Students will explore real hardware materials and software to complete a t-chart/sort based on characteristics.

Students will create a question, gather data, and learn about how to use If-Then Statements in Excel to organize that data. They will end up with a histogram that models the data they collected and be able to discuss the importance of how they grouped the data to give the best analysis of their question.

As students deal with volumes of information during their research endeavors, they must develop analyzing skills that follow ethical guidelines. In this lesson, they will evaluate the reliability of information. The students will act as historians to authenticate information. They will be able to verbalize these social and ethical issues in a Socratic Seminar format.

Students will learn about the history of the internet and how it functions today, and create a presentation on the internet based on what they research. Students will be able to explain the history of the internet (the topic of the lesson) using the English skills pertaining to a chronological organizational pattern, namely, the use of a timeline and signal/transitional words and phrases.

Data can be collected, organized, and interpreted in a variety of ways. Often, there is irrelevant or erroneous data that can distort the results of any analysis. Data scientists spend up to 80% of their time cleaning these data points. In this lesson, students will learn to collect data, record it on a spreadsheet, and sort the data in ascending order. Once the data has been sorted, students will identify the measures of center (mean, median, mode, and range) for the data. Students will “clean” their data by detecting any outliers and removing them from the data set and analyzing the effect removing these data points has on the measures of center.

This lesson will continue over the scope of your Science 3.6 unit on soil. One of the “green leafs” under Essential Skills and Processes requires students to plan and conduct an investigation that determines how different types of soil affect plant growth. Students will come up with their own hypothesis (based on what they have learned so far in class) on which soil will help the plant grow best, conduct the experiment, record data in their science notebook, transfer that data into a Google Slide bar graph, analyze their computer graph data, then come up with a conclusion based on the evidence.

The purpose of this lesson is to compel students to think carefully about the work they are doing in creating and performing experiments. The artifact for this standard would be a lab report. In computer science, proper documentation helps keep track of all aspects of an application or program and improves the quality of the program. Documentation allows programmers and reviewers to understand the intention behind a particular portion of code. Lab reports are similar to programs in that they reference the required materials and contain the procedures and any specific methods for performing the experiment. They should also include a rationale for the methodological decisions that are made, which would be analogous to programming documentation. A well-written lab report would be a familiar analog to a computer program with documentation. While science and engineering practices are incorporated into science standards generally, an activity like this is useful to give the students a practical, familiar template for implementing science and engineering practices

The students will learn what a digital citizen is and how to stay safe on the internet.

Students will complete a research paper on using technology. The teacher will go over the instructions and requirements for the research paper. Before the students are allowed to research technology, the teacher will do a brainstorming session of social and ethical issues students might come across when using their computer or are on the internet.

This lesson is intended to be an introduction to identifying ideas, texts, images, and products as one's own or borrowed from another source.

The student will learn how to troubleshoot problems that arise on a daily basis. They will start with a “human knot” then move to problems that are caused by humans and nature.

Data visualization is a general term that describes any effort to help people understand the significance of data by placid in a visual context. It can allow for insight that would be more difficult than by looking at the raw data. Patterns, trends, and corrEnglishtions that might go undetected in text-based data can be exposed and recognized easier with data visualization models. Visual models include circle graphs, bar graphs, line plots and pictographs. In Grade 6, students will evaluate visual representations of data to draw conclusions and determine the best visualization for various types of data.

Students will learn about the different aspects of computing technology and how it has changed the world.

In this lesson, students will learn what a pattern loop is and will learn the importance of repeating patterns. They will focus on the vocabulary words pattern, loop, and program. They will then get the opportunity to practice making pattern loops with shape cards, blocks, and creating their own loops with writing utensils and paper. They will also have the opportunity to see the importance of pattern loops in programming either using

A student’s exposure to sentence formation occurs, most often, at a very young age. Over time this exposure helps build their sentence building foundation and ability to create solid sentences of their own. Using the mentor text, “The Important book” by, Maragret Wise Brown, students will use the author’s craft (mode of writing) to create sentences of their own modeling the written patterns noted in the book. Through this unplugged activity, students will combine their knowledge of looping in computer science to their grammatical skills to formulate strong complete sentences. These sentences will model that of the author’s craft of writing to complete their own “important idea” statements. Upon completion of their sentences students will combine their writings to create an algorithm of ideas that loop to follow that of the original mentor text. Combining the areas of language arts and computer science together in this lesson, allows the students to work on two common and necessary learning components.

Discussion about hardware, software, input, and outputs on computers. Then students will use input and output function boxes to review addition and subtraction. One number would be the input and the solution as output and determine the rule of the machine or function box.

Students will identify problems rEnglishted to inappropriate use of computing devices and networks and how to avoid them.

Students will have to show all the steps required to solve practical problems involving inequalities. Once they have documented their method and solved the problems, they will pass their own work to a peer who will see if they can follow and test each step to verify its accuracy. If there are any errors, the peers can debug the method together and come up with a solution or new steps that would prove to be accurate. The students should be able to complete a full worksheet and provide feedback for their peers.

This lesson focuses on inference and prediction, which are valuable reading skills. It also exposes students to another important skill in CS, tracing code. Students are introduced to the lesson by predicting the outcome of a simple code projected on the board. Then they transfer that knowledge and skill into English by predicting the outcome of a story by examining the clues in the text.

In this lesson, students will be identifying different sources of information in regards to books, pictures, and people. They will learn what kind of information we can get from each source and how to use that information to help solve problems or answer questions. They will also become a source of information and tell about what they know.