Lesson Plans
Ted Samaras
Ted has composed five lessons that have taken a creative and fun approach to help middle school students begin to understand and take ownership of their learning in computer and data science
Lesson 1: Pick a Card
Lesson 2: Choose Your Own Adventure
Lesson 3: Carnival/Fair
Lesson 4: Data and Solar Crossword Puzzle
Lesson 5: Data and Solar Weather Escape Room
John Brown
John’s lessons encompass the fundamentals of coding and machine learning through hands-on activities that ultimately educates younger audiences about space weather
Lesson 1: Space Weather Quest
Lesson 2: Classification of Space Weather Events with Machine Learning
Grace Sanvictores
Grace’s lesson talk about sound data in the context of nature, and how AI approaches that natural phenomena
Lesson 1: AI and Its Impact on Ecosystems
Lesson 2: AI Listens to Earth: Sound, Space & Species
Alaina Cannella
Alaina has discussed multiple topics to educate K-12 students, covering physics and engineering, basic coding principles, and data collection to visualization
Lesson 1: Acceleration with Microbits
Lesson 2: Computational Spectral Imaging
Lesson 3: Amazon Delivery Route
Lesson 4: Spotted Lanternfly Lesson
Lesson 5: Snow Plow Lesson with Ozobots
Lesson 6: Navigating an Obstacle Course with Ozobots
Lynn Hazelman
Lynn wants to explore folklore and its connection to real world phenomena, and apply it to modules, interactive visualizations, and complex problems
Lesson 1: Scratch-Choose an Ending Lesson
Lesson 2: Folklore and Myths of the Northern Lights
James Liporace
James wants students to learn how computers understand images, and how computers view the world in different perspectives compared to people. He goes into pixels, colors, and digital perception
Lesson 1: How Computers “See” the World
Esther Douglass
Esther has composed a lesson plan over the course of three years, each encompassing a different topic for young learners
There are more lessons to look at than the ones described!
Lesson 1: Intro to Solar Weather and Earth’s Magnetosphere
Lesson 2: Introduction to Data and Data Science
Lesson 3: Introduction to Neural Networks, Machine Learning, and AI
