Compare how computer memory and cache memory works by conducting a survey with various data collection methods to create a scatterplot.

In this lesson, students will apply debugging to coding in javascript, correcting math expressions, and a simple electrical circuit.

When Columbus landed in the Bahamas (back in 1492) he made a mistake that people TODAY continue to perpetuate!  Let’s discuss how we can fix this problem.  We will show what we learned by designing a fancy schmancy poster highlighting the location of Virginia’s historical Algonquian, Siouan, and Iroquoian areas.  Additionally, we will incorporate several important computer science terms (for example- debug).

Do you want to show your students in a fun way how an ecosystem collapses if  a species is removed?  Check out this lesson using squishy circuits (that’s play dough and safe circuits)!  Students will get to learn about ecosystems and circuitry all at the same time.

Using this kit, students really learn and do the energy conversions. They physically have the pieces in their hands to create each conversion and then some.  The worksheet keeps them focused on what they have to do instead of just playing with the kits. But this isn’t to discredit that they wouldn’t learn by just playing with the kits. Conversion of energy is hard to grasp in theory, why not make it physical and help them remember.

Students will explore kinetic, potential, energy, speed, force, motion, light, and wind energy. Students will be able to understand that energy can be converted into different forms. Student will learn to make predictions, record, analyze, and make conclusions about data.

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.

Relate computer networks and the internet to world geography through language, culture and food.

Students will learn about the problems that can occur to prevent an iPad from working properly.   They will then transfer this information to use problem solving skills to determine how a circuit works and what can prevent them from working correctly.Students are given circuits to explore and to be introduced to the basic knowledge of circuits and how they work. They will explore circuits and explore the problems that can occur to keep the circuit  from working correctly.

Students will be adventuring through data collection and analysis to make predictions and understand trends using computer generated charts and collected data. 

Students will use Spheros to explore the force and energy of moving objects.  This lesson is appropriate for students and teachers with little to no experience with coding. Students will evaluate a single line of programming that directs the Sphero to move and test to see if they correctly anticipated the results.  Students will bowl down "pins" by programming the Sphero. Students will experiment with changing variables and discuss how that changes the motion.

Dive into the exciting world of augmented reality while exploring how to conserve our natural resources.  Get your creative juices flowing as you design your very own natural resource drawing and bring it to life using AR technology and apps.

Let’s graph our favorite holiday and learn about each other!  This lesson introduces holidays and then allows children to choose their favorite and graph that information as a whole class.

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. 

The student will complete multi-step inequalities problems and identify patterns/ algorithms used to do so.

In this lesson students will collect data from circle graphs and turn that data into bar graphs.

This activity will get your students out of their seats! They will be actively engaged with their classmates to solve the puzzle as well as navigate the sphero mini robot around on the rug! This lesson will have everyone singing about the continents way after the unit is complete!

Overview of the activity:For this Fingerprinting and Computer Science lesson our school resource officer will be coming in to take your fingerprints. We will learn how to lift a latent print and look at classifications of prints. We will also learn about the IAFPS system, how fingerprints are lifted, and collected, and how fingerprint data is transmitted, stored, and used by local, state, and federal agencies to help solve crimes.