Spice things up with students by programming BeeBot to go to specific numbers as a way to reinforce multiples and common factors.  Activity cards, a brief overview, and a student planning sheet are included. 

Communication has changed over time. The methods we use to connect with family and friends have moved from letter writing and postcards to social media posts and text messages. the way we acquire news has gotten faster and more widely available. News channels on television, news apps, and social media have allowed news to be shared instantly and to a broader audience.Our modern methods of communication have reached new heights. In an instant news is shared around the world. We are able to respond to emergenices faster, and share ideas with more people.Technology has opened up more outlets for communication. 

This Quizlet Study Set contains Elementary (K-5) vocabulary from the "Computing Systems" strand of the Virginia Standards of Learning for Computer Science. Students can study the terms with flashcards or try the games to test their knowledge. 

This Quizlet Study Set contains Elementary (K-5) vocabulary from the "Networking and the Internet" strand of the Virginia Standards of Learning for Computer Science. Students can study the flashcards and play games to test themselves on the terms.

The following resources is a link that will allow the user to play a matching game from Flippity.net using the vocabulary words from the Comptuer Science SOL 4.18-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 game created on Baamboozle is comprised of fill-in-the blank and true or false questions from the vocabulary and essential knowledge of the Computer Science SOL 4.4.

The student (grades 4-7) will read the article and determine the purposes of each of the nine (simplified) tasks of a computer's operating system.  This can be an independent, small group, or whole group activity.

This unit is geared toward students in 4th grade.  This lesson has students identify why passwords are important and how we can create and remember strong passwords that keep our information safe while online.  There are mutltiple resources with this lesson including the lesson plan, a slides presentation to guide the lesson, and interactive video guide, and finally a password practice sheet.  This lesson could be divided up over multiple days and can also be differentiated to different age students.

Students will explore Virginia and its border states (Maryland, Kentucky, West Virginia, Tennessee, and North Carolina) then pick one of them to look at data of the monthly average high and low temperatures. Students will collect the data and use it to create a graph in Google Sheets. The graph will have correct titles and labeling. Students will also learn to predict as well as compare and contrast. This lesson integrates well into Social Studies, Math, Language Arts, Science and Computer Science.

Unplugged activites to help students realize algorithms are simply patterns that we use in our daily lives. 

 This lesson plan contains research links and a "How to Video" to help guide students through researching plants and animals native to Virginia. 

Students will research one of the seven federally recognized tribes of Native Americans in Virginia to identify local features of the land, their language, the region of Virginia where they originally lived, where the tribal lands are today, and how they interacted with their environment. From this research, the student groups will design a visualization of this data using a poster, online design tool, or a presentation. Student groups will present their information to each other, and the classroom will design a chart to find similarities and differences between the tribes.

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

Computers use sorting to direct information across a network. This activity is a simulated representation of how a computer might sort information through a network.  Students will compare decimals and place them in boxes along the guiding arrows. Each box will contain 2 decimals. Students are to compare the two decimals in each box, then move the greater decimal forward to the next box on the right, The lesser decimal will be moved to the next box on the left. Each time the decimals are moved forward, the decimals in the boxes are compared and then moved to the appropriate box according to the rule (lesser: left, greater: right).Once each number has been moved to the circles at the top of end of the sort, the decimals should be in order from least to greatest. This is a variation of the activity foud here: https://www.csunplugged.org/en/resources/sorting-network/ 

This is an introductory lesson on encryption and decryption. It includes a discussion about the importance of protecting data when communicating across a network. The data is protected through a process of encryption and decryption.Students are asked to decrypt a message (in this case, a scientific fact to reinforce knowledge ) using the encrypted message and a decryption key.

The student will use the present mode in slides to play a game about digital citizenship and good social media choices individually or in small groups (or with partners). 

This lesson allows students to create a slideshow presentation about digital citizenship. The slideshow will focus on interacting with others online.This lesson involves the design process witht the creation of a slideshow. Students will choose from a list of Digital Citizen rules to focus on in their slideshow.Focus on concepts such as :Being Polite, Following Website Rules, Staying Positive, Being Respectful are to be included in the slideshow.Each slideshow should include a title slde and at least 4 additional slides.