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!valign=top | [[File:Nutrition-icon.svg|90px|thumb|center]] ||valign=top width="15%" style="background:#e3e4e5;" |Nutritional Microworld||valign=top width="15%" | w/Dr. Jessica Early||align=left valign=top| | !valign=top | [[File:Nutrition-icon.svg|90px|thumb|center]] ||valign=top width="15%" style="background:#e3e4e5;" |Nutritional Microworld||valign=top width="15%" | w/Dr. Jessica Early||align=left valign=top| | ||
;Brief explanation: We have the basic building blocks (Turtle Nutrition) for programming with food as a datatype. What we are missing is a collection of meaningful activities to use with the tool as exemplars. We want to develop a an open-ended, yet | ;Brief explanation: We have the basic building blocks (Turtle Nutrition) for programming with food as a datatype. What we are missing is a collection of meaningful activities to use with the tool as exemplars. We want to develop a an open-ended, yet | ||
relevant tool—one that invites learners to explore fundamental concepts of nutrition that are both intrinsic to | relevant tool—one that invites learners to explore fundamental concepts of nutrition that are both intrinsic to nutrition yet transcendent of a specific discipline. | ||
;Expected results: A well-documented series of activities for exploring nutrition that use the nutrition plugin as a basis. A series of workshops to study these ideas with children. | ;Expected results: A well-documented series of activities for exploring nutrition that use the nutrition plugin as a basis. A series of workshops to study these ideas with children. | ||
;Knowledge prerequisite: Strong background in Javascript, some background in Nutrition. | ;Knowledge prerequisite: Strong background in Javascript, some background in Nutrition. | ||
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;Expected results: A framework for creating challenges and a few exemplars. | ;Expected results: A framework for creating challenges and a few exemplars. | ||
;Knowledge prerequisite: Strong background in Javascript | ;Knowledge prerequisite: Strong background in Javascript | ||
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The TuxMath activity is popular with deployments. However, the upstream version appears to be abandoned. This task would be to implement a sugar-web-activity math game comparable to TuxMath. | |||
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