Students will create a flowchart showing the evolution of a specific technology including failed attempts at advancement. This task includes research and understanding the iterative process. Easily differentiated. 

This lesson plan explores Artificial Intelligence using Teachable Machine, a program that uses images and sounds to create machine models. 

This is a game from Gamilab where the player navigates across a map by answering questions related to the CS standard 5.16 regarding ethical online communications and cyberbullying.

With advances in AI, it is more important than ever that we consider how humans and computers will interact. How do you want the robots of the future to behave towards you and others? For this activity, students will make a “robot zine” where they will sketch an original robot design, identify how their robot will sense the world around it and write a code of conduct to describe how their robot will interact with humans.

This CS Student Journal uses Essential Questions from the CS SOL Curriculum Framework for Grade 5.

This slideshow reviews what Cyberbullying is and a few things that victims and people around them can do to deal with it.

Vocabulary posters for the Data & Analysis strand for Grade 5. Words included are from the 2017 Computer Science Curriculum Framework.

Vocabulary posters for the Impacts of Computing strand for Grade 5. Words included are from the 2017 Computer Science Curriculum Framework.

This slideshow can be used as a lesson starter about how computers have influenced changes at home. It could be utilized as a whole class activity or as an individual assignment. 

Students easily identify appropriate and inappropriate online behaviors. This lesson empowers students to collaborate while reviewing strategies to disengage or react when interactions become uncomfortable and potentially unsafe. 

A lesson plan complete with a video and STEM activity to help students identify the usefullness of Artificial Intelligence with the use of everyday tools. 

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

5.14  The student will give examples and explain how computer science had changed the world and express how computing technologies influence, and are influenced by, cultural practices.Students will research native Americans and their use of technologies on reservations. They will then answer the following questions: What are some of the technologies being used on the reservations?What are technologies native Americans need better access to?Think of a way to help this technological divide with native peoples.

Play a technology enhanced version of the classic telephone game. Use a discussion board to post the the message, then compare it to the original. 

The students will utilize Tinkercad to create models about science concepts (e.g. SOL 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 5.7)