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Great lesson using creativity in a multimedia slide show using Kid Pix- this is a language arts lesson that contains elements of nouns, verbs, sequencing..etc. This lesson is great because it goes into what the students need to know before beginning the lesson and what the teacher needs to perpare into for everything to run smoothly.

This economics lesson was developed by The Department of Treasury, Citigroup, and the University of Missouri-St. Louis. Here is one of the developers: Money Math: Lessons for Life teaches students responsible financial practices before they develop bad habits. For example, one path to accumulating wealth is to start saving at a young age and let compounding interest pay you for your effort. Another is to plan your budget realistically, by bringing your income and expenses into balance-minimizing spending so that you will have money to save. These two life lessons alone would reduce credit card debt, reduce financial pressures on families, and increase personal savings and wealth. It's a long, but thorough course.

While Scholastic's site is well known for its helpful lessons and resources for teachers, this page lays out five excellent lessons that address student health issues. Teachers can also use reproducibles that go along with each lesson.

These videos, provided by the Apple Learning Interchange, provide a short snippet about a particular topic (in this case, the changes humans cause on animal habitats) and then launch into a multifaceted lesson. Teachers have a purpose, learning activities, resources, and examples of student projects to use to guide them through the provided lessons. Standards are clearly represented through an "Evidence of Learning" section (with rubrics) as well as NETS and 21st Century Learning Skills Alignments sections. Teachers can use many available photos and interviews during the lesson, as well.

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This lesson plan--sure to be popular!--asks students to participate in a debate on whether video games help with literacy, based on a NYTimes article by Motoko Rich. This lesson allows kids to be reflective and analyze the differences between media beyond the debate question itself.

This website gives a couple lessons for all grade levels but I bookmarked the fourth grade level for internet safety lesson and how to handle school technology equipment.

Students will write a descriptive paragraph about a fictional dinosaur character using writing process steps and extend their writing with illustration and Word Art title. Teachers in grades 3-5 can introduce the fun and easy tech integration aspects of this lesson into a writing lesson of their own.

This lesson uses the CIA WorldFactBook to help students compare economic systems of different countries to the United States.

BrainPop is a highly-regarded, Flash-based video site that offers an array of movies on all kinds of curricular topics covered during the school year. This particular site provides the framework for a teacher to teach a lesson on animal habitats. Beyond just watching the movie and answering the quiz questions, the educator site gives the objectives, materials, preparation, lesson procedures, vocabulary, and extension activities to do with the students. You will have to create a free educator account to gain access to this page.

Tap into the Web and learn how to preserve our planet -- and help others learn how, too. Lesson plans on environmental issues and recycling.

This lesson was done in cojunction with the Smithsonian Institute and Jamestown. Students podcasted their experiences with the Jamestown site, demonstrating that new technology could be used to learn about historical sites. This lesson could be modified for any number of historical sites.

This lesson hits around the 3-4th grade level. It is a fun activity that helps teach division through reading the book, When the Doorbell Rang to the class. The students get to have cookies and milk which anytime you use food in a lesson I have learned in motivating! They also will used kid pix for integration of technology after the story practicing creating problems for other students in the class to solve.

I had to teach fairy tales last year and this would have been a great lesson/unit that I could have used it goes week by what to do with your students. The students are writing their own fairy tales based on stories they have read and designing their own multimedia presentations through powerpoint and other technologies. Great lesson!

A lesson integrating language arts and technology in the classroom. Older students are split up into groups and they are to create photo stories and newsletters for a younger classroom. This lessons says kindergarten, but depending on your grade level you could use a first or second grade class too. The sort of act as reporters and pick out photos and classroom stories to put into a layout program for that class.

science lesson for fourth grade where students will learn about vertebrates and record them in their science journal. They will then divide up into groups and produce a Hyperstudio presentation about the vertebrate. Great technology lesson integration.

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In this article, the author describes a project where students in a 4th grade classroom complete Internet-based lessons about each region of the United States. They then use presentation tools like PowerPoint (which could now be Web 2.0 presentations tools, since this article was published in 2002) to create take-home reports to share with their parents. This artcile has some great ideas and insights into things that could be done differently the next time. Technology upgrades would also make the lessons more interesting, being that it is 2008.

This article talks about a project that was used in a social studies curriculum for 4 or 5th grade students where there is technology integrated into internet based lessons. They also use technology to prepare reports. The beginning gives a quick introduction about technology and the internet in schools today to prepare children for real-world situations. Then it goes into describing the project given to the students and how it affected them.

These web-based modules would be especially helpful to a teacher teaching a life-skills unit in conjunction with instruction by a guidance counselor. All five lessons (important relationships, resolving disputes, dealing with loss, rules and roles, and celebrations and family gatherings) all center around important people in children's lives, namely friends and family. Students can interact with the website and post feelings about what they've learned. The Kidlink site is great overall.

This interdisciplinary lesson plan (civics, health, and science are covered) helps students pick apart myths about science that arise on the campaign trail. Obviously, it's time-sensitive, but it's important for kids to know that what candidates say is not always, well, the truth, particularly when it comes to science.