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Part 1: Explore a Breakout Box
Part 1: Explore a Breakout Box
- The Adirondacks: A Digital Breakout Box https://sites.google.com/psbma.org/adirondacksdigitalbreakout/home
- Explore for 20 minutes in class
- Invite students to finish at home.
- Go to your Announcement on Google classroom to provide the link to this breakout box and others at our Samples Page.
- As you are Breaking Out, explore the key features of a digital breakout box. Use the Digital Breakout Box Format doc to take special note of the:
- the Theme of the breakout box.
- Why was the theme chosen?
- How does it show up throughout the Breakout Box?
- the Essential Question
- How does the Essential Question provide a challenge for you?
- How does it focus your thinking throughout the breakout box?
- the Hook
- How does the hook get you excited to dig in further?
- How does the hook provide further information to introduce what you will be learning about?
- the Clues
- How do the images get you excited to dive into your work to solve the clue?
- How do the sub-questions focus your learning?
- How does the background information help you learn more about the clue?
- How does the the puzzle or game provide a challenge and reveal important information?
- the locks
- How do you know when you get the wrong answer to the clue?
- How do you know when you get the right answer to the clue?
- How do you submit your answers once all the clues are solved and the answers are put into the locks?
- the Explore Further section
- How do the links provide an opportunity to learn further about your topic?
- Sketchnote - Form groups of three. Ask each group to sketchnote one of the sections of the breakout box (theme, background information and resources, 4 clues, locks…)
Part 2: Develop The Digital Breakout Box
Part 2: Develop The Digital Breakout Box
- Use the template your work to organize and store all the questions, information, links…
- Essential question
- Hook
- Cues
- Locks
- Explore Further Resources
A. Theme - Choose a topic that your whole team is interested in and excited about as your theme.
- Choose Your Theme: As a group, choose the idea for a theme that you are all most excited to work with.
- Group Norms
- Remember all the work your class has done to develop leadership, decision-making, trust-building, communication, and conflict-management skills in your morning meetings.
- The goal is to come to a consensus - not for one student to win but for all to take ownership of and be excited about the chosen theme.
- Actively listen (make eye contact, avoid interruption and repeat important points…)
- Build on what others have contributed when responding.
- Disagree constructively in a way that helps everyone feel valued.
- Discuss: What strategies have you learned to collaboratively make a decision that works for each member of the group?
- Group Norms
- Choosing a Theme
- Think: Take some time to think about some to brainstorm ideas that you would be excited to explore further. Write your three best ideas down with some details about why they would make a great theme to explore further.
- Pair: Get back together with your group of three to share your ideas.
- Share: One person shares one idea and then go on to the next continuing until all ideas are shared. Listen for ideas that you would be excited to work with. Together, come to consensus about what your theme will be.
- Develop and Write your theme as an Essential Question?
- Add your Essential Question to your Digital Breakout Box. Learn how to Create a new site and add and format text on a Google Site.
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C. Locks: (Google Forms) to record and validate answers
- Create a lock for each of the questions
- Describe the form that the answer should be given in.
- (provide further directions - ALL CAPS, No Spaces…)
- Use the Template to create your locks
- Open https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1IPK2BeTK4JiE_eB3RmF-nIw0T1_hZwaYDsyV261Lat8/copy
- Make a copy of the doc
- Fill in your information
- Provide the form that the answer should be given in.
- Provide directions to answer the question in proper form
- Provide the correct answer
- Do you want to Learn More about locks?
- How To Create A "Locked" Form https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAVT2xeVUQU&feature=youtu.be
- Digital Breakout How To: Go to page based on answer ht tps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpavStOFNSA&feature=youtu.be
- Add your locks to your Digital Breakout Box. Learn how to embed files in a Google Site.
D. Hook and Resources to explore further:
- Write the Hook: You hook should
- Get excited to learn more.
- Provide background information for the Breakout Box.
- Hide the first clue in the hook
- Use capital letters
- Use bolded text or a different color text
- Underline certain letters
- If it is a shorter piece of text, omit letters
- Use the first letters of every paragraph, sentence, or line of a poem
- Use capital letters
- Find a Great Image to hook in your audience
- Provide high quality (online and offline) resources to explore the topic further
- Add the Hook and Explore Further Resources to you Digital Break out Box. Learn how to add and format text and images and add links on a Google Site.
Part 3: Develop the Webpage to bring it all together
Part 3: Develop the Webpage to bring it all together
- Sections to include
- Add Essential question
- Add the Hook
- Add Clues
- Add the Locks
- Add Additional Resources
- Revisit the Essential question
A. Check out our Digital Break Out Website Template
B. Learn How to Create a Google Site: New Google Sites
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