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6th-8th Grade
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Identifying and Recognizing Idiomatic Expressions in English Using Lumio
Students will be able to recognize and identify idiomatic expressions in everyday English.
*Note: SLSO is now known as Lumio and has even more features than before!
Earth's Spheres Digital Dioramas
Help your students learn about Earth's spheres using Edpuzzle. Then they'll use what they've learned to create virtual dioramas of Earth's spheres in Google Jamboard.
To review the atomic structure of atoms and how this affects their ability to combine in chemical reactions, this lesson allows students to draw their structure using cloned objects and consult several Periodic Table resources.
*Note: SLSO is now known as Lumio and has even more features than before!
Digital Citizenship Teq-tivity
Students will learn what it means to be a Digital Citizen and learn about what they can do to be responsible members of the digital community
*Note: SLSO is now known as Lumio and has even more features than before!
Calculating Mean, Median, and Mode
Students will find measures of central tendency, specifically mean, median, and mode. Students will learn how to calculate these meaures through the use of a random number generator, google forms, an interactive Peardeck presentation and a self correcting google sheet.
Students will highlight an aspect of their culture and present it to their peers using an online video platform. They can highlight something personal (as in something unique to their family that is currently practiced), ancestral (passed down generation to generation), or cultural (something celebrated by people of their ethnicity, religions, race, etc.). Through this, they will celebrate what is unique to their own culture as well as celebrate and learn about the cultures of their peers.
Makey Makey - Insulators and Conductors
What types of materials are conductive? Join me as I demonstrate a lesson using our Makey Makey board as students explore the concept of insulators and conductors.
Historical Timeline with Ozobots
Students will create historical timelines of different time periods with the help of Ozobots!
Let's build a bridge for Sphero to drive over! Students will be challenged to create a bridge using a variety of classroom or household materials. Then, students will program Sphero to drive over the bridge. Students will be challenged to think about different types of bridges, incorporate multiple design elements, and hold the weight of the Sphero.
Sphero RVR - Color Walk Biographies
Using the color sensor, students will program the RVR to read a list of words related to the Biographies category and associated to each specific color tile. They will use the Drive tool in Sphero EDU and stop over each color. This also uses speech blocks as well as the "On Color" event block.
Sphero RVR - Right Triangle Paths
After studying interior and exterior angles of polygons, students will program their RVR to trace around the path of a large pentagon. This will involve speed and heading settings in the Sphero EDU blocks.
