The purpose of this document is to highlight standard nine of the 2020 Dance Arts Standards of Learning. This standard in all grade levels relates connecting dance arts content, skills, and processes to career options, college opportunities, and the 21st Century workplace. Teachers and curriculum specialists can use this document to plan a sequence of instruction for grades K-12 that prepares students for career, college, and workplace connections in dance arts education.

The purpose of this resource is to support school and division administrators in observations and coaching conversations for dance arts teachers in Virginia public schools. The strategies listed support effective instruction connected to skills and concepts of the 2020 Dance Arts Standards of Learning.

The student will learn a dance and identify the pattern, then create a dance routine in both repeating and growing patterns. Students will also understand and identify simple loops.

This 5:10 video illustrates the concepts of sampling and standard error through dance.

The students will collaboratively create a dance using the Dance Party Hour of Code Activity.

Dan Meyer has created many mathematics lessons centered around storytelling, along with a methodology for using these with students. Before you do any of his lessons, please see the explanation at his blog: https://blog.mrmeyer.com/2011/the-three-acts-of-a-mathematical-story/ To see all the lessons in a Google Docs spreadsheet, go to https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1jXSt_CoDzyDFeJimZxnhgwOVsWkTQEsfqouLWNN
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The lessons are all CC BY, and you may edit these to fit your own students’ needs. The links from #GoOpenVA go to his own website because the structure of the lessons (including pertinent videos) is integral to the delivery of the lessons. Some lessons are stored as downloadable zip files, and these are noted as part of the link.

Cori Sowers provides short, targeted video presentations about various topics for Google, Canvas, and other technologies linked from this page.

Zap, Zap, Zap! Spark your students’ curiosity and illuminate their understanding of electromagnet with this captivating resource. Designed to be both informative and engaging, this resource explores the fascinating world of electromagnetism, covering everything from its fundamental concepts to important aspects of electricity safety. Students will have the opportunity to delve into hands-on experiments, using simple materials such as batteries, wires, and nails to create their very own electromagnets. As they witness the power of these electromagnets firsthand, their curiosity will be piqued, fueling their desire to learn more about this incredible phenomenon. The fun doesn't stop there - students will also be able to put their electromagnets to practical use by using them to collect paper clips. To enhance the learning experience, students will then enter the data they collect into a convenient Google spreadsheet, allowing for further analysis and exploration of the results. By the end of this lesson, it is my hope that students will not only have gained a deeper understanding of electromagnetism but also develop a genuine enthusiasm for science and a desire to continue exploring its mysteries.

In this lesson, students measure and compare the rate of a falling object (a penny) at different heights to learn about statistical error.

In presentation mode, teachers and students can review the interactive Data and Analysis Vocabulary terms Slideshow based on the 2017 CS Curriculum Frame Work glossary of terms for grade 6.Additionally, a quick quiz has been included (Google Forms) for a class assignment or assessment purposes.  

In presentation mode, teachers and students can review the interactive Data and Analysis vocabulary term Slideshow based on the 2017 CS Curriculum Framework glossary of terms for grade 7. Additionally, a quick quiz has been included (Google Forms) for a class assignment or for assessment purposes.

 In presentation mode, teachers and students can review the interactive Data and Analysis Vocabulary terms Slideshow based on the 2017 CS Curriculum Framework lessons for grade 8.  Additionally, a quick quiz has been included (Google Forms) for a class assignment or for assessment purposes.

Students will explore Virginia and its border states (Maryland, Kentucky, West Virginia, Tennessee, and North Carolina) then pick one of them to look at data of the monthly average high and low temperatures. Students will collect the data and use it to create a graph in Google Sheets. The graph will have correct titles and labeling. Students will also learn to predict as well as compare and contrast. This lesson integrates well into Social Studies, Math, Language Arts, Science and Computer Science.

Students will be given bar graphs and  pie charts.  They will need to match the correct bar chart with the pie chart.  The pie charts are fraction representations of the bar graphs. Pie charts and length models broken into halves, thirds, fourths, sixths, and eighths are provided to help students see the fractional models.  All items are provided online. There are a total of 4 different models: Favorite Animal, Favorite Color, Favorite Food, and Favorite Fruit

Unplugged activites to help students realize algorithms are simply patterns that we use in our daily lives. 

Students will sort and analyze data about a main character from the novel they are studying and create a desk or room depicting the accomplishments, life events and/or experiences, positive and negative of a character in a novel they are studying. This exercise would work well as a literature circle activity, group activity for a class novel, or an extension activity for an advanced class. Students will work in lit circle (small) groups on a project where they sort the data that they have learned directly and through inference while reading their story.. Students will use the data collected to create a depiction of the character's desk/room.