Students create a digital story about their personal and family health history or a specific health concern.

This project is to help students develop their photography skills and to encourage them to explore the art of visual storytelling through photo essays. Photograph of Honolulu Museum of Art taken in early 2022. Own work.

This lesson plan was created for middle school or high school special educators to use for their peer tutors. This lesson plan may be used by teachers to teach their peer tutors how to create a digital story on disability awareness in conjunction with a disability that they have previously researched. It may also be used in a social studies class where students have previously studied civil rights, equality, and education laws.

This is a lesson plan designed to help students construct the concept of a square root in relation to the area and side length of a square.  Students will also connect the square root as the undoing of a number that has been squared. A key mathematical concept.

This lesson plan was created for a lesson on the different diseases and disorders associated with a sedintary lifestyle. The lesson is designed for a fitness for life class (10th grade PE). This is a fun project to help students learn about diseases and disorders while showing their creative abilities. 

Students will learn the potential costs and benefits of social media, digital consumption, and our relationship with technology as a society in the three-week lesson. This inquiry based unit of study will answer the following questions:

Essential Question: How can we use science fiction’s ability to predict the future to help humanity?

Supportive Questions 1: What predictions of future development has science fiction accurately made in the past? This can include technology, privacy, medicine, social justice, political, environmental, education, and economic.

Supportive Question 2: What predictions for future development in contemporary science fiction are positive for the future of humanity? What factors need to begin in your lifetime to make these predictions reality?

Supportive Question 3: What predictions for future development in contemporary science fiction are negative for the future of humanity? What factors need to begin in your lifetime to stop these negative outcomes?

(Thumbnail is a screenshot of the OER Commons lesson page, taken 7/26/2022 by Christina Nelson.)

This lesson will engage students in understanding the impact the Dominguez & Escalante expedition had on Native American tribes living in Utah and the eventual settlement of Utah. Students will be assessed by creating an Apple Pages project wherein they demonstrate their understanding of the two issues. Students are asked to create an essay including images about the Dominguez & Escalante expedition. 

This lesson teaches students how to find and properly cite openly licensed photos online. They will also learn how to create a collage on Adobe Creative Cloud Express and will include pictures of earthquake damage and ways to reduce the impact of earthquakes.  Citation for image: Colin Lloyd, Unsplash License, from Unsplash.com 

Ecosystems are shaped by interactions among living organisms and their physical environment. A food chain shows the energy flow through organisms in an environment. A food pyramid shows loss of energy in a food chain.

This is a very simple overview and lesson on electricity.  This lesson can be altered to fit the need of your class.  Use the pieces that work for you.  

When students are given the opportunity to express themselves, they need creative options and a variety of formats available to meet their needs. See how AI supports the student's content through design and publishing process in tools like Sway and Stream to allow students to share professionally designed work without wasting time and energy on executive tasks.

Students solve 3 digital math addition fact puzzles in order to escape the jungle (1-find their way through the cave, 2-sneak past the sleeping lions to get to the jeep, and 3-opening the treasure chest for the key to the jeep!)
Addition to 20

Thumbnail Image Citation: Bouwhuis, Laura. "Escape the Jungle" Google Sites, 12 July 2022, https://sites.google.com/alpinedistrict.org/escapethejungle/home

This is a lesson with two parts.Part one is to learn about the historic and cultural significance of various European Structures.Part two is practice in good reasearch habits. Student will need to find and use information they research themselves.Photo by Corbett Campbell  

In the essay "Mother Tongue," Amy Tan explains that she "began to write stories using all the Englishes I grew up with." How these "different Englishes" or even a language other than English contribute to identity is a crucial issue for adolescents.

In this lesson, students explore this issue by brainstorming the different languages they use in speaking and writing, and when and where these languages are appropriate. They write in their journals about a time when someone made an assumption about them based on their use of language, and share their writing with the class. Students then read and discuss Amy Tan's essay "Mother Tongue." Finally, they write a literacy narrative describing two different languages they use and when and where they use these languages.

This lesson is all about learning what the special senses of the body are and how they work. Students will use this lesson to contribute to and enhance their understanding of the nervous system and how it functions by participating in tests of their visual field, eye muscles, smell, taste, and hearing. Finally, students will review their understanding through a creative review project that uses their own unique experience of their special senses. Students will complete a quiz to also demonstrate their understanding of what has been taught. Image attribution: Senses Garden in Holon, Avishai Teicher via the PikiWiki - Israel free image collection project, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Generic license.

Here is a Nearpod that was created to give students another opportunity to solve real world problems using a Fall theme. These problems consist of word problems with basic multiplication and division strategies and facts. A fun new way to learn math.

This is a lesson plan to end a unit on Family History. During the unit, students learned about their family history, cultural background, and personal beliefs, values, and perceptions. Students will create a "Family Coat of Arms" to share their story digitally using Apple Keynote. (Picture is my own family crest creation)

As the final project after learning about family traits students will make an Adobe Spark video highlighting some of the traits they have inherited. 

As the final project after learning about family traits students will make an Adobe Spark video highlighting some of the traits they have inherited. 

This lesson asks students to delve into the contributions of historical mathemticians.  Students will use a variety of Mac tools such as pages, keynote, imovie, and garageband to prepare their presentation.