“Into the Cloud” is an animated digital safety web series intended for children ages
10 and under. Season 1 focuses on issues including cyberbullying, online privacy,
online distractions, misleading information, and inappropriate online behavior.
Season 2 tackles livestreaming and gaming and dives deeper into the issue of inappropriate
online behavior and the potential consequences and dangers lurking online.
The following activities are meant to be led by mature middle and high school students acting in a
mentorship role with a younger student. They are best practiced in a 1:1 or small group setting. This format
fosters closer relationship building between the students and their mentors and encourages more honest and
open conversations.
Facilitating these activities with younger children may count towards community or school service hours,
check with your program coordinator for more information. Each activity may take between 30 minutes and
1 hour.
NOTE: Activities marked with Ages 8+ are best conducted with children who are at least 8 years old.
All videos are available on YouTube or on the kid-safe site NetSmartzKids.org/videos.

This Renaissance Essentials Sheet provides a solid review for students of the main ideas of the Renaissance. Though it is designed for World History II, it can easily be adapted to be used in World History I.

Choice board for elementary aged students with a variety of wellness and academic/career activities.

SERI found "SER" to be one of the most difficult things for students to remember. However, this mnemonic has become one of my most popular lessons. Students remember and use them all the time after they have learned it this way.The first form is your teacher notes with all the answers. It will help you lead them and understand the lesson.  The second one is the student form they would fill it in as you lead them in. Normally, after I present this lesson. I ask students to write sentences about them using all the functions of “SER”. Then about their parents.  I modeled on myself first. Then I ask them to come to the front of the class and read their examples. 

Here is a simple lab report that can be used in any science class (6-12). The report is designed to help students identify hypotheses, independent and dependent variables, controls, constants, and to analyze experiments. I have also included tips on a simple way to teach your students to identify the IV and DV through a "cave man hypothesis" and how to teach controls with less confusion.

This is a resource that is used to explain the appropriate use of Social Media for students.

The student may use this image as a resource to explore and discover the nine (simplified) tasks of a computer's operating system.A teacher can use this image as a poster, or an image to use within their own created instructional materials.  The teacher could also print this as an interactive notebook resource to glue/insert into the students' notebooks/binders.

In this Thematic Exploration, students will explore the different ways artists represent individuals in portraits. They will learn to gather clues about the time period in which the portrait was created, the lives of the subjects, and the thoughts of the artists.

Using portraits from the VMFA's collection, students will explore the Who, What, When, Where, and Why of portraiture. Guiding questions are woven throughout the activity, alongside a close examination of seven different portraits from a variety of different eras and cultures. Students are encouraged to observe, interpret, analyze, and reflect thoughtfully in each step. This activity also includes summative reflection questions to wrap up the conversation, as well as an optional "Create Your Own Portrait" activity.

Refugee and asylee students face unique challenges in their quests to obtain postsecondary education. This tip sheet provides answers to pressing questions that can assist refugee and asylee students in determining if enrollment in postsecondary education is possible.

Undocumented students face unique challenges in their quest to obtain postsecondary education. This tip sheet is designed to help this population with some of the pressing questions they have while contemplating whether or not they can enroll in school.

This resource is a quick reference guide for students as they develop body paragraphs in response to persuasive writing tasks, such as the Writing SOL Short Paper. The resource includes various strategies that students can use for elaborating on ideas and exemplar paragraphs based on a released SOL prompt.

A link to released SOL prompts is provided to allow students to practice. An alternative pdf is also provided for students who may be benefit from simplified directions and language in the model paragraphs.

This resource is a quick reference guide for students as they craft effective introduction paragraphs in response to persuasive writing tasks, such as the Writing SOL Short Paper. The resource includes essential components, stylistic options, guiding questions, and an exemplar paragraph based on a released SOL prompt. The suggestions have been revised, and the model's language has been simplified. In addition, an interactive component is included as well as a suggestion for practice with released SOL EOC writing prompts.

This resource is a quick reference guide for students as they use effective conclusion strategies while crafting essays in response to persuasive writing tasks, such as the Writing SOL Short Paper. The resource includes various strategies that students can deploy when concluding an essay and an exemplar paragraph based on a released SOL prompt.

This resource is a quick reference guide for students as they use effective conclusion strategies while crafting essays in response to persuasive writing tasks, such as the Writing SOL Short Paper. The resource includes various strategies that students can deploy when concluding an essay and an exemplar paragraph based on a released SOL prompt.

This site is a guide intended to help people use (or teach others to use) Twine. Twine is a tool for creating websites, but instead of the website being about a topic, or hosting a storefront, or containing blog posts, Twine websites tell stories.

Networking and the Internet4.18 The student will identify and explain different ways information can be transmitted using computing devices via a network (e.g., email, images, and videos).This informational sheet includes examples of communication that can be transmitted across networks and gives students an opportunity for small group discussion.Please download the PDF

In this lesson, students will explore how information travels through a computer. Students will be able to label and explain the function of an input device, processor, and output device.  This lesson includes several interactive activities including a computing system sort, interactive video notes, and a review foldable.

This slideshow is intended for Pre K and Kindergarten teachers  for  introducing students to technology vocabulary.The slides include a bried definition and images to support learning.

Entomologist Dr. Art Evans and VPM radio producer Steve Clark co-host What’s Bugging You? Their engaging, wide-ranging, and humorous explorations into the world of insects and entomology are presented as an animated series. It leans into the crazy, fun, and hilarious aspects of the insect world. It asks the question of when is a bug a true bug. How do I find those insects hiding in plain sight? What in the world is a booger beetle and a fecal shield? All these answers and more are uncovered in the new videos through artfully illustrated and accurate depictions of insects and their surroundings.

Each video captures the look of a field notebook, with handwritten observations and illustrations. Inspired by entomologists' collections, animator David Vinson shares, “I wanted the labels to have typewritten and handwritten text like you would see in a case of pinned insect specimens with notes and scientific names. As for the insects themselves, I wanted them to have the illustrative quality of a field guide. Even though it was all created digitally, I still wanted it to look like the elements could have been made by hand.”

Whether you love insects or you just don’t know you love them yet, we think you’ll enjoy this series. Not only is it fun, gross, weird, and strange, but it’s also educational and entertaining. You’ll learn more about the insects that are all around us as you stop and wonder “what’s bugging you?”