Style Guide

The goal of the IYWP Wiki is to create an easy-to-read and easy-to-navigate resource for aspiring educators to find and implement new programming ideas for their students. As such, it's important for the activity pages written on the IYWP Wiki to be written clearly and '''consistently. '''All activity pages are written in the same general style, outlined below.

Introducing Your Activity
The first sentence of the activity page should include the name of the activity written in bold, and serves to categorize the activity for the reader. Is the activity for a small group or large group? Is it active or sit-down? Bear in mind, an easy way to see how to format these pages is simply to open an activity page that has already been written and copy its style.

Preparation
If the activity requires preparation, the next paragraph should be a description of that preparation under the header '''Preparation. '''It should be a "Heading 2" header and look like the one above this paragraph.

Directions
Following the preparation description (or the intro sentence if there isn't a preparation description) should be a paragraph describing how the activity is carried out with volunteers and participants, under the Heading 2 header Directions.

Categorizing Your Activity
IMPORTANT: Remember to categorize your activity! All activities must at least be placed in the Activity category, otherwise they might slip throgh the cracks and not show up on the Wiki. Here is a complete list of the categories used to classify activities on the IYWP Wiki.

Remember, the easiest way to learn how to format an activity page is simply to read the activity pages already posted on the Wiki. Have fun, and thanks for contributing!