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Students will build an interactive model of the water cycle in Hopscotch. Hopscotch provides a unique opportunity for students to practice the skills of visualizing a complex system and using logic and problem solving to determine how to make an interactive model that is scientifically accurate. This lesson assumes that students have little to no experience coding in Hopscotch, but are prepared to create a model of the water cycle.

Students will create a program in Hopscotch to animate a historical concept. This may take the form of a timeline, story, or other animation. The goal is for students to sequence and explain events with an accurate understanding of the historical concepts being studied. This lesson plan does not use a specific topic; it is designed flexibly to allow teachers to meet the needs of the classroom and course of study. This lesson assumes that students and teachers have little to no experience coding in Hopscotch. [Source : activity document]

Students will read and analyze a text and then create a program in Hopscotch to summarize that text. Students make their programs interactive by imaging an alternate ending and allowing the user to choose. The story that students analyze is up to you! This lesson assumes that students and teachers have little to no experience coding in Hopscotch, but are prepared to summarize a story and produce an alternate ending to that story. [Source : activity document]