In this activity, students will use different strategies to help understand and represent ratios. 

I created this game to use as a review before tests such as the benchmarks and SOLs. Students will review multiple reading skills and strategies throughout the game. This is a fun and engaging activity to help students review and practice for upcoming tests. Multiple SOLs may be covered.

A video sharing the purpose of annotation and different symbols one can use to annotate.

Overview: I created this Lesson Plan to help students learn about how to read weather maps.  Weather maps give basic information about fronts, systems, and weather measurements.  Weather maps illustrate the weather conditions for an area at a given time.  SOL 6.7f states that students are expected to interpret basic weather maps, including the identification of warm and cold fronts.  Also, students are to map the movement of cold and warm fronts and interpret their effects on observable weather conditions.Prior to this lesson, students should have already been introduced to weather tools, cloud types and types of weather.

Students will use the discriminant to determine if quadratic equations have 2 imaginary, 2 real, or 1 real solution. They will then practice solving quadratic equations.

The purpose of this lesson is for students to evaluate differing objectives of key leaders of the CIvil War which led to different plans for Reconstruction of the South.  The lesson will include links to Digital History online where students can read about the different plans and investigate a timeline of events during Reconstruction.  Students will interpret secondary and primary sources in this lesson.

 This inquiry leads students to examine the ways that African Americans were leading voices in an ongoing effort to guarantee equal rights and freedoms for all people in the United States. Contrary to the oft repeated narrative that the US Government benevolently granted freedoms to African Americans, the questions, tasks, and sources in this inquiry ask students to look at ways African Americans were active leaders in working for those rights and freedoms. The tasks completed under each supporting question help the student to investigate the scope and depth of the African American voices working towards equal rights before the Civil War through the Reconstruction and after.  Students will learn of federal government actions taken to support the voices working for rights and freedoms as well as actions taken against those efforts.   An analysis of sources help students to investigate the economic, political and social gains African Americans made during and after Reconstruction.  Students will also look at the efforts that former Confederate states took to limit African American rights that had been guaranteed them by the US Constitution. By completing this inquiry, students will gain a deeper understanding that hard-won rights and freedoms can still be denied if the power to enforce them is held by someone else. 

 This lesson will allow students to analyze the physical and ecological processes which shape the Earth’s surface including the nature and location of weather phenomena and what causes the seasons and climate.  Students will also use a decision-making model.  Teachers will need to make copies of all the Google forms and documents.

Demonstrate how to draw a landscape outline using foreground, middle ground and background.  Tell the students that they will need to choose two different VA landscapes to draw including details and color.Draw an outline in pencil of the first regional landscape of your choice.Discuss colored pencil techniques.  When coloring in your drawings, use several different colors and shades of a color as well as how to vary the pressure on your pencil to add depth to your drawing. Have students pass out supplies.Students write what two regions of their choice on the back of their first landscape drawing.  Students work independently on their first landscape. 

English Learners with different proficiency levels will be able to practice fruits and vegetables vocabulary (beginner ELs) or Virginia Studies in a fun and engaging way. 

The purpose of this lesson is to showcase the contributions of artists of the Renaissance.  Students will differentiate between art produced during the medieval period and the Renaissance period.    They will research to learn about Renaissance figures and create an art show for an artist which they will present to the class.  

This is a document to help students reflect on their choices for persuasive technique and rhetorical devices.

Students will find, evaluate, and select credible sources to create a research product.

Students will find, evaluate, and select credible sources to create a research product.

This is a collaborative research project for students to explore various opioids and the dangers associated with opioid use.

This is a short review/assessment of research sources geared toward middle school students as they begin to work on research projects. The assignment is designed to assess students' knoweldge of the various types of sources that can be used when completing a research project. 

Students will research and then compose a researched-based persuasive essay. Students will debate with opponents of their topic in front of their teacher and peers. ** This performance assessment was developed by a collaborative team of teachers and division staff from Middlesex, Poquoson, and West Point school divisions.

This inquiry focuses on why enslaved people resisted slavery, the ways in which enslaved people showed resistance despite risks and the results of resistance.The questions, tasks, and sources in this inquiry asks students to examine the cultural, economic and political impacts of resistance to slavery.

Students will understand how to revise and edit their paragraphs, essays, or research papers.

Students will understand how to revise and edit their paragraphs, essays, or research papers.