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| FCSU Technology Integration Lesson Plans Grades 7 - 8 Click on the link associated with each of the descriptions below to read the entire lesson and look at examples. To search for lessons by Technology GCE, Content GCE or Standards, or other characteristics click here. |
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Language Arts
Creating A Simple Web Page Using Response to Text - Using Response to Text Word documents, students will use Word to create a simple web page with relative and absolute links.
Writing to Inform: Meet our Community: Interview with a Community Member - Students will use a Publishers Wizard for Brochures to report on a community member whom they have interviewed. The student will include: a cover page with a recent digital photo and an important quote/motto, a table of relevant biographic background, a summary on the personality, and the contributions to the community by this person.
Top Ten Traits To Know About Me - This activity is an icebreaker activity well suited to the first days of school, a get to know each other activity. Students will use technology to create a poster of the ten most important personality traits that they feel the staff and other students need to know about themselves. Posters will be published in the classroom and hallways. Always remind students to protect their privacy (i.e.; Don’t publish traits about themselves that they don’t want to be public). This is a great activity to have completed before an autumn Open House or parent conferences.
Social Studies
Unified Arts
Art - Digital Photo Manipulation Lesson - Using Microsoft PhotoDraw, students will manipulate a photograph of themselves to create a distorted version of the photo. This manipulated photo could be used in a later lesson. (The students could try to recreate what they see in the distorted version in the art room by using charcoal, paint, colored pencil etc.)
Art - Artist Study Fact Sheet - The purpose of this lesson is not to teach students how to use the PowerPoint program, but to use their prior knowledge of this program to add to an art history lesson, and to create an interactive, fun way for students to work with information on famous artists!! Using Microsoft PowerPoint students will create individual fact cards based on a famous artist from the past or present. The Fact card will allow students to display an example of the artist’s work, and information discovered during research of that artist. This is a fun and interactive way for students to become more familiar with a masterpiece and its maker. The student’s fact cards can be put together to create a resource book of famous artists as well as a slide show for all to view.
Art - Microsft Paint Artist Study - Using Microsoft Paint, students will create a drawing in the style of a particular artist (Joan Miro). Creating this drawing will allow student to express themselves while exploring the style and techniques used by a particular artist (Miro = repeated colors, designs, shapes, lines etc.)
Music - Rondo Power Point ala Beethoven (or Any Other Composer) - This could be the final activity for a unit on Beethoven. Students will demonstrate their understanding of “rondo” form through the use of a Power Point presentation. They will also research on selected websites facts about the composer and include them in the presentation
French - About Me – Creating a Web Page - Students will create a Web page of themselves using Word or Front Page program for their pen pals to view. They will also include an absolute link to our school’s website. The page will allow students to introduce themselves in more depth then they did in the postcard lesson. Because of privacy issues with posting student’s information on the Internet, I will have the students email their page to their pals instead of posting it.
Digital Camera's to Analyze Movement Performance - Students will be using a digital camera to capture a video clip of a partner's movement performance. Students will then import their video into the computer for analysis. Students will look at how they can improve their skill technique.
Other
Guidance - Top Ten Traits To Know About Me - This activity is an icebreaker activity well suited to the first days of school, a get to know each other activity. Students will use technology to create a poster of the ten most important personality traits that they feel the staff and other students need to know about themselves. Posters will be published in the classroom and hallways. Always remind students to protect their privacy (i.e.; Don’t publish traits about themselves that they don’t want to be public). This is a great activity to have completed before an autumn Open House or parent conferences.
Research – Organizing with PowerPoint - Students will use features within Microsoft Powerpoint as a tool to collecting, managing, and examining information, including a plan for citing sources when conducting research. Powerpoint will be used to create bibliography cards and note cards while conducting the research as well as to organize and connect information and ideas. The process will lend themselves to the printing of their research information in an ‘informal’ outline format
The lesson plans included here were created by the following FCSU teachers in August of 2005.
Sally Lawyer |
Amanda Parker |
Heather Lamson |
Harry Gleim |
Arlene Jarvis |
David Pierce |
Isabelle Passini |
Mike Konrad |
Helen Lanthier |
Dave Davidson |
Sheila McKennerney |
Lucie deLaBruere |
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