This lesson is intended to review 6th-grade content on watersheds, estuaries, and wetlands.  It also introduces abiotic and biotic factors of ecosystems found in VA's Watershed.  Students investigate the Chesapeake Bay using several resources with a pre-assessment, video clips, current article links, post-assessment, final evaluation, and rubric. A student sheet, teacher key, and google slide were created to use for face-to-face teaching or virtual learning. Click on the attached to access the folder.

Use slides to cover the concepts of duties, rights, responsibilities, and traits.  You can add pictures to the slides (or after) to showcase what they mean and/or have a discussion on where students see these being used.  To reinforce that students can apply the difference between the four different categories of rights/duties/traits/responsibilities, have students create a citizenship web of themselves using either construction paper or a digital slide/page of who they are as a citizen.  For further extension, have students add what each might look like for them as a citizen.  This helps them to categorize and explain the difference between duties and rights, as well as understanding their basic first amendment rights and traits of a citizen. 

This activity should be completed as an informal pre- assessment and informal post- assessment. Before the unit begins, students will need to work with a partner (no more than three) and decide how they are going to sort the 30 pictures in the Google Media Album. ( I have an example loaded from my Schoology page. You can make this by clicking “Add Materials” and scroll and click “Media Album.” From there you can Title the album and start loading pictures from the Civil War. This will require you to add pictures to your computer’s library before you start the album. ) If you did not want to have a digital album, or if you do not have Schoology, you can print the pictures for the students to sort by hand.

The goal of this module is to provide USII students with background knowledge in the Civil War as they begin the Reconstruction curriculum. Each day begins with a Hook for the day’s content. This hook is designed to engage students in the day’s content through a whole class or small group discussion. Students will independently review the provided Learning Resources for each Learning Intention.  They should review all of the available resources to get a full understanding of this topic. Students will independently complete the Success Check for all Learning Intentions to receive credit for the module. There are optional Extension activities associated with each day. This extension is designed to connect USII Geography content with the Civil War content.  Google Drive Folder with all resources (must make a copy of each resource to modify): https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1jG7DTzswj3bsZM7xKHfMgJhVM07evQfN?usp=sharing Google Docs Lesson plan: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ErmsDxexiKYJNbqz49QqIGAxuDHZ00O2NJ6B5X3caww/copy

This is a hyperdoc for level 1 students to learn more about cognates and why they should study French. They will also explore French in their environments. 

This activity should be used as a review for the reasons why colonists came to the New World. After the context clues are filled in, students will choose a photo from Google Images that represents each of the colonies that came to the new world.

Within this interactive lesson, students will navigate and explore comparing positive and negative fractions, deicmals, and percents through Desmos. Students will also gain practice from finding equivalencies, using picture representations and number lines, and through mathematical discourse. Students will be able to do the following:Use a number line to sort, compare, and order integers, fractions, decimals, and percents.Compare integers, fractions, decimals, and percents.Order integers, fractions, decimals, and percents.

Within this interactive lesson, students will navigate and explore comparing positive and negative fractions, deicmals, and percents through Desmos. Students will also gain practice from finding equivalencies, using picture representations and number lines, and through mathematical discourse. Students will be able to do the following:Use a number line to sort, compare, and order integers, fractions, decimals, and percents.Compare integers, fractions, decimals, and percents.Order integers, fractions, decimals, and percents.

Within this interactive lesson, students will navigate and explore comparing positive and negative fractions, deicmals, and percents through Desmos. Students will also gain practice from finding equivalencies, using picture representations and number lines, and through mathematical discourse. Students will be able to do the following:Use a number line to sort, compare, and order integers, fractions, decimals, and percents.Compare integers, fractions, decimals, and percents.Order integers, fractions, decimals, and percents.

This is a 6-day unit focusing on Components of Fitness and Skill Related Components.  Students will rotate through each station (1 per class block).  Days 4-6 students will be involved in creation an exercise video using the information.

This resource uses a song to talk about commands and toxic relationships. There is also a portion used to review descriptions of people.

This artifact goes through the process of how to describe images. You can edit this to make the instructions in Spanish, to add or change images, or to add or change activities. 

In this activity, students create digital flashcards to review DNA content (guiding study questions and key are provided). Students can use full-screen mode with the document to quiz his/herself with the flashcards.

This resource uses the song "A DIos Le Pido" by Juanes to draw attention to the use of the present subjunctive. There is also some practice of describing people embedded.

Students will review the purpose of an amendment, analyze the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, and consider the reasons for the date of approval. Students should have some background knowledge in the Civil War, including the causes of the war and the views of the Union and Confederacy. 

Students will create an informational poster, collage, slide show, cartoon, or video clip of a specific ecosystem in our watershed. Requirements are as follows:pick a specific tributary, estuary, or wetland. show at least 4 abiotic and 4 biotic factors plus the location that you choseinclude 4 or more pictures to help show the parts of the ecosystem.  cite the sources with the website, title of the site, author, and publishing dateA rubric is included

This activity is a creative way to assess or review the eight geographic regions of North America. It should be administered after all of the regions and their characteristics have been taught. Students will have a map that outlines all eight regions. Then, they are tasked to pick from a variety of foods to represent each region.

 After explaining the process of the Electoral College, this is an extension activity for students to help them apply that knowledge in a mock Presidential race.  Students will pair up with another student and create a candidate and party (or just simply use their name/party).  In competing against one another, they will roll the dice for each of the 50 states (plus DC) to see who wins the electoral votes for that state.  At the end, students will tally up the total electoral votes to see who made it to 270 or more!  Remember to have them check their math by adding their totals to make sure they have 538.  Additionally students will tally their dice roll which will simulate the popular vote and allow for students to see potentially a candidate win the popular vote, but lose the election.  This is a great simulation to cover what the winner-take-all system looks like.   

This activity can be used before teaching the unit on exploration to allow students to obtain some background knowledge, or it can be used as a review after the unit is taught. This activity uses a summarization technique to simplify events surrounding European explorers coming to North America.

This activity is designed to be a self-paced activity to review students on the parts of Experimental Design while at home or in the classroom. There is a simple experiment for the students to complete to generate and collect data and a second example in which they design their own experiment and collect data. They are then led through the process of analyzing their data and writing a conclusion.