This lesson plan explores Artificial Intelligence using Teachable Machine, a program that uses images and sounds to create machine models. 

Get moving in The Creative Corner with a seriously silly drawing challenge, a visit with the Anna Julia Cooper Episcopal School step team, and a great big outdoor adventure art project. Learn to create blind-contour drawings and land art installations.  

"I prefer to think that we arrive at insight by experience..."-Josef Albers Examining art with a mathematical lens can help students articulate how they see and understand spatial and numerical relationships. Use this resoure to explore prints by artist and teacher Josef Albers to help students expand their understanding of geometric concepts such as parallel lines, congruent angles, rectangular prisms and more.The resource includes: Short introduction to Albers and his ideas.Examples of Albers works for examination. Suggested open-ended activity for further exploration Discussion prompts This activity can be structured as introductory exploration or informal formative evaluation. Use student ideas generated as a reference and springboard for more formal instruction and problem-solving.   

Explore how writers use storyboards to visualize books and movies, learn how actors train and use fight choreography to portray stories on stage, and become a work of art yourself on this episode of The Creative Corner.  Everyone loves a good story.

This resource is a list of supplemental materials for teachers to consider when teaching F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby. This resource is a remix (or addendum) to The Digital Public Library of America's open educational resource "The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald." Here is a link to that original resource, which is full of supplemental materials to the novel: https://goopenva.org/courses/the-great-gatsby-by-f-scott-fitzgerald-2/view.

This resource is a list of supplemental materials for teachers to consider when teaching F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby. This resource is a remix (or addendum) to The Digital Public Library of America's open educational resource "The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald." Here is a link to that original resource, which is full of supplemental materials to the novel: https://goopenva.org/courses/the-great-gatsby-by-f-scott-fitzgerald-2/view.

This resource is a list of supplemental materials for teachers to consider when teaching F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby. This resource is a remix (or addendum) to The Digital Public Library of America's open educational resource "The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald." Here is a link to that original resource, which is full of supplemental materials to the novel: https://goopenva.org/courses/the-great-gatsby-by-f-scott-fitzgerald-2/view.

This is a Round Robin review game for World History II SOL 6. It covers the empires of Ottomans, Safavids, Mughals, China & Japan. This assignment template could be easily adapted for a review for another set of content material. *Also known as "I have, who has".

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.