A team of young people at a school near Cambridge have used coding site Scratch to create a historical map of their village, going back more than 200 years.
Aidan, Eoin, Esmé, Finn, Jack, Scarlett and Zac are Year 3 pupils at Haslingfield Endowed Primary School, and members of the coding club. They used Scratch to combine maps of Haslingfield village going back to 1800, and added a slider bar to switch between them and see places of interest through the years.
“All of the info in the maps was already available, however it was practically inaccessible to any but a few highly motivated people,” says Phil Golden, who runs the school’s code club. “Making it was a wonderful experience. The students found old maps, online and written resources, and…