Collecting, analyzing, and graphing data with Paper Airplanes. This lesson is designed to use student-created paper airplanes to test a hypothesis, make predictions, and use the data to create and compare results in various graphs and charts.

Students learn about how computers represent data visually and how artists have used self portraits with symbolism to represent themselves. Then students will create their own data selfies including adding their names written in binary code. Written descriptions will be added to display alongside their artworks that will detail their data symbols and what their artwork says about them and how it relates to computer science. 

Every line, shape, and color tells a story of fun and learning for your kindergartner in this graphing adventure!

In this lesson, students will travel to different stations while participating in various graphing activities.  The students will also be creating a whole class survey in one of the stations, where they will be documenting their results and sharing with the whole class when the lesson is complete.

Compare how computer memory and cache memory works by conducting a survey with various data collection methods to create a scatterplot.

In this lesson, students will apply debugging to coding in javascript, correcting math expressions, and a simple electrical circuit.

When Columbus landed in the Bahamas (back in 1492) he made a mistake that people TODAY continue to perpetuate!  Let’s discuss how we can fix this problem.  We will show what we learned by designing a fancy schmancy poster highlighting the location of Virginia’s historical Algonquian, Siouan, and Iroquoian areas.  Additionally, we will incorporate several important computer science terms (for example- debug).

In this lesson, students will relate problems and solutions in the Jamestown Colony to bugs and debugging in computer programming by using Sphero Bolts to complete a task. 

Do you want to show your students in a fun way how an ecosystem collapses if  a species is removed?  Check out this lesson using squishy circuits (that’s play dough and safe circuits)!  Students will get to learn about ecosystems and circuitry all at the same time.

Using this kit, students really learn and do the energy conversions. They physically have the pieces in their hands to create each conversion and then some.  The worksheet keeps them focused on what they have to do instead of just playing with the kits. But this isn’t to discredit that they wouldn’t learn by just playing with the kits. Conversion of energy is hard to grasp in theory, why not make it physical and help them remember.

Students will explore kinetic, potential, energy, speed, force, motion, light, and wind energy. Students will be able to understand that energy can be converted into different forms. Student will learn to make predictions, record, analyze, and make conclusions about data.

Students will learn about the problems that can occur to prevent an iPad from working properly.   They will then transfer this information to use problem solving skills to determine how a circuit works and what can prevent them from working correctly.Students are given circuits to explore and to be introduced to the basic knowledge of circuits and how they work. They will explore circuits and explore the problems that can occur to keep the circuit  from working correctly.

Do you want to learn about community helpers?  Would you like to discuss how community helpers can communicate electronically?  If you would like to learn about and discuss community helpers and how they use technology to communicate then this is the lesson for you!

Students will use Spheros to explore the force and energy of moving objects.  This lesson is appropriate for students and teachers with little to no experience with coding. Students will evaluate a single line of programming that directs the Sphero to move and test to see if they correctly anticipated the results.  Students will bowl down "pins" by programming the Sphero. Students will experiment with changing variables and discuss how that changes the motion.

Dive into the exciting world of augmented reality while exploring how to conserve our natural resources.  Get your creative juices flowing as you design your very own natural resource drawing and bring it to life using AR technology and apps.

Let’s graph our favorite holiday and learn about each other!  This lesson introduces holidays and then allows children to choose their favorite and graph that information as a whole class.

Want to introduce how to write basic code by hand and review figurative language at the same time? This lesson is just for you! Using Figurative Language task cards and animal figurines, just for fun, students will learn how to correctly create if-then-else statements. This activity can be modified to use whatever items you have around your class in place of the animal figurines. 

The student will complete multi-step inequalities problems and identify patterns/ algorithms used to do so.