West Baton Rouge Parish Schools

Technology-based Lessons
Edgar Storey,
Associate Superintendent of Information Systems and Educational Technology
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Tammy Seneca,
Supervisor of Information Systems and Educational Technology
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African Art In this lesson students use the Internet to research the art in different regions of Africa, then summarize the major characteristics of the art and art objects of a given region, the history of that region, and how history influenced the art. Students also compare and contrast the art from all the different regions of Africa.	Art Reflects Culture In this lesson students use the Internet to investigate the artistry of different cultures. Students will then create pictures illustrating their own individual cultures and put them all together to form a cultural patchwork quilt.
Master Copies Students will write brief reports analyzing the style and techniques exhibited in the work and use the reports as a basis for oral presentations.

Get Into the Act Students will select a script, interpret the roles, develop oral reading skills, perform a play for the class, and offer their personal responses to the performances of others.	Shape Poems
How-To Slide Show Create a how-to presentation that helps students see how to give step-by-step instructions.	Idioms
In Other Words Use the thesaurus in your word processing program to find different words to place into a sentence, poem, or short story.	Parts of Speech This activity is an excellent practice to review the parts of speech.
Read All About It Have your student create a school or class newsletter to send home detailing all of the activities that have been doing in class.	Story Mapping Create a multimedia library for your classroom by having your students create presentations using pictures, sounds, and specific effects. They can create a wonderful product for your classroom while using language arts skills to create a living book.
You Be the Editor This activity introduces students to editing on computer-generated documents while taking a look at some common editing mistakes.	Parts of Speech This activity is an excellent practice to review the parts of speech.

Baseball Line	M&M Spreadsheet
Menu Mania Your students will use their word processing programs to write informative narratives as well as to formulate word problems based on menus that have been created.	Cooking With Measurement Create a classroom cookbook! Help your students see how measurement plays a part in everyday life, by selecting a favorite recipe to contribute to the class cookbook.
Draw Me a Fraction Your students will demonstrate their understanding of fractions by drawing pictures of fractions as they appear in real life.	Geometric Pictures Shapes are all around us. Help your students recognize the presence of geometric shapes everywhere by having them create pictures composed entirely of geometric shapes.
The Chocolate Factory Students turn candy bars into math problems.	What's in a Number? Students show multiple representations of a single numeral in this whole-class slide show.

Nutrient Counting

M&M Spreadsheet

Biome Travel Brochure During your study of biomes have your student create a brochure to advertise a trip to a particular biome or ecosystem.	Building a Food Chain Help your students understand the connections of a food chain by having them create one of their own
Ideas for using Digial Cameras in the Science Classroom	Graph the Growth Help your student make professional looking line graphs to enhance their hands-on science experiments.
Science Ideas	Scientist Research Students will research information about a scientist and then prepare part of a whole-class multimedia presentation.
The Five Senses The teacher or child will take pictures of different objects found in the classroom or outside. The children will then sort the pictures according to the senses, which would be used to identify objects

Biographical Vignettes Help make the lives of significant people meaningful to your students by creating mini-films about their roles in history.	Greetings From Write home from a city, state, or country that you are studying. Your students can create geographically accurate postcards, using the interesting things they have learned.
Ideas for using Digial Cameras in the Social Studies Classroom	Growing Up This activity will help your students put a historic times into a current perspective.
My Totem Pole Your students will learn to appreciate the meaning behind symbolic Native American totem poles as they create totem poles representations of themselves.	Reporting On Your Community This project offers the students the opportunity to interview people from their community. Your students will interview local residents and learn how their ethnic and geographic backgrounds.

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