This resource is a quick reference guide for students as they craft effective introduction paragraphs in response to persuasive writing tasks, such as the Writing SOL Short Paper. The resource includes essential components, stylistic options, guiding questions, and an exemplar paragraph based on a released SOL prompt.

This resource is a quick reference guide for students as they craft effective introduction paragraphs in response to persuasive writing tasks, such as the Writing SOL Short Paper. The resource includes essential components, stylistic options, guiding questions, and an exemplar paragraph based on a released SOL prompt.

Dan Meyer has created many mathematics lessons centered around storytelling, along with a methodology for using these with students. Before you do any of his lessons, please see the explanation at his blog: https://blog.mrmeyer.com/2011/the-three-acts-of-a-mathematical-story/ To see all the lessons in a Google Docs spreadsheet, go to https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1jXSt_CoDzyDFeJimZxnhgwOVsWkTQEsfqouLWNN
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The lessons are all CC BY, and you may edit these to fit your own students’ needs. The links from #GoOpenVA go to his own website because the structure of the lessons (including pertinent videos) is integral to the delivery of the lessons. Some lessons are stored as downloadable zip files, and these are noted as part of the link.

Students will need 2-3 tissues in order to participate in the activity. This activity is to help elementary students improve their hand-eye coordination in a Physical Education class setting while also having fun being active.

This cut-and-sort handout allows students to analyze items that are or are not examples of technology.
Technology is explained as anything made by people to help us.
Pictured items to sort include:
- scissors, pencil, glue, cell phone, laptop, desktop computer, people, tree, flower, vegetables, dog, sun

This lesson is best used with the slides found at https://goopenva.org/courses/what-is-technology.
The document provides an answer key and links to the slides, teacher lesson plan to accompany the slides, and additional resources. However, this handout can be used as a stand alone activity as well.

Hands on Chemistry is a resource designed for use in traditional, online, and blended high school Chemistry classrooms. It was developed by Blue Ridge PBS in collaboration with Virtual Virginia. In this video, Chemistry teacher Fred Mitchell demonstrates the process of synthesizing nylon.

Polymer, forceps, nylon.

VA SOL CH.6

Hands on Chemistry is a resource designed for use in traditional, online, and blended high school Chemistry classrooms. In this video, Chemistry teacher Fred Mitchell demonstrates the equipment students need to know when taking Chemistry I.

Survey of standard lab equipment, including: lab burner, striker, beakers, iron ring stand, iron ring, ceramic gauze, beaker tongs, test tubes, test tube tongs, test tube rack, Florence flask, Erlenmeyer flask, volumetric flask, meniscus, graduated cylinder, beaker and test tube brush, crucible and cover, crucible tongs, clay triangle, burette, glass stirring rod, evaporating dish, spatula/scoopula, mortar and pestle, watch glass, forceps

Hands on Chemistry is a resource designed for use in traditional, online, and blended high school Chemistry classrooms. Through the burning of snack foods, Chemistry teacher Fred Mitchell demonstrates the principles of food calorimetry. VA SOL CH.5

This video is a very simple demonstration of how to build a battery. Meets VA SOL CH.3

Hands on Chemistry is a resource produced by Blue Ridge PBS designed for use in traditional, online, and blended high school Chemistry classrooms. In this video, Chemistry teacher Fred Mitchell demonstrates types of graduated cylinders that students will become familiar with.

Keywords: How to use a graduated cylinder, meniscus, estimating volume, different sizes of graduated cylinder

Meets VA SOL CH.1 a-f

Hands on Chemistry is a resource designed for use in traditional, online, and blended high school Chemistry classrooms. It was developed by Blue Ridge PBS in collaboration with Virtual Virginia. In this video, Chemistry teacher Fred Mitchell demonstrates measurement, estimation, prediction, scale, and the metric system.

Keywords: using whole numbers, principles of estimation, meters, decimeters, centimeters, millimeters

Meets VA SOL CH.1 a-f

Hands on Chemistry is a resource designed for use in traditional, online, and blended high school Chemistry classrooms. It was developed by Blue Ridge PBS in collaboration with Virtual Virginia. In this video, Chemistry teacher Fred Mitchell demonstrates the flame test, which shows the various colors of the flames of chemicals.

Keywords: electrons, ground state, excited state, sodium, calcium, potassium, strontium, copper, lithium, orbitals, electron configuration

Meets VA SOL CH.2

Hands on Chemistry is a resource designed for use in traditional, online, and blended high school Chemistry classrooms. It was developed by Blue Ridge PBS in collaboration with Virtual Virginia. In this video, Chemistry teacher Fred Mitchell demonstrates the structure of atoms using simple models.

Keywords: shapes of atoms, electrons, elements, linear structure, sulfur dioxide, H2O, Hydrogen, Oxygen, lone pair, Ammonia, Nitrogen, Hydrogen, Sulfur Trioxide, trigonal planar, Methane, Carbon, tetrahedral, Phosphorous Pentachloride, trigonal bipyramidal

Meets VA SOL CH.3

Hands on Chemistry is a resource designed for use in traditional, online, and blended high school Chemistry classrooms. It was developed by Blue Ridge PBS in collaboration with Virtual Virginia. In this video, Chemistry teacher Fred Mitchell demonstrates decomposition using Hydrogen Peroxide and catalyst Manganese Dioxide.

Keywords: reaction types, decomposition, single displacement, Hydrogen Peroxide, Manganese Dioxide

Meets VA SOL CH.3

Hands on Chemistry is a resource designed for use in traditional, online, and blended high school Chemistry classrooms. It was developed by Blue Ridge PBS in collaboration with Virtual Virginia. In this video, Chemistry teacher Fred Mitchell demonstrates single displacement reaction using Magnesium and Hydrochloric Acid.

Keywords: single displacement reaction, Hydrochloric Acid, Hydrogen, Magnesium Chloride, limiting reactant

Meets VA SOL: CH.3

Hands on Chemistry is a resource designed for use in traditional, online, and blended high school Chemistry classrooms. It was developed by Blue Ridge PBS in collaboration with Virtual Virginia. In this video, Chemistry teacher Fred Mitchell demonstrates a double displacement reaction using Potassium Iodide and Lead.

Keywords: double displacement reaction, potassium iodide, lead nitrate

Meets VA SOL: CH.3

Hands on Chemistry is a resource designed for use in traditional, online, and blended high school Chemistry classrooms. It was developed by Blue Ridge PBS in collaboration with Virtual Virginia. In this video, Chemistry teacher Fred Mitchell demonstrates a combustion reaction using alcohol vapor and an electrical charge.

Keywords: combustion reaction, carbon, oxygen, combustible carbon fuel, Tesla coil, gas, vapor, carbon dioxide

Meets VA SOL: CH.3

Hands on Chemistry is a resource designed for use in traditional, online, and blended high school Chemistry classrooms. It was developed by Blue Ridge PBS in collaboration with Virtual Virginia. In this video, Chemistry teacher Fred Mitchell demonstrates a synthesis reaction to create a new compound from Iron and Sulfur to make Iron Sulfide.

Keywords: synthesis reaction, compound, iron, magnetism, sulfur, iron sulfide, heat reaction, lab burner

Meets VA SOL: CH.3

Hands on Chemistry is a resource designed for use in traditional, online, and blended high school Chemistry classrooms. It was developed by Blue Ridge PBS in collaboration with Virtual Virginia. In this video, Chemistry teacher Fred Mitchell demonstrates a single displacement reaction using Copper.

Keywords: single displacement reaction, limiting reactant, copper chloride, H2O, Aluminum, copper

Meets VA SOL: CH.4