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Bertrand Blooms: Growing a Farm-to-Table Community

Grade level: 4th Grade

Initial ideas

How can we help Bertrand bloom and become a more welcoming place for our community? We would like to create a project based garden designed to give students and the surrounding community the opportunity to supplement fresh vegetables in their diets by cultivating a farm to table grade level garden.

Habitat Heroes: Sketch, Build, and Help!

Grade level: 2nd Grade

Initial ideas

Habitat project where students research a habitat to create a diorama project that they will complete at home. We will do research heres in the class, but they will complete the diorama at home. They will choose the habitat, and explore the animals there. We want to link it to how this helps the community. we want to do an art sketch first so they know how their habitat looks like and whihc animals they will add to their habitat.

Lake Erie Climate Quest: Modeling Change

Grade level: High School

Initial ideas

create a project that teaches about the global climate change in the context of the Great Lakes, specifically Lake Erie in New York State for a high school earth and space science class. Here are the major concepts that need to be addressed: Analyze geoscience data and the results from global climate models to make an evidence-based forecast of the current rate of global or regional climate change and associated future impacts to earth systems. (Stability and Change), Analyze geoscience data to make the claim that one change to earth's surface can create feedbacks that cause changes to other earth systems. (Stability and Change), Develop a quantitative model to describe the cycling of carbon among the hydrosphere, atmosphere, geosphere, and biosphere. (Energy and Matter), Use a computational representation to illustrate the relationships among Earth systems and how those relationships are being modified due to human activity. (Systems and System Models)

Community Stories: Pastels of Belonging

Grade level: 9th Grade

Initial ideas

Students will be interviewing a member of the community about their cultural background and experience in their community. They will then take that information from the interview and create an oil pastel drawing that showcases their interviewee's journey and story as it relates to community.

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What if there was a tool to help us take our wild project ideas and create a scope and sequence? There is! Inkwire and the Professional Learning team at High Tech High’s Graduate School of Education designed an AI-assisted curriculum planning tool.

Powered by High Tech High's Kaleidoscope framework for project-based learning (PBL) design, this AI assistant helps educators – and learners! – integrate standards and curriculum requirements into a cycle of PBL Essentials.

The AI-assisted Kaleidoscope tool is co-designed by Inkwire & the High Tech High Graduate School of Education Professional Learning Team. The "Design for Deeper Learning Kaleidoscope" framework is copyright by the High Tech High Graduate School of Education.