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Hyper-solving quadratic equations
This plan uses student created HyperStudio Programs to present, review, and summarize various methods of solving quadratic equations.
Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Mathematics)
By Charlotte Lewis.
The Red-eyed Tree Frog and Hyperstudio
Students will read The Red-eyed Tree Frog by Joy Cowley then plan and put together a Hyperstudio which retells the story.
Format: lesson plan (grade 2 Computer/Technology Skills and English Language Arts)
By Jody Shaughnessy.
At home in the tropical rainforest
Students will choose one rainforest animal to research using print and electronic resources. They will work cooperatively with a partner to create a Hyperstudio card with the following information: photograph of the animal, the layer of the rainforest it inhabits, sound the animal makes, and an interesting fact about the animal.
Format: lesson plan (grade 1–2 English Language Arts and Science)
By Sally Eller.
A brochure of safety tips
The students summarize information they have read and learned in school to create a brochure of important safety tips. They work in teams, each on a specific area of safety, to create a multimedia presentation on the computer using HyperStudio for text, graphics, and sound or other publishing or presentation software.
Format: lesson plan (grade 3 English Language Arts and Healthful Living)
By Shanti Kudva.
Join them together/Take them away
The teacher will introduce beginning addition concepts of joining two sets together. The teacher will introduce beginning subtraction concepts of taking away from a set.
Format: lesson plan (grade K Mathematics)
By Vickie Hedrick.
Tour the United States via HyperStudio Stacks
Students will combine classroom, library time, and computer lab time to research and construct knowledge about 49 U.S. states. (Students will not research their home state.) Students will use their new research knowledge and the resources provided to construct a HyperStudio stack on their assigned state.
Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Social Studies)
By Karl Schaefer.
Creating a book review using a multimedia stack
In this lesson, students will identify title, characters, setting, plot of a story that they have read. They will also be able to state their opinion of the story read and provide information about themselves as a reviewer.
Format: lesson plan (grade 3 English Language Arts)
By Crystal Johnston.
Category fun
This is a unit on categorizing for Kindergartners. It spans approximately one week, using 30-45 minutes each day. It incorporates the use of multi-media.
Format: lesson plan (grade K Computer/Technology Skills and Mathematics)
By Cathy Palmer.
Learn about your county
This activity will allow fourth grade students in North Carolina to learn more about the counties that surround their home county. Using online images, students will create a multimedia presentation to share with others.
Format: lesson plan (grade 4 Computer/Technology Skills, English Language Arts, and Social Studies)
By Clarice Poovey.
Election time database
After using various methods of researching information, students will create a database and use it to answer questions about the current election. At the conclusion, students will create a poster or Hyperstudio presentation of their findings.
Format: lesson plan (grade 5 Computer/Technology Skills and Social Studies)
By Lee Yahnker.
A math story!
This lesson plan is designed to use a basic third grade math fact as a prompt to write and illustrate a math story. A hands on math activity using math manipulatives will serve as the focus and review for this lesson. A writing activity will serve as a conclusion as well as an assessment for understanding.
Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Mathematics)
By Sherrill Haltigan.
The Little Yellow Chicken
The students will be following an integrated unit on "Helping." They will use reading, math, social studies, science, technology, and other areas of study. Students will read, as a group, the book The Little Yellow Chicken by Joy Cowley. The students will be incorporating prediction, prior knowledge, comprehension skills, and language skills for the word family "-ook", the vowel sound "e", and the exclamation mark. The technology to be utilized by the students consists of use of the HyperStudio for math review, Math Software, Graph Club to create a graph of favorite party foods, Inspiration to guide and create graphic organizers for writing, and the Ultimate Writing Machine to create their own version of The Little Yellow Chicken. They will also incorporate color words to practice the Spanish Language.
Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Computer/Technology Skills and English Language Arts)
By diane williams.
Welcome to my world!: Developing a personal narrative timeline
Students will create digital, narrative, and drawn versions of a timeline of at least five events of their life.
Format: lesson plan (grade 3 English Language Arts)
By DPI Integration Strategies.
American black bear
The students will examine the structural characteristics, behavior, and habitat of the American Black Bear necessary for survival.
Format: lesson plan (grade 4 Science)
By Shanda Myers.
Diseases of Africa
Students will demonstrate an ability to research diseases in Africa and the causes, symptoms, treatment, and long-range solutions involving infrastructure development. They will compare and contrast countries and diseases. Working in groups, students will do research and prepare a multimedia presentation on the disease.
Format: lesson plan (grade 7 English Language Development and Social Studies)
By Jim Carson.
Amazing amaryllis activities
Students will use an amaryllis started from a bulb to explore the growth of the plant, measure, record and compare the growth of the leaves and the flower. They will enter the data on a spreadsheet and convert it into a graph.
Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Mathematics and Science)
By Mary Rizzo.
Our geometric world
The students will use newspaper and magazine pictures to recognize geometric figures within the real world. They will make a collage of pictures showing various geometric shapes. They will write a summary of the shapes that are represented in their collage.
Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Mathematics)
By Robin Ward.
The Trial of Hamlet
In this lesson students have the chance to research courtroom procedure to try Hamlet for the murder of Polonius. Then, with some students in the roles of characters from the play, the class will conduct the trial of Shakespeare's most famous anti-hero.
Format: lesson plan (grade 12 English Language Arts)
By Ross White.
Shared reading and writing with La Casa Adormecida
This lesson focuses on adjective placement and agreement in Spanish as found in the story La casa adormecida by Audrey Wood using shared reading and writing strategies.
Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 Second Languages)
By Leslie Baldwin.
The life and works of Edgar Allan Poe
Students will evaluate a sampling of literary selections by Edgar Allan Poe and assess the influence of Poe's life on his works.
Format: lesson plan (grade 8 English Language Arts)
By Peggy Stanley.