Let’s bake a fall treat for your littles to eat!  This activity supports step-by-step instructions using sequential graphic organizers and will use their five senses to find, take in, and react to or respond to different information.   

Have students present their simple machines through video instead of in person and teach the students about computer technology’s ability to communicate information through computers.

Students will apply computing systems by interacting with electoral maps that communicate and process information in digital form to gain an understanding of how the electoral college works and selects the president of the United States. 

Comparing computer networking to soil. Students will be shown a live plant and its root system to model how a computer network spreads. Students will be making soil layer models (1 to eat and 1 to keep) and reviewing soil content using micro bits.

Students will learn about algorithms and programming at a basic level and use playdough and microbits to review information about the planets that they have learned.  Students will code using block coding and iterative design to debug their code.  Students will use data, lists, and arrays as well. Students will follow an outlined algorithm to correctly construct the planets to scale using rulers and play dough.

This sorting activity allows the students to explore several hands-on tasks that will encourage the students to use critical thinking skills to categorize and logically sort items by one or more attributes.

Students will learn about the different computer networks while reviewing Sound.  These 5 mini experiments hammer home 5.5 The student will investigate and understand that sound can be produced and transmitted. Key ideas include: a) sound is produced when an object or substance vibrates; c) different media transmit sound differently.  A great way to review with it being fun!

Incorporate some computer science ideas into a scientific abstraction of the four spheres of Earth!  This lesson has opportunities for visible learning include sketching in their notes, quick writes, and a jigsaw.  The students will apply the idea of classifying items into the four spheres in the real world by taking a short walk outside.

Using a laser light projector and a DMX Mixer board, students will write a simple code using theme and mood.

Using sensory bins, wiki sticks, and magical water painting art, students will merge their knowledge of Virginia’s civil rights icons with strong password dos and don’ts.  

This hands-on lesson merges digital safety concepts with Virginia state symbols and allows students to construct their own three-dimensional learning landscape with fun materials like Legos and model magic.

Students will learn about data and how it is stored on computers and used in real-life. One set of data that is stored and used is weather data. Students will use local weather data to create a wall hanging by assigning a colored cord or thread for each high temperature and then using those cords to represent a month of weather data, similar to temperature blankets.  

Modern technology can make tasks happen instantly with the push of a button or a swipe of a finger. How do our community helpers use this technology responsibly to make their jobs easier and more efficient?

Your students will use Kitchen Chemistry to make a tasty treat as they learn about input and output devices and phases of matter! 

Take your students on a virtual tour of Europe while reviewing how information travels over the internet and the importance of art in the European Renaissance.

“Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly”. - Old English ProverbStudents will observe the world of the butterfly through hands-on activities and learn about its amazing journey from a tiny egg to a beautiful butterfly.  Your students will investigate and understand the sequential order of the butterfly’s life cycle.

Students will formulate questions that require the acquisition of data. They will collect data and display it in histograms.

Students will formulate questions that require the acquisition of data. They will collect data and display it in histograms.

This lesson on keeping personal information safe includes a video and a decision making chart.  Help students understand what is and is not ok to share.

Grab your hard hat and tool belt for this lesson, exploring engineering and computer science with the scientific method.