This screencast describes adding metadata, most particularly VA SOL correlations, to your resource before you publish it on #GoOpenVA.   This is Part III of 3 videos that help you learn how to use Open Author to add resources on #GoOpenVA.  Part I is here https://goopenva.org/courseware/lesson/431/overview and Part II is here https://goopenva.org/courseware/lesson/433/overview

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.

Students will create a strong password to access a computer and/or website. The password must meet specific criteria. Once the students master the criteria, they will reveal their secret password with their teacher, using a highlighter and a blacklight.   

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, students create a compass and apply their reasoning about magnetism to how compasses work to help us navigate around the globe while utilizing the Earth���s magnetic field.

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.

Creating a Group requires just a little effort and thought.  This shows you how to do it on #GoOpenVA.

We can’t expect our students to be engaged or do their  best if we haven’t created an environment where students feel: safe to try, fail & try again, supported,encouraged, their opinions & ideas matter, they have a voice & choices in how they learn.

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.

This video is the result of a collaboration between Blue Ridge PBS and the Virginia Department of Education. It's designed to help educators take the next step from just using the resources of Go Open Virginia to becoming contributors of resources including videos, lesson plans, and utilization plans for ALL teachers.

#GoOpenVA is a collaborative initiative that enables educational entities throughout Virginia to create, share, and access openly-licensed educational resources (OER, also known as open education resources). OER are free digital materials that can be used or modified to adjust to student needs; they are openly-licensed unhampered by many traditional copyright limitations.

#GoOpenVA encourages all Virginia educators and learners to create, share, and use digital resources with the end goals of providing equitable access to great learning materials throughout the state, and supporting new approaches to learning and teaching for all Virginians.

The purpose of this lesson is to help students understand the various religions of the ancient river valley civilizations.  Students will read and relate creation narratives or myths to the class, and for a personal experience with history, the students will write a creation myth of their own and share it orally with the class. **Be sure to preview creation myths to ensure the stories are appropriate for your class.

This is a professional learning OER activity developed using Google Sites and various Google Forms and Docs.  The facilitator should be sure to set up the site with their own forms, etc... The objectives for the staff are:Understand the basics of copyright lawUnderstand  fair use guidelinesIdentify the types of CC licenses and termsUnderstand the benefits of  Open AccessUnderstand the benefits of  Open Educational Resources 

This is a set of Google Slides or PowerPoint slides intended to facilitate presenters who are developing presentations and want to share those slides with an open license.  Each slide offers information about creative commons as well as a footer that can be copied, edited, and used to indicate the presenters willingness to share their work as OER.

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

Learn the basics of designing your own creativity-boosting challenge for learners of all types. Noah Scalin explains why Creativity as a Practice and how this mindset shift has transformed how he works. He introduces Creative Sprint, a tool designed to help anyone develop a creative practice. Then, he demonstrates a simple activity you can do right away that requires no special materials and only a few minutes of time.