Template:Eventmath lesson plan overview
Template overview
[edit source]This template provides an overview box for Eventmath lesson plans, built with the {{Infobox}} meta template. The overview box template helps both visitors and contributors to the lesson plan.
For visitors, this template...
- Provides an at-a-glance overview of each lesson plan.
- Displays a prominent "Browse" link to help in finding other lesson plans.
- Categorizes lesson plans so that visitors can browse by class time and source date.
For contributors, this template...
- Structures the data that must be provided in a clear and intuitive way.
- Protects wikitext that should not be changed (namely the infobox headings and labels).
- Automates redundant tasks.
Specifically, the template...
- Pulls the lesson title from the full page title so that it's prominently displayed without requiring it to be typed in manually.
- Reuses the data supplied by the contributor to automatically place the lesson plan in two subcategories (this not only saves contributors the trouble of typing in the same information multiple times, but also prevents errors due to typos in the category tags).
- Calls {{cite web}} so that the user doesn't need to deal with nested templates or manually type out proper citations.
Complete example
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{{Eventmath lesson plan overview
|assumed-knowledge = Basic arithmetic, proportions, and ratios. Basic mechanics of the Electoral College.
|activities =
Students design several ways to measure individual voter power of residents in US states and calculate each type of measurement,
using data they collect in a spreadsheet. They compare their findings to those of the source article.
|class-time = 60-90 minutes
|source-website = Huffington Post
|source-title = Voters In Wyoming Have 3.6 Times The Voting Power That I Have. It’s Time To End The Electoral College.
|source-date = 2016-11-10
|source-url = https://www.huffpost.com/entry/its-time-to-end-the-electoral-college_b_12891764
|source-archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20201210161426/https://www.huffpost.com/entry/its-time-to-end-the-electoral-college_b_12891764
|source-archive-date = 2021-10-28
}}
</div>
Output
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| Lesson plan overview | |
|---|---|
| Title | Eventmath lesson plan overview |
| Assumed knowledge | Basic arithmetic, proportions, and ratios. Basic mechanics of the Electoral College. |
| Activities | Students design several ways to measure individual voter power of residents in US states and calculate each type of measurement, using data they collect in a spreadsheet. They compare their findings to those of the source article. |
| Class time | 60-90 minutes |
| Source | |
"Voters In Wyoming Have 3.6 Times The Voting Power That I Have. It's Time To End The Electoral College". Huffington Post. 2016-11-10. Archived from the original on 2021-10-28. {{cite web}}: |archive-date= / |archive-url= timestamp mismatch (help) | |
| Want more lesson plans? Browse | |
Example without an archived URL
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[edit source]<div style="width:50%;">
{{Eventmath lesson plan overview
|assumed-knowledge = Basic arithmetic, proportions, and ratios. Basic mechanics of the Electoral College.
|activities =
Students design several ways to measure individual voter power of residents in US states and calculate each type of measurement,
using data they collect in a spreadsheet. They compare their findings to those of the source article.
|class-time = 60-90 minutes
|source-website = Huffington Post
|source-title = Voters In Wyoming Have 3.6 Times The Voting Power That I Have. It’s Time To End The Electoral College.
|source-date = 2016-11-10
|source-url = https://www.huffpost.com/entry/its-time-to-end-the-electoral-college_b_12891764
|source-archive-url =
|source-archive-date =
}}
</div>
Output
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| Lesson plan overview | |
|---|---|
| Title | Eventmath lesson plan overview |
| Assumed knowledge | Basic arithmetic, proportions, and ratios. Basic mechanics of the Electoral College. |
| Activities | Students design several ways to measure individual voter power of residents in US states and calculate each type of measurement, using data they collect in a spreadsheet. They compare their findings to those of the source article. |
| Class time | 60-90 minutes |
| Source | |
| "Voters In Wyoming Have 3.6 Times The Voting Power That I Have. It's Time To End The Electoral College". Huffington Post. 2016-11-10. | |
| Want more lesson plans? Browse | |
Example with empty parameter values
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{{Eventmath lesson plan overview
|assumed-knowledge =
|activities =
|class-time =
|source-website =
|source-title =
|source-date =
|source-url =
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}}
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Output
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| Lesson plan overview | |
|---|---|
| Title | Eventmath lesson plan overview |
| Assumed knowledge | Not yet provided. |
| Activities | Not yet provided. |
| Class time | Not yet provided. |
| Source | |
{{cite web}}: Empty citation (help) | |
| Want more lesson plans? Browse | |
Note: The lesson plan title is automatically pulled from the page title, via {{SUBPAGENAME}}. Since this template page has no subpage, the lesson plan title is given the value of the template page name.
Inline usage instructions
[edit source]To make this template easy to use for absolute beginners, the following instructions will be provided in the preloaded wikitext supplied by the Eventmath lesson plan template.
{{Eventmath lesson plan overview
|assumed-knowledge = <!--Below, please briefly describe any mathematical skills or background knowledge students should have before completing this lesson.-->
|activities = <!--Below, please briefly summarize what students will do during this lesson and what they will learn.-->
|class-time = <!--Below, please type one of the following, exactly as it appears:
00-15 minutes, 15-30 minutes, 30-45 minutes, 45-60 minutes, 60-90 minutes, more than 90 minutes.
Your best guess is fine! It can be changed later.-->
<!--Next, you'll provide all citation data for the source (article/social media post/video).
Article example:
| source-website = Huffington Post
| source-title = Voters In Wyoming Have 3.6 Times The Voting Power That I Have. It’s Time To End The Electoral College.
| source-date = 2016-11-10
| source-url = https://www.huffpost.com/entry/its-time-to-end-the-electoral-college_b_12891764
| source-archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20201210161426/https://www.huffpost.com/entry/its-time-to-end-the-electoral-college_b_12891764
| source-archive-date = 2021-10-28
Post example:
| source-website = Twitter
| source-title = Remember: Germany is supposed to be a SUCCESS STORY.
| source-date = 2020-12-22
| source-url = https://twitter.com/Neoavatara/status/1341581271991013376
| source-archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20201223064324/https://twitter.com/Neoavatara/status/1341581271991013376
| source-archive-date = 2021-02-16
Notes:
1. To ensure lesson plans can be sorted by date, please enter all dates in the format YYYY-MM-DD,
including leading zeros: January is 01, not 1, for example.
2. If you cannot find a date, use n.d. as the date (no date).
3. To ensure that the article/post will remain accessible for educators and students...
a. Archive it at https://archive.org/web/ (use the "Save Page Now" form to generate a permanent URL).
b. Paste that URL here as the source-archive-url.
c. Enter the date you archived the source as the source-archive date.
4. Linking to a website helps the site. If the lesson plan is debunking disinformation, you may
avoid spreading disinformation by omitting the url of the original site entirely. In that case,
use the URL of the archived version as the value of source-url, and omit values for archive-url and archive-date.
-->
| source-website =
| source-title =
| source-date =
| source-url =
| source-archive-url =
| source-archive-date =
}}
Category suppression
[edit source]On this page, {{suppress categories}} is used as a simple way to show examples without categorizing the template page itself as a lesson plan by class time and source date. This doesn't require modifying the Lesson plan overview template. However, there are other approaches to category suppression.
Docs for the "suppress categories" template can be found on Wikipedia.
Note: Removing {{suppress categories}} in the source does show that the categorization works for this example, but categories should be suppressed after testing.