Students will explore how to classify and sort animals by different characteristics …
Students will explore how to classify and sort animals by different characteristics and attributes like their body coverings. Using an animal template provided and fun craft supplies like pasta shells, textured fabric, sequins, and cotton balls, students will create their own animal body covering models. This engaging hands-on learning experience mixes computer science, art, and life science all in one lesson to get your students excited about learning!
The goals of the unit are to teach the students to be …
The goals of the unit are to teach the students to be critical thinkers, problem solvers, and collaborators on a final group project (The Rube Goldberg Challenge). Students will learn about STEM, simple machines, coding, problem solving and working together as a collaborating team throughout this unit. Students will do some simple coding with the Sphero RvR Robots so that they understand how hardware and software work and will code a task that will be used as part of their Rube Goldberg Machine.
This lesson allows students to experience coding in a low stress, engaging …
This lesson allows students to experience coding in a low stress, engaging environment while reinforcing thier learning about food webs and the interrelationships of the animals. No prior coding experience is required for the teacher or the students. Teachers and students will be walked through the steps of creating a cartoon demonstrating the transfer of energy in the food web. They will learn to use sequencing, loops, variables, and opperations on those variables all while creating a fun moving cartoon. Once students have learned the basic moves, they will be able to code further steps independently to add more interest to their cartoon.
Watch and explore the different ways the mouse can move (back- and- …
Watch and explore the different ways the mouse can move (back- and- forth, circular, straight, spinning), try to remember the password pattern to guess the correct password. The stronger and more difficult the code, the harder the password pattern will be to crack. Create a strong pattern so your classmates don’t crack your code!
This lesson will help teach students the importance of internet safety and …
This lesson will help teach students the importance of internet safety and ways that students can stay safe online. The students will also play various games to learn this concept. The students will play a game with magnets that teaches the concept of pushing/pulling (attract/repel) while learning internet safety.
The VR experience in this project sounds like a great way to …
The VR experience in this project sounds like a great way to offer a more interactive learning environment. It's exciting to think about how teachers can use this technology (YouTube 360) to enhance their teaching methods and help students learn in new and exciting ways. The hands-on experience will certainly help teachers better understand the features and functionalities of VR, and how it can be effectively used in the classroom.
How are predators in the WILD and ONLINE similar? Check out this …
How are predators in the WILD and ONLINE similar? Check out this lesson that incorporates Cybersecurity and pack animals! You will learn ways on how both the animals and you can be protected from danger!
This lesson incorporates computer science with an interesting enrichment topic for Environmental …
This lesson incorporates computer science with an interesting enrichment topic for Environmental Science II, Astronomy - Dark Matter. Students will be able to visualize WHY scientists believe that 85% of matter in our universe is not the same as what we are made of. Using simple orbital speed kits, your class can combine their data and analyze it to see what happens to orbital speed with increasing distance from the barycenter of a galaxy. They can add mass to the center to represent dark matter and see how that increases the orbital speed - just like what Vera Rubin discovered in the 1960s.
In this lesson, students will travel to different stations while participating in …
In this lesson, students will travel to different stations while participating in various graphing activities. The students will also be creating a whole class survey in one of the stations, where they will be documenting their results and sharing with the whole class when the lesson is complete.
Do you want to show your students in a fun way how …
Do you want to show your students in a fun way how an ecosystem collapses if a species is removed? Check out this lesson using squishy circuits (that’s play dough and safe circuits)! Students will get to learn about ecosystems and circuitry all at the same time.
Using this kit, students really learn and do the energy conversions. They …
Using this kit, students really learn and do the energy conversions. They physically have the pieces in their hands to create each conversion and then some. The worksheet keeps them focused on what they have to do instead of just playing with the kits. But this isn’t to discredit that they wouldn’t learn by just playing with the kits. Conversion of energy is hard to grasp in theory, why not make it physical and help them remember.
Students will explore kinetic, potential, energy, speed, force, motion, light, and wind …
Students will explore kinetic, potential, energy, speed, force, motion, light, and wind energy. Students will be able to understand that energy can be converted into different forms. Student will learn to make predictions, record, analyze, and make conclusions about data.
Students will use Spheros to explore the force and energy of moving …
Students will use Spheros to explore the force and energy of moving objects. This lesson is appropriate for students and teachers with little to no experience with coding. Students will evaluate a single line of programming that directs the Sphero to move and test to see if they correctly anticipated the results. Students will bowl down "pins" by programming the Sphero. Students will experiment with changing variables and discuss how that changes the motion.
Let’s graph our favorite holiday and learn about each other! This lesson …
Let’s graph our favorite holiday and learn about each other! This lesson introduces holidays and then allows children to choose their favorite and graph that information as a whole class.
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