Resources from Region 8, Advancing Computer Science Education grant
The student will learn parts of a computer by exploration and creating their own computer.
Students will be creating a timeline outlining the important dates, events, and people tied to the beginning/formation of colonial Virginia all the way up until the Revolutionary War.
Students will create their own PSA on computer science, highlighting impacts of computing and a data-related career (e.g. data analyst, data scientist, data engineer, data architect).
Students will work cooperatively to design a paper airplane and collect data, then record and analyze the data using a computer.
Creating, correcting, extending and growing a repeating pattern.
The students will learn about plagiarism, identify plagiarism, and the importance of giving credit for using others' work.
From Common Sense Education: “The Internet is filled with all kinds of interesting people, but sometimes, some of them can be mean to each other. With this role play, students understand why it’s often easier to be mean online than in person, and how to deal with online meanness when they see it.”
Create different quadrilaterals using the geoboard and use these shapes to show how information can be transmitted in different ways via a network.
Students will use knowledge of cycles, specifically the water cycle, to connect to the function of programming loops.
Students will publish a class website about visiting a country after completing research on the internet. Students will use a variety of resources to explore how we stay connected globally, as well as look at how technology has changed the way information is shared around the world. Students will describe how their website might be viewed or accessed around the globe and how it might impact those who see it.
Students will review the continents, oceans, and Cardinal directions by traveling across the world using BeeBots (i.e., robots) or grid paper. Students will plan routes to get from one continent to another by making a step-by-step description.
Students will use Google Forms to organize, analyze, and manipulate data.
The students will utilize Tinkercad to create models about science concepts (e.g. SOL 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 5.7)
The class will collect data, make a graph (digital and paper), and interpret outcomes to answer questions.
Students will plan out their family’s vacation to visit important water features in Virginia, then write a fiction story about their vacation.
In this lesson students will understand that their name, home address, and their phone number is personal information. Students will also understand that they should not share this personal information with anyone online as well as strangers and why this is so important.
Students will explore the visible spectrum by observing how different amounts of colors can affect the appearance of light.
Students will create a fictional story using a graphic organizer to plan details by breaking the story down into smaller parts before writing.
The student will write a step by step list and begin to practice/understand sequencing and order of events.