This performance task is designed for third grade students and higher to compare and contrast a group of items based on attributes or actions classified into at least two sets and subsets.  The items being classified are polygons.  The use of algorithms and flowcharts is also a key component of the performance task.

With this lesson, students will practice the Math Standards of Learning around counting and comparing values of money and creating equations while also learning computer science terminology for problem solving. Students will learn to start counting change with the highest value coin possible.

This is a list of basic vocabulary with definitions and/or examples that will be used in elementary classrooms K-5 when teaching the concepts of algorithms and programming. 

The goal of lesson is the be a review activity for the following standards. Computer Science: 2.5 The student will compare and contrast a group of items based on the attributes or actions of each item, with or without a computing device.Mathematics: 2.13 The student will identify, describe, compare, and contrast plane and solid figures (circles/spheres, squares/cubes, and rectangles/rectangular prisms). After a whole group review students will create a digital digram or video comparing and contrasting plane and solid figures. 

This lesson is part of the Virginia K-12 Computer Science Pipeline which is partly funded through a GO Virginia grant in partnership with Chesapeake Public Schools, Loudoun County Public Schools, and the Loudoun Education Foundation.  During this lesson, students will explore contact and noncontact forces. 

This lesson reviews citizenship expectations as students effectively communicate in small groups and the whole-class setting to prepare for a trip to the Science Museum! Students analyze and sort behaviors into categories, based on the attributes or actions described while reviewing vocabulary critical to a museum visit. Special thanks to the Science Museum of Western Virginia and the Center for Educational Networks and Impacts at Virginia Tech for their advisement and resource contribution to this lesson. 

Students will create flowers using polygons with 3-10 sides, classify and arrange them, based on different attributes (SOL CS 4.5).  This activity would be done with 4th graders,  but it could be modified for 3rd or 5th grades. The students would work both individually and collaboratively.