Museum of Westward Expansion Inventions

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In this lesson, students will create a ‘Museum of Westward Expansion Inventions’ using the platform twinery.org. This tour will include multiple types of links that will be written in code two different ways and citations to photos to prove the veracity of the images students provide. In the end, students will have their own little piece of history with artifacts (images) that are properly cited and linked.

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Authors: CodeVA Curriculum, Chanda Greco

How Were Colonial Regions Similar?

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Students analyze a chart with the characteristics of the three colonial regions and determine a better way to visualize the information that shows the similarities and differences between the three.This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 2010256.Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

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Author: CodeVA Curriculum

Visualizing Geospatial Data

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This activity will ask students to locate geographic regions and features on a class map using longitude and latitude measurements. Using the longitude and latitude data, students will be able to visualize geographic features in the actual location in order to analyze the living conditions of various regions.This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 2010256.Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

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Author: CodeVA Curriculum

Evaluating the Bill of Rights

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In small groups, students will be assigned two of the first ten amendments and pose the questions, “Which of these two amendments do you think is more important?” and “Why do you believe this?” in a survey of ten classmates. Then they will collect and organize the data electronically to create two visual representations of their information. Students will add their raw data and visualizations to a shared slideshow to present their findings to the class and explain why they chose this particular visualization model and what conclusions they can draw from their survey responses.This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 2010256.Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

Material Type: Lesson, Lesson Plan

Author: CodeVA Curriculum

Twine Trail Guide

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This site is a guide intended to help people use (or teach others to use) Twine. Twine is a tool for creating websites, but instead of the website being about a topic, or hosting a storefront, or containing blog posts, Twine websites tell stories.

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Student Guide

Authors: CodeVA Curriculum, Jon Stapleton

Causes of the American Revolution

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Students will apply their knowledge of the causes of the American Revolution to create an interactive story via Twine. The interactive story will be based on the pre-revolutionary war period from the point of view of a loyalist or a patriot. As a warm-up students will look at an optical illusion picture and as a class discuss point of view and perspective. Students will work in heterogeneous pairs/groups to research, outline, and create a pre-revolutionary story about a patriot or loyalist.

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Author: CodeVA Curriculum

2. Compound Conditionals with Twine

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In this lesson, students will learn about compound conditionals by playing the “Boole Says” game. Then, students will apply their knowledge as they predict, run, and investigate compound conditional structures written in Twine.

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Authors: CodeVA Curriculum, Jessica Newsome

3. Modifying Variables with Twine

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Students use pair programming to trace, annotate and debug a prewritten Twine story. Students then add modifications to the existing code and extend the story.

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Authors: CodeVA Curriculum, Jon Stapleton, Valerie Fawley

4. Westward Expansion Conditionals Project

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Students will craft a Twine program with variables, conditionals, and relational expressions for a historical narrative on Westward Expansion. Students choose a project from a choice board & test products regularly during construction. Programs should offer multiple outcomes based on the user's choices or actions."

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Authors: CodeVA Curriculum, Jon Stapleton, Valerie Fawley

4. Introduction to Westward Expansion

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In this lesson, students engage in a historical jigsaw activity focused on westward expansion. The lesson ends with a coding project where students create “postcards” by coding with Twine, expressing the perspectives of different groups experiencing the effects of westward expansion.

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Author: CodeVA Curriculum