Due to the rise in cybersecurity threats and the increasing volume of information and resources that are potentially vulnerable to these threats, careers in the field of cybersecurity have grown tremendously over the past decades. In this assignment, students will explore Science, Applied Science and Cybersecurity Careers through research. After researching the difference between science and applied careers, students will decide on 5 careers that interest them. Their list will contain one career in each science and applied science and 3 in cybersecurity. They will then research the education required to perform the job, salary, description and working conditions. A digital or paper poster will be created containing the title, description, education and salary. This assignment could be completed at the end of the year or as an enrichment activity.

Students will research careers that focus on data collection and analysis. The goal is to introduce students to high demand jobs in data science. They will explore work expectations, educational requirements, and pay rate. Teachers can ask students to work in groups and assign specific areas: data analyst, data scientist, data engineer, and data architect (to name a few). Information on these career bands is available HERE

The students will consider what it would be like to have someone use a favorite possession without their approval. The students will then learn what personal information is and why they should keep it private. At the end of the lesson, the students will determine what information is safe to share with others and what is not safe to share.

Students will understand digital citizenship and the role they play as digital citizens.

Using a class text (longer text is preferred for better gameplay), students will create if/then statements that demonstrate cause and effect rEnglishtionships from their reading. Students will use these statements to guide the player through significant and impactful plot points of the story through the resource Twine.

Students will apply their knowledge of the causes of the American Revolution to create an interactive story via Twine. The interactive story will be based on the pre-revolutionary war period from the point of view of a loyalist or a patriot. As a warm-up students will look at an optical illusion picture and as a class discuss point of view and perspective. Students will work in heterogeneous pairs/groups to research, outline, and create a pre-revolutionary story about a patriot or loyalist.

Students will create a presentation in Google Slides or Microsoft Powerpoint detailing and illustrating the structure and function of a particular cell organelle. By the end of the first day, students will use a template to create a timeline for completing the presentation. The timeline must include a decomposition of the assignment into discrete steps, self-imposed deadlines for completing said steps, and division and delegation of responsibilities. Students should, by this point, be able to decompose the large objective into discrete, small steps. They will then use The remaining days will be spent implementing and, if needed, modifying the plan.

In this lesson, students will be presented with examples of the three phases of matter and be asked to draw their own models of the particles contained in each. Students will then construct their own 3 dimensional models of the particles in each phase of matter. After the teacher introduces the concept of simulations, students will be asked to locate their own simulations online and explain the positives and limitations of each.

In this lesson, students will look at different types of graphs. They will be given a question that they need to make a prediction about. After making predictions, they will research to find the correct data. Students will then record their information to make a chart or bar graph.

In this lesson students will write a story about a dog that likes to explore. After they have written their story they will do a “remix” in Scratch that uses cause and effect with loops. It's a story that has already been started in Scratch and they will finish the story and then animate it.

Create an American Revolution adventure story with your class! Students will be able to step back into time and think of the various perspectives of the American Revolution by creating scenarios the different characters might have gone through.

Students will be competing to win a “grant.” Students will be creating a Canva presentation about what battle of the Civil War was the most important. Students should include important dates, people, and details about the specific battle. The students will use a planning paper prior to starting their presentation to create a step-by-step plan for their presentation. Their presentation should give clear information (dates, people, and details) about why the battle site they chose is the most important battle of the Civil War. Students will share the load in their project and split tasks among group members. Each group will be assessed with a rubric.

Recognizing specific phases a civilization grows through is important to the understanding students have of all civilizations studied in WHI in general. Using individual pieces of historical ‘code’ describing different points in the life of a permanent civilization, students will analyze and correctly place the ‘code’ according to time, creating a Civilization Simulation. Check for understanding will occur in review of the order students placed and classroom discussion of why some events occur earlier in a civilization’s progression while others happen later. As a secondary step, students will receive further lines of ‘code.’ Students will need to analyze, adapt, and integrate the new ‘code’ into their existing civilization to create an extended Civilization Simulation.

Students will demonstrate knowledge of attributes of polygons by sorting into sets and subsets. The teacher will introduce the new vocabulary: attribute, set, and subset and students will apply these vocabulary terms while sorting polygons into the correct set and subset.

Students will use pattern blocks to construct a program and use algorithms to accomplish a task. Students will decompose larger problems into smaller tasks. Students will begin to think about the impacts of computing and computing devices. The accurate use of terminology as well as the responsible use of technology will continue to be built upon. The foundational understanding of computing and the use of technology will be an integral component of successful acquisition of skills across content areas.

Students will practice using computational skills by collecting, organizing, and cleaning data amongst the class. They will use these computer science skills to analyze watershed systems within the science field. Students will collect data through a stream simulation as well as organize and clean that data to determine the health of the stream.

In this CS First lesson, students will engage in hands-on coding activities to illustrate an energy transformation scenario of their choice, identifying and explaining at least four different types of energy involved in the process.

Women code-breakers changed the course of WWII by cracking Japanese codes that revealed the movements of people and supplies in the Pacific Islands. In this lesson, students will learn how specific information discovered led to a turning point when cryptographers were able to pinpoint the plans of the Pearl Harbor Attack’s “architect”, Admiral Yamomoto.Students will examine videos and articles to find out more about this episode in history. In pairs or small groups, they’ll look at the US Post Office’s newly revealed stamp commemorating it. They’ll identify what they think are the pros and cons of the stamp and then design their own.