🎯 Learning Intention
Today I will refine my map using Python automation and document my code and design choices.
✅ Success Criteria
I can use a provided Python script to update layers or create charts, and add comments explaining my process.
🌍 Why Are We Learning This?
Coding lets us automate repetitive mapping tasks and communicate how we build digital systems—crucial CTE skills.
🧠 Warm-Up – Tech Journal Prompt
💡 “Why is it important to document your code? Have you ever forgotten how or why you made a change?”
📚 Word of the Day
Script
Definition: A set of instructions that a computer follows to perform tasks automatically.
Sentence: “Our script updated the risk layers and generated a chart of high-priority areas.”
Why it matters: Scripts save time and ensure results can be repeated or shared later.
📣 Lecture & Guided Discussion
Demo: Adding comments and using descriptive variable names in Python scripts.
Modeling: Running automation to update maps/charts.
✅ CFU: “What does your script accomplish, and how could you explain it to someone new?”