Plate tectonics describes how the tectonic plates move due to thermal energy from the mantle. In this activity students will use an online simulation to create a fictional earth. Students will then use their model earth to simulate the various plate tectonic movements, highlighting the location of mountain and volcanic formation during the simulation. Students will then reflect on their simulation and model highlighting the weakness of their model.

Sound is a form of energy that travels in compression waves. Sound is used to communicate thoughts and ideas. The highness and lowness of a sound is called pitch. In this activity, students will create their own instrument that can produce at least two unique pitches. The students will then work independently or with a partner to play a selected school appropriate song that they enjoy listening to using their created instruments. Students will ensure that before playing the song to an audience (the instructor or other classmates) they cite the author or composer of the song verbally and in a written format.

As students continue to develop their awareness for evaluating media, this lesson will deepen students' understanding of the impact of technology on American life, specifically public policy. Students will practice evaluating the credibility of information they find on the internet, as well as work collaboratively with partners to evaluate new technologies. Students will utilize critical thinking, communication, and collaboration skills throughout the lesson.

This lesson focuses primarily on decompressing poetry by understanding binary sequences. The advanced version of the lesson will ask students to identify examples of figurative language once the poem is decompressed.

Students will discuss and present the positive and negative impacts of computers and computing.

Students will investigate the components of strong passwords. They will also learn why you should have different passwords for different accounts as well as why you should change your password periodically.

In this lesson, students engage in activities to learn about strong passwords, their importance, and how to use and protect personal passwords. Throughout the lesson, student engagement is encouraged through hands-on activities, group discussions, and opportunities for individual creativity. The focus is on fostering an understanding of why strong passwords are necessary and promoting responsible use and protection of personal passwords.

In this kinesthetic and fun lesson students will become “ponies” who will use pattern matching of rhymes or word family endings of rhyming words in order to jump through the correct hula-hoop.

While the Internet has made research much easier than in the past, this access has also allowed for non-vetted and factually inaccurate sources to be presented as equal in validity to more legitimately reviewed and researched outlets. Students will be introduced to primary and secondary sources, Students will find sources that pertain to a particular topic and evaluate them for inclusion in their work. Students need to assess multiple aspects of a source to test its credibility. Criteria such as those listed in the Currency, Relevancy, Authority, Accuracy, and Purpose (CRAAP) Model should be employed when evaluating physical and online resources.

Students will review prime, composite, odd and even numbers and write an algorithm/flow chart for sorting numbers into the correct category using conditional statements.

Students will brainstorm different types of problems that can occur throughout their day. Then students will share with a partner what they have written down. The teacher will talk about the process of solving problems. Students will pick a specific problem and then write down the steps they took to solve it. The teacher will explain to the class that there is a process to solving problems. The teacher will show a poster of a computer with labels on the board and tell the class that they are going to use a process for solving technology problems. Define, Prepare, Try, Reflect is the 4 step process that the teacher will review with the students.

Students will identify and work to solve various cyber security concerns by answering a rEnglishted prompt and working through the problem.

Students will recognize and define computational problems.The students will develop the ability to recognize appropriate and worthwhile opportunities to apply computation is a skill that develops over time and is central to computing.

Students will learn how both flow maps and plain-text can outline complex processes into component steps by presenting them in both formats. Students will take an everyday process and turn it into a technical flow map and then a plain-text paragraph. Doing so, students will utilize CS standards language to discuss and create their flow map, and process signal words/ phrases (English standards) for their paragraph.

Students will practice ordering fractions and decimals by acting out how a computer uses systems to process inputs and create outputs.

In this lesson, students will be using computer science skills such as project timeline development and media creation to create a commercial for many bad idea inventions provided. Students will be tasked with advertising their product to the class and creating a project storyboard, script, and final recorded video! They will be analyzing existing commercials for the persuasion technique used and will pick a persuasive technique to incorporate into their video.

In this lesson students will review parts of a circle by coding a Root robot to draw a circle as well as a chord, radius and diameter. Students will review the names of each part of the circle and also how radius and diameter are rEnglishted while coding.

Students will investigate block-based programming and if-else statements while also investigating light waves and reflection. Students will learn about block-based programming and create a presentation explaining what they discover throughout their light investigation. Students will present their findings through an interactive presentation.

Following a lesson on DNA and its role in protein synthesis, students will be given a series of DNA strands with specific directions to transcribe the DNA into RNA and translate the RNA into a protein. They will be expected to transcribe and translate the molecules with fidelity.