When designing programs or completing projects, students should consider what types of data might be used as input, how the data is to be stored and processed, and the output that meets the specific needs of the user. The collection and exchanging of data is used throughout the programming process. Both hardware and software components are critical to the collection and exchange of data. In this lesson, students will design a project to collect data involving rates. Students will input their data into a Google Sheet (software) using a computer (hardware). Students will store the data on the sheet and complete a ratio table involving the unit rate.

The mission of the Data Resource Center for Child and Adolescent Health (DRC) is to advance the effective use of public data on the status of children’s health and health-related services for children, youth and families in the United States. The DRC does this by providing hands-on access to national, state, and regional data findings from large population-based surveys. Data are collected from parents and thus contribute a much needed voice in the drive to improve the quality of health care for children and youth.

Data Science is a growing field across all disciplines and grade levels. Use the assets in this collection to help learn valuable skills and concepts related to collecting, using, analyzing, and presenting data. The VDOE, Data Science Teachers, and WHRO Education collaboratively created this content.

This video explores data science with a data scientist and high school student both volunteering their time at a Girls’ Geek Day in Charlottesville.

This crossword activity will help students better understand the different types of storage options available for a computer to store and manage files.

Students will research one of the seven federally recognized tribes of Native Americans in Virginia to identify local features of the land, their language, the region of Virginia where they originally lived, where the tribal lands are today, and how they interacted with their environment. From this research, the student groups will design a visualization of this data using a poster, online design tool, or a presentation. Student groups will present their information to each other, and the classroom will design a chart to find similarities and differences between the tribes.

This activity allows for students to Identify the quantitative and qualitative benefits of going to collegeUnderstand common costs associated with collegeExplain the difference between sticker price and net price

Overview of the activity:The students will sort and graph the items given to them and discuss the way they are sorted. They will then complete a graph of the items, and then we will construct and build with the items and explain what they build and how tall it is.

These slides contain the vocabulary from the Virginia Department of Education for this strand. 

Explore science while inputting data into a google form to chart results! Students will get to investigate electrical voltage with meters. The student will answer a question by using a computer to manipulate data in order for the student to draw conclusions and make predictions.

Interactive tables provides data on home ownership, housing expenses, education, health and other topics. Data can be presented by nation,region, and city (only in US).

In this activity, participants plan and conduct a plant growth experiment while considering the role of data quality in automated systems in agriculture. The timing of the activity is highly dependent on the seed variety that you are growing and the level of familiarity that participants already have with basic plant science and scientific investigation concepts, but will likely take several weeks. This activity is part of the Agricultural Cyberbiosecurity Education Resource Collection that contains resources for formal and non-formal agricultural educators working with middle school aged youth. Published as Open Educational Resources, all resources are provided in durable (pdf) and customizable (MS Word) formats. They are hosted on  GoOpenVA in a unique resource collection, Ag Cybersecurity Virginia Tech, at https://goopenva.org/curated-collections/143 and on on Virginia Tech’s stable repository, VTechWorks at https://doi.org/10.21061/cyberbiosecurity

This is day 1 of a 5 day lesson. This lesson introduces r-controlled vowels in one and two syllable words.Resources include:syllable division warm upword list to view syllable patternchunk chunk blendsdecodable textvideo resources

This is day 1 of a whole group phonics r-controlled short vowel lesson. There are 5 total days. In this lesson you will find:Phonogical Awareness Warm UpWord Feature HighlightChunk-Chunk-BlendsVideo Resources 

This is day 2 of a whole group phonics r-controlled short vowel lesson. There are 4 total days. In this lesson you will find:Phonogical Awareness Warm UpWord Feature HighlightChunk-Chunk-BlendsVideo Resources

 This is day 3 of a whole group phonics r-controlled short vowel lesson. There are 4 total days. In this lesson you will find:Phonogical Awareness Warm Up, Word Feature Highlight, Chunk-Chunk-Blends, Video Resources, and Decodable Text.

This is day 4 of a 4 day lesson. This lesson is on Whole Group phonics, instruction on R-Controlled Short Vowels in single syllable words. This rescource includes:- Phonological Awareness Warm Up- Word List to highlight feature- Chunk, Chunk, Blend Cards-Decodable Text

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is the only federal holiday designated as a national day of service to encourage all Americans to volunteer to improve their communities. In this learning experience students will learn more about Martin Luther King Jr. and how he marched for causes he believed in. As a result of this learning experience students will choose their own important cause to walk or advocate for in order to honor and celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s life and legacy of advocacy and leadership.

This animated short highlights the holiday and tradition of Day of the Dead in Mexico. It can be used as a movietalk (http://teachingcomprehensibly.com/movietalk/) classroom activity using strategies of comprehensible input, specifically the idea of circling to gauge comprehension (https://comprehensibleclassroom.com/teacher-training/essential-strategies-for-tprsci-teachers/how-to-circle/). The activities that could follow could be changed to match the level being taught. In lower levels, having a discussion in English would be appropriate. In higher levels, asking deeper questions about how students honor their own loved ones and what their own beliefs about the holiday and tradition are could be a thought provoking prompts.