Students will create an artifact using computing systems to model the attributes and behaviors associated with a concept (e.g., day and night, animal life cycles, plant life cycles). Students are scientists (botanists, zoologists), who just found a new plant/animal in their chosen ecosystem. Their job is to introduce their new plant/animal to the scientific world! They will create a stop motion video to show their new plant/animal's life cycle.

This is a lesson plan based on the Computer Science standard, 2.12, where students will create a model. The students will visit a website first to see how a digital model looks and then will create their own digital models of the solar system by using Google Jamboard. 

Lesson Delivery: Students will collect weather data for a given city/town from a weather website to analyze and create a graph that displays the change in temperature over a time period (one or twq weeks). Useful Sites: Create a Graph: https://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/createagraph/Default.aspx Weather Data: https://www.weather.gov/wrh/climate

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 investigate the effect of water on surfaces as well as on a structural model they create.  

Interpret graphs and data collection to create a bar/chart graph in Google Slides.

Students will use Google Drawings to create a food chain as a review activity.  Students will need to create a food chain based on an ecosystem taught in class and label it with the correct vocabulary. This will allow students to demonstrate their understanding of a food chain, while incorporating technology.

This is a slideshow showing second graders how to model their own water cycle. 2.12 The student will create a model of a physical object or process in order to show relationships with or without a computing device (e.g., water cycle, butterfly life cycle, seasonal weather patterns).Models are used to represent a system (or parts of a system) under study, to aid in the development of questions and explanations, to generate data that can be used to make predictions, and to communicate ideas to others

Students will be creating models of the houses of the three American Indian Cultures. Using the Templates provided and the 3Doodlers you will be creating the shelter and other characteristics of the cultures. The 3Doodlers start+ are for ages as low as 6.  What better way to remember the types of houses than making them!

This lesson plan introduces SCRATCH based coding to help review the Solar System. Students will make a game for their peers to play. 

The website, "app.diagrams.net" is an outstanding site for school children to use for creating diagrams such as flowcharts, organizational charts, or sequencing diagrams.In computer science, websites like this are instrumental for artifact planning and creation which is found in multiple grades in the Algorithms and Programming and Data and Analysis strands.