Vetted resources educators can use to teach the concepts and skills in this topic.
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| Time to Leave the Chat: | Using the case study, “Caught in the Middle,” students will explore the term personal identifiable information (PII) and important privacy rules for online communication. Students will explain what actions should be taken if they witness cyberbullying or are victims of cyberbullying. This lesson will culminate in a poster project where students address cyberbullying. |
| Using Machine Learning and Computational Thinking to Train an AI Model: | Students will explore Artificial Intelligence (AI) and use computational thinking and Machine Learning (ML) to pretrain a model to recognize and identify objects, including geometric shapes and aircraft. They will used unplugged activities to mimic sorting and classification of the objects using their prior knowledge and then make connections to human learning and Machine Learning. Students will then problem solve and propose solutions using computational thinking to improve the ML model to better recognize the objects. This lesson is an integrated Computer Science, Science and Math lesson designed for students in grades 3-5 to apply math and science content knowledge while exploring and using computational thinking as they think like Computer Engineers and reflect on potential career paths. |
| The Cyber Bully Chronicles Comic, Part 4: | Students will create a fictional narrative describing how someone can positively react to being a witness of cyberbullying, in this lesson plan. Students will create a comic book style scenario using drawing or digital tools and then describe the character’s actions using narrative style writing. |
| Coding Geometry Challenges #1-7, 14 & 15: | This set of geometry challenges focuses on creating a variety of polygons as students problem solve and think as they learn to code using block coding software. Student will need to use their knowledge of the attributes of polygons and mathematical principals of geometry to accomplish the given challenges. The challenges start out fairly simple and move to more complex situations in which students can explore at their own pace or work as a team. Computer Science standards are seamlessly intertwined with the math standards while providing “Step it up!” and “Jump it up!” opportunities to increase rigor.
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| Electric Energy & Temperature: | This lesson introduces how electrical devices transform electrical energy to thermal energy to alter the temperature of a substance resulting in the freezing, melting, or boiling of the substance. Each electrical device produces thermal energy as a byproduct that is conducted from a source like an electrical socket or battery; this lesson discusses how that energy is transferred while also comparing and contrasting the states of matter of different substances.
This is lesson 1 in a Unit on Detecting Thermal & Electrical Energy. |
