Making Sense of Models (home page) This is a landing page for all 6th grade Making Sense of Models (MSM) units.
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.
Experimental Design for Virtual Instruction A Google Sheet to use for conducting the Experimental Design activity in a remote learning classroom.c
Dice and Data Activity for Virtual Instruction Dice and Data Activity from Module 1 Lesson 4. Adapted for use in a synchronous instructional setting.
Trailblazers Activity for Virtual Instruction The Trailblazers activity from Module 1 - Lesson 3 modified to be done in a synchronous virtual learning environment.
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.
My Robotic Friends (cups activity) This is the cups activity by Thinkersmith (later part of Code.org)
Silver Nitrate Production video A short video showing "Silver Production from Silver Nitrate using a Copper Pipe" - used if wet lab activity not available for CS in Science Module 4 (Chemical Reactions)
Decoding a Model - Dissolving of NaCl in Water Start of a lesson on dissolving a solid in water by decoding on a model.
Interview with Hal Scheintaub Teachers with GUTS interviewed Hal Scheintaub and demo of StarLogo Nova models created by his students on August 2, 2017.
Computational Science video A short video (1:27) on the computational science cycle, used in Project GUTS CS in Science (Modules 2-4).