Projects and Lesson Plans
Projects and Lesson Plans

Welcome to TechKNOW Associates' Projects and Lesson Plans page. This page contains many great standards driven, curriculum-based projects and lessons. You may download a full copy of Rome: In Focus, The Egypt Experience or The Perfect Animal by following the links below. Other projects listed below are available to educators. Please email jferro@techknowassociates.com or call in NJ: 609-443-1544 Outside of NJ, please call 1-800-917-9940. Be sure to include your name, position, school/district, and a telephone number where you can be reached.

Why Project-Based Learning?

TechKNOW Associates Corporation can provide expert, onsite staff development to insure that teachers and children fully implement these and other projects at a reasonable cost. We will train teachers in the classroom with their students, model lessons, and help them integrate technology into their curriculum through a project-based approach.

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This page is revised on a regular basis with new projects being added all the time. Visit often.

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Permission is hereby granted to educators to download, print and use the educational materials on our site, provided that the purposes are exclusively educational and entirely noncommercial. For more information about receiving the projects listed on this page, please email jferro@techknowassociates.com or call in NJ: 1- 609-443-1544. Outside of NJ, please call 1-800-917-9940. Be sure to include your name, position, school/district, and a telephone number where you can be reached.

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Projects
Sample Online Lessons

Project  Listing - Please note that projects made be adapted up or down a grade.
Circles of Change  Early Childhood
Jellybean Journalists  Early Childhood
Look What We Discovered: Animals Uncovered  Early Childhood 
FOCUS on My Neighborhood  Grades 1 to 3
The Galactic Traveler  Grades 1 to 3
The Perfect Animal  Grades 1 to 3
Weather Watcher  Grades 1 to 3
As American As Apple Pie Grades 2 to 5
Protecting Our Planet  Grades 3 to 5
Step Into the Shoes of An Explorer!  Grades 3 to 5
The Egypt Experience  Grades 3 to 6
The Great Game Show Challenge Grades 3 to 5
Carousel of Cultures  Grades 3 to 6
Pioneers on the Prairie  Grades 3 to 6
The Great Outdoor Adventure  Grades 3 to 6
You've Gotta Have Art!  Grades 3 to 6; may be adapted for grades 7 and 8
A Marvelous Myth-Adventure  Grades 4 to 8
That Would Make a Great Movie!  Grades 4 to 8
The Invention Connection!  Grades 4 to 8
What's Going On!  Grades 4 to 8
Blazing Trails with Lewis and Clark  Grades 5 to 8
Health Watch (New) Grades 5 to 8
Mesoamerica Calling!  Grades 5 and 7
Rome: In Focus   Grades 5 to 9
The Shakespeare Channel  Grades 6 to 12+
What a Disaster!  Grades 6 to 8
The Energy Effect Grades 6 to 8
Many Histories, Many Peoples Grades 6 to 8
World War II: Hall of Fame, Hall of Shame  Grade 8 (May be used in NYC as a social studies exit project)
Quest for Equality! 

Grade 8 (May be used in NYC as a social studies exit project)
The Traveler in Time  Grade 8 (May be used in NYC as a social studies exit project)
This House Divided (with 10 additional lessons) Middle and High School
The Bill of Rights: Alive and Well?  Grades 9 to 12
The Career Network Grades 9 to 12
The Sixties: Loud and Clear  Grades 9 to 12
There's No Place Like Rome!  Grades 9 to 12
Women: A Guiding Force  Grades 9 to 12
This is MY America Grades K-8

 

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Online Lesson Plans - Please note that these lesson plans may be downloaded in pdf form from the lesson plan's page.

Is It Possible To Share History - Project: As American As Apple Pie
Students are asked to retell facts they have learned about American history. They will synthesize the information to write articles that will be published in a class newspaper. This lesson will help students learn the features of expository writing, as well as how to develop nonfiction writing that is both historically accurate and appealing to the reader. Students will learn how to use Microsoft Word to layout their newspaper.
How Can One Letter Go To 50 Different People - Project: Career Network
Students are asked to create at least two cover letters. Although some of the information may be similar in each cover letter, a customized cover letter should show that you know something about the company and the industry. This lesson will help students write their cover letter. It also teaches them how to write one letter that can be personalized to multiple addressees, using the Mail Merge feature of Microsoft Word.
Maps That Narrate History - Project: This House Divided
A map can provide a great deal of information quickly and efficiently to the reader. In this lesson students will research the politics of the years preceding the U. S. Civil War. They will understand that the rapid expansion of the United States was, in part, responsible for an increase in tension between “free” and “slave” states. By creating a detailed map, students will demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between geography and politics during this time period.

Turn It Off - Project: The Energy Effect
Students will synthesize data from their home energy audits with research from various sources. They will develop a list of specific energy-saving tips and create a brochure designed to persuade friends and family to save energy and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

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