Lance Grimsley

This lesson teaches students how to cut out out a specific image from a background and then use that image to create a poster. This is a great lesson for teachers who want to create great looking presentations!. The students will find an athlete, musician or celebrity and remove them from the background. Then they will create a poster from that image. The students can take what they learn and then use it to make better presentations. My students love the results of this lesson and you will too!

In this lesson students will figure out the cost of debt. The lesson includes a presentation about debt with a video about credit cards. Included is an exercise where students will figure out how long it will take to pay off a debt based on a balance of $8,000 with varying rates. An excel spreadsheet is provided with a built in debt calculator and sheets with exercises. The students will then figure out how much a purchase that they are interested in will cost them if they use a credit card with

This tutorial uses free tools to created an animated pixel art gif. Students will create pixel art then animate it. This is a fun easy lesson that students will want to keep coming back to. Teachers, you can use this to create pixel art for your lessons as well!

In this lesson students will create an animated text effect than can be placed over images and videos. This lesson has great results and does not require much artistic ability. Students will need access to a scanner. The students will write a quote on white paper, scan it and then animate it with Final Cut. This is a step by step lesson. Final Cut knowledge would be helpful. Included are video examples. TPT sellers, this is also a great lesson for you to learn how to add this effect to your vide

This lesson is inspired by the art of Sean Charmatz. He is an artist who brings photos of everyday objects to life. Students will use the free online vector program Vectr, to create art similar to Sean's work. This is a step by step tutorial and no prior knowledge is required. Included is a video on using the pen tool, examples of Sean's work, and an example made from scratch. This would be a great lesson to have students take their own photos and bring them to life, but it works with online ima

This is just a brief slideshow that goes over the CRAAP test to evaluate resources. I use this with my students to discuss whether or not a resource off the internet is valid. This is provided as a link to the fully editable Google Slides Presentation and as a Powerpoint presentation. There are 6 slides in this presentation.

This is a vocabulary lesson in which students fill out a Google form with a vocabulary word. The form asks for a vocabulary word, meaning, synonym, antonym, to put the word in the student's own words, and to use the word in a sentence, Once the form is filled out it is saved as a Google Slideshow Presentation. Have students fill out the form then call on a student to present their slideshow about the word they picked. The slideshow is fully editable and premade. This requires installing the free

This resource includes 10 public domain videos from the 1950's and 60's. These are great to use to remix and teach students history. I typically have my students use the videos to create a mashup video. This is provided as a word document with a link to the Google Drive with the videos. The videos can be downloaded or streamed from there. Included are 24 minutes of old commercials, Duck and Cover(Which is one of my all time favorites), Dating Do's and Dont's, A Betty Boop Cartoon(1930's), and ma

This is a slideshow presentation highlighting photography composition rules. I typically review these rules with my students then I have them take photos using each of the rules. My students really enjoy doing this project. Each rule is provided with a description and example. The slideshow is provided as a pdf and with a link to the Google Slides presentation.

This lesson discusses 10 essential keyboard shortcuts for Macs and PC's. I have found so many students to be computer illiterate. This is a great lesson to introduce the first day using computers. Keyboard shortcuts improve productivity and cause students less frustration.