Professional Development Overview
This curriculum introduces students to developing and
animating stories in Alice,
a user-friendly, drag-and-drop programming environment.
The lessons shared here were developed to incorporate
Montana Indian Education for All (IEFA) standards and
Montana Computer Science (CS) standards into Montana middle school classrooms.
Through the tabs on the left, you’ll find a self-paced professional development
for learning how to implement these lessons into your classroom.
Alice Lessons Overview
This middle school curriculum introduces students to developing and animating stories in
Alice, a freely available, user-friendly, drag-and-drop programming environment.
These lessons were developed to integrate Montana computer science (CS) content
standards, Indian Education for All (IEFA) and other Montana content standards.
This curriculum is designed for grades K-12. Lessons are centered around students
hearing and being inspired by tribal stories (many from
the Indian Reading Series),
and then designing and animating related
stories in Alice. This curriculum can be integrated into any teacher’s
classroom.
This curriculum is developed as part of an NSF-funded project. For information
about the ITEST grant which developed this curriculum please see, the ITEST
grant page.
For questions, please email:
storytelling@montana.edu.