Google CS First is a free computer science program for students in grades 4 - 8. CS First provides everything that teachers need to teach computer science, with little or no experience themselves.
The goal of this Education Transfer Plan is (ETP) is to instruct new special education teachers in how to plan for and lead a structured, student-centric Individual Education Plan (IEP) team meeting.
CS First is a program that introduces block-based coding to students in 4th-8th grade. The blended learning design allows for teachers to implement computer science in their classrooms across multiple content areas, even if they don’t have any computer science experience or knowledge.
We are currently living in the information age. From smartphones to the satellites that transmit their data, information technology is all around us. Students need to understand how our technology works and how they too could be the future engineers that design it.
Some forms of energy are harmful to our environment, where others are not as harmful. We harm our environment by adding pollutants into the air when we transfer energy from one form to another.
The 2017-18 school year at St. Nicholas School in Los Altos Hills began with a foundational change in administration - a newly appointed principal! We had been under the same leadership for 14 years and found ourselves in the midst of an immense organizational change.
Students with disabilities often require assistive technology devices to communicate their needs and wants, in addition to accessing various curriculum and lessons.
This ETP is primarily focuses on the collaborative process of students learning information and teaching that information to their group (jigsaw) to establish background information for an experiment using the scientific method.
Students will learn how to research and identify reliable internet resources. To show their skills, the students will create a culminating project about a California region. They will collaborate in an assigned group to find information using focused questions.