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MSM Unit 2: Clean Water

This unit spans across 6th grade math and science content.

MSM Unit 3: It’s Getting Hot in Here

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TrailBlazer Board Game Tester

This is NetLogo model to test the solutions when participants paint the board.

Looking at particles with StarLogo Nova

This lesson uses StarLogo Nova to explore how particles move from gas to liquid to solid depending on the setting of the heat slider.

Modeling molecules is solids, liquids, and gases

This model simulates intermolecular forces and lets people change the temperature using a slider. At high temperatures, you can see the molecules fly around as a gas, with occasional collisions. With lower temperatures they condense to a liquid, and even lower they freeze to a solid.

Geometry

A 7th grade math project testing students' ability to create geometric figures.Stude

Dice and Data Activity for Virtual Instruction

Dice and Data Activity from Module 1 Lesson 4. Adapted for use in a synchronous instructional setting.

My Robotic Friends (cups activity)

This is the cups activity by Thinkersmith (later part of Code.org)

What's Represented?

These exercises ask the learner to identify abstractions in the computer model as compared to a diagram or image of a natural phenomenon.

Skill Building Deck

A slide deck of exercises to build CS and decoding skills

ModelBEST Module 1 - Introduction to Modeling and Simulation

The 1st module from Model BEST. Intended for 4th and 5th grade.

Trailblazers Activity for Virtual Instruction

The Trailblazers activity from Module 1 - Lesson 3 modified to be done in a synchronous virtual learning environment.

ModelBEST Module 3 - Predator/Prey – Survival Behaviors

The 3rd module from Model BEST. Intended for 4th and 5th grade.

Experimental Design for Virtual Instruction

A Google Sheet to use for conducting the Experimental Design activity in a remote learning classroom.c

ModelBEST Module 2 - Catching Butterflies

The 2nd module from Model BEST. Intended for 4th and 5th grade.

ModelBEST Module 4 - Simple Garden Ecosystem

The 1st module from Model BEST. Intended for 5th grade.

ModelBEST Module 5 - Water Pollution

The 5th module from Model BEST. Intended for 5th grade.

ModelBEST Module 6 - Air Pollution

The 6th module from Model BEST. Intended for 5th grade.

Project GUTS on Canvas Commons

Canvas Commons courses
- Project GUTS PD course
- Project GUTS Module 1 - Student Edition

Coding Challenges

Coding Challenge are a series of short challenges that focus on improving coding skills using StarLogo Nova. Each set of challenges focuses on a specific concept: degrees & heading, x & y coordinates and randomness, conditions including absolute value and percent chance, adding color to the terrain and repeat loops, using the z coordinate, and other computer science concepts (logic blocks, data collection),.

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