During this lesson, students will make connections between Computer Science and making predictions in fiction and literary nonfiction. Students will make, confirm, and revise predictions and then see how this is rEnglishted to sequencing, looping, and debugging in Computer Science. Students will practice using text evidence and prior knowledge to make predictions. When their predictions are not correct, students will revise them by looking at the existing text evidence, adding or changing text evidence, re-evaluate their prior knowledge, and then make a new prediction. Students will learn that when they revise their predictions, it’s like Computer Scientists who have to debug algorithms when the result does not meet the expected outcome.

Students will work on taking the suggestions from partners from the last lesson and troubleshoot how they could improve their sequence for rounding. There are three lessons that go together to allow students to create a sequence, have a peer follow the sequence, then troubleshoot the sequence if steps fail.

Students will apply problem solving strategies to identify bugs in number sentences up to 9,999 and debug those number sentences. Students will review a scenario, identify the error (bug) and correctly solve and explain their debugging strategy.

TSW will be able to see the corrEnglishtion between CS standards of debugging and the English standard of recursive writing and editing. This lesson will take place after the teacher has gone over the writing rubric for Grade 8 SOL and has covered such topics as Content Written Expression and Usage and Mechanics in writing. Students should have a basic understanding of the five paragraph essay, outlining, desired construct of written essay, and have been provided with examples. Ideally this lesson will take place in the second or third quarter of the school year.

Students will debug a text by working in pairs or small groups to review a grade level text to determine where quotation marks are needed to indicate dialogue. Students will connect edits to the story to finding errors in computer programs. Provide examples.

Standards of Learning
MA.K.3d, MA.1.1d (Skip counting by 10s)
MA.K.1.5 (Counting to 100)
MA.1.1a (Counting to 120)

🎯 I Can Statement(s) 🎯

I can count from 1-100 by 1s
I can skip count by 10s to 100

This PowerPoint reviews fractions as parts of a whole, powers of ten, and introduces decimal place value.  Students will use money to find equivalent fractions and decimals.

This video is part of the Continue to Know with WHRO TV series. Watch Victoria Valenciana Brannen teach about creating and solving single-step practical problems involving addition, subtraction, and multiplication of decimals.

Rounding decimals, through the thousandths, to the nearest whole number, tenth, or hundredth. Mathematics Instructional Plans (MIPs) help teachers align instruction with the 2016 Mathematics Standards of Learning (SOL) by providing examples of how the knowledge, skills and processes found in the SOL and curriculum framework can be presented to students in the classroom.

Mic Drop Maths is a mathematics podcast for 5th graders based on the VA Standards of Learning. Each episode addresses one standard and is broken into segments including concept, real-world application, math history, literature connections, misconceptions, and more! There is music, sound effects, jokes, and student voice in each engaging and entertaining episode. 

Adding and subtracting decimals, through the thousandths, used in contextual situations. Mathematics Instructional Plans (MIPs) help teachers align instruction with the 2016 Mathematics Standards of Learning (SOL) by providing examples of how the knowledge, skills and processes found in the SOL and curriculum framework can be presented to students in the classroom.

Using manipulatives, students will make the connection between concrete to representational in adding and subtracting decimals using practical problems.

Computers use sorting to direct information across a network. This activity is a simulated representation of how a computer might sort information through a network.  Students will compare decimals and place them in boxes along the guiding arrows. Each box will contain 2 decimals. Students are to compare the two decimals in each box, then move the greater decimal forward to the next box on the right, The lesser decimal will be moved to the next box on the left. Each time the decimals are moved forward, the decimals in the boxes are compared and then moved to the appropriate box according to the rule (lesser: left, greater: right).Once each number has been moved to the circles at the top of end of the sort, the decimals should be in order from least to greatest. This is a variation of the activity foud here: https://www.csunplugged.org/en/resources/sorting-network/ 

Students will write equivalent percent on sticky note and place in the square.

This is an introductory lesson on encryption and decryption. It includes a discussion about the importance of protecting data when communicating across a network. The data is protected through a process of encryption and decryption.Students are asked to decrypt a message (in this case, a scientific fact to reinforce knowledge ) using the encrypted message and a decryption key.

This is an introductory lesson on encryption and decryption. It includes a discussion about the importance of protecting data when communicating across a network. The data is protected through a process of encryption and decryption.Students are asked to decrypt a message (in this case, a scientific fact to reinforce knowledge ) using the encrypted message and a decryption key.

The focus of this episode is to understand the importance of developing problem solving skills and ways to make positive decisions. This lesson works through the many character traits that students will learn in Kindergarten that will grow with them throughout life.

This inquiry focuses on the concept of equality as defined by the Declaration of Independence and the rights enumerated within. The questions, tasks, and sources in this inquiry asks students to examine the evolution of our notion of “all men are created equal” and how we have lived up to (or not lived up to) that concept throughout the course of U.S. history.

Students will code a robotic device to locate elements on the Periodic Table given a specific description of an element.