Are your students always on their phones or playing games on their personal devices? Use this lesson to engage them in a conversation about how all that screen time is negatively impacting their growth in more ways than one. After reading and discussing the negative impacts of excessive screen time, have students write an expository essay where they show their understanding of the topic.

Students will formulate questions that require the acquisition of data. They will collect data and display it in histograms.

Students will formulate questions that require the acquisition of data. They will collect data and display it in histograms.

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.

Grab your hard hat and tool belt for this lesson, exploring engineering and computer science with the scientific method.

The students will complete a mixture of transformations on paper and then watch and complete GeoGeobra simulations of transformations to identify patterns and relationships.

Computer Abstraction seems to be a difficult concept along with Translating mRNA into Proteins. Why not use one to help explain the other and how important both are in our everyday life, and in living.  This lesson comes with a Slide Deck and a worksheet that will help students understand both topics and has options hands-on kits and extension activities to drive the points home.

Read about the history and traditions, as well as explore important sites, surrounding the festivities of Dia de los Muertos and then create a papel picado in google slides relating to cultural traditions.

Do you like to  troubleshoot and solve problems yourself?  This lesson will teach you to solve problems on your technology devices and to create cars by using troubleshooting and problem solving as well.

Problem solving can be so much fun when you are building cars!  Let’s learn to troubleshoot on our computers and use those skills to create a working, rolling, car!

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.

Are you looking for a new activity to do with types of conflict? Do you want to encourage your students to understand the importance of knowing the why behind the need for multiple times practicing a skill? Why not incorporate analyzing data into identifying the types of conflict being used in a story? 

Students will take a virtual reality tour of the five regions in Virginia and the main agricultural products in each. During the tours, students will place miniature models of agricultural products on the map of Virginia regions. Learn about the impacts of networking and virtual reality field trips.

Students will view and discuss a slide show of the history of advancements in technology. Compare and contrast three types of extreme weather in satellite imagery and VR.

We're going on a light hunt!  Students will be engaged in this hands-on light investigation, they will investigate how different materials are affected by light. Students will use their knowledge in computer science by sorting and organizing items based on one or two attributes. 

What do you think will happen to Peppermint Puffs that are put in warm water, cold water, oil, and vinegar?  Will they dissolve?  In which substance will they dissolve the fastest?  In this experiment, your students will find out!  Students will also record their data and use technology (a spreadsheet on their Chrome book) to analyze, graph and discuss their learning.

What materials dissolve in water?  How does water temperature affect this?  Your students will work in groups using a thermometer and timer to discover if salt, sugar, sand, and flour will dissolve best in hot or cold water.  Further, your class will learn to record and submit data on a Google form and create graphs.  This will allow you to have great class discussions to draw conclusions about the effect temperature has on dissolving matter. 

Using data analysis to determine whether countries are developed or developing. Useful for World Geography SOL review.

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.