Students will develop a website to gain and provide an awareness of the emerging technologies and careers related to the internet in today’s world, through research and group presentations of the website(s).
The goal of this activity is to solidify students' understanding of functions: Input/Independent Variable/Domain → Output/Dependent Variable/Range in math and relate that to functions in CS.
Students will create a program using Sphero Bolts to demonstrate how energy moves through a food web. They will explain the interactions between different organisms and how energy is transferred in a biological community.
Games have been an integral part of human culture throughout history. They not only entertain, but also inform and change us. Today video games designers bring together art & code to immerse their players in a story. There are video games being created to solve real-world problems and video game players solving scientific mysteries.
Vocabulary posters for the Alogrithms & Programming strand for Grade 7. Words included are from the 2017 Computer Science Curriculum Framework.
Vocabulary posters for the Computing Systems strand for Grade 7. Words included are from the 2017 Computer Science Curriculum Framework.
Vocabulary posters for the Cybersecurity strand for Grade 7. Words included are from the 2017 Computer Science Curriculum Framework.
Vocabulary posters for the Data & Analysis strand for Grade 7. Words included are from the 2017 Computer Science Curriculum Framework.
Vocabulary posters for the Impacts of Computing strand for Grade 7. Words included are from the 2017 Computer Science Curriculum Framework.
Vocabulary posters for the Networks & the Internet strand for Grade 7. Words included are from the 2017 Computer Science Curriculum Framework.
This resource is a fill-in-the-blank notes set is for Grade 7 Computing Systems & Networking and the Internet strands. The information is taken directly from the Curriculum Framework's context of the standard. Answer key included.
This lesson integrates computer science through discovering graphing on a coordinate plane for 6th graders all the way to a review for 8th graders with extensions that include slope.
Have you ever imagined what life would be like if you only could see and feel the sun once every seven years? How would you feel if you were alienated and ostracized because you are the only child on planet Venus who has memory of the sun. These are questions generated after reading Ray Bradbury’s All Summer in A Day. Students were asked to create an invention/concept that would assist the protagonist with their aforementioned conflicts. They created wonderful concept inventions by using the library makerspace which included Little Bits!
Students will watch a teacher selected Apple advertisement/video and then identify the various Apple products mentioned in the ad. Students will then discuss how technology has changed the US marketplace and how the advertisement reflects the values of American culture. After discussing the current use of technology in the workplace, students will collaborate and hypothesize what the future of technology and American culture is based on current trends. Essential vocabulary: culture, technology, automation.
Students will watch a teacher selected Apple advertisement/video and then identify the various Apple products mentioned in the ad. Students will then discuss how technology has changed the US marketplace and how the advertisement reflects the values of American culture. After discussing the current use of technology in the workplace, students will collaborate and hypothesize what the future of technology and American culture is based on current trends. Essential vocabulary: culture, technology, automation.
This activity will serve as a warm-up and review for the different impacts of cybersecurity incidents on both businesses and individuals.
Passwords are crucual in our world today. They give us a simple measure to protect ourselves and our information online. This lesson provides an intro into cybersecurity and its vocabulary, as well as incorporates independent, partner, and whole group learning activities to determine what is a strong password and how to create it. All activities are low prep and can be modified to your needs.
American performer Josephine Baker used her star-status access to spy for the Allies in WWII and convey information to the Allies by using invisible ink on her sheet music. We’ll look at a few methods that can be used to hide messages “in plain sight”?
In this lesson the concept of a list (sorted and unsorted) and sorting algorithms will be explored.
The students will copy and paste code snippets from Google Slides and run them on Replit. After students run the code, they will screenshot the images created using "import Turtle", a graphics program within Python. These screenshots will be used as a digital greeting card and students will practice composing emails. Lastly, students send/email their created digital artifacts to three of their friends or family members to wish them a "Happy New Year".*The image attached is just a sample and may or may not be what this lessons code creates.