This resource provides a unit of editable items on solving two-step and multi-step inequalities which cover SOLs 7.13 and 8.18. The resources can be used for a combined Math 7/8 curriculum or can be broken up by grade level and used in pieces
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Game, Homework/Assignment, Interactive, Lecture Notes, Lesson, Lesson Plan, Primary Source, Teaching/Learning Strategy
This resource provides a lesson of editable items on solving two-step inequalities which cover SOLs 7.13. The resources can be used for a Math 7 course, an accelerated math course that incorporates Math 7 standards, or as review for higher level content.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Homework/Assignment, Interactive, Lesson, Primary Source
This resource provides a lesson of editable items on solving inequalities with negative coefficients, which cover SOL 7.13. The resources can be used for a Math 7 course, an accelerated math course that incorporates Math 7 standards, or as review in preparation for Math 8 or higher-level content.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Homework/Assignment, Interactive, Lecture Notes, Lesson, Lesson Plan, Primary Source
This resource provides a lesson of editable items on solving Multi-step inequalities, including with practical problems, which covers SOL 8/18. The resources can be used for a Math 8 course, an accelerated math course that incorporates Math 8 standards, or as review in preparation for higher-level content.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Homework/Assignment, Interactive, Lecture Notes, Lesson, Lesson Plan
This resource includes all the materials you need to get started on curating, creating, and collaborating! What is an instructional playbook? The idea of an instructional playbook has caught fire since Jim Knight described it in The Impact Cycle (2017). Instructional Coaches have enormous potential to help teachers learn and implement new teaching practices, but coaches will be effective only if they deeply understand the strategies they describe and their explanations are clear.An instructional playbook is meant as a guiding document for coaching, training, and professional learning facilitated by ITRTs or instructional coaches. An instructional playbook should be digital and shared with all teachers. The Virginia Department of Education strongly recommends that the instructional playbook be a collaborative document that is shared and evaluated by the administrative team and with the insights of teachers and other school professionals. Additionally, the document should be updated for changes in best practices, updates to available digital resources, and revisions addressing the dynamic nature of the school community.
Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy
This lesson is intended to review 6th-grade content on watersheds, estuaries, and wetlands. It also introduces abiotic and biotic factors of ecosystems found in VA's Watershed. Students investigate the Chesapeake Bay using several resources with a pre-assessment, video clips, current article links, post-assessment, final evaluation, and rubric. A student sheet, teacher key, and google slide were created to use for face-to-face teaching or virtual learning. Click on the attached to access the folder.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
Students will create an informational poster, collage, slide show, cartoon, or video clip of a specific ecosystem in our watershed. Requirements are as follows:pick a specific tributary, estuary, or wetland. show at least 4 abiotic and 4 biotic factors plus the location that you choseinclude 4 or more pictures to help show the parts of the ecosystem. cite the sources with the website, title of the site, author, and publishing dateA rubric is included
Material Type: Assessment
Students will analyze data from the "State of the Bay" reports from the Chesapeake Bay Foundation while reviewing and completing the scientific method. The final assessment is a mission for students to create a persuasive speech or advertisement that will call for action to make changes that will positively impact the watershed with reasons why change is important.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Assessment, Data Set, Lesson, Primary Source
The series of lessons allows students to review the concepts of mutations, adaptations and natural selection by studying a population of pocket mice through a video clip and then applying their knowledge through a simulation game.
Material Type: Assessment, Interactive, Simulation, Visual Media
This activity allows students to work through a series of games to learn about DNA, protein bases, and how they combine, dominant and recessive genes, Punnett Squares and genotypes, and phenotypes.
Material Type: Assessment, Game, Interactive, Module
This activity is designed to be a self-paced activity to review students on the parts of Experimental Design while at home or in the classroom. There is a simple experiment for the students to complete to generate and collect data and a second example in which they design their own experiment and collect data. They are then led through the process of analyzing their data and writing a conclusion.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lecture Notes, Lesson
This resource teaches students about balanced forces, unbalanced forces, and Newton's three laws through the game of baseball. It is interactive and uses short videos and simulations to help students learn the content. It culminates with a project at the end.
Material Type: Assessment, Interactive, Reading, Unit of Study, Visual Media
This activity is designed to have students investigate the basics of forces and how they affect motion. They will also have the opportunity to participate in a PHET Simulation by the University of Colorado on Force and Motion and use the simulation to create a simple Experimental Design and collect data.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
Student will:analyze a map of the Chesapeake Baycalculate the mean, median, mode, range, and numbercreate an appropriate graphinvestigate data provided by the James River and apply learning
Material Type: Activity/Lab
In this activity, students take on the role of a ZooKeeper to research a living organism and apply the principles of Life Science in creating their animal's profile (directions and examples provided within the resource).
Material Type: Activity/Lab
In this activity, students investigate Evolution through Natural Selection and the supportive evidence for the Theory of Evolution. The notes feature interactive slides which require individual student participation.*Recommended to be assigned individually with teacher leading instruction via a shared screen (virtual) or projector (classroom).
Material Type: Activity/Lab
Use this document to create a virtual hallway to show off student work, projects, comparing data, gallery walks, peer reviews, and more.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
In this group (optional) inquiry lab, students explore the effects of runoff pollution on plants. Part 1 - Observations, Inferences, and Questions*Recommended that the teacher projects the images or prints them in color (if laminated, they can be preserved for future years). In addition, have students work individually first without sharing ideas, then have them share after each section with their group.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
In this group (optional) inquiry lab, students explore the effects of runoff pollution on plants. Part 2 - Research*Guiding Questions and Key Provided
Material Type: Activity/Lab
In this group (optional) inquiry lab, students explore the effects of runoff pollution on plants. Part 3 - Experimental Design*Sample Provided *Recommended that the students brainstorm types of runoff after their research and each group choose one that is feasible for the classroom environment.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
