Over the next five lessons, students craft a specific problem statement for a personally meaningful issue that needs attention in their community
Students generate their own ideas of problems they want to solve in their community/world.
OBJECTIVES: students will:
Reflect on issues you see in the world
Generate 1-5 post-its on issues and problems you see in the world
Crowd source ideas to a class poster board
Categorize ideas into similar threads.
What patterns emerge? What is this group of students concerned about?
Have students congregate with others who are interested in a similar topic.
Students learn about the UN Global Goals
OBJECTIVES: students will:
Explore UN Global Goals
Students who finish early should continue to research their problem.
Students see examples of others work
OBJECTIVES: students will:
Get inspired.
Watch slides and write out answers. (better for groups)
or
digitally answer questions. ( better for individual google classroom)
Students map align their issue with UN Goal
OBJECTIVES: students will:
Align issue to a UN GOAL :
Refine issue to one specific topic:
Review Lesson1 poster, to remind students of initial ideas.
Students fill in "Map Issue" printout, to:
align their ideas with a UN GOAL,
research their issue at the global, national and community level.
write a specific problem statement which is a subset of their idea
OBJECTIVES: students will:
Create a specific problem statement.
Craft a simple problem statement.
Form groups who are interested in the same topic.
Preview next week's MyCS Final Project Guide
If time permits complete project proposal (part of guide)
CSTA P1.2-: Evaluate the way computing impacts personal ethical social economic and cultural practices