A Season For Everything - by Meg  Reed, meg.reed@cpsb.org Students use literature, hands-on activities, cooperative learning groups, and technology to create trees for each season and write a story about the seasons. Grade Level(s) K, 1,  Content Area(s) English/Language Arts Science 1/11/2006 12:27:40 PM Amazing Adjectives - by Trudy Phelps, trudy.phelps@cpsb.org This would be a culminating activity for a unit of adjectives. Students would use adjectives that describe nouns according to shape, size, color, taste, smell or how it feels. The students will use the handhelds to take pictures of objects around the school campus. Then, they would beam the picture to a partner who uses the notepad to write descriptive sentences about the picture. Grade Level(s) 1, 2,  Content Area(s) English/Language Arts 5/13/2006 2:25:43 PM Art Start Drawing - by Shirlene Clark, shirlene.clark@cpsb.org Using notepad on the handhelds, students draw a hanging flag. The video instructs using paper and pencil, but this lesson is adapted to use the handheld. Students are encouraged to draw what is seen. Angles are drawn in relationship to vertical fold lines. Students are asked to forget that they are drawing a flag and to concentrate on drawing lines and angles just as they see them. Grade Level(s) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5,  Content Area(s) Art 1/11/2006 5:16:43 PM Five little....who? - by Patricia Johnston, pjohnston@beau.k12.la.us Students will listen to Five little monkeys jumping on bed. They will read another book of Five little something. They will compare and contrast the stories. They will also create another Five little... story. They will share their stories by beaming them to other groups. Grade Level(s) 1, 2, 3,  Content Area(s) English/Language Arts 8/5/2004 10:51:38 AM Picture This - by Jill Holman, dougholman@centurytel.net Overview: Student will create an addition picture and beam to partner. The partner must construct a number sentence depicting the picture beamed. Grade Level(s) 1, 2,  Content Area(s) 8/4/2004 12:10:08 PM Plants and Their Parts - by Christiane Perkins, christiane.perkins@cpsb.org 1. TLW learn about the wonderful world of plants, functions and parts using literature, video, and PowerPoint on plants. 2. TLW create their own illustrations using technology (palms) to show understanding of objective. Grade Level(s) 1,  Content Area(s) Art Science 5/10/2005 8:13:53 AM Presenting My Family! - by Stephanie O'Quinn, stephanie.o'quinn Since I will be introducing the Handheld Computers during Parent Night, I would like to start off the year expanding my All About Me lesson into an All About My Family lesson. I would like for my students to each get a chance to take home the Palm and do a Family Project. This will give the students and parents an opportunity to become more familiar with the Palms and it will allow me to get to know the families a little better:) Grade Level(s) 1, 2,  Content Area(s) Art English/Language Arts 8/4/2004 3:55:31 PM What Am I? - by Terrie McCallister, mccallistert@rapides.k12.la.us Students will use their senses to identify a mystery food. They will write riddles about their food and draw a picture of it. They will beam their riddle to other students to see if they can guess the mystery food. Grade Level(s) 1, 2, 3,  Content Area(s) English/Language Arts Science 8/3/2004 11:18:56 AM You Have Me In The Palm Of Your Hand - by Lucie Hebert, lhebert@leo-seton.org Overview: Grade 1 This lesson is a language arts lesson that will teach students how to interview, complete a thinking map and then write a short story about a buddy using a palm and the software GoKnow- freewrite. Students will also learn the writing process-brainstorming, prewriting, rough draft “sloppy copy”, and final copy. The information will be beamed to my computer. I will also have students take a picture of their buddy using a digital camera. A class book will be made using the entries the students have made as well as the pictures they took. A rubric for group activity and a writing rubric will be used for assessment. This lesson will take 5 language arts class periods. Grade Level(s) 1,  Content Area(s) English/Language Arts 8/27/2006 10:08:27 AM