follow-up lesson to the Seneca Falls’ Declaration of Sentiments

• Word Art

  Students create word art as an assessment for compound words. This exercise could be also used for grammar, vocabulary, report writing, etc.

• World Religions Overview

  A thorough understanding of belief systems will lead to an appreciation of the religions of today.

• World War I Photograph and Video Discussion

  This lesson is designed for 10th grade Global History students. The goal of the lesson is for students to use a variety of photographs and videos chosen by the teacher to interpret various events of World War I. The photographs and videos will be presen

• World War I Powerpoint

  Students will understand the causes of WWI through a powerpoint presentation and a role playing activity.

• World War One Web Quest Essay

  Students will use the web to gather information and construct an essay on the events that triggered World War One.

• Write about Buried Treasure in the Sea!

  Write about buried treasure in the sea! What would you do if you found a treasure.

• Writing a Compare/Contrast Essay Using Research from Grolier’s Online Encyclopedia and World Book Online Encyclopedia

  Students will collect information from two reputable online sources then compare/contrast what they find in a Word document that correctly attributes that information to its source.

• Writing a Personal Narrative Using a Flow Chart

  This flowchart graphic organizer lesson makes it easy for students to write and organize their ideas. They can use it to put their complete thoughts into a cohesive five paragraph Personal Narrative essay.

• Writing and Illustrating a Book

  This lesson is designed to stimulate creativity in above average readers during AIS time.

• WWII Strategy in the Pacific

  This lesson shows the allies strategies for defeating the Japanese Empire during WWII in the Pacific.

• You Can Grow Your Intelligence!

  Students will learn about the latest brain research and how they can use it to make themselves smarter!

• Young Adult Author Study

  The students will build background knowledge about young adult authors, learn library skills needed to conduct research, create a PowerPoint slide, and present information gathered to the class.

• ¡Vamos a GLOG!

  This lesson/project was developed for Spanish students at any level as a way to encourage communication in Spanish with classmates using Glogster, and specifically for Checkpoint B students to practice the future tense

• ¿Qué Te Gusta Hacer?

  Students at Checkpoint A will build their vocabulary regarding activities which they like or dislike doing

• “Wonka Bars: From Chocolate to Graphs” (Bar and Line graphs). This is designed to be a 2-day lesson.

  How do we measure the outcomes of experiments, and how can we represent those measurements?

• …If Your Name was Changed at Ellis Island

  This lesson plan can be used for ELA or Social Studies class. It allows the students to become knowledgeable on the topic about Immigration and Ellis Island. In addition, it allows students to teach their classmates.