This quick engage and explore activity and simulation will help students experience the wonder of static electricity and then help them discover the law of electric charges. They will be able to explain the phenomenon they experienced using the things they learn from the guided simulation. Teachers can walk students through the simulation or have students explore the simulation on their own.

This site presents challenges faced by NASA engineers who are developing the next generation of aerospace vehicles. The challenges: thermal protection systems, spacecraft structures, electrodynamic propulsion systems, propellers, and personal satellite assistants. Students design, build, test, re-design, and re-build models that meet specified design criteria, using the same analytical skills as engineers.

Engineering Technology provides learning opportunities for students interested in preparing for careers in the design, production, and maintenance of mechanical, telecommunications, electrical, electronics, and electromechanical products and systems.

This student research and planning sheet will help you keep students on task during their research and creation of an element superhero as outlined in the teach engineering lesson plan linked in this resource.

By the end of this lesson the student will be able to effectively become knowledgeable in composing a persuasive writing and its techniques, typing in Media Literacy, too.
7.3 The student will understand the elements of media literacy.
7.7 The student will write in a variety of forms with an emphasis on exposition, narration, and persuasion.

This is a Jeopardy Review game to work with students on English terms.

The purpose of this document is to provide school counselors, English language learner educators, and administrators with best practices, technical guidance, and resources to support the identification, placement, and scheduling of ELs in grades K-12. School divisions should use this document as a resource for the creation of local policies. Updates to the content included in this document will be ongoing as policies and procedures change in an effort to maintain efficacy and accountability.Once students have registered for school, counselors, English language learner educators, and administrators have the responsibility to accurately identify students as ELs in a timely manner. Identification begins with administering the approved questions, developed in conjunction with the USED Office for Civil Rights and the U.S. Department of Justice and adopted by Virginia, on enrollment forms or a Home Language Survey to determine if a student is in need of English language screening. If determined eligible according to the identifying questions, the student should be screened for English language program eligibility; and scheduled into appropriate classes if classified as an EL.

This is a long-term project that requires students to use essays they write for class to compile a portfolio. The portfolio requires the students to revise and review work they have already been graded on in order to continue to improve their writing skills. 

Enhancing French skills is a website for intermediate learners of French. It includes authentic language videos from French websites, as well as interviews of French speakers on cultural topics. Videos and activities are organized into five broad themes and tagged by communicative language function with links into Tex’s French Grammar for specific grammar explanations and interactive exercises. Each theme includes a pdf of suggested classroom activities and homework.

State report that goes beyond researching one state.  Takes students on a 10 ay journey to their state finding things to learn and do on the trip.

The is an extension activity or assessment after a lesson on Enlightenment philosophers. Students are given scenarios from history and present day. Students then respond to the scenario with how an Enlightenment philosopher would respond. The historical scenarios are based around World History II situations.

Solving problems involving addition and subtraction with fractions and mixed numbers. Mathematics Instructional Plans (MIPs) help teachers align instruction with the 2016 Mathematics Standards of Learning (SOL) by providing examples of how the knowledge, skills and processes found in the SOL and curriculum framework can be presented to students in the classroom.

This is a quick guide for parents and educators that gives an overview about cyberbullying and its effects on children.

This is a quick guide to help parents and educators understand the issues with internet predators and sex traffickers.

This is a quick guide for parents and educators that discusses he rules and tools for using a cellular device.

This is a quick guide for parents and educators to understand safety and prevention factors that should be used when allowing children to participate in online gaming.

This is a quick guide for parents and educators to help inform children about sex trafficking.

This is a quick guide for parents and educators to help understand social media and its effects on children.

Each of the 5 countries have topics, real life applications/consequences, and 3-4 artists from that country that can be used a "mentor artists" to lead the students to create an artistic response and presentation for students, staff, and environmental representatives In terms of the art - What do the colors, lines, shapes, and techniques of the artists make you feel? Why did the artist/author decide to use these techniques and colors? What if they had chosen a different color combination?What colors make you feel the same way? What techniques will you use to express the same feeling?

This resource can be used to introduce the U.S. and international environmental laws and regulations.  It also includes a youtube video about the water crisis in Flint, Michigan.  This will help students understand that the regulations do not always prevent environmental "disasters".