Near? Far? Above? Below? Kindergartners and robots work together to discover the location of people, places, and things!

Near? Far? Above? Below? Kindergartners work together to discover the location of woodland creatures and days of the week.

Use pirate maps and treasure to explore basic map concepts – and responsible behaviors associated with using information and technology!

Let’s bake a fall treat for your littles to eat!  This activity supports step-by-step instructions using sequential graphic organizers and will use their five senses to find, take in, and react to or respond to different information.   

This sorting activity allows the students to explore several hands-on tasks that will encourage the students to use critical thinking skills to categorize and logically sort items by one or more attributes.

Modern technology can make tasks happen instantly with the push of a button or a swipe of a finger. How do our community helpers use this technology responsibly to make their jobs easier and more efficient?

“Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly”. - Old English ProverbStudents will observe the world of the butterfly through hands-on activities and learn about its amazing journey from a tiny egg to a beautiful butterfly.  Your students will investigate and understand the sequential order of the butterfly’s life cycle.

This lesson on keeping personal information safe includes a video and a decision making chart.  Help students understand what is and is not ok to share.

Grab your hard hat and tool belt for this lesson, exploring engineering and computer science with the scientific method.

Do you like to  troubleshoot and solve problems yourself?  This lesson will teach you to solve problems on your technology devices and to create cars by using troubleshooting and problem solving as well.

Problem solving can be so much fun when you are building cars!  Let’s learn to troubleshoot on our computers and use those skills to create a working, rolling, car!

We may not be jumping on the “Magic School Bus with Miss Frizzle” but thanks to the impact of technology in our classrooms, our students can use virtual glasses to expand the walls of our classroom. We can also use networking and the internet to communicate instantly through email with anyone in the world.

Take the “User Friendly” approach to increase your students' knowledge of computing systems with this simple and fun lesson. Students will be able to identify basic computer components, compare hardware vs software, and troubleshoot simple problems when using their tablets.

Children are always taught “not to play with their food” but in this sensory lesson, that’s exactly what we are going to do.  We are going to use our five senses to explore some healthy fruits. We are going to learn how to gather, use and analyze our data to answer questions.

This lesson offers a fun, hands-on approach to teaching students about the importance of creating strong passwords in a real life setting.

Engaging activities to support kindergarten graphing.

Students get a hands-on approach to identifying a problem and working through steps to create a solution.

Students will program the teacher (robot) to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. This will provide an opportunity for students to learn that robots (and computers) need to follow very specific instructions to work correctly. This lesson could then be extended into letting the students try to create algorithms for daily classroom routines or any other step by step process.

Students will learn the basic parts of a desktop computer through the hands on building of an air dry clay model. Students will have to label the parts of the computer by placing toothpicks with small labels on them into the model at the appropriate place.