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Students absolutely love this activity! It is a great art or stem project to start off the year. Students will begin by watching videos a famous tree houses like the Swiss family Robinson Tree house. In groups, they will then brainstorm and subsequently design their tree house using the tinker-cad program. Finally, they will create a airbnb webpage for their treehouse on google sides. This is a great interactive assignment that teaches students how to design, create webpages and best of all, foster their creativity.

Students for this project will be researching the new technological advancements that were used during the first World War. Students will pretend to be a war profiteer/salesman trying to pitch your weapon to the nations fighting in Europe. Their goal is persuade (classmates who are the leaders of Europe and the USA) that your weapon will be instrumental to winning the war. There is a list of 18 weapons and technological advancements for students to choose from as website links and videos to help them with their research. This is an exciting, interactive assignment that allows students the freedom to choose what they learn!