This unit is intended to address the VA Standards of Learning for World History II Standards 6 and 7.  Students are required to explore the similarities and differences between the various Asian land empires and African societies of the 1500s-1800s, with a particular focus on geographic, political, cultural, and economic interactions with each other and the rest of the world. Through the unit, students practice information literacy skills as they research and become experts in one Asian or African empire, work with a group to develop a virtual museum exhibit on it, and explore the virtual museum exhibits created by the other groups to learn about all of the empires and synthesize the unit content.  The unit, which is separated into 6 modules,  was designed for use in a virtual learning environment with both synchronous and asynchronous components.  It could easily be converted to a fully face-to-face unit, but it would be challenging to convert it to a fully asynchronous online unit because of the group work activities involved. 

The resource has been developed to support divisions in the development of a balanced assessment plan.

Mixed format assessment (mutliple choice, fill in the blank, short answer) covering reflection, refraction, visible spectrum, waves and opacity.  There is a question at the end of the test over scientific investigation design and light.

This is an activity to help students understand assimilation attempts.  The students watch a video clip, discuss assimilation, and create a poster advocating for or against the assimilation of American Indians during the time period of Westward Expansion.

This is an extension lesson that will allow students to develop a better understanding of wind as a source of alternative energy. This activity will require students to construct and measure the energy production of a table-top wind turbine. This activity has been remixed from As the Rotor Turns: Wind Power and You" by CLEAN: Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network licensed under Custom License.Image Credit: "Raglan" by Natalia Volna itravelNZ@ travel app is licensed under CC BY 2.0 

Aswaat Arabiyya is an archive of 245 videos in Arabic, listed by difficulty level and accompanied by glossaries and four worksheets each that focus on every aspect of listening comprehension. Selections come largely from Arabic media, with some cultural presentations by native speakers. Videos cover the entire Arabic-speaking world and include MSA and different dialects. Materials are designed to be used both as in-class activities and homework assignments. Videos can be slowed down.

This video is part of the Learn and Grow with WHRO TV series. Watch Kelly Diehl teach about -at and -am word families using the poem, "Sam the Cat."

This cipher was invented for the Hebrew alphabet, but it can work with any alphabet.  Many people believe it was used in the Bible and is older than Hieroglyphics! It was later adopted by other cultures, such as the Greeks and Romans, and used to encode messages in their respective languages. This lesson leads students the basics of cryptography.

This link will take you to a summative atmosphere and weather review. I use this as a homework assignment before the common assessment is given. It could be assigned in google classroom or printed and passed out as a hard copy.

This link will take you to a summative atmosphere and weather review. I use this as a homework assignment before the common assessment is given. It could be assigned in google classroom or printed and passed out as a hard copy.

The atmospheric Perspective lesson is a cross-curricular lesson designed by an Elementary Art teacher to support Language Arts instruction. Created By: Elizabeth Martin Powhatan County Public Schools.

Create multiple versions of helium atoms and make observations of how changing protons, electrons, and neutrons affect atoms.

Create multiple versions of various atoms and record the number of protons, electrons, and neutrons in a table.

Explore the interactions between various combinations of two atoms. Turn on the force arrows to see either the total force acting on the atoms or the individual attractive and repulsive forces. Try the "Adjustable Attraction" atom to see how changing the parameters affects the interaction.

This resource is designed to accompany students notes, texts, and other instructional resources and provide a means to review what they have learned about atomic structure and counting atoms in compounds.

I love this activity, and I think it is a great instructional resource for students to learn about atomic structure and counting atoms in compounds.  However, I would like to add a single modification.MODIFICATION:  Add the following question: How are atoms of one element different from the atoms of  a different element?   This resource is designed to accompany students notes, texts, and other instructional resources and provide a means to review what they have learned about atomic structure and counting atoms in compounds.

An atom consists of a nucleus which contains protons and neutrons and an electron cloud which contains electrons. Like an atom a computer consists of different components such as a motherboard, primary memory, and input and output devices. In this lesson, students will apply their knowledge of the atom and the Atomic Theory to sort scientists, models and contributions while completing practice assignments. When finished, students will review the parts of an atom and predict what would happen if the number of protons were to change. Lastly, students observe an image of a computer’s motherboard and make observations, predict what happens to a computer's primary memory if there is a change, and lastly infer which part of the computer is similar to an atom.

5th grade students that are studying matter will be focusing in this lesson on the smallest unit of matter - the atom.
Students will use small marshmallows to construct a model of an atom.