Digital School Collection Teacher Resources

Students will conduct research on a historical figure and then design a web page based on how this person would want to be represented on the Internet. During this project, students will learn about primary and secondary resources, cite research, and make a case for their web page decisions.

Students will create web pages to communicate information demonstrating their understanding of an academic concept. They begin by gathering information and images about animals. Then they use Contribute to add text, links, and images to a page in the class website.

Students will demonstrate their understanding of abstract concepts through the creation of a visual representation of the concept. In this lesson, students will create visual representations of the atom to illustrate their understanding of the atom and its elements.

Students will choose an issue that impacts them personally, the school, or their community to document in a short movie. Students will interview individuals on both sides of the issue, integrate video clips, create the documentary, and write a reflection detailing the learning process.

Students will explore the impact of photography on impressionism by taking photographs around the school to turn into impressionist works of art. Students will illustrate their understanding of impressionist-era work through the different imaging techniques they choose to use.

Students will choose a piece of music that they find interesting or transcendent; analyze the piece for its theoretical music form; research the historical and social context of the music and artist; collect supporting historical artifacts; evaluate the piece of music; narrate and record their commentary on top of the musical piece; and package and present a portfolio of their project.

In this lesson, students write their own alliteration-style poems, create a visual illustration of their poems, and publish them using Adobe Photoshop Elements. This activity enables students to structure their text and visualize their ideas in innovative ways. This visualization helps students think critically about the concepts as they construct their final products.

In this lesson, students turn every-day digital photographs into surrealist-style artwork by using Adobe Photoshop Elements. This activity helps students enhance their creativity and better understand surrealistic techniques by working with lighting, color, and movement to turn their pictures into surrealistic works of art.

In this lesson, students enhance their reading skills by using Adobe Photoshop Elements to create visual representations of Dolch words used in sentences. Students turn their creations into flash cards so they can continue to practice recognizing Dolch sight words to improve reading fluency.

In this lesson, students use a pre-existing image to create a dot-to-dot image along x and y axes in Adobe Photoshop Elements. They then create a list of ordered pairs for which they apply mathematical problem-solving skills by locating coordinates of the ordered pairs and plotting lines to re-create the picture on graph paper.

In this lesson, students investigate the literal and figurative meanings for idioms by visualizing their ideas in Adobe Photoshop Elements. These visualizations offer a different way to structure information, which can lead to students being able to identify new connections and draw new conclusions.

In this lesson, students define a word visually, using Adobe Photoshop Elements, and add it to their class visual and audio dictionary. Students analyze a word and construct a visual representation of its meaning, thereby building higher-order thinking skills.

In this lesson, students create a visual pun; a play on images where students use two or more images to form a new meaning. Using Adobe Photoshop Elements, students combine unrelated images and employ interesting effects to create their visual puns. This lesson helps students use technology to enhance their language arts skills and to improve communication of their ideas.