This is an unplugged worksheet activity to walk students through the process of building strong, easy to remember, passwords.

This slideshow will help students to identify and use strong passwords, and explain why strong passwords should be used (e.g., protect name, address, and telephone number). It walks students through a process that can be used to create strong, easy to remember, passwords.

One of the fundamental computer science concepts is that everything we do on a computer is really just turning binary digits on and off. Even though this sounds simple, it can be a concept that is hard to wrap one's head around. This activity brings the binary concept to reality through the creation of binary bracelets or bookmarks.

Every day our privacy is at risk with data being collected about us as we share and live more of our lives online. For this activity, you will explore how you do and do not protect your privacy online and then create a security avatar to help you battle for your privacy.

Students will understand digital citizenship and the role they play as digital citizens.

Create an American Revolution adventure story with your class! Students will be able to step back into time and think of the various perspectives of the American Revolution by creating scenarios the different characters might have gone through.

Students will be competing to win a “grant.” Students will be creating a Canva presentation about what battle of the Civil War was the most important. Students should include important dates, people, and details about the specific battle. The students will use a planning paper prior to starting their presentation to create a step-by-step plan for their presentation. Their presentation should give clear information (dates, people, and details) about why the battle site they chose is the most important battle of the Civil War. Students will share the load in their project and split tasks among group members. Each group will be assessed with a rubric.

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.