Students will work in groups to plan the process they will use to first determine the perimeter and then the area of a rectangle. Students will write out a detailed step by step process that can be used in different situations.

This is a step-by-step lesson/slide presentation of how to create an eposter from scratch using Google Slides. It is useful not only for creating storyboards, presentations, etc.; I also used it to discuss plagiarism and open source materials. 

Students create a class alphabet book or "ABCDarium," a book that uses images of animals or objects to illustrate each letter of the alphabet. The book is in the style of a medieval illuminated manuscript and incorporates both art and writing. Students decorate large uppercase letters of the alphabet and draw an original picture to illustrate each letter.

Create your own Physical Education Game is a cross-curricular lesson designed by an Elementary Health and PE teacher to support Language Arts instruction. Created By: Anthony (Cullen) Freund and Steve Ellison of Powhatan County Public Schools.

Adam Seipel, with VaSCL (Virginia School Consortium for Learning), provides this recorded presentation and slide deck for creating a learning community with your students who are at home using Google Meet and Flipgrid.

In this Desmos activity, students will use their knowledge of parallelograms to correctly find the location of a 4th vertex.

This video is part of the Learn and Grow with WHRO TV series. Watch Brandon Thompson teach about repeating patterns.

This screencast covers your initial input of a resource into the Open Author online editor.  Parts II (https://goopenva.org/courseware/lesson/433) and III (https://goopenva.org/courseware/lesson/4207/overview )cover the process of publishing, including adding metadata.

This screencast goes over how to add metadata to your resource before you publish it on #GoOpenVA.  There are many choices you have to make and you may want to look over the choices ahead of time.  See the Metadata Planning Document: https://goopenva.org/courseware/lesson/413/overview This is Part II of 3 videos that help you learn how to use Open Author to add resources on #GoOpenVA.  Part I is here https://goopenva.org/courseware/lesson/431/overview and Part III is here https://goopenva.org/courseware/lesson/4207/overview 

This screencast describes adding metadata, most particularly VA SOL correlations, to your resource before you publish it on #GoOpenVA.   This is Part III of 3 videos that help you learn how to use Open Author to add resources on #GoOpenVA.  Part I is here https://goopenva.org/courseware/lesson/431/overview and Part II is here https://goopenva.org/courseware/lesson/433/overview

Students will work on creating an algorithm for other students to follow that explains how to round numbers. There are three lessons that go together to allow students to create a sequence for rounding, have a peer follow the sequence, then troubleshoot the sequence if steps fail. In this first set of the unit, students will follow an algorithm to learn how a set of steps should be written.

Students will create a strong password to access a computer and/or website. The password must meet specific criteria. Once the students master the criteria, they will reveal their secret password with their teacher, using a highlighter and a blacklight.   

This unit is geared toward students in 4th grade.  This lesson has students identify why passwords are important and how we can create and remember strong passwords that keep our information safe while online.  There are mutltiple resources with this lesson including the lesson plan, a slides presentation to guide the lesson, and interactive video guide, and finally a password practice sheet.  This lesson could be divided up over multiple days and can also be differentiated to different age students.

Students will learn about passwords, why they are needed and how to create strong ones.

In this lesson, students create a compass and apply their reasoning about magnetism to how compasses work to help us navigate around the globe while utilizing the Earth���s magnetic field.

In this lesson the students will understand how their brain is similar to a computer in that we have access to a primary memory, secondary memory, we have a processor that functions as our CPU, some of us have a GPU that helps us with seeing our information, and we work off of the input that we are given and form that into a suitable output. Students will be making their own study guide to help them with a given novel study test. The students will understand that the input is what information they were given and the output will be their study guide that they created. This lesson will take place after the class has completed a novel and prior to their summative test on that novel. This lesson can take place anytime during the semester. In the example given, this takes place during the first quarter.

This resource will show how to teach your students to make their own "formula calculator" using Java programming, and it has handouts for your students or your own use. It is ideal for Grade 7 and Grade 8 Math.The video in this resource walks you through the steps to teach your students to program their "formula calculator" using Java programming after they have been taught about geometric formulas. They can then use their calculator to help them solve their math problems. It will reinforce critical thinking skills and create a deeper understanding of how the formulas work.Students can use any Java IDE or even an online IDE. The lesson can be customized based on your familiarity with Java and your students' computer skills.The handouts show how to use arithmetic operators in Java as well as some Math class methods that will be helpful. The attached program can be used as a starting point for their programs. 

Students will observe images of gardens, visualizing and imagining the shapes, colors, textures, sounds, and smells of the plants, flowers, and other objects in a garden. They will also write about and sketch their observations. Students will then design and create a model of their own imagined garden.

Creating a Group requires just a little effort and thought.  This shows you how to do it on #GoOpenVA.

We can’t expect our students to be engaged or do their  best if we haven’t created an environment where students feel: safe to try, fail & try again, supported,encouraged, their opinions & ideas matter, they have a voice & choices in how they learn.