Information Technology is a broad field to learn about. Within IT there are many careers. This lesson is designed to help engage the students in the IT field where they will be able to research and discover various jobs they are interested in. Students will discover the education requirments, possible benefits of different jobs, salary, hiring demad, and growth potential in the field.The activities include: brainstorming, compare and contrast, research, writing,  and using software either in Google or Microsoft.

The lessons included in the attached Google Slides incorporate standards from Computer Science, Math, Language Arts, and Physical Education. The lessons all focus on conditional statements (IF, THEN, ELSE) and can easily be adapted to fit any grade from kindergarten to fifth grade. 

Engage students in a discussion about the definition of failure and why so many people are afraid of it using Theodore Roosevelt's Man in the Arena speech from 1910.

Learning Objectives: Analyze primary and secondary sources to construct a biography and context for an author's writing. Identify text-based examples of craft, perspective, and other literary elements. Construct a position on whether materials outside of the texts, such as biographies and letters, should influence the way readers understand Poe's texts (and, by implication, any artist's work). 

Learning Objectives: Analyze primary and secondary sources to construct a biography and context for an author's writing. Identify text-based examples of craft, perspective, and other literary elements. Construct a position on whether materials outside of the texts, such as biographies and letters, should influence the way readers understand Poe's texts (and, by implication, any artist's work). Original lesson: https://goopenva.org/courseware/lesson/106/overview

This resource provides ideas for how students can engage with a variety of sources that tackle controversial issues as they work to consider and support their own opinion. It provides scaffolding for the original resource from which it is remixed to help students prepare to write an argument essay on a controversial topic.