These are a selection of resources to help parents and caregivers support their children with technology. For more free resources on digital parenting like a free course see Digital Respons-Ability's digital parenting resources.

From welding and paint simulators to virtually designing and creating parts for ships, this video explores how the Newport News Shipbuilding Apprentice School incorporates computer modeling and simulations to give apprentices hands-on experience in a safe and clean environment.

This video is part of the Continue to Know with WHRO TV series. Watch Kathryn Turner teach about dividing fractions and mixed numbers.

This video is part of the Continue to Know with WHRO TV series. Watch Emily Rathbone teach about dividing decimals.

Students will analyze primary sources from the Reconstruction Era to determine if Reconstruction was a success or a failure. They will place evidence on a scale for a visual representation of their evaluation.Teachers can modify and assign this Google Doc. You will need to make a copy of the document to access it.

Students will engage in visual and written activities that will support their creative process of choreographing a solo dance composition. The lesson includes motifs and the movement components -- body, effort, shape, and space (BESS elements from Laban Movement Analysis).

Learn about inspirations for a story and how that story can inspire a new song.  Mary and Mike travel to the Music Resource Center in Charlottesville to meet up with the author, Marc Boston, and the musician, Tevin White. Marc shares his beautiful children’s book, inspired by his own daughter. And Tevin shares a special song that he wrote, inspired by Marc’s book. Together, we learn how to stop carrying so much stuff!

This video is part of the Learn and Grow with WHRO TV series. Watch Shantel Davis teach addition and subtraction strategies.

The student will create & solve single-step story and picture problems using addition and subtraction

Students will observe the painting "The Abduction of Europa" by Rembrandt Harmensz. Van Rijn. They will then form groups to create a "tableau vivant" (living picture) inspired by Rembrandt's "The Abduction of Europa." Students will choose a character in the painting and create a scenario about what they think happened and what the character said before and after the scene. Each group will then collaborate and perform their tableau vivant for the class.

Students will examine primary sources in order to draw conclusions about the influence of Greek art and philosophy on the French Revolution. Students will compare the goals of the French Revolution to those of Neoclassical artists. Students will understand how visual language and style reflects underlying values in society by writing an analysis of the narrative in a work of art.

This 2.5 minute video from Chad Fisher about how to use dropdown menus in Google Docs.

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 episode we chat with instructional technologists at the 2023 VSTE conference and visit Ware Elementary in Staunton City, Virginia to meet a prospective teacher who started his career as a school custodian before being encouraged to become a teacher by his principal.

The third of three lessons on Eastern Hemisphere examine how the physical environment influences human activities. Through maps students examine the link between the physical environment and distribution of cultures within Africa. They will consider the sequence and locations of various African empires as they consider how the environment affected their growth and longevity. They will also examine a Story Map Tour of images associated with each of the empires and note key characteristics of the societies. Key Questions: How did physical geography influence the distribution of cultures within Africa?; How do artifacts and buildings convey information about past civilizations?

The second of three lessons on Eastern Hemisphere, students learn how physical environment influences human activities. Silk roads connected Europe with China and other areas of East Asia by overland routes. Deserts and mountains posed obstacles for travelers and merchants. Students examine physical maps of the area and determine which routes would best avoid obstacles. They compare the routes they have chosen with the overland and maritime routes of the time period. Key questions: How did physical geography influence the trade routes of the silk roads? Why Europeans traded with China? What are the costs and benefits of cultural interaction?

The first of three lessons on Eastern Hemisphere, students examine maps to discover the link between the physical environment and the distribution of cultures. Key questions: How did physical geography influence the distribution of cultures within the eastern hemisphere?; How does the physical environment link and divide regions?

The scribble tool in Tinkercad is a quick and easy way to get youngers students (K-2) designing and creating objects for 3D printing. This video will help teachers and ITRTs get started using this resource with students!

This screencast demonstrates the process for editing resources that you have started or even published on #GoOpenVA. The video is slightly less than 2 minutes.