Review important heroes of WWII while learning about keeping personal information private online.
Students will apply computational thinking to address the real-life problem of not knowing who to vote for president by decomposing their political ideology into “personal” and “economic” subcomponents and start self-reflecting on political issues so they cast a vote for the candidate and his/her platform that most aligns with their beliefs as opposed to basing it on propaganda and/or voting for a candidate who doesn’t agree with them on specific issues (an uninformed vote).
Near? Far? Above? Below? Kindergartners work together to discover the location of woodland creatures and days of the week.
What would kids today do without the internet? This lesson will take them “back in time” to learn how to research before the internet! This lesson will create a greater appreciation for the technology that we have today. Kids today just don’t know how easy they have it, not having to wait for dial up internet!
Teach students what it means to be a good citizen in this activity. Students create the rules and then must follow them to accomplish a class activity.
Students will apply computing systems by interacting with electoral maps that communicate and process information in digital form to gain an understanding of how the electoral college works and selects the president of the United States.
This hands-on lesson merges digital safety concepts with Virginia state symbols and allows students to construct their own three-dimensional learning landscape with fun materials like Legos and model magic.
Modern technology can make tasks happen instantly with the push of a button or a swipe of a finger. How do our community helpers use this technology responsibly to make their jobs easier and more efficient?
Take your students on a virtual tour of Europe while reviewing how information travels over the internet and the importance of art in the European Renaissance.
This lesson on keeping personal information safe includes a video and a decision making chart. Help students understand what is and is not ok to share.
We may not be jumping on the “Magic School Bus with Miss Frizzle” but thanks to the impact of technology in our classrooms, our students can use virtual glasses to expand the walls of our classroom. We can also use networking and the internet to communicate instantly through email with anyone in the world.
This media literacy explains how information travels the globe and how we can find out where it came from. Students will complete an end user guide to help navigate on the internet.
In this lesson, students will engage in a simulated fishing environment to help them understand why overfishing happens and then seek solutions to the problem.
This lesson offers a fun, hands-on approach to teaching students about the importance of creating strong passwords in a real life setting.
This resource is a comparison between two primary sources, the Delcaration of Independence and a runaway slave advertisement.
Students examine images to determine how early humans used the environment. Students use skills of observe and identify details in images and then place them in eight categories: location, migration, physical geography, shelter, settlements, food acquisition, technological advancements, and social advancements. After learning characteristics of the Neolithic and Paleolithic eras, students determine whether or not images depict life in the Paleolithic or Neolithic Era. Students are challenged to make inferences and draw conclusions supported by evidence from the images. Key questions: How did early humans use the environment to meet their basic needs? How did hunter gatherer and agricultural societies differ in their use of the land?
provides the text of out-of-print publications relating to the history of the National Parks -- how the parks were created and how they have evolved to the present day.
Students will identify personal information and who it is appropriate to share with. We will discuss how passwords keep the information on our devices safe. Students will be told not to share their passwords or use other students’ passwords. Students will be told to log out of programs and devices when they are finished using them.
Grade K students will strengthen their understanding about past and present by using a graphic organizer to sequence the changes of a place or object over time. Students will engage in collaborative conversations at multiple times to compare and contrast the past and present, while also learning from their peers during these conversations. Students will explore a fiction text during a read aloud to strengthen their understanding of the past and the present. At the end of this lesson, students will use their knowledge of sequential order to complete and/or create a graphic organizer showing how houses have changed from the past to the present. Students will gain an understanding that computer scientists use graphic organizers to show their thoughts and ideas.
Patrick Hausammann of Clarke County provides this slide deck to be used in introducing the various features and capabilities of Google Classroom.