Curriculum for ABM Club for Middle School?

[Dale Frakes]

Hello!

I'm thinking of proposing setting up an ABM club at my child's middle
school and I'm looking for any curriculum ideas for students at that
younger level (I teach undergrad and graduate students).  I tried
looking here: http://ccl.northwestern.edu/classroom%20resourses.shtml ,
but all the links related too middle school and junior high are defunct.

Does anyone have any good resources for curriculum or projects or other
materials that would be well-suited to interested middle school students?

Thanks!

Dale

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Dale Frakes
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PSU Systems Science
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[Michael Tamillow]

Anything you teach in grad school or undergrad that doesn’t require prerequisites that take more than 15 minutes to explain is fair game.


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[jeff...@gmail.com]

There was a book out many years ago that used Star Logo (very similar to Netlogo) that was sort of aimed at this audience.  I think Michael Resnick wrote it.  Most likely out of print.   Here is a link to a used copy:

https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=31917028090&searchurl=ds%3D30%26kn%3DStarlogo%26rollup%3Don%26sortby%3D17&cm_sp=snippet-_-srp0-_-title1

Might be some good ideas in there.  I haven't looked at it in about a decade, so my memory of its contents might be off.

[John Chen]

Two years ago, I designed and studied an interactive experience that encouraged younger students to explore ABM on Turtle Universe (the phone/tablet version of NetLogo that can also run on computers). It is still online today. It uses block-based programming as a starting point, but students should be able to check out the NetLogo code as well:

https://www.turtlesim.com/products/turtle-universe/

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[Luke Osterritter]

The models from that ProbLab project are in the NetLogo models library under "Curricular Models" if you want to explore them. If you want to do a simple introduction to ABM for younger folks (and don't mind not introducing code) I'd recommend a copy of Robot Turtles https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/147370/robot-turtles

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[Paul Horwitz]

Scratch (great grandchild or something of the original Logo) might be useful.

Paul

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