Would you like students to see how data analysis works in real life?  Using Gas Laws and Google Sheets students will definitely use their critical thinking skills to answer some questions and potentially manipulate their own created data!

Students will process the quality of data used in campaign ads by identifying the nature and uses of language and imagery to become aware of how candidates use words and images to influence viewer opinion and verifying information by fact checking and determining if information has been mischaracterized.

Students will be using Google scholar and learning ways to research using these technology topics.

How do you think screen-related distractions affect your productivity? How can we investigate this? In this lesson, we will design an investigation to answer this question. We will collect and analyze data to give us a better understanding of our experience.

Students will examine the impact of technology on elections and the spread of information.  Concepts include Deepfakes, chatbots, AI and fact checking. 

Students are given a visual arts project to create a Mixed Media Anatomy artwork where they must decompose the process of completing the project into sub-components. Students will create prototypes (sketches) and will conduct the project as an iterative design by taking daily progress photos, making adjustments to the original design, and having peer feedback.   

Students will apply computational thinking to address the real-life problem of not knowing who to vote for president by decomposing their political ideology into “personal” and “economic” subcomponents and start self-reflecting on political issues so they cast a vote for the candidate and his/her platform that most aligns with their beliefs as opposed to basing it on propaganda and/or voting for a candidate who doesn’t agree with them on specific issues (an uninformed vote).

Students will learn about abstraction by building a model computer and then breaking a classic story down into simple components. 

Students will apply computing systems by interacting with electoral maps that communicate and process information in digital form to gain an understanding of how the electoral college works and selects the president of the United States. 

Students will learn about algorithms and programming at a basic level and use playdough and microbits to review information about the planets that they have learned.  Students will code using block coding and iterative design to debug their code.  Students will use data, lists, and arrays as well. Students will follow an outlined algorithm to correctly construct the planets to scale using rulers and play dough.

Incorporate some computer science ideas into a scientific abstraction of the four spheres of Earth!  This lesson has opportunities for visible learning include sketching in their notes, quick writes, and a jigsaw.  The students will apply the idea of classifying items into the four spheres in the real world by taking a short walk outside.

Students will formulate questions that require the acquisition of data. They will collect data and display it in histograms.

Computer Abstraction seems to be a difficult concept along with Translating mRNA into Proteins. Why not use one to help explain the other and how important both are in our everyday life, and in living.  This lesson comes with a Slide Deck and a worksheet that will help students understand both topics and has options hands-on kits and extension activities to drive the points home.

Using data analysis to determine whether countries are developed or developing. Useful for World Geography SOL review.

This is a hands on lesson to get students up and moving while also learning about calculating quadratic regressions.  It incorporates techology such as DESMOS and/or CODAP to get students comfortable with these programs and loooking at data in different ways.

This activity is from the Cyber.org website and covers the topic of the German Enigma Encryption machine that was used during World War II. Students will learn about how the Enigma machine worked and the process it used to encrypt messages. Students will be able to create their own Enigma machine using a normal size Pringles can and the activity sheet in PDF format. This is a great way to teach the concepts of encryption and a low cost way to give students a hands on approach to encrypting and decrypting messages.Ideas on how to use this activity would be to give the students a message to encrypt using their Pringles can Enigma machine or having students send an encrypted message to a classmate with the encryption key and have that student decrypt the message. To show the power of this type of encryption you can have other students try to decrypt the message without the key so they can see how difficult it would have been to crack the code during World War II.Link to the Cyber.org website for this activity

This activity will show the sorting process using the Quick Sort Divide and Conquer algorithm that is used by a computer when sorting data without using a computer.

Sensors are part of most modern day technologies. They are integrated into our vehicles, appliances, buildings, and phones. Touch sensors trigger doors to open, motion sensors detect moving vehicles or pedestrians, and heat sensors supply an extra level of safety to our stoves. Sensors are integral to how we interact with technology and are becoming more common in the systems around us.In this lesson, students will explore some of the sensors used in transportation. They will make their own touch sensor and program a sign to display a message or warning when their sensor is triggered.

This activity is designed to help review terms that help distinguish Security and Usability Trade-offs

This lesson introduces 9-12 grade students to the tuple data type using Python. Students will learn what tuples are and how to create and use them.