Give guidance and feedback to students' plans, encouraging, refining, and helping them to be responsible for their own learning. Maintain high expectations for completion of chosen options. Summarize by reviewing the whole, bringing students "full circle" to the experience with which the learning began.
Projects of choice depicting the impact of improved technology.
Objective: To initiate, plan, and refine a creative presentation incorporating elements of creative problem solving.
Activity: Students will project the impact of their future invention on that culture. Students will use the consequences wheel to evaluate priorities. Students will create their choice of one or any combination of newspaper or magazine advertising of the new invention, television commercials, talk shows with interviews with inventors and reactions of those affected by the new invention or any other format they may devise.
Assessment: Quality of the creative production.
Inventions
Subject:
Social Studies
Grade:
Primary, Intermediate
Concept:
Vision
Bridge:
Perspective
Content:
A Study of Inventions and Problem Solving Solutions