Secondary

Secondary Lesson Plans for Technology Integration

Mozilla Web Literacy Lessons

Mozilla has put together an Education Kit which provides an overview of their free, remixable, and easy-to-use resources for immediate use to teach the web. Plus, you can also visit teach.mozilla.org for more activities, tools, and to sign up to receive updates about upcoming trainings, events and more. They've got an awesome collection of resources for teachers looking to incorporate web literacy skills.

Statistics in Schools

The US Census Bureau has put together a program entitled Statistics in Schools which is designed to help teachers integrate US census data into classroom activities. They've got a great collection of both history and math activities ready to be implemented. You can also use their Data Access Tools to find great collections of data to practice analyzing and graphing in your classroom as well.

The Basics of Citations (MLA, Includes Social Media)

This Assignment teaches students about the basics of MLA citations. It covers books, online articles, blogs, YouTube videos, emails, Facebook posts, and even tweets. The students are provided with examples and then asked to create their own. I also recommend using EasyBib in the assignment, a great site for generating citations.
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Excel Tutorials from Excel Easy

If you're looking for free, high quality Excel tutorials that cover everything from the basics to some pretty advanced topics, including over 300 examples, I'd recommend checking out Excel Easy. They have a great collection of resources over an incredibly large variety of topics, including Visual Basic for Applications and tons of relevant, easy to follow examples.

Creating an Invitation to an Historical Event with Smore

This Assignment asks students to create an invitation/flyer to an historical event using the free web-app, Smore. Students will need to write a summary of the event as well as create short bibliographies about the major "characters" from the event. They will also include links to more information, videos, and images. For 6th-8th grade.
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PBL Lesson on Digital Citizenship and Online Safety

This assignment is a 3-4 week long PBL lesson that asks students to research digital citizenship and online safety in their own school and in schools around the world. Students create blogs, design surveys, and analyze results. For their culminating project, student groups develop a school-wide improvement plan to help students become better digital citizens. Designed for a computer technology class.
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You can also view a remixed version of this lesson created by Media & Technology teacher, Kathleen Weil. She made some excellent improvements to this lesson in order to have it be more suited to her students' needs.

Country Webpage Report in Wix

This assignment uses Wix.com to help students create a webpage report about a country. This project is designed for a history or social studies class, but could be easily modified to fit an English, Science or Math curriculum. Wix's drag-and-drop interface is incredibly easy to use and students generally have very little trouble learning to use the program.
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Creating a Blog with Weebly

This assignment guides students through the creation of their own blog on Weebly.com In this introductory assignment students create a short blog about their interests and hobbies, but it could be modified to cover any range of subjects. Weebly is a great site for designing blogs and has an easy to understand interface.
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Excel Basics

This assignment introduces upper-elementary students the basics of Microsoft Excel. It's a 4 part series which teaches students the basic vocabulary and functions that are available within the program. Each section takes 30-40 minutes for students to complete.
- Part 1 - Part 2
- Part 3 - Part 4

Figuring Foods Excel Assignment

This assignment in Excel is designed to give junior high students a closer look at what's in their favorite foods, perfect for a science or health class. Students create a table comparing 7 different foods. Then, they graph their data and write a report about their findings. In total, this project takes students 60-80 minutes to complete.
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Timeline Creation in Excel

This assignment in Excel shows students how to create a timeline using the program. In this project, they create a timeline about their daily schedule, but it could easily be modified for any subject: A history timeline, a series of lab steps, a timeline for a novel, and so on. The sample timeline takes about 40 minutes to make and would be appropriate for junior high or high school students.
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