This is a self-paced lesson where students will be able to analyze campaigns for elective office and recognize the importance of outsiders in a campaign.
*Remixes to add section where students will then apply the concept of political outsiders to the current presidential candidates.

In this unit, students explore the power of reading and writing around the world. Over the course of the unit, students will grapple with and explore the power involved with education and reading, and why so many people across the world seek the power to read. Students will also discover that not all people have equal access to education and that in many places receiving a high-quality education is not an easy feat. As a connection to the informational unit on continents, when the setting is clearly defined by the author either in the author's note or directly in the text, make sure to reference it and challenge students to notice features of the culture or country. It is important to note that many of the texts in this unit are fiction; therefore, large generalizations about an entire culture or country should not be made based on the books alone. Students should, however, be challenged to think about the ways in which the author portrays the characters' struggles and desire for education and what we can learn from the characters' experiences. It is our hope that this unit, in connection with other units in the sequence, will begin to open students' eyes to the world around us and the ways in which values are similar and different around the world.

In reading, it is assumed that students are inquisitive consumers of the text and are able to retell stories, including key details, using both the illustrations and words as a guide. Therefore, in this unit students will be pushed further to notice more nuanced central messages, particularly related to the idea of education and reading. Students will also be pushed to notice the words and phrases an author includes to suggest feeling and appeal to the senses. In Unit 3, students were exposed to the skill of compare and contrast by comparing and contrasting similar versions of the same story. In this unit, students will be pushed to the next level by comparing and contrasting more nuanced experiences and messages across multiple stories.

In writing, students will continue to write daily in response to the text. In every piece of writing, students should be expected to correctly answer the question and provide details from the text to support their answer. In this unit, students will begin to learn how to explain their evidence and thinking in a way that shows a deeper understanding of the question or text. By the end of the unit, most students should be able to score a 3 on the Reading Response rubric.

Students can rate the first 5 presidents by making a case as to whose accomplishments were most important to the development of the United States of America and stating a reason for their choice.
The teacher can allow students to debate as to which President is the most important.

This activity is from the Cyber.org website and covers the topic of the German Enigma Encryption machine that was used during World War II. Students will learn about how the Enigma machine worked and the process it used to encrypt messages. Students will be able to create their own Enigma machine using a normal size Pringles can and the activity sheet in PDF format. This is a great way to teach the concepts of encryption and a low cost way to give students a hands on approach to encrypting and decrypting messages.Ideas on how to use this activity would be to give the students a message to encrypt using their Pringles can Enigma machine or having students send an encrypted message to a classmate with the encryption key and have that student decrypt the message. To show the power of this type of encryption you can have other students try to decrypt the message without the key so they can see how difficult it would have been to crack the code during World War II.Link to the Cyber.org website for this activity

This is a probability assessment to be used at the end of the probability unit and guide further instruction.

Students will work together in groups to plan and record their own reality show based on one of three scenarios given. Within the presentation students must include examples of the present subjunctive and the conditional tenses.  The video must be a minimum of two minutes in length

Students will download and view a video of a ball traveling with projectile motion. Students will analyze the video to determine the ball's launch angle and launch velocity following the ball's first bounce.

Students use concrete objects, representation, and abstract (algorithmic) thinking to complete 3 percentage word problems. The CRA assessment provides teachers with a deeper understanding of students' thinking. Do your students understand the relationship between the proportional algorithm and proportional reasoning?

This project is designed to demonstrate understanding of health and well-in Spanish Speaking Countries by providing cultural examples and comparing it to habits of the United States. This information will be presented in the form of a collaborative, digital timeline created using Sutori.  Students will work in groups to complete a Sutori Timeline that includes a comparative article, an infographic, an exercise video and a short radio podcast discussing cultural differences for a specific Hispanic Country. You will be adding documents, videos, and images in a digital timeline format.

The student will understand the importance of social justice and be able to write a public service announcement to inform the public.** This performance assessment was developed by a collaborative team of teachers and division staff from Middlesex, Poquoson, and West Point school divisions.

Students get a chance to review their proficiency with Punnett Squares through a "choose your own adventure" Google Slide challenge.

The use of Google Forms allows for content to be retaught, as well as allows students to go beyond the basic understanding of Punnett Squares.

Students get a chance to review their proficiency with Punnett Squares through a "choose your own adventure" Google Slide challenge.

The use of Google Forms allows for content to be retaught, as well as allowing students the opportunity to go beyond the basic understanding of Punnett Squares.

 This lesson introduces 9-12 grade students to the Python random library. The program will choose a random number using functions from the Python random library in a set number range. The program will prompt the player to choose a number in the given range and keep track of the number of guesses the player makes. If the player guesses higher than the chosen number, it will give the player a message that their guess is too high. If the player guesses lower than the chosen number, it will give the player a message their guess is too low. The program will continue to prompt the player for guesses until they guess the correct number. 

The teacher will provide the prewritten Python code to students. The teacher will explain the code and expectations prior to the lesson. The goal of the lesson is for students to change the color of the shapes provided. Students will need to recognize a circle, rectangle, square, and triangle prior to the lesson.

Students are given 6 statements and they are to determine if each statement is always, true, sometimes true, or never true.

This activity will show the sorting process using the Quick Sort Divide and Conquer algorithm that is used by a computer when sorting data without using a computer.

To prepare for the SOL push I published this set of SOL terms with many pictures on the Quizlet Flashcard/Game platform.

The content can be printed for a written review/quiz or played in a classroom environment as a live activity from student computers or with a teacher exerting control from a central projector screen.

This site is compatable with Google Classrooms! Students can be assigned the review as homework. Quizlet keeps scores and correct/wrong answers if students are enrolled as a class.

LINK: https://quizlet.com/100781747/2017-earth-science-sol-prep-flash-cards/