Science Instructional Plans (SIPs) help teachers align instruction with the Science Standards of Learning (SOL) by providing examples of how the content and the scientific and engineering practices found in the SOL and curriculum framework can be presented to students in the classroom.

Students explore geomagnetism with compasses, navigation exercises, and a geo-caching activity and explore aurora and space weather, with an optional field trip to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

This is a set of four, one-page problems about the distance craft travel on Mars. Learners will use the Pythagorean Theorem to determine distance between a series of hypothetical exploration sites within Gale Crater on Mars. Options are presented so that students may learn about the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission through a NASA press release or by viewing a NASA eClips video [6 min.]. This activity is part of the Space Math multi-media modules that integrate NASA press releases, NASA archival video, and mathematics problems targeted at specific math standards commonly encountered in middle school.

Science Instructional Plans (SIPs) help teachers align instruction with the Science Standards of Learning (SOL) by providing examples of how the content and the scientific and engineering practices found in the SOL and curriculum framework can be presented to students in the classroom.

This video is part of the Learn and Grow with WHRO TV series. Watch Mary Mathias teach about how to summarize.

This video is part of the Learn and Grow with WHRO TV series. Watch Nicole Neice teach about putting numbers in order.

This lesson is similar to a "Mystery Skype" where two classes connect through a live video conferencing platform and provide critical thinking clues to determine the location of the other class. Once both locations have been identified, students can then ask additional questions to learn more about the culture, climate, language, and traditions of both classes.

Students will investigate the characteristics of heroes through the book Go Show the World. Students will select one of the heroes identified in the book and research them further, creating a Twine passage that shares what the student learned about the Native figure.This lesson was created through a partnership between CodeVA and the Virginia Tribal Education Consortium (VTEC). 

Strand: Impacts of ComputingK.10 The student will identify responsible behaviors associated with using information and technology.This is a PDF file that lists good tablet habits for young computer science students.

Lesson Plan for a Constitution Scavenger Hunt.Students will engage in discussion about the organization and importance of the Constitution. After, students will be given the Scavenger Hunt and, using a copy of the Constitution, answer all questions going through each Article. The Scavenger Hunt goes over basic information within the Cconstitution. Follow-up lessons could go into deeper, higher level inquiry.Includes Lesson Plan outline as well as Google Doc/PDF attachments of the Scavenger Hunt.

As a teacher your goal is to provide practice using carefully selected strategies. Through encouragement you can provide experiences for students to develop efficient strategies. Use the following strategies to develop the basic addition and subtraction facts.  By the end of first grade, students should be able to count on to find the difference.  For the difference of 7 - 4, start with 4 and count on 5, 6, 7.  This shows that 7 - 4 = three.  Another strategy is to use related facts to find the difference.  If students use a related fact, 4 + ___ = 7, then they’ll know 7 – 4 = three.   Another strategy would be the near doubles strategy.  Using the same problem 7 - 4, add 4 + 4 to get 8 and then subtract 1 to get seven.By providing experiences to learn these strategies, students will develop number sense and understand how to compose and decompose numbers.  This in turn will help students to develop basic fact fluency and learn while having fun playing a game.

As a teacher your goal is to provide practice using carefully selected strategies. Through encouragement you can provide experiences for students to develop efficient strategies. Use the following strategies to develop the basic addition facts. By the end of first grade, students should be able to counting on to find the sum.  For the sum of 4 + 3, start with 4 and count on 5, 6, 7.  This shows that 4 + 3 = 7.  Another strategy is to use the near doubles strategy to find the sum.  Using the same problem 3 + 4, add 3 + 3 to get 6 and then add 1 more to get seven.  Or using the same problem 4 + 3, add 4 + 4 to get 8 and then subtract 1 to get seven.By providing experiences to learn these strategies, students will develop number sense and understand how to compose and decompose numbers.  This in turn will help students to develop basic fact fluency and learn while having fun playing a game.

To promote creative expression, help students understand ownership concepts associated with creative work and encourage students to think about how their work might be shared.

To promote creative expression and give students experience with the basic idea of copyright.
To introduce the concept of fair use.

To give students an experience that helps them understand the challenges and benefits of
respecting ownership and copyright, particularly in digital environments

To encourage students to respect artists’ rights as an important part of being an ethical digital citizen

To explore the concept of fair use

The original module, created by Eureka Math, consisted of 19 lessons. It has been altered to include the first 10 lessons involving place value of multi-digit whole numbers, comparing multi-digit whole numbers, and rounding multi-digit whole numbers.  Students work with large numbers using familiar units (hundreds and thousands) and develop their understanding of millions by building their knowledge of the pattern of times ten in the base ten system on the place value chart. They learn to recognize that each sequence of three digits is read as hundreds, tens, and ones followed by the naming of the corresponding base thousand unit (thousand, and million). 

To help students understand how to interact with the creative work all around them.
To give students an experience identifying copyrighted works.
To introduce students to Creative Commons for finding creative work.
To encourage students to respect artists’ rights as an important part of being an ethical digital citizen.

This learning resource provides students insight into combining and subdividing figures as well as utilizing the understanding of quadrilaterals.  Along with the exploration, students will be developing critical thinking through the decisions that are made to create the final mathematical product.  They will also communicate through collaboration to produce a final mathematical product.  They will also develop creative thinking and citizenship by producing a written piece to show their caring and understanding nature.

Purpose:
To promote creative expression and give students experience understanding copyright protections and consequences.
To reinforce fair use concepts.

This resource is a fill-in-the-blank notes set is for Grade 7 Computing Systems & Networking and the Internet strands. The information is taken directly from the Curriculum Framework's context of the standard. Answer key included.