This page recognizes the many individuals and organizations for their contributions to this grant effort awarded to the VCU School of Education Center for Innovation in STEM Education from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Bay Watershed Education and Training (BWET). We hope you take a moment to review this page and share our appreciation of these individuals, and the organizations they represent!

This page recognizes the many individuals and organizations for their contributions to this grant effort awarded to the VCU School of Education Center for Innovation in STEM Education from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Bay Watershed Education and Training (BWET). We hope you take a moment to review this page and share our appreciation of these individuals, and the organizations they represent!

The lesson explores Appalachian music within Virginia, focusing on simulating the acoustical recording process to convey technical challenges and artistic considerations. Modeled after the Bristol Sessions of 1927, conducted by Ralph Peer for the Victor Talking Machine Company, the session primarily used acoustical recording technology prevalent at the time. Performers sang or played instruments into large recording horns, transmitting sound vibrations to a cutting stylus, which etched onto a master disc. Despite limitations in fidelity and dynamic range, the Bristol Sessions captured the essence of early country, blues, and Appalachian music, significantly influencing American popular music's trajectory.

Blue Ridge PBS is pleased to announce the recent premiere of ACTIVATED LEARNING, a new podcast designed to elevate the teaching profession and help parents stay informed about how teaching and learning are evolving toward a student-centered approach to meet the needs of all learners. Developed in collaboration with the Virginia Department of Education (VDOE) and the Virginia Society for Technology in Education (VSTE), this 12-episode series features interviews with national experts, classroom teachers, and instructional technologists. New episodes will drop every two weeks after the premiere and will be available on all major streaming platforms including Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, and Spotify. All episodes will also be streamed and available on demand on the Blue Ridge PBS ECHO Channel at www.blueridgepbs.org/echo.  This resource provide an overview and promotional materials.

English Instructional Plan – Action Research Project Primary Strand: 6.2, 7.2, 8.2, 9.1 – Multimodal Presentations

     This is an active learning activity related to action verbs.  This activity will get your student moving while learning about action verbs.  The students will use action verbs to get the class galloping, running, skipping, hopping, etc.  Students will also demonstrate how to use these action verbs in complete sentences. 

A lesson that focuses on understand that text formats can be used to set a purpose for reading.It is a cross-curricular lesson for Elementary Librarians to support the ELA standard (3.6).Created by: Tiffany Ray Powhatan County Public School 3/2021

2.CE.1d Demonstrate fluency with addition and subtraction within 20 by applying reasoning strategies (e.g., doubles, near doubles, make a-ten, compensations, inverse relationships).

This lesson encourages movement and active learning and can be used to practice solving addition and subtraction problems. This activity can be used as a math station to accommodate a small group of students at one time.

This lesson should  be taught as part of a math rotation. It encourages students to actively participate in many first grade math skills that should be reviewed and mastered before the end of the year. Students will be paired up in groups and rotate through different stations. 

This lesson encourages movement/active learning and can be used as a whole-group or small-group activity to promote making high frequency words into sight words for students.  Students are asked to say, segment, and spell high frequency words.

This lesson/activity includes active movement with the learning of ordinal numbers. After receiving an introduction/explanation to ordinal numbers, the students will take turns throwing their own bean bag from behind a line. When finished, the class will together list off the order of farthest to shortest throws using ordinal numbers (i.e., first - Anna, second - John, etc.).

This is an active learning lesson designed for primary grades where students will create their own repeating or growing patterns using movement. This lesson should be completed after students have a general working knowledge of patterns and are ready to develop their skills further by creating their own patterns.

This lesson encourages movement/active learning and can be used as a whole-group or small-group activity to promote rhyming word production. 

This lesson encourages movement/active learning and can be used as a whole-group or small-group activity to promote fact fluency for students.  Students are asked to say, solve and “jump out” the addition or subtraction fact.

This lesson encourages movement/active learning and can be used as an introduction to prefixes or as a review opportunity.  Students are asked to identify prefixes and their meaning so that they can apply their knowledge in a text.

This lesson is designed to encourage movement/active learning and can be used as a review activity to check for understanding of some common affixes and roots.

This lesson encourages movement/active learning and can be used as an introduction to synonyms and antonyms or as a review opportunity.  Students are asked to identify synonyms and antonyms before then applying their knowledge in a text.

This lesson encourages movement/active learning and can be used as a whole-group or small-group activity to promote understanding of antonyms and synonyms.  Students are asked to identify whether pairs of words are antonyms or synonyms.