Activity 5

Consider your Design Experience from Year 1 and answer these questions in your Team Huddle space: 

• How much of the Design Experience was I/were we able to implement last year, before schools closed?

• What problem did I/we introduce for students to solve? 

• How did I/we support students in identifying criteria for a successful design? 

• How did I/we address the constraints (time, budget, materials available) for the experience? 

• What content standards connected to this experience? 

• To what extent did I/we integrate interdisciplinary concepts into the experience? 

Visit the Team Huddle to share your considerations around the preceding questions and the problem(s) you might introduce for your students to solve. 

Revisit the Interdisciplinary Planning Scaffold and NGSS Flowchart you worked on as a group in S202. What stands out to you that you might integrate into your bite-sized experience with students?

• Discuss in your Interdisciplinary Team how you might divide up teachers and students into specific teams focused on a common problem for the bite-sized experience.

• Share about your Year 1 reflection with your Interdisciplinary Team team and School Liaison through your Team Huddle Discussion Forum.

• Once you discuss ideas with your Interdisciplinary Team, you are going to move into more detailed planning for the bite-sized experience in Design Cycle 1.

• In this bite-sized experience, you are required to work with at least one other content-area teacher. You might choose to collaborate by working on a joint lesson OR you can consult with the content-area teacher to include concepts and standards from the other content area into your experience.

• You can also choose to work on one experience as an Interdisciplinary Team. If so, your entire team can choose to work on a joint lesson together.

• Discuss who in your interdisciplinary team you might work with on your bite-sized experience. This will become your Bite-Sized Experience Team.

• Once you have determined your Bite-Sized Experience Team(s), designate one member to fill out the Bite-Sized Experience Team Google Form.

• You have the option of communicating with each other in the Team Huddle space, and will want to determine your norms for communication, based on how you establish your working teams for the bite-sized experience. Work with your team to decide the best option.

  • • Option 1: Team Huddle Discussion Forum

    • Option 2: F2F @ School

    • Option 3: Zoom, Google Meet

• Option 4: Other (email, text messaging, Skype, Slack, etc.)

• Once you have determined a communication plan, reach out to your School Liaison and share your communication plan.

Each team working together on the bite-sized experience will need to designate a collaborative workspace. Create a shared Google Drive folder for your team and make sure each individual on the team can access it and edit it. Give access to your Affiliate Trainer(s) and your School Liaison.

• Make a copy of the Design Cycle 1 Badge Scaffold (one per team or individually if completing the experience independently) and save in your team folder.

• Share your scaffold with your School Liaison and give them editing rights so they can give you feedback.

• Create a note-taking document in your Google Drive folder. You will use this to work through planning your bite-sized experience, communicate with your School Liaison, and receive feedback. When you come across reflection questions in the online module, record your answers in your note-taking document. Your School Liaison will provide you feedback and guidance as needed. 

• Both the reflections in your note-taking document and your completion of the criteria for badging (found in the Design Cycle 1 Badging Scaffold) will provide you credit for attendance.

Read through the requirements for badging on the Bite-Sized Experience Scaffold. 

• What questions do you have at this time about criteria for badging? Pose those questions to your School Liaison in the Help Desk.

Keep in mind:

• Your experience needs to be completed in 1-2 class periods  

• Your experience must integrate at least one subject area other than your own (consultation or collaboration).

• In your note-taking document, write out your ideas for possible experiences and discuss them by writing messages in the doc if you are not together or discuss them aloud and jot down a note that summarizes your team's thoughts if you are together.

• Include a description of the workable problem your team settles on as the problem your bite-sized experience will address. Then message your school liaison to let them know you are ready for feedback. If you'd like help with the task you can message them anytime for assistance.