Second Grade Life Cycle Movies

The following lesson was created for the New Teacher Program currently in place at the Tri-Creek School Corporation.  Students were asked this question: How can we, as scientists, create a movie to compare and contrast animal and plant life cycles?  Students then worked in groups to create the content presented in their iMovie videos.

LP G2 LifeCycleLesson by Dan Gibson

ELL Sock Puppet Repeated Readings

The following lesson was created for the New Teacher Program at the Tri-Creek School Corporation.  The lesson focuses on using repeated readings to promote fluency, while using the Sock Puppet app with students.

LP ELL SockPuppetsConversation

First Grader Bloggers

The following lesson was created for the New Teacher Program currently in place at the Tri-Creek School Corporation.  This lesson focused on teaching students how to write book reviews, while also teaching them how to blog.  The results were truly amazing.  These first graders really became writers.  Just check out some of the finished student products.

The Kidblog app was used to post and comment on their blogs with great success.

LP G1 BookReviewsBlogging (2) by Dan Gibson

First Grade Predators and Prey

The following lesson was created for the New Teacher Program currently in place at the Tri-Creek School Corporation.  Students were engaged in a variety of technology, which was used to enhance the instructional message being presented with this Life Science lesson.  Take a look at all the work that was put into this lesson.

OH LifeSciencePredatorsandPrey

Kindergarten Animal Research Project

The following lesson was created for the New Teacher Program currently in place at the Tri-Creek School Corporation.  Students were given a variety of web-resources to use while researching a student-selected animal, and student's final project was presented through a LittleBirdTales video.

LP K ScienceAnimalResearchProject

Kindergarten Long/Short Vowel Lesson

The following lesson was created for the New Teacher Program currently in place at the Tri-Creek School Corporation.  This particular lesson was created for a Kindergarten classroom and focuses on long/short vowels during word study.

OH K PhonicsWordStudyvowels by Dan Gibson

Tech 3 Episode 12

I wasn't there and that might be a good thing.  Here is Deal and Willmann's discussion of a classroom project.  I would like to see use share more classroom projects through our short vodcast.