Create Digital Unique Kites while teaching about Ancient China’s important contributions to our world!!
In this lesson, students will have a brief introduction to creating an app in Code.org’s App Lab. They will then create an app that will determine if three given lengths can form a triangle or not.
This lesson will help teach students the importance of internet safety and ways that students can stay safe online. The students will also play various games to learn this concept. The students will play a game with magnets that teaches the concept of pushing/pulling (attract/repel) while learning internet safety.
Create a fake social media page for a teacher in Spanish that students will then learn how to protect their information through playing an online simulation game.
Do you know what is safe to share online? Let’s learn about cybersecurity in a fun scientific process that is just right for kindergarten students.
Collecting, analyzing, and graphing data with Paper Airplanes. This lesson is designed to use student-created paper airplanes to test a hypothesis, make predictions, and use the data to create and compare results in various graphs and charts.
In this lesson, students will travel to different stations while participating in various graphing activities. The students will also be creating a whole class survey in one of the stations, where they will be documenting their results and sharing with the whole class when the lesson is complete.
Compare how computer memory and cache memory works by conducting a survey with various data collection methods to create a scatterplot.
In this lesson, students will apply debugging to coding in javascript, correcting math expressions, and a simple electrical circuit.
When Columbus landed in the Bahamas (back in 1492) he made a mistake that people TODAY continue to perpetuate! Let’s discuss how we can fix this problem. We will show what we learned by designing a fancy schmancy poster highlighting the location of Virginia’s historical Algonquian, Siouan, and Iroquoian areas. Additionally, we will incorporate several important computer science terms (for example- debug).
In this lesson, students will relate problems and solutions in the Jamestown Colony to bugs and debugging in computer programming by using Sphero Bolts to complete a task.
Do you want to learn about community helpers? Would you like to discuss how community helpers can communicate electronically? If you would like to learn about and discuss community helpers and how they use technology to communicate then this is the lesson for you!
Students will use Spheros to explore the force and energy of moving objects. This lesson is appropriate for students and teachers with little to no experience with coding. Students will evaluate a single line of programming that directs the Sphero to move and test to see if they correctly anticipated the results. Students will bowl down "pins" by programming the Sphero. Students will experiment with changing variables and discuss how that changes the motion.
Students will be exploring energy and motion using ramps and balls.
Let’s graph our favorite holiday and learn about each other! This lesson introduces holidays and then allows children to choose their favorite and graph that information as a whole class.
Want to introduce how to write basic code by hand and review figurative language at the same time? This lesson is just for you! Using Figurative Language task cards and animal figurines, just for fun, students will learn how to correctly create if-then-else statements. This activity can be modified to use whatever items you have around your class in place of the animal figurines.
In this lesson students will collect data from circle graphs and turn that data into bar graphs.
This activity will get your students out of their seats! They will be actively engaged with their classmates to solve the puzzle as well as navigate the sphero mini robot around on the rug! This lesson will have everyone singing about the continents way after the unit is complete!
1st grade students often struggle to relate to the experiences of others, to help them empathize with how obstacles make it harder to reach goals, they will work together to build towers out of various types of building toys. Each group will have an obstacle they must overcome, just like Maggie L. Walker overcame her obstacles and became a wonderful example of a good citizen! Students will learn and explore how to be a good digital citizen using internet safety.
Would you like students to see how data analysis works in real life? Using Gas Laws and Google Sheets students will definitely use their critical thinking skills to answer some questions and potentially manipulate their own created data!