Lesson Plans

Moon Mania lesson plans were written in connection with the EdConnect Grant to help teachers incorporate technology into their curriculum.

• K-4 technology rich lessons
• integrate the technology lessons into your instructional planning
• create new activities to expand the lessons
• rubric assessment techniques provided to measure student performance
• use evaluation tools to assess the effectiveness of the technology integration into your classroom

Moon Mania lessons are cross curricular and can be used in Science, Social Studies, Art, and Language Arts and are tied into Louisiana Content Standards. Each lesson on the moon involves integrating technology into the classroom. Technology incorporated into the lessons includes word processing, videotaping, KidPix, HyperStudio, and the Internet. The twelve lessons and technology used:

Lesson 1 Haiku Students will read or be read Haiku poems and then write their own Word Processing or Paint software

Lesson 2 Readers Theatre Videotaping/Digital Camera

Lesson 3 Art Project Turtle Shell of 13 moons KidPix software

Lesson 4 Moon Folklore HyperStudio and/or KidPix software

Lesson 5 Moon Phases Internet, KidPix, Paint software

Lesson 6 Moon Craters Internet, Word Processing

Lesson 7 Astronaut Trading Cards Internet, Word Processing

Lesson 8 Ask an Astronaut a Question Online Internet 

Lesson 9 Moon Trip Scavenger Hunt KidPix, Internet

Lesson 10 Space Meal KidPix

Lesson 11 Design a Plaque What Would You Leave on the Moon? KidPix, Internet

Lesson 12 Moon Festival Internet and Word Processing

Lessons created by J. Angers for A Technology Innovation Challenge Grant funded by U.S. Department of Education.

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