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Students will use unplugged coding games to design, develop, and deliver an unplugged coding game to play with others. The student will create a plan as part of the iterative design process, both independently and collaboratively using strategies such as pair programming (e.g., storyboard, flowchart, pseudocode, story map).
Students will publish a class website about visiting a country after completing research on the internet. Students will use a variety of resources to explore how we stay connected globally, as well as look at how technology has changed the way information is shared around the world. Students will describe how their website might be viewed or accessed around the globe and how it might impact those who see it.
Students will review the continents, oceans, and Cardinal directions by traveling across the world using BeeBots (i.e., robots) or grid paper. Students will plan routes to get from one continent to another by making a step-by-step description.
Students will learn about treaties and what important role they have played in with Virginia’s Native Americans. They will learn why there are treaties and how they affected the tribes and the Europeans and where they stand in the 21st century. In the second lesson, the teacher will go through the slides with the students explaining what was agreed between the Natives in Virginia and the Europeans that came to their land. This lesson can last as long as it takes to get through the slides, or the teacher can pick some of the agreements and discuss with students.
Students will discuss issues that can occur with devices and ways to resolve them. Students will work together to create a classroom guide for troubleshooting technology problems.
In this activity students will analyze various forms of primary sources, images and text, based on differing accounts of the Boston Massacre. Students will use this information to construct a historically accurate timeline (story) using the website twinery.org.
This lesson introduces 9-12 grade students to the tuple data type using Python. Students will learn what tuples are and how to create and use them.
Students will create flowers using polygons with 3-10 sides, classify and arrange them, based on different attributes (SOL CS 4.5). This activity would be done with 4th graders, but it could be modified for 3rd or 5th grades. The students would work both individually and collaboratively.
This site is a guide intended to help people use (or teach others to use) Twine. Twine is a tool for creating websites, but instead of the website being about a topic, or hosting a storefront, or containing blog posts, Twine websites tell stories.
Networking and the Internet4.18 The student will identify and explain different ways information can be transmitted using computing devices via a network (e.g., email, images, and videos).This informational sheet includes examples of communication that can be transmitted across networks and gives students an opportunity for small group discussion.Please download the PDF
Copyright is important for all teachers, students, and bloggers to know about. And it doesn’t have to be as complicated as you think. We’re here to break down the basics of copyright and other related topics like fair use, public domain, and Creative Commons.
In this lesson students will learn how enslaved people used lyrics in songs to help them follow the path to freedom, in the time period before and during the Civil War.
Students will program Sphero RVR+ robots to explore a mock crime scene to determine if it is safe for humans to investigate without destroying evidence or running into objects. Students will apply their knowledge of physical evidence to determine what objects in the crime scene need to be avoided when sending the robot into the crime scene.
This video helps explain a simple unplugged algorithmic math game. Students will solve a basic addition or subtraction problem, locate the answer on a checker board or premade mat, and write an algorithm using arrow cards to get their pawn to the correct answer.
Link to Lesson:
https://goopenva.org/courses/algoithms-and-programming
Link to materials:
https://goopenva.org/courses/first-grade-lesson-materials-algorithms-and-programming
Students will use Google Forms to organize, analyze, and manipulate data.
The teacher will introduce/ reiterate the importance of usernames and passwords. At the beginning of the year students receive their username and password for their personal school devices or for logging into the school equipment.
This activity allows students to locate and color the keys on the keyboard to help them with the initial login process and remembering their username and password.
The students will utilize Tinkercad to create models about science concepts (e.g. SOL 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 5.7)
The class will collect data, make a graph (digital and paper), and interpret outcomes to answer questions.
Students will use seven KEVA planks and their creativity to build items specified by the teacher. The lesson is designed for lower primary. Adapted from: KEVA Educator’s Guide https://irp-cdn.multiscreensite.com/f7460f98/files/uploaded/KEVA%20Educator%20Guide%20Lesson%20Plans.pdf