Students will use their knowledge of famous Americans to create a “strong password.” They will then write a password for their given person using invisible ink.

The students will collaboratively create a dance using the Dance Party Hour of Code Activity.

Students will be given bar graphs and  pie charts.  They will need to match the correct bar chart with the pie chart.  The pie charts are fraction representations of the bar graphs. Pie charts and length models broken into halves, thirds, fourths, sixths, and eighths are provided to help students see the fractional models.  All items are provided online. There are a total of 4 different models: Favorite Animal, Favorite Color, Favorite Food, and Favorite Fruit

This slideshow reviews what Cyberbullying is and a few things that victims and people around them can do to deal with it.

Students will listen to the story Two Bad Ants by Chris Van Allsburg and use clues from the text to draw conclusions about the events of the story. Students will create a storyboard to represent the events of the story and use their storyboard to construct a program to sequence Two Bad Ants.

Students will create a “social media post” to communicate something they want to barter. After learning what it means to barter, each student will be given a mystery bag (each containing different items). They will be told they have to barter at least one thing in their bag. They will draw/create an “Instagram post” with what they want to barter. We will then display them and students will walk around and view the posts. After viewing they will each get 2 hearts to place on items “like” and they would like to exchange in the barter. Students will then discuss with one another and barter until everyone has bartered one thing.

This lesson is part of the Virginia K-12 Computer Science Pipeline which is partly funded through a GO Virginia grant in partnership with Chesapeake Public Schools, Loudoun County Public Schools, and the Loudoun Education Foundation.  During this lesson, students will investigate the effect of water on surfaces as well as on a structural model they create.  

This is a list of basic vocabulary with definitions and/or examples that will be used in elementary classrooms K-5 when teaching the concepts of algorithms and programming. 

Binary is a way of representing information using only two options.Binary uses a series of 0 and 1 to represent information. In this activity, students will use a chart that converts binary numbers to alphabetic characters. This activity incorporates decoding of binary code into letters to answer questions related to energy and motion.

This lesson teaches students how to use the correct terminology when encountering a computer problem.

Events in computer science are the triggers for making action happen, like selecting the play button on any screen. Events in Scratch Jr. are represented by the yellow codes including: the green flag, clicking on a character, bump code and envelopes. The envelopes are the most advanced concept in Scratch Jr. and help with scene transitions and interactions between characters like pacing their conversations.

Students will explore the continents and oceans by using playdough maps, felt  maps, and coloring to help them locate and remember their locations.

This fidget book was designed to be used in digital citizenship and internet safety lessons for elementary students. It has lesson supports, coloring pages, self-reflection guides and more. 

Students will construct and analyze data from a Skittle bag in bar graphs.

This cut-and-sort handout allows students to analyze items that are or are not examples of technology.
Technology is explained as anything made by people to help us.
Pictured items to sort include:
- scissors, pencil, glue, cell phone, laptop, desktop computer, people, tree, flower, vegetables, dog, sun

This lesson is best used with the slides found at https://goopenva.org/courses/what-is-technology.
The document provides an answer key and links to the slides, teacher lesson plan to accompany the slides, and additional resources. However, this handout can be used as a stand alone activity as well.

Students interact with Scratch to review continents and oceans. Students edit a Scratch template to begin to explore code. 

Set students up for programming success by creating a BeeBot anchor chart!These editable instructions will help students identify their role as planner or driver and set clear expectations of how Bee-Bot is used in computer programming. Tips:Introduce Bee-Bot whole classMake sure students understand the importance of the clear (x) button to erase the previous codealways press clear first to signal a new code (like how a capital letter signals the start of a new sentence) Plan the program in developmentally appropriate steps (some students program one step at a time, while others can program to the end goal)Turn the Bee-Bot off and use it as a game piece to write successful algorithmsHave students write their plan, or algorithm, on a whiteboard instead of using the cardsThe Bee-Bot emulator is perfect for guided practice!   

The students are not being efficient when they get materials or move around the classroom, so they are wasting learning time.  Students will design a sequence of steps, or program,  to move the student to their destination without using extra steps.

This is a data collection, prediction, and graphing activity using three flavors of ice cream as the subject. It is a ready-made lesson with a Google Slideshow that has all of the activities built into it.