Creating Brochures with Digital Images

http://webs.kodak.com/US/en/digital/dlc/plus/chapter5/lesson2/part1page1.shtml

 

AH-M-4.1.41 Create art for specific purposes using the elements of art and principles of design to communicate ideas. (1.13, 2.22)

Here's a lesson plan idea, with complete how-to instructions, about creating advertising brochures for your school's clubs or activities. Provided by Kodak's Digital Learning Center Plus - ideas for parents, kids, teachers, advanced amateurs, and others. If you follow the "Continue Lesson..." links on this lesson plan, you'll be rewarded with a step-by-step how-to, plus a wide range of extensions and other ideas. There's also a list of teacher-prepared lesson ideas and plans using digital photography.

Kid's Place's Brain Teasers

http://www.eduplace.com/math/brain/

MA-M-4.3.2 How the change in one variable affects the change in another variable (e.g., if rate remains constant, an increase in time results in an increase in distance)

A service of publisher Houghton Mifflin, Education Place has a variety of online resources for teachers. The Brain Teasers, part of Kid's Place, are grade-specific weekly word problems with hints, solutions the following week, and three weeks of archives. This week's Grade 7/8 puzzle is a distance-time problem.

• Modeling Rational Number Concepts - Region 3, Grades 5-6, U of L, andavi01@gwise.louisville.edu
• Math, Geometry and Measurement - Region 2, Grades 5-8, WKU, wanda.weidemann@wku.edu
• Making Sense of Number and Probability - Region 8, Grades 6-8, UK, kzeidle@uky.edu

Critical Evaluation of a Web Page

http://kathyschrock.net/eval/index.htm

RD-M-3.0.14 Distinguish between fact and fiction (from the Persuasion subdomain).

This lesson plan is a part of Nauset Public Schools Technology Coordinator Kathy Schrock's umbrella of websites. It uses a single example and a range of supplied support materials to help middle school students develop the ability to evaluate website credibility. There is a page of other sites for evaluation, and assessment ideas and materials.

• Middle School Reading Academy - Regions 5,6,7, Grades 5-9, EKU, sara.moore@eku.edu
• Reading Across the Curriculum Effectively - Region 1, Grades 5-8, Badgett COOP, cferrell@brcee.coop.k12.ky.us
• Reading Change - Region 2, Grades 6-8, GRREC, abell@aaec.info 

Teaching Science with the Yo-Yo

http://www.yo-yo.com/teachers_section/teach_lessn_yoyo.html

SC-M-1.2.2 An object remains at rest or maintains a constant speed and direction of motion unless an unbalanced force acts on it.

What fun! Yo-Yos work because they reflect some basic laws of motion in physical science. This collection of lessons is the product of Ball State University professor James Watson, along with middle school teacher Nancy Watson, and Duncan Toys representative Michael Caffrey.

• Inquiry Institute - Region 3, Grades 5-7, Louisville Science Center, carrie.bohnert@loukymetro.org
• Exploring Kentucky's Ecosystems - All Regions, Grades 1-8, UK, chanley@uky.edu
• Life Science Academy - Region 8, Grades 8-12, UK, kzeidle@uky.edu
• Using Earth Science to Integrate the Sciences - Region 6, Grades 8-12, UK, kzeidle@uky.edu

The Mindwalk

http://www.ncsl.org/public/trust/lessonp3-M.htm

SS-M-1.1.2 Democratic governments function to preserve and protect the rights (e.g., voting), liberty, and property of their citizens by making, enacting, and enforcing appropriate rules and laws (e.g., constitutions, laws, statutes).

The product of a professional organization in support of state legislators and workers, this lesson plan walks students through an ordinary day, during which a variety of events and objects can be tied to the influence of state and local government. The Mindwalk is one of eight middle school lesson plans with materials listed on the general lesson plan webpage, and aimed at the relationship between citizens and their government.

• Middle School Social Studies Academy - Region 5,6,7, Grades 5-7, EKU, sara.moore@eku.edu

Poetry Teachers

http://www.poetryteachers.com/

WR-E-1.3 Literary Writing: Literary writing artfully communicates with the reader about the human condition. Literary forms in the portfolio include poems, short stories, and scripts.

Sponsored by Meadowbrook Press and poet Bruce Lansky, this wonderful gem of a site has a bunch of prompts, contexts, ideas, contests, fill-in-the-blanks...all aimed at teaching and promoting poetry! There's lots of poems on the site, including examples of Lanksy's "Giggle Poetry."

• Middle Level Literacy Academy - Region 3, Grades 5-7, JCPS, bovertu1@jefferson.k12.ky.us
• Reading and Writing to Learn... - Regions 6.8, Grades 6-12, Collaborative for Teaching and Learning, cmaloney@ctlonline.org