• Here are some PowerPoint lessons:
• This is a lesson to teach students how to use the Microsoft PowerPoint program
• Here’s a lesson on creating PowerPointpresentations
• Students research colleges and make a PowerPoint presentation to meet rubric guidelines in this lesson
• This is a beginning-of-school self-introductory PowerPoint presentation idea
• In this well-developed lesson, students create and present their original research in written report, PowerPoint, and GarageBand formats

• These are Photo Story 3 and Movie Makerlessons:
• Here students study multimedia persuasion techniques and use them to create Photo Story 3 advertisements
• This is good tutorial on using Photo Story 3 to create memorable multimedia presentations, or even scholarship applications
• Students develop a story using Photo Story 3 here to demonstrate the application of multimedia in the classroom
• Students acquaint themselves with the Photo Story 3 medium here while making simple 4-picture stories
• Here students learn Photo Story 3 basics while making their own personal photo story
• This multimedia lesson teaches how to use key images and music to convey a theme in a personal photo story
• Here students visually depict the duties of their career of choice using copyright safe images and Photo Story 3 software
• Students gain practical experience using Photo Story 3 here by creating a digital campus tour for visitors
• Here students create a 30-second photo story commercial for their personal hero
• Students present college and career exploration information here using Movie Maker software

• These are Excel, Spreadsheet and Graphing lessons:
• This lesson is on graphing with Microsoft Excel
• Here’s a lesson on using a spreadsheet to budget room expenses
• Here’s an idea for using Excel to calculate students’ community service time
• In this lesson, students develop a family budget using a spreadsheet
• Here students use Excel worksheets to create a personal budget

Electronic Communications (E-Mail):

• This is a lesson on e-mail that makes use of the free Hotmail accounts
• Simply called “Emoticons,” this lesson addresses the smiley faces in email such as :)

General:

• These are great hardware, software, and internet worksheet and center activities
• This PowerPoint assignment to digitally document the assistive technology available in school engages students with their classmates with disabilities

Internet:

• Here is an interesting idea for a Web Wall Bulletin Board where students interactively share website ideas
• This is a fun lesson on web page design using the free Netscape Composer tool
• This is a scavenger hunt for the movie Star Wars and helps develop internet research skills
• Online safety is discussed in this lesson for teens
• Here is a good lesson plan for creating a website
• In this internet lesson, students write responsibly about local businesses on wikicommunity.org
• WordArt and ClipArt are used in this get-acquainted filler activity idea
• This is an internet search engine and media center scavenger hunt
• This Google Docs® tutorial teaches students how to create, store, and share documents with a group online without creating multiple copies

Technical:

• This idea involves scanning and/or using digital cameras to observe tree bark
• An activity using digital cameras to capture shapes in nature
• This is an advanced lesson plan on undertanding SQL databases
• Here’s a fun Jeopardy-style game idea for learning computer terms

Typing:

• This very fun idea is called Musical Computers (Chairs)
• Here’s a lesson plan for Creating Posters with Microsoft Word that works on Formatting and Grammar

Other / Multiple Topics:

• This plan is for acquiring study skills and using Internet resources
• Here is an elaborate idea for creating an interactive media community service project involving the creation of a logo, letterhead, brochure, newspaper ad, and PowerPoint presentation about a local cause and its solution
• This is an excellent webquest on preventing and dealing with street teen gangs
• This is a lesson on surviving a job interview
• In this space WebQuest, Earth “investigators” access several types of software and on-line media to create an Interplanetary Movement Passport PowerPoint
• Students research how technological changes impact employment opportunities in the computer field in this Photo Story 3 lesson
• Here students demonstrate the importance of ergonomics in the workplace by creating a digital photo story
• These fun online research project ideas are useful during transition periods or at the end of the school year

Art Connections:

• Photography is the subject of this lesson involving Dorthea Lange’s Migrant Mother
• Students study masters of surrealism and create surrealist computer art cubes in this two-week lesson

Language Arts Connections:

• The complete unit below is on different types of Technical Writing:
• This is the introduction to the Technical Writing Unit
• The first lesson plan is on Correspondence
• Part two is on Writing Structure
• This lesson gets into Graphics Elements
• Lesson four is on Writing Memos
• Business Letters are the subject of lesson five
• This one is on Letter Formats and Proofreading
• Lesson seven is on Report Writing
• This part continues with Report Writing
• The last instructional lesson is on Persuasive Writing
• We finish the unit with this Assessment Plan

• This lesson plan focuses on Integrating the studying of Shakespeare and the Internet
• Here’s a good idea for making Book Reports using Microsoft PowerPoint
• Students create a newspaper on computers in this lesson on typing, writing, and reporting
• A good lesson that involves making a poetry notebook
• Turn ideas into a story with this fundraising project
• Here is a good beginning-of-the-year lesson for introducing essay structure
• Students create a travel brochure to an imaginary place in this lesson
• In this lesson, students research Edgar Allen Poe, play a fact game, and write a biographical essay
• Students create their own villains/antagonists in this in-depth character analysis lesson
• Here students begin writing a story on one computer, then shift seats to add on to or finish their neighbor’s story
• Students find out how to say “Thank you” in other languages in this internet search idea
• ESL students write and publish a five-paragraph autobiography in this lesso>
• Here students research a key American poet’s relationship to an American literary era
• This three-lesson Othello Unit utilizes multiple technologies
• This is an excellent 12-day lesson on conducting research for expository papers
• In this writing lesson, students use multiple sources to expand their original “How I Will Change the World” essay
• This is a high-tech AP Modern Fine Arts and Literature Unit on Igor Stravinsky
• Students create a “tableau vivant” Photo Story 3 presentation of a short story here
• Here students use Photo Story 3 to illustrate a personally significant poem with their own photos
• A Photo Story 3 personal narrative is created here
• In this lesson, students interpret a scene from Hamlet and make a YouTube movie
• The internet, TV webcasts and discussion boards are used here while students solve a “48 Hours” TV show crime
• In this Photo Story 3/iMovie lesson, students manipulate photos and music to create distinct and different tones or moods
• A Kidspiration worksheet helps students chart a main idea and three supporting story details here
• This multimedia unit research unit reports the facts about environmental injustices (LA):
• Lesson 1 – Research the Facts
• Lesson 2 – View the PowerPoint
• Lesson 3 – Go on the WebQuest
• Lesson 4 – Create the Television Newscast
• Lesson 5 – Make the Presentation

• Students produce a multimedia fairy tale photo story here told from a different perspective
• Students create a topic specific newspaper here using a template
• Be popular! Assign this Christmas song parody idea!
• Here students prepare a PowerPoint on a playwright and present it dressed as a play’s character
• This final project for intermediate Spanish involves using technology to research and present a famous “Spanish Idol”
• Students describe five ways a book character is just like them in this well-developed Photo Story 3 presentation
• Inspiration software and a Smartboard are used in this lesson comparing/contrasting Elsie Wiesel’s “Night” and the Holocaust movie “Life is Beautiful”
• This digital storytelling lesson encourages students to use electronic media to tell a personal story in a creative way

Math Connections:

• This one involves computer spreadsheets and probability
• This is a fun idea for an online lesson on leap year
• This webquest and worksheet introduces fractals
• A daily spreadsheet is involved in this “Stock Market Game”
• A MS Excel pie chart is created in this budgeting lesson
• An Excel spreadsheet is used in this rational and irrational number lesson
• Here students illustrate real world order of operations problems using PowerPoint and Photo Story
• Students document how to find arc length and the area of a sector in a photo story in this lesson
• Here students create a “Let’s Get Cooking” photo story showing how they used fractions, decimals, measurements and estimation to create a treat
• Here groups apply quadratic rules to real-world parabolas, then organize the information into a short video presentation

Music Connections:

• This lesson is on Instruments, Sounds, and Compositions and uses the Internet
• This lesson uses an interactive website to teach key signatures to AP Music theory students
• This lesson uses an interactive website to teach note identification to beginning band students
• It’s “Peanut Butter Jelly Rhythm Time” up in here…

Physical Education / Health Connections:

• Lifetime healthy choice topics are presented in this research project
• This lesson incorporates weight training, fitness, nutrition and technology
• In this LearntobeHealth.org activity, teens find out what stress is, how it effects the body, why it happens and steps to cope with it
• Students apply the dynamic heart rate changes that take place during exercise here in a PowerPoint presentation using Excel

Science Connections:

• A science lesson on weather on the Internet
• This science lesson plan is called “Looking For Newton” and integrates the Internet
• This plan is for preparation for a science fair
• This lesson focuses on building hazardous waste awareness
• This technology lesson looks at inventions and discovery and makes use of PowerPoint
• Find out here how healthy fast food really is
• This blood bank research investigation idea lets science/health students apply classroom knowledge in a real world context
• Here students develop a digital ecosystem PowerPoint photo album
• Learners create a PowerPoint slide show here on a specific periodic table element
• This lesson in computer animation enables students to obtain a deeper understanding of chemical elements or other subjects
• Here students use PowerPoint or Inspiration software to create a web with pictures summarizing the process of photosynthesis
• This hydraulic water cycle lesson integrates technology, contains hands-activities, and is appropriate for special education students
• Groups create a Photo Story 3 presentation about a researched biome here
• Student groups use multiple resources to compare two cities with similar climates and weather patterns, telling why their temperatures are so similar in a media-rich presentation and report
• ESL students create a recycling brochure in this SIOP lesson
• Here students collaborate via the internet to construct a mixed media presentation on a researched human body organ system
• Here students armed with Excel spreadsheets calculate the biotic potential of a tomato plant “taking over the world”
• Here teams research and construct different solar ovens and then test parameters with computerized probeware
• Google Maps and Google Earth are used here to study plate tectonics and the corresponding locations of earthquakes and volcanoes
• This great real-world and virtual plant transpiration lab also uses spreadsheets and e-journals mailed to the teacher
• Students research the Mexican Grey Wolf re-introduction dilemma here and create a persuasive PowerPoint solution
• Students sort spreadsheet data in this lab to uncover the relationships between latitude, angle of the sun, elevation, and solar energy

Social Studies Connections:

• Here’s a well developed Internet Project for teaching about the Civil Rights Movement
• This fun Scavenger Hunt idea takes place on a computer (with any good reference CD-ROM)
• This idea involves Research, Writing and creating a Time Capsule covering the 20th Century
• A fun, well-developed unit on Garbage and Recycling that makes use of the Internet:
• Here’s the Project’s Lesson Outline and additional materials
• Here’s Lesson 1 which involves activities at the Recycle City website
• This one involves a scavenger hunt at Recycle City
• This part is very interesting – determine the efficiency of your lunch packaging
• Lesson 4 is on the 3 R’s of Recycling
• Lesson 5 is on landfills and how they work, involves creating a simulated landfill
• The last lesson plan involves “what you can do” – developing possible action plans

• This lesson is for creating a PowerPoint Presentation on the Revolutionary War
• A Family Tree with Photos created on computers using scanners is the outcome of this lesson idea
• Here’s an idea for using a Computer to Graph the Litter in school
• Students Record and Mix their own World War II Radio Broadcast in this Social Studies / Technology lesson
• Here’s a Civil War “Virtual Fieldtrip” that also involves a Hyperstudio presentation
• Students can learn about the presidents with this great technology lesson
• Teach about different countries and cultures with this must-have compilation of creative ideas
• Posing as 1788 journalists, students create a newpaper front page to share their viewpoints on the ratification of the constitution
• This multi-discipline lesson has students discover the geography and cultural history of an area while creating a travel journal on a budget
• Students research, create, and present a PowerPoint of the dance of a country and how it relates to its culture
• In the lesson, students apply social studies & math skills to plan a field trip
• This is an outstanding differentiated learning project about Ancient Egypt
• Explore the Roaring Twenties with this lecture, some research and role playing
• This is a lesson on political cartoons
• In this lesson, students experience Tiananmen Square
• In this class research lesson, students find historical quotes matching their alphabet letter
• Here students create a PowerPoint on the history, art, literature, and culture of a Spanish-speaking country
• This Civil War lesson includes great details on setting up group PowerPoint presentations
• This is a WebQuest on the American Revolution
• This is an African-American history research scavenger hunt
• This “Youth and the Civil Rights Movement” research project uses Kuhlthau’s ISP and subject directories
• Venn diagrams are completed here comparing a Hispanic quinceañera with other rites of passage
• Students communicate electronically here while photographing local geography for a PowerPoint presentation
• This webquest uses different search engines to research pro and con opinions on changing Native American school mascot names
• Here students create a state history PowerPoint presentation
• Students create a Photo Story 3 biography of Abraham Lincoln here focusing on the Civil War years
• Your students will love exploring the USA and the world with this cartogram lesson from SHOW®
• This lesson analyzes African American folktales, songs, and hymns during the time of slavery with the help of Inspiration software
• Students create an Inspiration software diagram here linking major processes (government decisions/environmental events) with their impact on different world regions
• This technology-based unit on the institution of slavery incorporates PowerPoint, a WebQuest, and Inspiration software:
• This PowerPoint lecture is titled “On the Backs of Slaves”
• This is an “Underground Railroad” WebQuest
• In “Path of a Slave,” students make PowerPoint presentations mapping the journey of a slave from Africa to the Thirteen Colonies.
• In “Inspiration to Map Slavery,” students chart the process of slavery including the Triangle Trade Route, regions of slavery, reasons, consequences, etc. using Inspiration software

• This is Photo Story 3 research project about space exploration during the Cold War
• Students create a Civil War digital diorama here using Photo Story 3 and PowerPoint
• Groups solve their created town’s biggest problem here with a POOCH diagram and a multimedia presentation
• Groups make PowerPoint presentations in this unit on ancient Greece and its cultural contributions to the modern world
• Here students discuss Massachusetts Bay Colony source material about the trial of Ann Hutchinson on a class website discussion board
• “Voices Through Time: Character and Characteristics of the Kansas-Missouri Border War” provides opportunities for AP students to “taste the full menu” of a highly complex issue involving numerous personalities
• After choosing from this list of Vietnam War topics, students conduct their own research and write a paper on the subject
• Students map, interpret and analyze the growth of Islam here with Google Earth applications and a discussion of GIS in map analysis
• Students develop a basic understanding of Buddhism and its traditions in this lesson by compiling online research into a narrated photo story
• Here students create a PowerPoint or Keynote presentation illustrating the Bill of Rights amendments in their unique personal style

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