Activity 7

• Developing ideas about possible criteria & constraints will help you refine your problem. When you participated in the airplane contest, your criteria & constraints helped you define what was deemed a successful airplane toss. How might you apply that thinking to your bite-sized experience?

• In your Team Huddle, begin brainstorming a list of criteria and constraints that could be possible or that students might come up with based on the problem you have identified and presented.

• Determine which criteria and constraints you might be able to support students in executing.

• Once all team members have had a chance to contribute, add the information to your team note-taking document and let your School Liaison know you are ready for feedback.

• Revisit the problem statement your team developed and recorded in the note-taking document.

• Using the criteria and constraints you identified, how can you refine that problem to be more specific for students? 

• Once all team members have had a chance to contribute, add your refined problem in the note-taking document.

• Consider the following formats as potential ways to engage students: 

  • Present the problem to students directly or by using one of the following options:

    • A variety of media (text, images, video) showcasing the problem

    • A scientific model related to the problem to be tested

    • A scenario that describes the problem or phenomenon

• As students engage with the problem and look for solutions, you need to be prepared to facilitate their thinking. 

• Work with your bite-sized experience team in the Team Huddle space (or another designated collaborative space) to brainstorm for possible solutions your students may come up with. 

• Develop a plan for guiding students to come up with multiple solutions, narrow their solution to the one best idea and create a rough prototype or idea to solve the problem. Add ideas to your note-taking document and let your School Liaison know you would like feedback.

• As you work through the task, consider:

  • • How might my students narrow the problem? 

    • How might students determine potential solutions for the problem? 

    • What potential solutions might students develop? 

    • How might I facilitate thinking for students to narrow their problems and determine possible solutions? 

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.