The Bigger Picture

How Does the Work Weave Together?

As a compass, the enduring understandings anchor our thinking. These ideas drive and support our thinking creating a thread that tightly weaves the work together. No matter the content, the focal point is centered on reconfiguring current ideas to intentionally improve what people have see and to produce what people have NOT YET seen. (UC Creative Thinking)

#1 - PAST: Egypt

  • Accessing Information

  • Note taking/Summarizing

  • Make Meaning of Systems Thinking

  • Mindsets - Opportunity is the driving force that influences the development of global regions (Enduring Understanding)

  • Synthesize learning

  • Conversational Competence (Allison Zmuda)

  • Collaborative Accountability

  • Script Writing

  • Podcasting

#2 - PRESENT: All Thirteen By Christina Soontornvat

  • Media Literacy

  • Reliable Resources

    • Conversations with EXPERTS

      • Primary resource - Chaz Powell (explorer)

      • Primary resource - Christina Soontornvat (Author: All Thirteen)

  • Mindsets - Experiences influence people's perspectives and decisions (Enduring Understanding)

  • Multiple Lens Perspective (Think Like A: Geographer, Journalist, Explorer)

  • Systems Thinking

  • Generating quesitons and assumptions, along with gathering evidence, using reasoning to analyze and justify ideas in order to influence perspectives and acitons (UC Critical Thinkers)

  • Conversational Competence (Panel Discussions) (Allison Zmuda)

  • Writing

    • Reflection

    • Informative text

    • Analysis of relevant content

  • Collaborative Accountability (Panel Discussions)

  • Google Earth

#3 FUTURE: NASA & ARTEMIS - Inquiry Process

  • Systems Thinking

  • Solving Real World problems - Survival

    • Communication, Health, Food, Transportation, & Energy

  • Research

    • Reliable Resources

      • Primary Resource - Steven Smith (NASA Education)

      • Website (NASA)

      • TIm Needles (How do you "Tell Your Story"?)

      • QC Engineering Science Council

      • Laura Williams (AEA SCRUM Trainer)

  • Academy

    • Creative design introduction

    • Purposeful play (Lego build)

    • Collaborative design (Lunar Colony)

    • Present and Feedback

  • SCRUM

    • Daily Standup

    • Agile Mindset

      • Effective teams are comprised of divergent thinkers

      • Orgainzed structure for problem solving

  • Lab

    • Define "done"

      • What is the problem that needs to be solved and justify WHY is it a problem (researched based)

    • Micro-research

      • NASA website

    • Collaborative teams build prototypes - Opportunity is the driving force that influences the development of global regions (Enduring Understanding)

      • STEM

      • Computer Science

    • Presentation and feedback

      • Conversational Competence (Allison Zmuda)

      • Research

      • Flexible and adaptable individuals make personal/collective shifts, with intellectual agility and emotional responsiveness, to be successful when facing ambiguity and challenges (UC Construct)