Post your idea for the project (with your name) or sign your name under another idea that you think is interesting. Remember, groups of 2 or 3. If by Friday no one signs up under your idea, delete it from the Wiki and join a different group.
Whodunit? Lesson
This interdisciplinary lesson can focus on crimes of historical or literary significance. Students will act as crime scene technicians and analyze evidence. The lesson can culminate with a trial. Due to cross-curricular design, the lesson can easily incorporate English, Social Studies, Chemistry, Biology, and Mathematics curriculum.This lesson would be focused towards high school students. If interested, please indicate your content area.
1. Kyle Bulicz - Chemistry
2. Brad Sarchet - Social Studies
3. Stephany Sekera- English
Family Feud Lesson
Students break up into groups of 3-4 to create a "family" with a teacher (of their selection) to be their helper or "parent." Students then play a word association game like Family Feud to better understand topics or subject matter that they may have difficulty with or need a review of. Different subjects present different teachers as the students' help. This game would act as a review for exams and a great bridge between disciplines. The great part is that it can work on a large scale with all contents directly or as a co-teaching activity where educators all have a "feud" day in their class based on a common theme. This strategy is general and can be broken down into different lessons. I think it's great for English because of the use of vocabulary and main ideas but once again terminology is important in any subject. Please list name and content area if interested.
1. Nina Durstine - English
2. Amy Dutka - Biology
3. Rob Jeffreys - Social Studies
Microscope with Moticam BiologyLab
This lesson will focus on the investigation of various type of microorganisms as well as the difference between plant and animal cells. Students will work in pairs with a microscope and a moticam attachment. The moticam is a digital camera which can be attached to a microscope and plugged into a computer via a USB cord. Students can create images and or videos of slides which they view and then later they can identify various structures and create lab reports accordingly.
1. Adam Bradshaw - Biology
2. Chris Smith - Health and Physical Education
3. Mike Stamp - Social Studies
Hero Lesson Plan
Popular media is often filled with the negative aspects of the world, so this cross-surricular activity will focus on identifying heroes. The purpose would be to provide teens with examples of role models through already existing lesson plans. These Heroic figures will provide memory cues for students when memorizing important concepts. Examples: In History, students could learn about the Civil Rights Movement, In English, students could read a book like Grapes Of Wrath and identify heroes from the Great Depression or from the book. In Science, there are many examples of eco-heroism. In Math, they could look at a math from a football players standpoint calculating angles, arcs, and distance.
1.) Beth Vergotz - Social Studies
2.) Jonathan Crist - Art
3.) Angelina Tatara - English
Tomb Graders
This lesson would have the ability to incorporate elements from various subjects in a field trip to a local cemetery for students to gather as much information as possible from the gravestones therein. Some activities could include creating an accurate map of the cemetery, media recording devices for mock interviews and archaeological digs, creating graphs to present data, and a number of applications in art. Technology could include iPads and/or the following tools or apps: GPS, audio and still photo cameras, graphic tools and calculators, and word processing software. If interested please list your name and certification area (Please no repeats).
1. Autumn Armagost - Social Studies
2. Carl Sandberg - Earth Sciences
3. David Ross - Math
A Picture's Worth a Thousand Words After looking at an image that tells a story, students brainstorm about the possible events and characters the image illustrates. Students then write from the point of view of one of the characters in the image, sharing the character's thoughts and feelings, describing the events that led up to the picture, or imagining the events that followed.
1. Kelli Hardy- English 2. Elizabeth Trunzo- Family & Consumer Sciences 3. Jonathan Keppel- Social Studies
The Bubonic Plague
The Black Death was a MAJOR and TRAGIC event in the history of mankind. There are many different teachable aspects to this disease as it impacted the population of Europe from a biological, economic, social, and even artistic perspective. I was thinking this would be more of a cross-content area lesson rather than a co-teaching lesson.
1. Mark Towner- Biology
2. Margaret Ferguson- English
3. Jeffery Barber- History
I Search Project Research can be daunting, especially when the teacher picks a topic that is not that interesting to the students. This project will require students to choose a topic of interest, research the topic, write a report and create a multimedia presentation to showcase the procedure and results.
Post your idea for the project (with your name) or sign your name under another idea that you think is interesting. Remember, groups of 2 or 3. If by Friday no one signs up under your idea, delete it from the Wiki and join a different group.
Whodunit? Lesson
This interdisciplinary lesson can focus on crimes of historical or literary significance. Students will act as crime scene technicians and analyze evidence. The lesson can culminate with a trial. Due to cross-curricular design, the lesson can easily incorporate English, Social Studies, Chemistry, Biology, and Mathematics curriculum.This lesson would be focused towards high school students. If interested, please indicate your content area.
1. Kyle Bulicz - Chemistry
2. Brad Sarchet - Social Studies
3. Stephany Sekera- English
Family Feud Lesson
Students break up into groups of 3-4 to create a "family" with a teacher (of their selection) to be their helper or "parent." Students then play a word association game like Family Feud to better understand topics or subject matter that they may have difficulty with or need a review of. Different subjects present different teachers as the students' help. This game would act as a review for exams and a great bridge between disciplines. The great part is that it can work on a large scale with all contents directly or as a co-teaching activity where educators all have a "feud" day in their class based on a common theme. This strategy is general and can be broken down into different lessons. I think it's great for English because of the use of vocabulary and main ideas but once again terminology is important in any subject. Please list name and content area if interested.
1. Nina Durstine - English
2. Amy Dutka - Biology
3. Rob Jeffreys - Social Studies
Microscope with Moticam Biology Lab
This lesson will focus on the investigation of various type of microorganisms as well as the difference between plant and animal cells. Students will work in pairs with a microscope and a moticam attachment. The moticam is a digital camera which can be attached to a microscope and plugged into a computer via a USB cord. Students can create images and or videos of slides which they view and then later they can identify various structures and create lab reports accordingly.
1. Adam Bradshaw - Biology
2. Chris Smith - Health and Physical Education
3. Mike Stamp - Social Studies
Hero Lesson Plan
Popular media is often filled with the negative aspects of the world, so this cross-surricular activity will focus on identifying heroes. The purpose would be to provide teens with examples of role models through already existing lesson plans. These Heroic figures will provide memory cues for students when memorizing important concepts. Examples: In History, students could learn about the Civil Rights Movement, In English, students could read a book like Grapes Of Wrath and identify heroes from the Great Depression or from the book. In Science, there are many examples of eco-heroism. In Math, they could look at a math from a football players standpoint calculating angles, arcs, and distance.
1.) Beth Vergotz - Social Studies
2.) Jonathan Crist - Art
3.) Angelina Tatara - English
Tomb Graders
This lesson would have the ability to incorporate elements from various subjects in a field trip to a local cemetery for students to gather as much information as possible from the gravestones therein. Some activities could include creating an accurate map of the cemetery, media recording devices for mock interviews and archaeological digs, creating graphs to present data, and a number of applications in art. Technology could include iPads and/or the following tools or apps: GPS, audio and still photo cameras, graphic tools and calculators, and word processing software. If interested please list your name and certification area (Please no repeats).
1. Autumn Armagost - Social Studies
2. Carl Sandberg - Earth Sciences
3. David Ross - Math
A Picture's Worth a Thousand Words
After looking at an image that tells a story, students brainstorm about the possible events and characters the image illustrates. Students then write from the point of view of one of the characters in the image, sharing the character's thoughts and feelings, describing the events that led up to the picture, or imagining the events that followed.
1. Kelli Hardy- English
2. Elizabeth Trunzo- Family & Consumer Sciences
3. Jonathan Keppel- Social Studies
The Bubonic Plague
The Black Death was a MAJOR and TRAGIC event in the history of mankind. There are many different teachable aspects to this disease as it impacted the population of Europe from a biological, economic, social, and even artistic perspective. I was thinking this would be more of a cross-content area lesson rather than a co-teaching lesson.
1. Mark Towner- Biology
2. Margaret Ferguson- English
3. Jeffery Barber- History
I Search Project
Research can be daunting, especially when the teacher picks a topic that is not that interesting to the students. This project will require students to choose a topic of interest, research the topic, write a report and create a multimedia presentation to showcase the procedure and results.
1. Valerie Watrous
2. Andrew Bell- Social Studies