Arizona Regions Poster
An Amphi TLCF Lesson
All fourth graders study Arizona.  This information can be used to create a beautiful poster using research from the Internet.  This lesson includes a student guide called poster elements, a Trackstar for research and an evaluation rubric.  Meets Arizona Sate Technology Standards 1 and 5.

Art and the World
An Amphi Ed Tech Lesson
Students will choose their best artwork from three different pieces they created.  If the chosen work is 2D, the student will scan their work.  If the chosen work is 3D, the student will take a digital picture of the work.  Students will create a page for the Painted Sky 2 and 3D Photo Album.  All student pages will then be uploaded to the Painted Sky Art Photo Album.  Meets Arizona State Technology Standards 3 and 4.

Can You Haiku?
An Amphi Ed Tech Lesson
In this lesson, students will learn about the traditional Japanese poetry form Haiku and write their own poems using digital photos they have taken as inspiration.  Students will learn to import digital photos into a word processing document.  They will then write a haiku to go with the digital photo and use the formatting capabilities of the word processor to format their poems. Meets Arizona State Technology Standards 1 and 3.

CATSTATS
An Amphi Ed Tech Lesson
Welcome to the world of “real time” data and a lesson that involves numerous math skills and concepts required in state standards, applied through a fun and interesting activity using basketball results from the University of Arizona. Meets Arizona State Technology Standards 1, 2 and 3.

Children of Yesteryear
An Amphi Ed Tech Lesson
Primary Sources are an amazing way to help you bring history alive for your students. The website used in this lesson has intriguing photographs, music, sounds and documents that your students will find especially appealing!  Meets Arizona State Technology Standard 5.

Circle Fun
Students label the parts of a circle as a review and complete a chart on finding circumference and area of circles. When they finish their chart, students create their own circumference and area tests.  Meets Arizona State Technology Standards 3 and 6.

Classification 
An Amphi TLCF Lesson
Students  will create a classification system based on characteristics of plants and animals.  Meets Arizona State Technology Standards 1 and 3.

Coming to the New World
An Amphi Ed Tech Lesson
Students will write a short story with well-developed characters, setting, and plot describing the settlement of North America by English colonists during the early 17th century.  The story will describe reasons for settlement, environmental conditions, social conditions, and economic factors related to colonial life. Students will strive for historical and geographical accuracy and meet the standards of writing conventions.  The papers will be submitted to The Write Source for publication.  Meets Arizona Technology Standards 3 and 4.

Country Brochure 
Students  research a place to visit and create a brochure describing it.  Meets Arizona State Technology Standards 3 and 4.

Creating Word Problems with Kid Pix Deluxe
An Amphi TLCF Lesson
Students learn best when they apply what they learn.  In this lesson, students create an arithmetic word problem using Kid Pix Deluxe.  Meets Arizona State Technology Standard 3.

Creative Story
An Amphi Ed Tech Lesson
Students have been exposed to a variety of authors and writing styles throughout the semester. Additionally, we have
examined the components needed to write creative stories and now they have the opportunity to create a story on their own.
Students may have their stories published on the Internet if they have permission to do so. This lesson will vary in length
depending on the individual writing styles, abilities, prompts used, and access to computers when it is time to submit stories.
Six to ten one- hour lessons should provide adequate time. Lessons include time to web and plan ideas, draft(s), edit and
revise, and typing the final copy for either the class or for submission to the Internet.  Meets Arizona State Technology Standards 1, 3, and 4.

Cruising Cross Country- A Tour of the Fifty States 
Students work on an Internet Scavenger Hunt, using one Web site on the Internet, to find facts about the United States.  Meets Arizona State Technology Standards 1, 3, and 5.

Cyber Safety
Provides guidelines for students to use when looking at web sites and opportunities to practice evaluation.  Meets Arizona State Technology Standards 2 and 5.

Do you get the Hungries?
An Amphi TLCF Lesson
Students will derive meaning from consumer information using reading/decoding & structural analysis strategies. Meets Arizona State Technology Standards 1, 2, 5, and 6.

Down the Drain
An Amphi Ed Tech Lesson
Students will join collaborative project Down the Drain to perform a water use survey and compare personal household water use to others locally and around the world.  Meets Arizona State Technology Standard 3.

Famous Artists and their Work
Students research an assigned artist using the Internet, reference resources, and other available materials.  Then students create a PowerPoint presentation to present to the class.  Meets Arizona State Technology Standards 3 and 4.

Feeling Groovy?
An Amphi Ed Tech Lesson
It does not come as a surprise to any one who has studied music that music is a very powerful tool for teaching.  This lesson focuses on the music and times of the 1960’s.  Although it is in an abbreviated form, it is a beginning to help students understand that most music is directly influenced by what is happening in the world around the composer.  The 1960’s are a very complicated time in American history if not in World history.  There were many changing attitudes including the end of McCarthyism, the civil rights movement, and the War in Vietnam.  The music of this time era is a revealing barometer of society, reflecting the diverse moods and views of the American public, especially the young people.  During this time not only did music reflect upon the social changes, but folk music and later on rock music, and the people who performed it were very influential in bringing about social change.  Meets Arizona State Technology Standard 5.

A Fond Farewell
An Amphi TLCF Lesson
Students take pictures of themselves, either with a digital camera or a regular camera, in the school setting.  They will download digital photography, or scan the regular pictures or pictures from their yearbooks.  Students will create a PowerPoint presentation to represent their years at Rio Vista.  The PowerPoint presentation will be used as a backdrop as they sing a song dedicated to their parents at their graduation ceremony.  They will video tape their rehearsals and evaluate their performance before the final presentation.  Meets Arizona State Technology Standards 3 and 4.

Getting to Know You Glyphs
Students will use Kid Pix to create a personal glyph. Using the glyphs students will compile data, create graphs with Excel using the data, and analyze results from the graphs.  Meets Arizona State Technology Standards 3 and 4.

Good Listening
An Amphi TLCF Lesson
Students will access Internet sites that will expose them to different ethnic groups in the United States.  They will analyze the types of music and describe how music defines ethnicity of individual groups and create presentations demonstrating their findings.  Meets Arizona State Technology Standards 3 and 4.

Graphing Populations
An Amphi TLCF Lesson
During this lesson, students will create a spreadsheet and a graph using the historic census numbers for a state of their choosing.  This ties in with our Social Studies unit in which students research a particular state and write a report about it.  Students will use their chosen state for this project.  Meets Arizona State Technology Standard 3.

Graphing the Stock Market
An Amphi Ed Tech Lesson
The study of economics is a crucial part of the fifth grade social studies curriculum. Students are introduced to the concepts of stock and profit as early as Henry Hudson’s Dutch East India Company.  This continues on through the study of early colonial economies and the free enterprise system. Using real time data, students will track the progress of stocks of their choice to see if they can make a profit or will they lose their investment. Students will learn the concept of positive and negative numbers as they follow their stocks. They will also construct line graphs to predict trends in the stock market.  Meets Arizona State Technology Standards 3, 5, and 6.

A Guide to Music Choices
An Amphi Ed Tech Lesson
Have you ever given any real thought to why you listen to the type of music that you do?  What section do you head for when you go to your favorite retailer to purchase music?  What form do you purchase that music in; CD, vinyl record, cassette tape?
Our students, as members of  the  younger generation, are experiencing some of the greatest advances in music technology in history.  The Internet holds a wealth of information like finding, previewing, and downloading music. You can even log onto music magazines and find information about your favorite groups, performers or composers.  You can download resources for creating and personalizing music with your computer.  There are even sites full of information about music from around the world and they allow you to listen to some examples.  That is what this WebQuest is all about, students will be learning how to preview and evaluate different types of music, evaluating the kind of music they listen to and why they listen to that type of music and learning about new sources for purchasing music.  Meets Arizona State Technology Standard 6.

Here's the Buzz on Africanized Honey Bees
An Amphi Ed Tech Lesson
This lesson is part of an environmental unit, in which aspects of the rainforest will be studied.  This particular lesson explores the subject of Africanized Honey Bees (AHB), which will be divided into several sub-topics that include: Identification, Habitat, Location and Migration, Stings, Economics, Precautions, and Frequently Asked Questions. First, as a whole class, via the Internet displayed on the TV converter, the students will be introduced to the topic, get a brief overview, as well as how to locate the Real Time Data web site that they will be using on the Internet.  In addition, they will learn how to access the different sub-topics that they will be exploring in greater depth, as small research-type groups.  Each small group will choose a different sub-topic to research using the classroom computer, as well as the computer lab. As a culminating activity, each group will create a brief PowerPoint presentation, which will cover the main ideas from their research.  From introduction to conclusion, this lesson should take approximately, two to three weeks, depending on the availability of computers.  Meets Arizona State Technology Standards 1, 3 and 4.

Historical Treasure Chest
An Amphi Ed Tech Lesson
Maps are an integral as well as fascinating part of the social studies curriculum. In the days of the early explorers maps were a work of art as well as a useful tool. By studying a map from this time period students will gain an understanding of the culture of that time as well as an insight into the minds of those who sailed off into the unknown seeking fame and fortune.  Meets Arizona State Technology Standards 3 and 5.

"How Do You Say Goodbye?"
An Amphi TLCF Lesson
Our principal, Mike McCrory, is retiring after eight years at Holaway.  Holaway students love and admire Mr. McCrory and want to thank him, say goodbye, and good luck in the future.  This lesson can serve as a model for any communication of appreciation to someone you respect. It can be used for an end of year project for a teacher, student teacher or a beloved principal like Mr. Mike McCrory.  Meets Arizona State Technology Standard 6.

How Long is That?
An Amphi Ed Tech Lesson
This lesson introduces students to the world of reading music.  Students will use interactive websites that use games to learn the name of notes and rests symbols.  Some of the sites have the capability that allows students to hear and learn about note and rest duration. After they have learned the names of the notes and rests, students can download worksheets and apply the knowledge that they have gained.  After ample practice, students will be asked to create their own rhythm patterns and perform them for their classmates. Meets Arizona State Technology Standard 1.

Internet Safety
An Amphi TLCF Lesson
This internet based lesson is designed to teach intermediate students about Internet safety and how to protect themselves when using the internet. Meets Arizona State Technology Standard 2.

Internet Safety
An Amphi TLCF Lesson
Guide intermediate students through the do’s and don’ts of using the Internet for their safety.  Meets Arizona State Technology Standard 2.

Internet State Research Project or 
The U.S. State Float and Multimedia Presentation
Students use the Internet, e-mail, electronic encyclopedias and other computer programs to locate information about the states.  Meets Arizona State Technology Standards 3, 4 and 5.

Interview with the Stars
An Amphi Ed Tech Lesson
Students will explore the lives of various jazz musicians. They will become familiar with the social and historical events that were present during the lives of these individuals. They will listen to the music of the artists and become knowledgeable about their styles. This activity will culminate in the production of a news/talk show created and performed by the students highlighting the lives of these musical figures.  Meets Arizona State Technology Standards 3 and 4.

Is It New or Is It Borrowed?
An Amphi TLCF Lesson
This lesson was designed to introduce students to a basic understanding of copyright laws by listening to some examples of recording artists infringement cases.  After listening to thoses examples and reading case studies of when it is unlawful to use other artists ideas, students will identify how copyright laws affect them in their use of technology.  Whether they are using the web for research and writing of papers, or sharing information with their friends.  Meets Arizona State Technology Standard 2.

Legal Use of Published Photos in Student-generated Web Page
An Amphi TLCF Lesson
Students will learn and demonstrate how to obtain permission to use published photos and/or other documents to incorporate into their own work.  Meets Arizona State Technology Standard 2.

Letters Using Different Points of View
An Amphi Ed Tech Lesson
Students will write four letters, from four different points-of-view and for different audiences.  The letters will conclude a Social Studies unit on Christopher Columbus and early exploration.  The contents of the letters should include information that they’ve learned, and should be factually accurate.  Copies of the letters will be sent to The Write 
Source, a online site for  publishing student work.  Meets Arizona Technology Standards 3 and 4.

My Book Adventure
An Amphi Ed Tech Lesson
This is a perfect lesson for students who are independent readers. Student can test themselves on books they have read and have prizes sent to them after they accumulate points. Teachers receive the scores from the tests taken. This site can also be used to offer suggestions of books tying into student levels and interests. This lesson is most appropriate for grades 3 and above.  Meets Arizona Sate Technology Standards 1 and 5. 

Natural Disasters: Where and When?
An Amphi Ed Tech Lesson
Earthquakes and volcanoes are often related events and both are related to movement of the Earth’s crustal plates.  Students will look at Real Time web sites to see where earthquakes and volcanoes are currently active in the world.  They will also research historical data on earthquakes and volcanoes.  Both current and historical data will be plotted on blank maps.  Students will compare historical and current occurrences determine causal factors and to predict future occurrences of both phenomena.  Since future occurrences may not fall within the school year, accuracy will have to be determined on the basis of logical thought rather than the actual happening.  Meets Arizona State Technology Standard 3.

Note and Rest Duration Recognition
An Amphi TLCF Lesson
This lesson helps students practice reading, writing, and performing note and rest duration, while practicing using the Internet to find pre-bookmarked sites, scrolling through the sites, and printing out forms.  Meets Arizona State Technology Standard 1.

Novel Studies
Students use of technology as part of a discussion group for a novel.Students will be able to use writing composed on computer to respond to their reading in novels, practicing various types of writing.  Meets Arizona State Technology Standards 3 and 4.

Open for Business
Students use the Internet to research business, use word processing to create a business plan and Kid Pix to create advertising.  Meets Arizona State Technology Standards 3 and 4.

"Orphan Train" Connections
An Amphi Ed Tech Lesson
A favorite literature selection is Joan Lowery Nixon’s A Family Apart, the story of a family of Irish immigrant children in New York City in the mid 19th century who are given up as orphans by their loving mother when she can no longer provide for them following her husband’s untimely death. The children are subsequently sent west on the “Orphan Train” through the efforts of Reverend Loring Brace and the Children’s Aid Society. This Primary Source lesson is designed to provide a connection with this literature story, our social studies curriculum and primary source photos, letters, posters or newspapers of the time to help students better understand and to bring to life “real” children’s stories. This lesson should take two one- hour sessions to locate and reflect on the material.  Meets Arizona State Technology Standards 1, 3, and 5.

Personal Web Page Creation
Students use Netscape Communicator develop a web site with a background, title, paragraph, and graphic. Meets Arizona State Technology Standards 3 and 4.

Pilgrim Life Launch Page
An Amphi Ed Tech Lesson
This launch page is designed for use with fourth/fifth grade students during a Colonization or Pilgrim unit. You may print out a copy of the launch page for students to use to take notes as they conduct the guided research. The launch page guides students through many related topics on the Scholastic web page for the First Thanksgiving. The students use the notes they collect as background information (along with classroom studies) to write a journal entry from the point of view of a child during Colonial Times. This journal may then be submitted to Scholastic.com for publication online.  Meets Arizona State Technology Standards 4 and 5.

Publishing Poetry
An Amphi Ed Tech Lesson
Knowing that many students often see poetry as “boring”, a unique way to “hook” students is to give them the opportunity to be a published author on the Internet. Seeing other students’ work, and having the opportunity to share theirs with such a large audience, students feel “famous” which can be highly motivating. After reading and analyzing several poetry formats, students will write poems in these different styles. They will then choose the poem they want to work on for submission to an Internet Publishing site.  Meets Arizona State Technology Standards 1, 3, and 4.

Seven Dwarfs' Budget Spreadsheet
Students create a spreadsheet, enter data, and make a bar graph using data for the Seven Dwarfs' budget.  Meets Arizona State Technology Standards 3 and 4.

Southwest Temperatures

Stinky Cheese?
An Amphi Ed Tech Lesson
This launch page is inspired by The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales by Jon Sciexzka and is designed for fourth/fifth grade students during a fairy tale unit of study. After reading the book to students, the objective is for them to conduct research in order to learn about different types of cheeses. It is suggested that you print a copy of the launch page for students to use to take notes as they conduct the guided research. Based on research and notes, students will decide what type of cheese they think the little old woman in the story used to make her stinky cheese man. Students will be evaluated based on a paper defending their choice of cheese. Meets Arizona State Technology Standards 3 and 5.

Stock Market Challenge
An Amphi Ed Tech Lesson
The demanding Arizona State Standards require students to begin investigating applying the use of positive and negative numbers in math, and economics in Social Studies. What better way to meet these goals than using the Real-Time Data from the Stock Market? After all, students love to talk about making money! Timing is very flexible! You may have your students track their stocks for five or more days. Meets Arizona State Technology Standards 3, 5 and 6.

Student Publishing on the Web
An Amphi Ed Tech Lesson
The Internet can be a useful tool for motivating reluctant writers. Even students who find it difficult to get their thoughts down on paper are compelled to write when they know their audience is all of cyberspace. 
Using the Kids-Space website, students will publish original rebus style stories on the Internet. When completed and published, they then will be able to email the URL for those stories to friends and relatives around the country. The computer can also be a powerful tool for revising original work. The painful processes of erasing and rewriting can be eliminated. Students will learn how to use the computer to edit their stories using criteria based on the Six Traits of writing.  Meets Arizona State Technology Standards 1, 2, 3, and 4.

Technology Enhanced Self-Directed Fieldwork
An Amphi TLCF Lesson
Students plan a trip to a destination in Arizona.  They will use a variety of technologies students will research where they want to go, what they will discover, how they will get there, how much time they will need, and how much the trip will cost.  Meets Arizona State Technology Standard 6.

Tell Me More About Veteran's Day
An Amphi Ed Tech Lesson
This lesson launches students off to a play that involves kids trying to define Veterans Day for themselves.  Students will answer questions about this play, then visit another site, containing the lyrics to The National Anthem.  This page will require students to embark on a syntax hunt.  This web page was specifically designed for limited English speakers.  Meets Arizona State Technology Standard 5. 

Thanks for the Memories-A Visit to America's Past
An Amphi Ed Tech Lesson
American history is the main focus of the 5th grade Social Studies curriculum. This lesson is a way to engage students in an exploration of our history’s past in an independent, interactive way. The students will focus on two links from this website – “Meet Amazing Americans” and  “Jump Back In Time.”  Both links provide a wide variety of choices that the students can explore independently or collaboratively with another student.  After exploring their person or time in history, the students will share what they’ve learned by doing a brief oral presentation. The students will also be asked to produce a word document that summarizes the important ideas from their exploration, accompanied by a picture that they have copied from their primary source link.  The students’ work will be put on display in a scrapbook type format for the classroom library.  From introduction to conclusion, this lesson should take approximately, two to three weeks, depending on the availability of computers.  Meets Arizona State Technology Standards 3, 4 and 5.

The Sun Times
An Amphi TLCF Lesson
In this lesson, students will investigate the relationship between latitude and temperature and length of day. This is an online project sponsored by CIESE (http://www.k12science.org) that allows students to view and use data collected by schools around the world.  This data is then analyzed to determine a relationship between the above factors.  Meets Arizona State Technology Standard 4.

Then and Now
An Amphi TLCF Lesson
This project challenges the student to investigate a childhood memory from two different points of views, and how he/she has changed.  Meets Arizona State Technology Standards 1,3, and 4.

Thinking Critically
An Amphi TLCF Lesson
Students will be given the opportunity to look at different web, evaluate them, rate them, and make decisions about the accuracy and relevance of each web site.  After evaluating the web sites, students will be asked to use the accurate information to create a presentation about life and music in the 1930’s.  Meets Arizona State Technology Standard 5.

Today in History
An Amphi Ed Tech Lesson
This is a daily activity that will be taught and established as a routine part of the day. The purpose of the lesson is to have students interact with technology on a daily basis and to make connections between historical events and to daily life. Students will be scheduled (one or two per day) to access the Today in History site, use links and related searches, then, make a short class presentation relating their findings and connections. Depending on the event(s) depicted, connections may be to other subject areas such as Science, Art, etc. A classroom computer is necessary for this lesson. A projection system or TV converter will also be helpful.  Meets Arizona State Technology Standard 5.

Using Primary and Secondary Resources to Study Tucson's History
An Amphi TLCF Lesson
Students will create web pages documenting their study of the houses on historical Main Street in Tucson, Arizona using primary and secondary resources.  Meets Arizona State Technology Standard 3.

Wanted Posters
Students can create the sign feature on Student Writing Center to created a wanted poster of a literary character.  Meets Arizona State Technology Standards 3 and 4.

Water Usage
An Amphi Ed Tech Lesson
Students study Land Forms in the 5th grade curriculum.  Part of this study is not only rainfall and how it affects the land, but also how the land affects the storage of the water.  This study will bring the water usage of Pima County into the classroom using real time data from wells close to the homes of the students.  Meets Arizona State Technology Standard 3.

Water Use/Water Waste
An Amphi Ed Tech Lesson
This collaborative, Internet-based project is part of an environmental unit, in which water use and water conservation will be examined.  In this lesson students will learn about their own water usage, as well as other household members.  In addition, they will compare their information to that of others locally and around the world. Meets Arizona State Technology Standard 3.

Westward Expansion Journal Entry
An Amphi Ed Tech Lesson
Prior to this lesson, students will have been involved in a four-week simulation dealing with American Pioneer life. They will have studied and experienced the life of an early American traveling west on the Hacker Trail in the Interact simulation Pioneers. Students will have knowledge of supplies, foods, transportation, weather conditions, and the general lifestyle of a pioneer traveling west in America during the 1800s. 

Students will use their background knowledge of American pioneer life to compose a journal entry written by a pioneer child. This entry will be published online. The lesson will take 5-7 hours depending on writing and typing ability. This time will consist of webbing ideas, writing a rough draft, peer editing, revising and writing a second draft, typing and publishing online. Meets Arizona State Technology Standards 1, 3 and 4.

What's for Lunch
An Amphi TLCF Lesson
In this lesson, students will create a menu for one full that is based on nutrition guidelines.  Meets Arizona State Technology Standard 6.

What's It Like Where You Live? 
Students work in cooperative groups to research and create a PowerPoint presentation of one of six biomes.  Meets Arizona State Technology Standards 3 and 4.

What's That Shape?
An Amphi Ed Tech Lesson
Prior to this lesson students will have studied the properties of geometric shapes, both two-dimensional and three-dimensional. After reviewing geometric shapes with students through the use of websites and models, students will pick one geometric shape for this project. Using the draw tools in Microsoft Word or Microsoft PowerPoint, students will draw the geometric shape they have picked. This lesson should take three to four hours in the computer lab depending on the student’s grade level.  Students will then use the digital camera to take a picture(s) of an object(s) on our campus that has the same geometric shape as their drawing.  Finally, students will import this image into a Word or PowerPoint document and write a description of both the geometric shape that they drew and the digital picture of an object that represents this shape. This description will justify their choice of objects in their digital pictures by identifying the characteristics that they have in common.  Meets Arizona State Technology Standards 1 and 3.

Where Do Languages Come From?
An Amphi Ed Tech Lesson
We take language for granted, but many of our English words have the same Latin derivatives as some Spanish, French, and Italian words. Students will find it interesting to see some examples of this. It will help them have respect for other languages and build their vocabulary. This lesson meets Arizona State Standards: 1, 3, and 5