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SciGirls Seven tip: “Girls are motivated by projects they find personally relevant and meaningful.”

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Start designing class activities by creating goals for what the students should learn from a particular activity. Ask yourself, “why would kids need to know this?”

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Situate projects in your students interests and the real world.

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Gamifying things can be super useful, but beware of over-gamifying!

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Use http://flukeout.github.io/ to introduce CSS selectors in an engaging and interactive way.

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Teach hierarchical task analysis using Requirement Cards to sort through 100 requirements engineers have created for a robot cleaning up a nuclear disaster.

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Build a paper airplane instead of the PB&J exercise for a less messy, more extensible algorithms introduction activity.

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Create engrossing assignments by taking into account the age groups and interests of your students!

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Tie the importance of searching and sorting to internet search engines, then encourage students to create search mechanisms for data they want to analyze.

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Because high-school students are interested in driving, transportation is a great model for introducing class hierarchies and interfaces.

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