Can you see how far you can catapult a Pom Pom? I want to see! We are going to be building a catapult from scratch. Your goal is to see if you can catapult your Pom Pom at least 3 feet. 

How many food chains are there within this ecosystem? Let’s create some to find out! You will have 5 minutes to create as many food chains as you can with your partner. Please record your food chains on a sheet of paper as you go.

Technology has not just changed over time.  It has changed the way citizens live their lives.  This lesson will describe responsible behaviors that are associated with using information and technology.

Want to learn about how to describe matter and sort as well as learn about impacts of computing at the kindergarten level?  If so, this fun and easy lesson is for you! 

Students will create an interactive display that classifies animal adaptations via tools such as Google Slides or Jamboard. They will use technological tools to research information about the given animals/adaptations and to create their display.

This resource is a comprehensive unit of instruction created and piloted by the ACSE Region III team over the 2022-23 school year. This unit, which is accessible through multiple links to include worksheets, slidedecks, teacher suggestions and planning documents, includes all components of the instruction with SOL connections and is intended to join Computer Science standards to an ELA content area.

The student will apply social science skills to understand the factors that shaped Colonial America by describing colonial life in America from the perspectives of large landowners, farmers, artisans, merchants, women, free African Americans, indentured servants, and enslaved African Americans, by creating a computational artifact.

This is a performance task where students act as a software engineer to create an algorithm for a robotic process of an everyday activity.  Students cooperatively test and revise their algorithms and the have another team sucessfuly complete their algorithm as well.    

Students will categorize attribute blocks based on their color, thickness and/or size. Optionally, connections to categorizing will be related to robots (e.g. looks, motions, sounds) and coding.

BeeBots are an engaging, hands-on way to introduce sequencing, algorithms, programming and debugging to primary and elementary students. In this introductory activity, information will be presented in a clear and concise way so that students can collaborate to plan, create, and run a program. Students will correct through debugging as necessary. The attached resource includes vocabulary and tips for using BeeBot with students. 

Students will understand the importance of telling stories in order both verbally and with a graphic organizer.

Students will understand digital citizenship and the role they play as digital citizens.

Spice things up with students by programming BeeBot to go to specific numbers as a way to reinforce multiples and common factors.  Activity cards, a brief overview, and a student planning sheet are included. 

Observe how computer networks function and make connections to the different ways we communicate (both in written form and modern forms). The students will discuss, in a whole class setting, how information can be communicated electronically and transmitted using computing devices via a network (e.g., email, social media, video conferencing, blogging).

In this activity, students and teachers are able to sort components of a computer into 4 categories: input, output, process, and store (memory).
Reinforcing the ability to drag and drop, learners are able to identify and begin developing the purpose of each categorized component.

This activity complements the book Hello Ruby: Journey Inside the Computer by Linda Liukas and was remixed with permission from the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) Computer Science Team.

Key concepts include:
mouse
keyboard
printer
microphone
headphones
monitor
controller
camera
temperature sensor
3-D printer
CPU
GPU
ROM
RAM
Hard Drive
Input
Output
Memory
Process

Students will explore computing parts and use oral language and content area vocabulary to describe items, then write a descriptive sentence to describe a technology problem.

Students will be challenged with researching various problems that may occur with hardware and software for computer usage and then turn their research into posters for the class to use later if they have a problem occur past our lesson.

How can we use technology in Algebra? How can we change technology to fit our needs?

Students will work in groups to plan the process they will use to first determine the perimeter and then the area of a rectangle. Students will write out a detailed step by step process that can be used in different situations.