See computer science integration opportunities in middle school music in this crosswalk of the two disciplines.
See computer science integration opportunities in middle school PE in this crosswalk of the two disciplines.
See computer science integration opportunities in middle school science in this crosswalk of the two disciplines.
Computer Science Standard Alignment Guides are resources for teachers working to integrate computer science into their core curriculum. These guides explain the standard, give a sample activity or lesson that teaches the standard, and ways to measure student proficiency on the skill or concept.
Computer Science Standard Alignment Guides are resources for teachers working to integrate computer science into their core curriculum. These guides explain the standard, give a sample activity or lesson that teaches the standard, and ways to measure student proficiency on the skill or concept.
Computer Science Standard Alignment Guides are resources for teachers working to integrate computer science into their core curriculum. These guides explain the standard, give a sample activity or lesson that teaches the standard, and ways to measure student proficiency on the skill or concept.
How many food chains are there within this ecosystem? Let’s create some to find out! You will have 5 minutes to create as many food chains as you can with your partner. Please record your food chains on a sheet of paper as you go.
Technology has not just changed over time. It has changed the way citizens live their lives. This lesson will describe responsible behaviors that are associated with using information and technology.
Want to learn about how to describe matter and sort as well as learn about impacts of computing at the kindergarten level? If so, this fun and easy lesson is for you!
This resource is a comprehensive unit of instruction created and piloted by the ACSE Region III team over the 2022-23 school year. This unit, which is accessible through multiple links to include worksheets, slidedecks, teacher suggestions and planning documents, includes all components of the instruction with SOL connections and is intended to join Computer Science standards to an ELA content area.
This is a performance task where students act as a software engineer to create an algorithm for a robotic process of an everyday activity. Students cooperatively test and revise their algorithms and the have another team sucessfuly complete their algorithm as well.
This is a performance task where students explore CS concepts, pseudocode, and flowcharts through the lens of order of operations on day 1 and design a math homework helper app on day 2.
Get a Job! Students will use their persuasive messaging skills to research and promote various computer science fields in the unit.
Students will analyze a provided math problem with an incorrect answer (bug). Students will demonstrate their understanding of the process by identifying the error, solving the problem correctly and providing an explanation. Math problem solving directly correlates with the step by step process that computer science debugging requires. The purpose of this experience is to provide a jumping off point for a deeper understanding of the Computer Science SOLs. This could be the first time your students are exposed to the vocabulary (algorithm, bug, debugging) and can provide a good foundation of the understanding of the vocabulary in a concrete, low-technology way.
Students will participate in multiple hands on activities with states of matter over several days.
Your friend asked you to enter a texting/typing competition but have months to practice. We know practicing something makes you better at it. You will be given your current speed and how well you improve over each month. It is your job to find your texting/typing speed given a number of months that you have practiced. You are also to look over other student’s work to see if they made an error and if so, where.
This performance task is designed for third grade and up to teach the importance of using strong passwords. This would be helpful to use at the beginning of the year to review password safety with upper elementary school students to refresh their memory. This includes an instructional slide show and a student handout.
Absolute value is the distance from zero on a number line and students often think of it as “the non-negative value of the number inside the symbols.” While that may help them arrive at an answer, it may limit them regarding the big idea of distance and why we sometimes need to ensure non-negative values. This lesson serves to help students understand the role of absolute value in certain contexts.
Students will learn about the importance of Acceptable Use Policies (AUP). Students will discuss what an AUP is and why they exist. Students will work together to create an AUP for their class. After they have created their class AUP they will review the school’s AUP and discuss the similarities and differences.
Students will complete a mini research project focusing on either the advantages or disadvantages of transmitting information over the Internet, with the focus areas of speed, reliability, cost, and security.