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Lesson Ideas

Do you feel that your skills in IT are pretty well up to scratch but need some new ideas? Then you’ve come to the right place. These quick one liners may be the inspiration behind your next great lesson. Ideas include:

• Create a documentary of an historical event using Microsoft® Photo Story and Microsoft® Producer
• Conduct an online debate using Microsoft® Outlook
• Create a 7 minute film to rival the Cairns Movie Festival using Microsoft® Movie Maker
• Conduct your own Archibald prize winning website using students artwork

We’ll give you the idea; you take it above and beyond to create a learning experience suited to your students’ needs and abilities.

Making Movies

• Create a news report of a school event
• Interview a:
  • Sports student prior to and after a school carnival
  • Debating student before and after a debate
  • Performance student before and after a concert
  • Student before and after an exam
  • An elderly person in your community
  • Teacher
  • Fellow student
  • Student from grades above or below you
  • The principal
• Record a school performance to post on the schools website
• Make a film clip to accompany a piece of music
• Shoot footage from around the school and create a film clip to accompany your school song
• Role play interviewing a:
  • Character from a novel
  • The author of a book
  • An historical figure
  • Politician
  • Musician
  • An artist
  • An astronaut
  • An entrepreneur
  • Composer
  • An inventor
  • An archaeologist
• Make a documentary of:
  • Local wildlife
  • An historical event
  • A day in the life of a school student
  • A day in the life of a teacher
  • A school event
• Shoot an expose of:
  • Homework: Is it taken seriously?
  • School canteen: Promoting healthy eating?
  • What kids bring for lunch and what really happens to it?
• Create a short educational film about
  • Sun safety
  • Saying no to drugs
  • Healthy life choices
  • How to prevent bullying
  • Peer pressure
  • Tips and tricks to surviving in the playground
  • Handling the pressure of homework
• Record a poetry reading
• Perform and record a short play
• Keep a video visual arts/DT journal

Using Email

Use Microsoft Outlook to:

• Conduct an online court case
• An online debate
• Establish a buddy class in:
  • The same school
  • A school in the same area
  • A distance education school
  • A school overseas
• Email game of:
  • International hide and seek
  • Guess who
  • What object am I?
  • Eye spy
• Conduct an interview
• Conduct a pole
• Vote on a class issue
• Choose your own adventure story

Creating a Presentation

Use Microsoft PowerPoint to create a presentation on:

• The people in our school
• The students in our class
• Members of the community
• Historical events
• School events and carnivals
• Famous people
• Seven wonders of the world
• Religions around the world
• A novel you have been studying in class

Using Microsoft Publisher:

• Create a class newsletter
• Make an invitation to a school event
• Design a CD cover for a recorded school performance
• Create a resume in preparation for leaving school
• Make a program for a school event
• Design a lunch time menu for the school canteen
• Create an international calendar marking important world events
• Design a card to send to:
  • An author
  • A younger/older buddy student
  • A member of the community thanking them for their assistance

Using Microsoft Excel:

• Graph:
  • Eye colour
  • Height of students in your class
  • Achievement in sports and fitness over a specified time frame
  • Distance of a paper aeroplane design
  • Interest rates and total repayment when buying a car
  • The fluctuations of shares on the stock market
  • Colour distribution in a packet of smarties
  • What everyone had for breakfast
  • Different types of transport that pass the school in a designated time period
• Create a timeline of:
  • Historical events
  • Personal goals
  • The works of an Artist, Poet, Musician, Composer
  • The achievements of a sporting hero
  • Dinosaurs
  • Personal milestones

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