This lesson sequence offers students and teachers a way to explore their individual identities and sense of belonging through analyzing children’s literature and coding with Scratch. Through read-aloud activities and self-differentiated Scratch projects, students learn about the value of inclusion and explore and express ideas about their personal and social identities. Students will describe environments supportive of diversity, and reflect on their own identity as they create expressive projects about their sense of belonging. This sequence is made up of four lessons, though your students may need additional class time to work on their projects.This lesson sequence is part of CodeVA's committment to the U.S. Department of Education "YOU Belong in STEM" initiative.

¡Listos! is a series of units for Heritage Spanish learners in grades 6-12. Three lessons aligned to the K12 Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) form four thematic clusters. Relevant scenarios related to personal life, college tasks, career readiness and civic participation frame each lesson and increase student engagement by making learning authentic and relevant to real issues that students face. Each lesson identifies an intermediate or advanced proficiency target that supports language acquisition in the interpersonal, interpretive and presentational modes. The project also provides teachers with a replicable approach to lesson design for adapting or creating their own materials.

5.3 The student will learn how media messages are constructed and for what purposes. a) Differentiate between auditory, visual, and written media messages. b) Identify the characteristics and effectiveness of a variety of media messages. 

Title: Media Messages Mini-UnitTopic: Media MessagesEducational Standards: 9.2 The student will produce, analyze, and evaluate media messages.Subject Area: English 9

A multi-day lesson designed to integrate Geography and Literacy in an integrated humanities, history, or English setting. 

The Student Handouts for these minds-on activities challenge students to actively develop their understanding of biological concepts and apply these concepts to the interpretation of scientific evidence and real-world situations. The Teacher Notes provide learning goals, instructional suggestions, relevant scientific background, and suggestions for preparatory and follow-up activities. Many of these activities are explicitly aligned with the Next Generation Science Standards.

These teacher notes summarize important concepts for students to understand concerning mitosis and meiosis, including the principle that understanding meiosis and fertilization provides the basis for understanding the fundamentals of inheritance. The proposed sequence of learning activities will help students understand and learn these major concepts and progress beyond common misconceptions. This overview provides links to suggested activities which include a hands-on simulation of mitosis meiosis and fertilization, a card sort of activity, a vocabulary review game and discussion questions.

This overview reviews key concepts and learning activities to help students understand how genes influence our traits by molecular processes. Topics covered include basic understanding of the important roles of proteins and DNA; DNA structure, function and replication; the molecular biology of how genes influence traits, including transcription and translation; and the molecular biology of mutations. To help students understand the relevance of these molecular processes, the suggested learning activities link alleles of specific genes to human characteristics such as albinism, sickle cell anemia and muscular dystrophy. This overview provides links to suggested activities which include hands-on laboratory and simulation activities, web-based simulations, discussion activities and a vocabulary review game.

This resource teaches students about balanced forces, unbalanced forces, and Newton's three laws through the game of baseball. It is interactive and uses short videos and simulations to help students learn the content. It culminates with a project at the end.

LOGISTICS - Adjust and adapt as you see fit within your classroom context (student & curricular need)Each day we engaged with the chapter through an activity/discussion during the first half of class.The second half of class (these slides), students worked independently to reflect on each chapter’s essential question, read paired passages, and draw connections between the texts.

Students will learn about abstraction by examining a model computer and then breaking down several medieval romances into their essential components. 

Overview of the activity:You will learn about the culture of Mexico and Spain, and take a VR QUEST virtual tour of Mexico and Spain. Then, you will be reading about and researching a Spanish-speaking country. You will collaboratively link your research into an Interactive Map, creating a single interactive class presentation document. As a culminating activity the class will be experiencing the culture of Mexico, Spain, and the countries by doing Green Screen photos in traditional clothing, and by having a food-tasting day.  

This is as a study game to help students better identify and internalize definitions and explanations of key political parties, concepts, and people from the late 18th and early 19th centuries in the United States.

This lesson sequence offers students and teachers a way to develop data science skills using low technology skills through a series of “unplugged” activities, where students engage in data science learning without using computational tools. This material was created by Sara Fergus, Christa VanOlst, & Jon Stapleton for CodeVA with support from Capital One.

This lesson sequence offers students and teachers a way to develop data science skills using the CODAP “low-code” data analysis tool. View the materials on Google Drive or PDF. This material was created by Sara Fergus, Christa VanOlst, & Jon Stapleton for CodeVA with support from Capital One.

This lesson sequence offers students and teachers a way to develop data science skills using the Python programming language through a mix of “plugged” and “unplugged” activities. View the materials on Google Drive or PDF. This material was created by Sara Fergus, Christa VanOlst, & Jon Stapleton for CodeVA with support from Capital One.

This is an approximately 13 day unit designed to introduce various types and features of rockets and enable students to design, construct, and launch rockets.

Sharing Science With Film: A Guide to Student Productions is a guide for educators, and provides a how-to manual for instructing youth on how to produce short films.

The SDO curriculum teaches students through self-directed solar explorations and encourages them to be engaged learners in order to understand the science of our Sun and to apply the knowledge they gain to solve tomorrow���s solar situations.