In this lesson, students will learn about alphabetical order and how it is used in the library. Students will practice putting call numbers in alphabetical order while coding a Bee Bot to visit each call number in order.
Students sort key words for different text structures and organizational patterns.
Students will utilize the rEnglishted skills of outlining and annotating a larger work to demonstrate how programmers will outline and document parts of code for easy navigation.
The students in 5th grade have been tasked with creating a personal narrative or realistic fiction piece to share with younger students, in a format of their choice. The purpose of the story is to guide younger students by demonstrating how to overcome and/or prevent bullying in their world.** This performance assessment was developed by a collaborative team of teachers and division staff from Middlesex, Poquoson, and West Point school divisions.
In this project, You will compare homemade applesauce and store bought applesauce. We’ll look at the cost, nutritional information and taste of each option. You’ll make your own applesauce, test different brands, and then use simple programming to analyze and visualize the data. By the end you will be able to decide which option is healthier, more affordable and tastier!
This is a whole classroom collaborative process with the goal of creating a school-wide lunch waste composting program. The lesson relates the collaborative and iterative processes used in science to computer science.
Students are taking everyday items, describing them, and using the proportions and conversion factors they will create a 3d model to replicate their description and create a 3d printed version.
Using microbits have students write a simple code and then debug a similar one. Then compare that to editing their writing.
Using microbits have students write a simple code and then debug a similar one. Then compare that to editing their writing.
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.
Students learn about how computers represent data visually and how artists have used self portraits with symbolism to represent themselves. Then students will create their own data selfies including adding their names written in binary code. Written descriptions will be added to display alongside their artworks that will detail their data symbols and what their artwork says about them and how it relates to computer science.
Help students read & comprehend sonnets by examining structural components.
Students will discuss concerns related to the increasing use of technology including AI. Items to be discussed are privacy, ethics, and automated collection of data.
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.
Looking for a new way to teach direct and indirect characterization? By connecting these English concepts to Computer Science, students will not only learn how to describe the characters they are reading about, but they will also be able to see how these concepts apply to computer hardware, software, abstraction, and End-User Agreements.
This lesson about examining advertising claims is a great excuse to eat some cookies.
Students will review prefixes, suffixes and root words while learning about how information is transmitted online.
Students will learn about abstraction by building a model computer and then breaking a classic story down into simple components.
This lesson takes students through the process of finding credible sources for information.
Get ready to mix science, math and technology in this hands-on and engaging activity. Students will explore how measuring ingredients is like a science experiment, use math to adjust recipe amounts, and use code to create their very own app to easily double and halve recipes.