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 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

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).

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 video is part of the Learn and Grow with WHRO TV series. Watch Amanda Knighton teach about writing a diary entry.

This video is part of the Continue to Know with WHRO TV series. Watch Victoria Valenciana Brannen teach about creating and solving single-step practical problems involving addition, subtraction, and multiplication of decimals.

In this lesson, students will be introduced to the idea of decomposition. Specifically the lesson caters to math word problems, but could be easily modified to any subject (as found in the modificaitons section of the lesson plan). Students will engage with each other and the vocab to work through an easy process to decompose word problems into manaeagable pieces as a strategy to solve. All activities are low prep and can be modified to your needs. This can be a stand alone lesson or expanded by using Part 2 and Part 3 to deepen understanding through coding activities. 

This lesson expands upon the ideas of decomposition by using GameChangineer to incorporate commands to create a coded mini game from decomposing word problems. Students will assist the teacher in this guided lesson on how to create commands and use the website before engaing independently in Part 3. Activities are low prep with modifications included, but do require organized planning to implement effectively. If you have not done a lesson on decomposition, it is suggested you use Part 1 to help student's gain the necessary understandings of the processes used in this lesson. 

In this sequence of lessons, students explore the deer mouse and its fur color and how it has evolved over time in different habitats. Students engage in the practices of science using a series of interactive computer simulations to create model(s) of evolutionary change across levels of biological organization, from molecules and cells to organisms and populations. NOTE: This sequence is designed specifically for use on touchscreen devices.

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

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

Designed for two 90-minute class periods. First students will imagine they are stranded on an island with no way to escape. It has all necessary resources to survive, and they have been tasked with creating their own system of government. Students will work in groups to create a government system, using slides or a poster to display their work.In the next class period, groups will take turns presentig their form of government to the class, and peers will ask them questions about their form of government and discuss if it would last several geerations. Includes Lesson Plan as well as Google Doc/PDF of student handouts and teacher/peer rubrics

In this lesson, students will work in small groups to develop an idea to increase community resilience, utilizing Design Thinking.

In this activity, you will design a device that will substantially impact our environment. You can write words around your device’s image to help explain your ideas. This device does not have to be realistic. See the example of how to draw a device prototype below. An example of an approach could be to create a sizable water Roomba-like device that cleans the top of a body of water and burns the trash collected. This process turns the trash into oxygen.