Our Digital Teachers implemented a variety of lessons in multiple subject areas, which integrated content standards with core curriculum. Below you will find a synopsis of teacher assignments from 2006-07 used to engage 5th – 8th grade students in their social studies, language arts, performing arts, and technology classes.
Pull out your yearly scope and sequence plans, scour over your unit’s themes, and please add your ideas to this list.
7th grade, Performing Arts
Students created films for a Black Film Festival relating to the African American experience. They chose modern and historical figures as the basis for their stories.
6th grade, Reading
Students were asked to choose one animal and to develop a movie that represented “A Day in the Life…” of that particular animal.
7th grade, Social Studies
Students took concepts from Ancient Rome and related them to modern life.
5th grade, Reading
Students depicted significant events in their lives when a “change” occurred.
6th grade, Writing
Students were tasked with updating School House Rock, by creating PSAs on science concepts.
7th/8th grade, Theatre
7th & 8th graders created music videos for social justice oriented songs that theatre students wrote and recorded in school over the past five years.
7th grade, Technology
7th graders were given the prompt: “I used to be, but now I am…” Students interpreted this phrase in various ways and transformed these personal poems into telling digital narratives about their lives.
5th grade, Reading
5th graders created dynamic poems that used figurative language, including similes and metaphors. The theme was “taking an ordinary object and making it extraordinary.”
6th grade, Social Studies / Technology
6th grade students created real estate ads to convince viewers to move to different kingdoms in Ancient Mesopotamia.
8th grade, Social Studies / Technology
8th grade students adapted written accounts of colonial American conflicts, such as the Revolutionary War and French & Indian War.
5th grade, Writing / Social Studies
Students created powerful stories about the African slave experience, specifically focusing on their journey through the Middle Passage.
7th grade, Technology
Students created poems for their technology class based on an historical figure. They received the prompt, "This Is A Poem For..." and illustrated their stories using original images created in Photobooth, or edited digital images downloaded from the web using Photoshop.
