Lesson 10: Project - Innovation Simulation Part 4

Distribute: Pass out badges and nameplates. While you are doing this, draw students' attention to the red box in the slide header that indicates the class is in simulation mode. From this point on in the class, students are thinking from the perspective of their given character.

Group: Instruct students to sit with their project teams

Delegates today you will have time to finish your one-pagers and work on your group presentation.

Distribute: Give students back CSP Innovation Simulation Project Guide if they don't already have them on hand.

Before you start preparing for your group presentation, take a few minutes to finish filling out the "Addressing Concerns" section in your One Pager. Once you're done, move on to Step 5.

Step 5 - Preparing Your Group Presentation - 5 mins: As a class review the instructions in their project guides. Highlight the fact that they have a lot of freedom to choose their presentation format.

Time Expectations: Make sure to set clear expectations with your students about how much time they'll have to present. This curriculum assumes roughly 20-30 minutes for all groups to present.

Encouraging Creative Presentations: Depending on your students' interests and skills you may encourage a wide variety of presentation types. While students have clear expectations on making sure they present a unified theme and briefly mention all innovations in their proposal,

Have groups fill out the two reflection questions on their project guides to lock down their unified theme and also find the connections between their theme and the innovation they chose.

Work Time - 35 minutes: Groups should get 35 minutes to work on designing their presentation.

Great work today delegates. Next time we meet you'll have a chance to get feedback on your draft presentations from another group. Then you'll have work time to finish your presentations and make any final edits to your one-pagers because after that it'll be time for the big convention!

Distribute: Pass out badges and nameplates. While you are doing this, draw students' attention to the red box in the slide header that indicates the class is in simulation mode. From this point on in the class, students are thinking from the perspective of their given character.

Delegates today is primarily a work day, but to begin you'll be meeting briefly with another group. You'll share the overall theme for your presentation, the way the different innovations tie into that theme, and the way you intend to present your vision for the Future School. You'll use the feedback you share with one another to make final changes to your project before presenting.

Time Expectations: Make sure to set clear expectations with your students about how much time they'll have to present. This curriculum assumes roughly 20-30 minutes for all groups to present.

Encouraging Creative Presentations: Depending on your students' interests and skills you may encourage a wide variety of presentation types. While students have clear expectations on making sure they present a unified theme and briefly mention all innovations in their proposal,

Distribute: Give students back CSP Innovation Simulation Project Guide if they don't already have them on hand.

Group: Have 2 - 3 members of each project team meet with 2 - 3 members of another project team, forming groups of 4 - 6. Ideally groups will get feedback from multiple other groups but this may be difficult to guarantee.

Feedback - 10 Mins: Groups should spend at most 10 minutes, 5 minutes on each project, sharing their project team's overall vision, the innovations they'll be presenting, and the high level format of their presentation. Members of the other group should provide critiques and suggestions, in particular any feedback from the perspective of their character about how they could benefit or be harmed by the proposed innovation.

Work Time - 30 minutes: Groups should get 30 minutes to work on finish designing their presentations and making any final edits to their one-pagers.

Thank you delegates for your hard work today. Next time we meet it will be for the actual presentations and to decide on the strongest overall presentations in our Future School Convention. I look forward to seeing you there!

Printing / Digital Access to One Pagers: Make sure students print or are ready to digitally share 1-pagers for the next class.

Distribute: Pass out badges and nameplates. While you are doing this, draw students' attention to the red box in the slide header that indicates the class is in simulation mode. From this point on in the class, students are thinking from the perspective of their given character.

Group: Instruct students to sit with their project teams

Delegates today it's time for the actual convention. Each group will have a couple minutes to present their overall vision for the Future School to the entire audience. Afterwards we'll leave their proposals around the room and you'll have time to review each of them to identify the group and individual innovation (outside your group) that you believe is best. Let's get to it!

Supporting Notes: Encourage students to take notes on individual presentations they want to look at more closely during the gallery walk as well as their overall impression of each of the presentations. A good rule is that by the end of the presentations students should have written down at least three individual innovations they want to look at more closely because it would be of interest to their character.

Running the Gallery Walk: Depending on your classroom setup you may want students to move around the room in an organized fashion, e.g. rotating through each project with their groups, or you might encourage students to move around the room as they wish.

Presentations - 25 mins: One by one have each group present to the class as a whole.

Gallery Walk - 15 mins: Have groups leave their one-pagers and any presentation materials around the room, collected by team. Give students time to walk around the room, review the materials, and try to identify the overall group and individual innovation, other than their own, that they believe is best based on the perspective of their character.

Step 7 - Evaluate: Ask students to record the best project and best individual innovation based on what the saw in the presentations and the gallery walk.

Thank you delegates for an amazing convention. We will be excited to share the results of our convention next time we meet. For now thank you for your incredibly hard work to help us improve schools for all. Give yourselves a round of applause!

Assessment

Collect: Collect students' project guides, one-pagers, and any materials related to their presentations that can be collected.

Rubric: Projects can be assessed using the provided rubric.

Now that we are near the end of the unit, we are going to play CSP Vocabulary BINGO once again. You have been working hard on learning the definitions of all of the different vocabulary words throughout the unit, and now we will put your amazing memories to the test.

I will give each of your a BINGO card that has randomized vocabulary on it. When you hear the definition for a word that you have on your card, mark that square. If you have 4 in a row horizontally, vertically, or diagonally, yell, "BINGO!"

Are there any questions?

Do This: Pass out a BINGO Card to all students. A printable PDF is located in the Resources section of this lesson plan.

Do This: Use the CSP Bingo Generator for Unit Eight in order to generate clues for the students.