Students will research careers that focus on data collection and analysis. The goal is to introduce students to high demand jobs in data science. They will explore work expectations, educational requirements, and pay rate. Teachers can ask students to work in groups and assign specific areas: data analyst, data scientist, data engineer, and data architect (to name a few). Information on these career bands is available HERE

The students will consider what it would be like to have someone use a favorite possession without their approval. The students will then learn what personal information is and why they should keep it private. At the end of the lesson, the students will determine what information is safe to share with others and what is not safe to share.

This is a lesson that introduces kids to the concepts of slope and y-intercept as they relate to multiplicative and additive relationships.

This guided reading of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado” (1846) focuses on expanding vocabulary, developing student understanding of imagery and other figurative language, strengthening reading comprehension, and strengthening expository and persuasive writing skills.

Students will understand digital citizenship and the role they play as digital citizens.

Using a class text (longer text is preferred for better gameplay), students will create if/then statements that demonstrate cause and effect rEnglishtionships from their reading. Students will use these statements to guide the player through significant and impactful plot points of the story through the resource Twine.

Students will apply their knowledge of the causes of the American Revolution to create an interactive story via Twine. The interactive story will be based on the pre-revolutionary war period from the point of view of a loyalist or a patriot. As a warm-up students will look at an optical illusion picture and as a class discuss point of view and perspective. Students will work in heterogeneous pairs/groups to research, outline, and create a pre-revolutionary story about a patriot or loyalist.

Students will compare and contrast different perspectives of the French Revolution as depicted in two works of art. Students will discuss the use of satire and caricature to comment on historical and current events and will create satirical cartoons based on contemporary issues.

Students will analyze art elements and symbolism in a late-19th-century painting, create a self-portrait, and learn a dance depicted in the painting

Science Instructional Plans (SIPs) help teachers align instruction with the Science Standards of Learning (SOL) by providing examples of how the content and the scientific and engineering practices found in the SOL and curriculum framework can be presented to students in the classroom. This lesson includes the WIDA English Language Development Standards for ELs and differentiation through additional support for both ELs and other students. 

Science Instructional Plans (SIPs) help teachers align instruction with the Science Standards of Learning (SOL) by providing examples of how the content and the scientific and engineering practices found in the SOL and curriculum framework can be presented to students in the classroom.

This activity includes two simple hands-on experiments and numerous analysis and discussion questions which will help students understand how the molecular composition and organization of a cell membrane result in its selective permeability. Specific topics covered include ions, polar molecules and nonpolar molecules; simple diffusion through the phospholipid bilayer; facilitated diffusion through ion channels or carrier proteins; active transport; exocytosis and endocytosis. This activity helps students meet the Next Generation Science Standards.

Science Instructional Plans (SIPs) help teachers align instruction with the Science Standards of Learning (SOL) by providing examples of how the content and the scientific and engineering practices found in the SOL and curriculum framework can be presented to students in the classroom.

Students will create a presentation in Google Slides or Microsoft Powerpoint detailing and illustrating the structure and function of a particular cell organelle. By the end of the first day, students will use a template to create a timeline for completing the presentation. The timeline must include a decomposition of the assignment into discrete steps, self-imposed deadlines for completing said steps, and division and delegation of responsibilities. Students should, by this point, be able to decompose the large objective into discrete, small steps. They will then use The remaining days will be spent implementing and, if needed, modifying the plan.

Students break apart cell phones to determine what elements are located in cell phones.  They then use the elements to determine how the flow of electrons works in the cell phone.  Lastly, create designs using legos to practice engineering practices that would be common in engineering.

This overview presents key concepts that students often do not learn from standard textbook presentations and suggests a sequence of learning activities to help students understand how the parts of a cell work together to accomplish the multiple functions of a dynamic living cell. Suggested activities also reinforce student understanding of the relationships between molecules, organelles and cells, the diversity of cell structure and function, and the importance and limitations of diffusion. This overview provides links to Web resources, hands-on activities and discussion activities.

Science Instructional Plans (SIPs) help teachers align instruction with the Science Standards of Learning (SOL) by providing examples of how the content and the scientific and engineering practices found in the SOL and curriculum framework can be presented to students in the classroom.