PalmQuest Lesson Plans

“Looking At The State Were In” through Clementine’s Eyes - by Bobbi Yancey, bobbi.yancey@cpsb.org
This unit of study was designed as a collaborative distance project between NBCT EMC visual art specialists Judy Ball Johnson, Highlands Magnet Elementary School, Shreveport, LA, Email Address- jbjart@sport.rr.com or jbjohnson@caddo.k12.la.us, and by Bobbi Yancey, College Oaks Elementary, Lake Charles, LA. byanci@cox-internet.com or bobbi.yancey@cpsb.org Students will be introduced to an artist, Clementine Hunter, who worked as a cook, sharecropper, domestic, and nanny her entire life in Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana, mainly at Melrose Plantation. Students will investigate her genre paintings to analyze daily life depicted and how it compares and differs with daily living of today. Additionally, students will compare and contrast “Folk Life” in North and South Louisiana. Students will explore cultural heritage, diversity, and use of found objects to develop a theme reflecting their personal heritage in the creation of their own original art work in a “Folk”, “Primitive”, or “Outsider” style. Students will submit work electronically using Palm HandHeld computers and in a traditional manner using a variety of media on an Artist Trading Card template. The project will culminate with students meeting each other on the grounds of Melrose Plantation. Students will tour “The African House” to view Hunter’s murals first hand, will see a theatrical portrayal of Clementine Hunter by Louisiana thespian, Carol Ann Gayle, will view an electronic student art exhibit, and will participate in an information handheld beam-a-thon, and a Artist Trading Card Exchange.
Grade Level(s)
3, 4, 5,
Content Area(s)
Art
English/Language Arts
Music
Social Studies
8/27/2006 8:27:54 PM

Alien Match - by Trista Badeaux, tbadeaux@leoseton.org
The students will draw an alien in Sketchy using geometric shapes, write a descriptive paragraph in Words to Go descibing their alien, switch paragraphs with a partner, and try to draw their partner's alien according to their descriptive paragraph. **This lesson can be done in 2 days or a week depending on the skills you want to focus on and the amount of additional activities that can stem from the activity.
Grade Level(s)
3, 4, 5,
Content Area(s)
Art
English/Language Arts
Math
Science
5/10/2006 7:10:42 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

Caldecott Champions - by Patty Fraser, pfraser@ebrschools.org
The teacher will introduce students to Caldecott books with a classroom book display and an oral reading of one of them. Students will be placed in collaborative groups, assigned a book to read and illustrate in Sketchy. Each group will present/retell their interpretation and illustration of their book to the class. After each group has presented, the class will vote on the best team of illustrators and award them the Classroom Caldecott Team medal.
Grade Level(s)
2, 3,
Content Area(s)
English/Language Arts
11/27/2004 12:04:22 AM

Crazy With Catapults! - by Alison Dunaway, alison.dunaway@zacharyschools.org
Students will use catapults to conduct an experiment in order to test the question “As the distance a rubber band is stretched and released from increases, does the distance the rubber band increase, decrease or stay the same? ” After conducting the experiment, documenting procedures by taking pictures with the handheld and collecting data on the handheld, the students will use the Excel on the handheld to graph the data.
Grade Level(s)
3, 4, 5, Special Ed
Content Area(s)
Science
1/11/2006 9:17:11 PM

Ecosystem Investigations - by Laura Lombas, lmlombas@charter.net
Students will research, document, and report on five important ecosystems in Louisiana. They will work in cooperative groups to highlight the organisms in an assigned ecosystem then create a presentation for the other groups. The presentation will consist of a slide show and reports on specific organisms from the ecosystem.
Grade Level(s)
3, 4,
Content Area(s)
English/Language Arts
Science
5/10/2005 11:30:29 PM

Finding Your Voice - by Charla Arabie, charla.arabie@cpsb.org
Students discover how to record, playback, and beam their recorded voice messages using the Zire 72. They then record information about a book in the library. Their partners must use the information to locate the same book in the library.
Grade Level(s)
2, 3, 4, 5,
Content Area(s)
English/Language Arts
8/27/2006 6:30:24 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

Food Chains - by Stacie Reed, stacie.reed@cpsb.org
students will create multimedia slide show about a food chain or food web. They will be able to use PowerPoint, Inspiration, or Sketchy.
Grade Level(s)
3, 4,
Content Area(s)
Science
7/20/2005 9:49:31 AM

Food Chains - by Stacie Reed, stacie.reed
Using Kidpix or Inspiration students will label and diagram a food chain or Food web
Grade Level(s)
3, 4,
Content Area(s)
Science
7/8/2005 10:03:04 PM

Fractured Fairy Tales - by Karen Williams, karen.williams@cpsb.org
The students will use creative thinking skills to "fracture" a well known fairy tale.
Grade Level(s)
3, 4, 5,
Content Area(s)
Art
English/Language Arts
1/11/2006 11:50:31 AM

Getting to Know Your Characters - by Jennifer Gautreaux, jgautreaux@leoseton.org
The students will choose a character from the novel, "The Mouse and the Motorcycle." This character, along with new descriptive words called adjectives, will be used to create a character web on the palm program Inspiration.
Grade Level(s)
3,
Content Area(s)
English/Language Arts
8/26/2006 10:57:24 AM

Haiku Writing using Personal Photograph - by Patty Sibley, psibley@beau.k12.la.us
Students will create Haiku poems to express what they see in a photograph that they have taken.
Grade Level(s)
3, 4, 5,
Content Area(s)
English/Language Arts
8/3/2004 4:31:54 PM

Handing off Light Energy - by Lee Long, lee.long@cpsb.org
The students will use their handhelds in order to learn about Light Energy
Grade Level(s)
3, 4, 5,
Content Area(s)
Science
7/17/2005 10:03:03 AM

Let Me Introduce Myself - by Pamela Newton, pn2228@slp.k12.la.us
In this lesson students will create slide shows about themselves. This lesson can be modified to any grade level. It will be used after an introduction to the handhelds. This lesson will be used at the beginning and the end of the year.
Grade Level(s)
3,
Content Area(s)
English/Language Arts
Math
Science
Social Studies
7/8/2005 1:10:35 PM

Making the World a Better Place - by Lynda Perrodin, lmp5371@slp.k12.la.us
In this lesson, the students will focus on the merits of a video versus a book. The students will listen to and view the story Miss Rumphius by Barbara Cooney. This book is about how one person can make the world a more beautiful place. The students will then complete an activity using Discussion. Upon completion of Discussion, the students will list ways to make the world more beautiful by using Inspiration.
Grade Level(s)
2, 3,
Content Area(s)
English/Language Arts
5/9/2005 11:47:41 AM

Matching Data to Graphs, Charts, and Tables - by Michelle Jean-Louis, michelle.lynch@cpsb.org
The students will create a bar graph, chart, or table to represent the data collected from other third graders at our school.
Grade Level(s)
3,
Content Area(s)
Math
12/9/2004 9:00:51 PM

McNeese Math - by Mary Stevens, maxine.stevens@cpsb.org
In this lesson students will use real world data to construct a bar graph, line graph, and a pie chart. They will also use this data to problem solve using basic mathematical operations.
Grade Level(s)
3,
Content Area(s)
Math
8/25/2006 8:55:34 PM

Multiplication People Hunt - by Tevya O'Quain, tevya.oquain@cpsb.org
Students will use Palms and knowledge of multiplication facts to find the "owner" of the multiplication facts for each product on their "People Hunt" card.
Grade Level(s)
3,
Content Area(s)
Math
5/11/2005 7:48:28 PM

Oh My, Gator Pie! - by Angela Weldon, aweldon@allen.k12.la.us
Students use literature, hands-on activities, cooperative learning groups, and technology to create “Gator Pies” (fractions).
Grade Level(s)
2, 3, 4,
Content Area(s)
English/Language Arts
Math
8/4/2004 1:29:01 PM

PodCasting, Mummies & the Inside Story - by Rhonda Young, rhonda.young@cpsb.org
Students will utilize their Palms to listen to a PodCast before and during their visit to the Museum exhibit “Mummies – The Inside Story and then create a sketchy slideshow about the process of mummification and their favorite artifact.
Grade Level(s)
3, 4,
Content Area(s)
Art
Science
Social Studies
1/11/2006 8:16:45 PM

Test Taking Strategies - by Darla LeJeune, dlejeune@acadia.k12.la.us
This lesson is designed to teach studennts test-taking stratgies that can be applied to all types of tests with major emplahsis on standardized tests. The lesson centers on the book titled Testing Miss Malarkey by: Judy Finchler.
Grade Level(s)
3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9,
Content Area(s)
English/Language Arts
Math
Science
Social Studies
7/18/2005 2:33:44 PM

The Greedy Triangle - by Tammy Marcantel, kesteacher@msn.com
Students use literature, manipulatives, hands-on activities, coorperative learning groups, and technology to create polygons and investigate their characteristics.
Grade Level(s)
2, 3, 4,
Content Area(s)
Art
English/Language Arts
Math
8/2/2004 10:58:59 PM

The Sequence of Nature - by Meloni Buller, meloni.buller
This lesson is designed for elementary students to use the Palm for a lesson in ELA sequencing and Science in the steps of a plant.
Grade Level(s)
2, 3, 4, 5,
Content Area(s)
Art
English/Language Arts
Science
1/12/2006 8:47:40 AM

Using English to Color Our World - by Susan Bergeron, sab4554@slp.k12.la.us
In this lesson students will take pictures of things around the school that correspond to grammar terms learned throughout the year. They will then write sentences using descriptive words to tell about their pictures.
Grade Level(s)
2, 3, 4,
Content Area(s)
English/Language Arts
5/7/2005 10:42:59 AM

Water Cycle - by Marie Garner, marie.garner@cpsb.org
After teaching the Water Cycle, students will demonstrate
Grade Level(s)
3,
Content Area(s)
Science
8/28/2006 11:38:04 AM

Water Cycle - by Marie Garner, marie.garner@cpsb.org
After teaching the Water Cycle, students will demonstrate
Grade Level(s)
3,
Content Area(s)
Science
8/28/2006 11:37:16 AM

Water World - by Camella Hardy, camella.hardy@cpsb.org
Water Cycle
Grade Level(s)
3,
Content Area(s)
Science
12/10/2004 9:51:05 AM

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

What are my Attributes? - by Carolyn Dever, carolyn.dever@cpsb.org
This lesson provides an introduction to Geometry and one to three-dimensional objects. The handheld is also used to teach the students how to take pictures, use Memo Pad and Print. Students are asked to locate an object in the classroom and describe its attributes, then compare and contrast this object with others from classmates
Grade Level(s)
3, 4, 5, 6,
Content Area(s)
English/Language Arts
Math
12/9/2004 2:50:20 PM

What is an animal? - by Hope Vaughan, hvaughan@ebrschools.org
This is a week long project using palms and desktop computers to study different types of animals, which leads to a project on one certian animal.
Grade Level(s)
3,
Content Area(s)
Science
5/11/2005 9:49:44 PM