Students will be able to explore the water cycle, by getting hands-on experience making the water cycle !  Using the examples, the students will be able to use various materials to practice creating a water cycle.  Dive into water cycles and allow your students access to expand their knowledge using creativity!

Students will be able to explore the different continents by correctly locating them through various materials!  Using the medicine ball, puzzle globe, and 3d doodler pens, students will engage in an exciting activity that helps them understand the location of the different continents.  Dive into the different continents and allow your students access to expand their knowledge using creativity! 

Students become authors as they use technology to create an ebook to share with their classmates. Students chose the life cycle of a flowering plant, frog, or butterfly. They review with hands-on resources and peer collaboration. They then use their ipad with the app “Book Creator” to create a book using real life pictures!

Students will be able to explore matter, by getting hands-on experience experimenting with salt, sugar, sand, color changing beads, and hot and cold water.!  Using the materials, the students will be able to use various materials to practice how objects interact with water..  Dive into matters and allow your students access to expand their knowledge using information that is transmitted using computing devices, because the students will record themselves discussing their results from their experiment to share with their classmates.

Students will be split into groups to create materials and items that belong to their assigned Native American tribe. While in groups they will collaborate with one another in each of them making an item that belongs to their assigned tribe. The teacher will be able to access the groups understand of their tribe based on their groups representation of their assigned tribe. 

Students will use Spheros to explore the force and energy of moving objects.  This lesson is appropriate for students and teachers with little to no experience with coding. Students will evaluate a single line of programming that directs the Sphero to move and test to see if they correctly anticipated the results.  Students will bowl down "pins" by programming the Sphero. Students will experiment with changing variables and discuss how that changes the motion.

1st grade students often struggle to relate to the experiences of others, to help them empathize with how obstacles make it harder to reach goals, they will work together to build towers out of various types of building toys. Each group will have an obstacle they must overcome, just like Maggie L. Walker overcame her obstacles and became a wonderful example of a good citizen! Students will learn and explore how to be a good digital citizen using internet safety. 

Students will dive into the world of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and explore how it can be used to create a personal wellness plan. They will compare an AI generated plan with those created using the MyPlate widget, a familiar nutritional tool. Through the use of a Venn diagram, students will visualize the differences between the two plans, sparking curiosity  and discussion about the power and limitations of AI in everyday life.