In this lesson, students will research a specific chromebook troubleshooting technique, write a short script, and perform a skit in person or via flip grid to share with the class.
Students will observe falling objects in order to explain how gravity affects the motion of all objects.
Innovator Eric Curts has coded this marvelous Google Sheets template to create a fantastic game of Battleship. It may be used to introduce students to useful tech skills such as how to share, use of revision history, locate specific cells and enter data.
Using gumdrops and toothpicks, students conduct a large-group, interactive ozone depletion model. Students explore the dynamic and competing upper atmospheric roles of the protective ozone layer, the sun's UV radiation and harmful human-made CFCs (chlorofluorocarbons).
In this lesson students will watch a video about polite Internet behavior (netiquette). They will engage in a class discussion about proper online behavior.
Explore the ideas and evidence that helped Charles Darwin create his theory of evolution.
GeoInquiries are designed to be fast and easy-to-use instructional resources that incorporate advanced web mapping technology. Each 15-minute activity in a collection is intended to be presented by the instructor from a single computer/projector classroom arrangement. No installation, fees, or logins are necessary to use these materials and software.
In this activity, students learn about their heart rate and different ways it can be measured. Students construct a simple measurement device using clay and a toothpick, and then use this device to measure their heart rate under different circumstances (i.e., sitting, standing and jumping). Students make predictions and record data on a worksheet.
In this lesson, students will show their phonemic awareness, letter recognition knowledge and basic understanding of coding to program a Bee bot to reach a particular letter.
Students will review their knowledge about the life cycle of frogs and butterflies by using a bee-bot to make a path to the correct stages of the life cycles. This would be a review lesson for kindergarten students that have already learned about the life cycles of frogs and butterflies.
In this lesson, the students will use the Bee Bot on a map with 2D shapes and program the Bee Bot to move to and identify the 2D shapes based on their attributes. The students will review 2D shapes and their attributes, and learn how to use a Bee Bot. The students will be paired into a group of 3 or 4 depending on your class size. Each group will be given a mat with images of 2D shapes and task cards. The shapes have different colors and sizes. The task cards will provide visual tasks for the students. The students will take turns pulling a task card and program the bot to move to the shape that is on the card. The students will start on the first shape on the card and move to the bottom shape. This lesson may be split into two sessions if necessary.
In this lesson, students will navigate a map using cardinal directions and then use their knowledge to lead a peer through a map with cardinal directions. Students should have knowledge of cardinal directions and symbols before starting this lesson.
In this lesson, students will identify locations around the classroom by programming a Bee Bot to move to specific locations on a map using positional words.
Day 1:
In this lesson, students will…
Use Bee-bots to trace the perimeter of a rectangle. They will then prove their findings with equations that match the path that they coded.
Day 2:
In this lesson, students will…
Use Bee-bots to “drive” the area of a rectangle. They will then prove their findings with equations that match the path that they coded.
In this lesson, Kindergarten students will take a walk through campus and look for local birds. They will identify the birds they see based on their unique characteristics. Then they will use pictures of these birds to make algorithms using the Beebot having the Beebot move from start to the picture of the bird placed randomly on the mat. This lesson ties in NCSCOS standards for Science, and Computer Science.
Bee-bot is trying to learn Math. Students will follow Bee-bot solving a math problem. It will solve the problem incorrectly. Students will find where the mistake occurs and correct Bee-bot’s program to help him solve it correctly.
It is very important that students learn early on to respect the device they are working on as well as be safe when they are using it. The teacher and students will have a classroom discussion on responsibility on how to take care of the device, keep it safe and themselves while using it.
Students learn about material properties, and that engineers must consider many different materials properties when designing. This activity focuses on strength-to-weight ratios and how sometimes the strongest material is not always the best material.
Students are asked to build a nest that will keep a bird and 3 eggs safe. Nest must hold a bird and 3 plastic eggs and balance on tree branch.
Students use the scientific method to determine the effect of control surfaces on a paper glider. They construct paper airplanes (model gliders) and test their performance to determine the base characteristics of the planes. Then they change one of the control surfaces and compare the results to their base glider in order to determine the cause and effect relationship of the control surfaces.
Due to a lack of content (in many textbooks) regarding the role women and minorities played during the Revolutionary War, students will be asked to compile resources using various resources including Michigan’s Open Book Project and various other online resources regarding a specific unit of study.