Sequencing is a skill that is important in many content areas as well as computer science. After listening to a well known story such as The 3 Little Pigs or The 3 Bears and Goldilocks, students will demonstrate an understanding of sequence by drawing the beginning, middle and end of the story and labeling it with b for beginning, m for middle, and e for ending.

Technological advances, breakthroughs in interpretation, and new observations continuously refine our understanding of the Earth and solar system. The invention of the telescope provided powerful and confounding observations that rapidly challenged the Earth-centered model. Students will investigate how technology has impacted innovations in other fields like astronomy and advanced our knowledge of the solar system substantially in the last half century.

In this lesson, students will increase their skills in both life science and computer science as they create their own dichotomous keys. By gathering a collection of items, they will learn how to use compound conditionals and if-statements to construct a dichotomous key that allows their classmates to identify their items accurately. This exercise encourages students to explore the life sciences and helps them develop critical thinking and programming skills necessary in computer science.

The best of the worst,and the most common misconceptions/mistakes the teacher has seen in her students classwork are used as a means of getting the students to de-bug and find where the solution went off track. Meaningful discussions occur and can be really insightful for teacher if no one can spot the issues! This is adaptable to whatever type of computational problems the teacher is teaching at the time

The learner will begin a timeline of famous Virginians which will be ongoing using paintings from the Virginia Museum of History and Culture. Students will learn to cite digital images correctly.

The teacher will introduce students to the following concept: Digital Safety. Computer networks, including the Internet, can be used to connect people to other people, places, information, and ideas. In order to keep students safe, schools and divisions have rules on the appropriate use of technology. All students should be aware of what is allowed and not allowed when using division/school technology.

An integrated Mathematics and computer science lesson to rEnglishte the representation of data in various forms to using a computer to observe, analyze, and manipulate data in order to draw conclusions and make predictions.

TSW be working collaboratively on a summative assessment but will be measured in two areas: content and collaboration. As our world continues to be interconnected, we need to be able to balance workload, expectations, and keep proper documentation on projects. Students will be graded on meeting the content requirements, here a one pager/presentation/tri fold about the novel read in class, as well as on their ability to collaborate and keep track of their successes and failures with documentation. Students should have a basic understanding of the novel in question, figurative language, plot summary, character traits, irony, and conflict to finish the one pager/content portion of the assignment. Ideally this lesson will take place in the third/fourth quarter of the school year.

Students will be asked to make predictions and retell a story in sequential order by drawing pictures and writing sentences to go with the pictures. Students will be paired and take turns drawing a picture following an algorithm (step by step directions) their partner gives.

In this lesson, students will use Don’t Call Me After Midnight to perform loops and if-else statements to solve multi step equations. Students will also have the opportunity to create their own flowchart and debug other’s flowcharts. This could be used as an introductory lesson to this content.

In this lesson, students will understand the basic idea that businesses use data to provide evidence on trends being noticed, success of business, etc. This evidence helps to support decisions made or predictions for future. Students will use computers to organize data collected on fictional doughnut shops. Students will discover that computers help them organize information, or data, in a variety of ways. They will also discover that some graphs lend themselves better than others to given data. Students will use the graphs to answer questions rEnglishted to graphs, cite evidence provided in graphs, and make predictions on what could occur next.

Using the mentor text How to Code a Sandcastle, students will display their sequence knowledge and coding skills to guide teammates through the correct order of how to build an ice cream sundae. Just like in computer science, when scientists need to construct programs and sequential events, students will use sequence structured graphic organizers, cut and paste picture prompts, as well as blank coding mat templates to help complete this fun and engaging lesson encompassing both Language Art and Computer Science standards.

Students will listen to the story Two Bad Ants by Chris Van Allsburg and use clues from the text to draw conclusions about the events of the story. Students will create a storyboard to represent the events of the story and use their storyboard to construct a program to sequence Two Bad Ants.

On this episode we travel to Henrico County to visit with Yvette Lee of J.R. Tucker High School. Mrs. Lee is a finalist for the 2023 Presidential Award for Math and Science Teaching sponsored by the White House and the National Science Foundation. She talked about the challenges of learning how to teach American students after leaving South Korea. We also caught up with Louisa County Technology Coach Nikki Wagoner at the 2023 VSTE Conference in Roanoke.

Caren Daniels of Hugo Wilson Middle School in Chesapeake, VA is the 2023 Middle School Computer Science Teacher of the year. But her dedication to students goes well beyond the classroom, and she feels strongly that the most important skills kids can take away from her class and robotics club is the ability to solve problems by adapting and improvising.

Suffolk Public Schools is the host of an annual robotics challenge sponsored by Penn State and the US Department of Defense. ActiVAtED Learning Host Tom Landon traveled to Suffolk to talk to Christine Lafferty and John Littlefield to learn more.

In this activity, students will explore the idea of “data” and how it provides a lens through which to view different aspects of human experience. Students will interrogate the affordances and constraints of data as a form of representation and speculate about the effects data can have on human perception and behavior by fitting data into different schemata, developing their own data schemata, and comparing the data schemata of different institutions in their lives with the schemata they develop to represent themselves.

In this project, students will create artistic data representations, expressive artifacts based on data sets. Before engaging in their own projects, students will briefly research and discuss data-based art making in history and in contemporary times. Then, students will use the remaining 3 instructional days to create their art. The resources below provide support for two kinds of representational projects—data-based music, and data-based visual art on a grid (similar to the weaving art discussed in ECS 1.11-14).

Students will explore how computers are embedded in the activities of their ‘every day’ through keeping a technology journal and sharing their timeline with a group of students or the class. Through this activity, students learn to find examples of their own definition of computing before engaging in the class discussion about how we might choose to classify computers by their characteristics. Students end the activity by designing a technology that solves a common/current problem in their own routine (“I wish there was a computer that could help me…..”). Through this examination, students will learn that computers can do many things to help humans solve problems on micro and macro levels.A supplementary lesson plan for ECS Unit 1, days 1-2 by Perry Shank

In this activity, students will explore computational sequencing (the process of putting specific instructions to be executed by a computer in order) by engaging with recipes. Students will think through how a computer might interpret instructions, create instruction sets based on these insights, and share favorite recipes as they try to arrange instructions in a format that a computer might understand.