Lesson Plans
This page provides you with brief descriptions of the different lessons as well as lesson plan materials.
We base our lesson plans on
- Montana Office of Public Instruction (OPI) K-12 Content Standarts & Revisions
- Computer Science Teachers Association K-12 Computer Science Standards
- Montana Office of Public Instruction (OPI) Essential Understandings Regarding Montana Indians
with the goal of enabling teachers to deliver classroom lessons that meet educational outcomes across all three frameworks.
We base the programming activities across our lesson plans on Alice 2.5 from Carnegie Mellon University.
How Wild Horses Were Captured (under development)
Description
In this social studies and life science unit, students will learn about how wild horses were captured by an Indigenous tribe. We focus on a story from the Warm Springs tribe outlining the process and discuss the difficulties that American Indian tribes may have encountered while capturing the wild horses. Students will explore the American history of wild horses and current policies in place for the management of wild horses. Next, students will work in a starter world in the Alice program platform where they will modify code in an Alice world to keep horses in a gated corral.
Lesson Plan
Supporting Materials
- The Indian Reading Series: "How Wild Horses Were Captured"
- Alice 2.5 starter world and solution world
- "Wild Horses: Ancient Connection" from Nebraska PBS
- "Wild Horses: Journey To The New World" from Nebraska PBS
- "Wild Horses: Native Americans" from Nebraska PBS
- "Wild Horses: An American Romance" from Nebraska PBS
Related Lesson Plans
- How Wild Horses Were Captured from Education Northwest
- Wild Horses: An American Romance by Elaine Larson and Ruth Bylander from South Dakota Public Broadcasting