This is an active learning lesson for PreK for the following standards:Identifies, duplicates, extends, and creates simple repeating patterns (CD3.4l)Fills in missing elements of simple, repeating patterns (CD3.4m) Recognizes, names, and extends simple repeating patterns (CD3.4n)

This lesson will focus on making patterns through movement.  While exercising we will have students practice repeating movements to create a pattern.

Students will measure length to the nearest inch using a tape measure. Students will learn the difference between a jump, hop, skip, and slide.

Podcast Link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1o87lVWTVNzlGCuvfZ7EXCI_2JP9czk6r/view?usp=sharing

Standards of Learning
The student will use short vowel sounds to decode and spell one-syllable words. (ELA.1.10.4)

The student will segment one-syllable words into individual phonemes. (ELA.1.11.4)
I Can Statement(s)

I can segment one-syllable words and identify the medial vowel sound.

In this activity, students interact with 12 models to observe emergent phenomena as molecules assemble themselves. Investigate the factors that are important to self-assembly, including shape and polarity. Try to assemble a monolayer by "pushing" the molecules to the substrate (it's not easy!). Rotate complex molecules to view their structure. Finally, create your own nanostructures by selecting molecules, adding charges to them, and observing the results of self-assembly.

Purpose & SOL
The student will be able to compare two numbers between 0 and 120 represented pictorially and with concrete objects using the terms greater than, less than, or equal to.(1.NS.2e)

Study the motion of a toy car on a ramp and use motion sensors to digitally graph the position data and then analyze it. Make predictions about what the graphs will look like, and consider what the corresponding velocity graphs would look like.

I can identify the word that does not have the same beginning sound as the other words.
I can identify the word that does not have the same ending sound as the other words.

Standards of Learning
The student will group and represent a collection of up to 120 objects into tens and ones and write the corresponding numeral. (MA.1.1.5)
I Can Statement(s)

I can identify the number of tens and ones that can be made from any number up to 120.

What do plants eat? This unit explores plants and how they make food.

This is an active learning lesson for PreK students to help them reconginze upper and lowercase letters in print.

Delve into a microscopic world working with models that show how electron waves can tunnel through certain types of barriers. Learn about the novel devices and apparatuses that have been invented using this concept. Discover how tunneling makes it possible for computers to run faster and for scientists to look more deeply into the microscopic world.

How does energy flow in and out of our atmosphere? Explore how solar and infrared radiation enters and exits the atmosphere with an interactive model. Control the amounts of carbon dioxide and clouds present in the model and learn how these factors can influence global temperature. Record results using snapshots of the model in the virtual lab notebook where you can annotate your observations.

The purpose of this podcast is for students to listen and identify rhyming pairs while doing physical activity.

This podcast is meant to help students identify how to regulate impulses. Whether it be calling out, running onto line, or other behaviors that require us to think things through. The goal of this podcast is to give students strategies to “slow” things down and “think” things through.

This podcast is meant to help students identify how their emotions can affect their ability to learn. We will work on breathing, stretching and movements that will descalate a student’s emotions. The goal is to transition away from anger and excitement and into a zone that is conducive to learning.

Podcast Link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GPUdy40At8IVf-2tjrYnU_R1im6lOsja/view

Use a virtual scanning tunneling microscope (STM) to observe electron behavior in an atomic-scale world. Walk through the principles of this technology step-by-step. First learn how the STM works. Then try it yourself! Use a virtual STM to manipulate individual atoms by scanning for, picking up, and moving electrons. Finally, explore the advantages and disadvantages of the two modes of an STM: the constant-height mode and the constant-current mode.

Explore your own straight-line motion using a motion sensor to generate distance versus time graphs of your own motion. Learn how changes in speed and direction affect the graph, and gain an understanding of how motion can be represented on a graph.

The focus of this episode is to work through exploring the various emotions a child may experience throughout the day, what those feel like, and different positive ways of handling each emotion.

Semiconductors are the materials that make modern electronics work. Learn about the basic properties of intrinsic and extrinsic or 'doped' semiconductors with several visualizations. Turn a silicon crystal into an insulator or a conductor, create a depletion region between semiconductors, and explore probability waves of an electron in this interactive activity.