Americans elect a president through the state-by-state mechanism of the Electoral College rather than direct nationwide popular vote. Today, all but two states award all of their electoral votes to the statewide winner.

This is a "remix" of a previous resource: https://goopenva.org/courses/a-defense-of-the-electoral-college

It has been remixed to add a visual map and additional student questions.

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.

This video is part of the Continue to Know with WHRO TV series. Watch Jadah Jones teach about using reference materials.

Explore the effect of an electric field on the electron distribution of an atom.

This interactive lesson teaches middle school students about how information is delivered via the internet. Students will review/ be introduced to vocabulary words, gain an understanding of packets and servers, and be challenged with different internet connectivity (Wi-Fi, cable, DSL, and Fiber Optic) as they work together as a team to deliver a message to another IP address.

This lesson has been slightly adapted from the original version from Code.org. All the links and copyright information are included in the lesson. The teacher is able to use the original or the premade materials from this document.

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The goal of this exercise is to examine the relationship between demographic characteristics and different forms of civic participation. Crosstabulation will be used.

The goal of this activity is to demystify the science behind Punnett Squares and explore data and statistical representations in genetics and heredity. Begin by breeding two parent mice and observe the ratios in the pie chart as more offspring are bred in each litter. Compare the ratios between different pairs of parents and identify how they are different or similar. Finally, use the simulation controls to show gametes and reveal how each offspring obtained its genotype from its parents.

Students will review denotation and connotation. The teacher will provide examples. Students will then work independently or in pairs to replace the underlined words in the given sentences with synonyms that have either a positive connotation or a negative connotation. Students will share their answers with the class. 

Why do objects like wood float in water? Does it depend on size? Create a custom object to explore the effects of mass and volume on density. Can you discover the relationship? Use the scale to measure the mass of an object, then hold the object under water to measure its volume. Can you identify all the mystery objects?

Students will analyze how a portrait reflects the events and trends of its time and then create a portrait of a public female figure today.

Students will compare a painting depicting hatmakers at work to a portrait of a noblewoman of leisure. Next, pupils will write narratives from the perspectives of the women depicted in the paintings and then create a paper hat.

Students will discuss the evolution of women's work from the mid-19th century to the present day and then create an artwork depicting women in contemporary times.

Students search for a French brand car to describe and then play a 20-questions style game with partners to guess and figure out what each other's selected cars look like.

Essay assignment with rubric. Aligns with units about relationships and personality. Can be assigned as formative or summative assessment.

Learn to connect position-time and velocity-time graphs. Explore velocity using an animated car icon connected to either a position-time or a velocity-time graph, or both. Then investigate other motion graphs.