There are billions of galaxies filled with billions of stars. Each star has the potential to have planets orbiting it. Does life exist on some of those planets? Explore the question, “Is there life in space?” Discover how scientists find planets and other astronomical bodies through the wobble (also known as Doppler spectroscopy or radial-velocity) and transit methods. Compare zones of habitability around different star types, discovering the zone of liquid water possibility around each star type. Explore how scientists use spectroscopy to learn about atmospheres on distant planets. You will not be able to answer the module's framing question at the end of the module, but you will be able to explain how scientists find distant planets and moons and how they determine whether those astronomical bodies could be habitable.

This is a lesson plan on iteration and looping to be used with high school aged students who are using the python programming language.  This resource includes a PowerPoint presentation along with a python file for students to use to practice the concept of iteration.  The python file has areas in which the student is asked to complete the statement by inserting variables in the program.  As the student works through the steps of the program, the steps build up to the final task which is to write the code for a basic random number generator.  

 Today, you want to discuss how artists can help bring awareness of environmental changes through art. Introduce a few artists that use environmental change as their theme. It is a good idea to have several artists that use different kinds of mediums. Examples: Nils-Udo, Andy Goldsworthy, Richard Shilling, Agnes Denes, Chris Jordan, Benjamin Von Wong, Olafur Eliasson, Amanda Schachter, Rachel Sussman, and Mathilde Roussel. These are some environmental artists of different backgrounds and diversity that work in different medians.  Discuss how posters have been used to educate others on environmental changes. Show your teacher’s example of an educational and artistic environmental poster. Talk about your poster and the environmental concept that you chose as an example of not only the artwork but on a presentation as well.

This video is part of the Learn and Grow with WHRO TV series. Watch Patty Larson teach about the months of the year and the days of the week.

This video is part of the Learn and Grow with WHRO TV series. Watch Patty Larson teach about identifying and producing words that rhyme and the letters Ii, Nn, and Uu.

Each webinar will include a 30-45 minutes presentation, followed by an opportunity for Question and Answers (Q/A) with attendees. All recordings will be posted on the Virginia Department of Education’s Career and Learning Center website for those unable to attend live!Webinars will be focused on one of the following topics (identified as areas of need by school counseling division leaders):Supporting Students with Anxiety Supporting Students with DepressionDesigning Effective Behavior InterventionsHelping Students Manage StressUsing Data to Plan, Monitor, and Evaluate your Comprehensive School Counseling ProgramPlease take a moment to explore the exciting sessions being offered this Fall and Winter! The two flyers linked below have more information on each session, including dates, times, and registration links

Teachers will be able to use this lesson virtually or in person! This Google Slide deck lesson can also be downloaded as a PowerPoint! Speaker notes are included which make it easy for teachers or substitutes to teach this lesson!Read Aloud: Jabari Jumps*Literacy Objective: *Students will make predictions before and while reading a story. *Students will retell a story using an appropriate beginning, middle, and end. *Students will use evidence from the text to answer questions. *Science Objective: We will be able to identify solids and liquids. Art Objective: We will be able to use different shapes and lines to make a human figure. Hampton Oaks Elementary School (Kari Nugent, Annie Schmidt, Lindsey Bruce, Melissa DiAscro, & Rebecca Fausett)

Jennifer Daniel of Washington County gathered together some supporting resources for teachers using Google Classroom as their main classroom!

Jennifer Daniel of Washington County created this Wakelet with resources to support those who want to be "power users" in Google Classroom.

Jennifer Daniel of Washington County has put together a Wakelet to provide tutorials on how to use Wakelet! This is a perfect tool to use with virtual and hybrid learning.

Black M, a French hip-hop artist, was told he should not perform at a concert based on his race. He responded on Twitter with a comprehensive song "clapping back" at the politician and others who think being black makes him any less French. This lesson focuses on identity and uses first-year French constructions to allow students to talk about themselves while learning about French identities. The video for the song includes references to many aspects of French and francophone culture, which are explored briefly in the lesson with room to explore independently.
Lest we think this is an issue unique to France, decades ago, Marian Anderson was also told she could not perform based on her being black. She defied the odds and sang on the steps of the Lincoln memorial, inspiring Martin Luther King, Jr, among others. We look at this performance and a portrait of Anderson from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and students have a chance to discuss how they have overcome odds.

This inquiry focuses on the rights of citizenship that African Americans were denied following Reconstruction. Though the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments were passed in order to guarantee citizenship rights to freedmen, many states passed laws that limited these rights. In this inquiry, students will examine ways rights of citizenship were denied by many states and how citizens attempted to secure those rights. The tasks completed for each supporting question will help students to consider who grants citizenship rights and how they are expanded. The first task will help students to understand that the U.S. Constitution guarantees rights of citizenship, while the second task will help students to understand how states can limit those rights. The final task will help students to investigate the way citizenship can be change agents in the fight to ensure equal rights for all.

Use the presentation and accompanying worksheets and lesson plans to help elementary students explore career options. 

Teachers will be able to use this lesson virtually or in person! This Google Slide deck lesson can also be downloaded as a PowerPoint! Speaker notes are included which make it easy for teachers or substitutes to teach this lesson! Read Aloud: John, Paul, George, & Ben*Literacy Objective: We will discuss important people from the American Revolution and identify how they have changed over time. *Social Studies Objectives: We will identify the causes and effects of the American Revolution. We will also identify the key events and people from the American Revolution. *Art Objective: The student will use the following to express meaning in works of art:   a) Color—student-mixed hues, tints, shades, tones.Hampton Oaks Elementary School (Kari Nugent, Annie Schmidt, Lindsey Bruce, Melissa DiAscro, & Rebecca Fausett)

MA. 1.2.3 The student will demonstrate addition and subtraction within 10.

American performer Josephine Baker used her star-status access to spy for the Allies in WWII and convey information to the Allies by using invisible ink on her sheet music. We’ll look at a few methods that can be used to hide messages “in plain sight”?

On May 17, 1954, in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (five separate cases consolidated under a single name), the U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously that separate but equal public schools violated the 14th Amendment.

In this ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court stated that slaves were not citizens of the United States and, therefore, could not expect any protection from the Federal Government or the courts. The opinion also stated that Congress had no authority to ban slavery from a Federal territory.

The goal of this exercise is to determine whether the realities of women's lives in the 1950s match the idealized view of that time period we have today. Crosstabulation and comparison of means will be used.

Students will read General Order #3, the order that notified enslaved people in Texas that the Civil War had ended and they were to be emancipated. They will then analyze a primary source broadside from the Virginia Museum of History and Culture related to the earliest celebrations of Juneteenth. They will then be asked to write a letter to a member of their division’s central office regarding the celebration of Juneteenth.