Students will work on creating an algorithm for other students to follow that explains how to round numbers. There are three lessons that go together to allow students to create a sequence for rounding, have a peer follow the sequence, then troubleshoot the sequence if steps fail. In this first set of the unit, students will follow an algorithm to learn how a set of steps should be written.

This unit is geared toward students in 4th grade.  This lesson has students identify why passwords are important and how we can create and remember strong passwords that keep our information safe while online.  There are mutltiple resources with this lesson including the lesson plan, a slides presentation to guide the lesson, and interactive video guide, and finally a password practice sheet.  This lesson could be divided up over multiple days and can also be differentiated to different age students.

Students will learn about passwords, why they are needed and how to create strong ones.

In this lesson the students will understand how their brain is similar to a computer in that we have access to a primary memory, secondary memory, we have a processor that functions as our CPU, some of us have a GPU that helps us with seeing our information, and we work off of the input that we are given and form that into a suitable output. Students will be making their own study guide to help them with a given novel study test. The students will understand that the input is what information they were given and the output will be their study guide that they created. This lesson will take place after the class has completed a novel and prior to their summative test on that novel. This lesson can take place anytime during the semester. In the example given, this takes place during the first quarter.

This resource will show how to teach your students to make their own "formula calculator" using Java programming, and it has handouts for your students or your own use. It is ideal for Grade 7 and Grade 8 Math.The video in this resource walks you through the steps to teach your students to program their "formula calculator" using Java programming after they have been taught about geometric formulas. They can then use their calculator to help them solve their math problems. It will reinforce critical thinking skills and create a deeper understanding of how the formulas work.Students can use any Java IDE or even an online IDE. The lesson can be customized based on your familiarity with Java and your students' computer skills.The handouts show how to use arithmetic operators in Java as well as some Math class methods that will be helpful. The attached program can be used as a starting point for their programs. 

Students will observe images of gardens, visualizing and imagining the shapes, colors, textures, sounds, and smells of the plants, flowers, and other objects in a garden. They will also write about and sketch their observations. Students will then design and create a model of their own imagined garden.

Good Night Gorilla by Peggy Rathman is an engaging book for students who will find it funny to see that after the zookeeper has put all the animals to bed for the night, the gorilla goes behind him and unlocks all the cages to free the animals who then follow the zookeeper home. An algorithm is a set of step by step directions and the zookeeper definitely needs an algorithm to follow. It is up to the students to help the zookeeper keep all the animals where they belong each night.

In this lesson, students will practice comparing sets. They will practice using the Mathematics vocabulary of the following: more, fewer, same, least, greatest.

When developing programs, students are able to use algorithms, code, and other media created by others. In this lesson, students will learn how to use existing algorithms (formulas) to solve problems involving the area and circumference of circles. They will also learn about Creative Commons, a set of intellectual property laws that govern the use of media created by others. Students will illustrate their problems using images governed by Creative Commons and will cite their sources.

 Each student writes a one paragraph summary of a chapter of a book and then illustrates their chapter. It can be used for a book the whole class is reading so then all of the summaries are collected and bound together to create a “summary book” of the book read. This activity can be used for both fiction and non-fiction books in any subject and any grade, although this activity is linked to upper primary SOLs. This activity assesses reading comprehension and practices all writing skills. It also includes Art SOLs, and if you have students create their final products on the computer, then you would be incorporating the Computer Technology SOLs as well. If it is used for a non-fiction text in a different content class, then the activity would also cover those SOLs. It can be used for EL classes in middle school also. 

English Instructional Plan – Crowd Sourcing False Premise Analysis and Rewriting for Clarity 

A link to a primary source set followed by a project focused on modern-day types of hysteria that will provide students with a greater understanding of the sociopolitical contexts of the play

This breakout activity provides teachers and students an interactive way to demonstrate their learning about cryptography, code-breaking, and historic ciphers. Clues are provided, along with additional hints you can choose to provide to students so that students solve ciphers and learn what time their army is planning to raid the enemy camp.

Recognizing and describing part-whole relationships for numbers up to 10Mathematics Instructional Plans (MIPs) help teachers align instruction with the 2016 Mathematics Standards of Learning (SOL) by providing examples of how the knowledge, skills and processes found in the SOL and curriculum framework can be presented to students in the classroom.

This course will provide skills in the area of food services and hospitality. These lessons are applicable to a capstone course in food service within a 3 seqence career pathway for Hospitality, Recreation and Tourism industry sector. The student receives training in kitchen safety and sanitation, equipment and facility use, knife skills, food preparation to include: cold pantry, salads, soups and sauces, introductory baking, meats and poultry, short order cook, hot-line, institutional cook, catering, cashiering, hostessing, waiter/waitress, and bussing. Students will participate in the planning, costing, preparation, serving, storage and critique of meals in project based learning. Nutrition and applied academic skills are incorporated in each unit. Career seeking and transferrable skills are incorporated into this curriculum culminating in a portfolio. Students that perform well could be placed in work-based learning environments.

In this lesson, students will learn about one of the most significant and successful spy rings in American History. They will also actually conduct some of the same techniques and demonstrate them to the rest of the class.