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Drug Detectives: Uncovering Medicine’s Hidden Stories

Grade level: 9th Grade

Initial ideas

Students will research and then teach about their chosen drug. They need to figure out Therapeutic window How they work on the brain and the body Tolerance and dependance Possibility of addiction Risk of ending up with counterfits What schedule are they History of the drug Who benefits from the manufacture or creation of the drug interesting facts about their drug.

Car vs. Uber: The 3-Year Cost Challenge

Grade level: 11th Grade

Initial ideas

Create a super simple 11th-grade algebra assignment called "Car vs. Uber." Keep the language incredibly basic, direct, and easy to read. Do not include any charts, graphs, or complicated steps. The assignment should only have 3 simple parts: 1. Part 1 (Linear): Student picks a used car. Give them a flat down payment of $1,000 (b) and a flat monthly cost of $300 (m) for gas/insurance/payment. They just write y = 300x + 1000 and calculate the total cost for 12 months and 36 months. 2. Part 2 (Exponential): If they just take Ubers, it costs $5,000 the first year. Every year after, the price goes up by 10%. They use y = 5000(1.10)^t to find the cost for Year 1, Year 2, and Year 3. 3. Part 3: Answer one question: Which one is cheaper after 3 years, and which one would you actually want? Provide just the student instructions and a very basic 3-line grading checklist. Keep it as short and plain as possible.

Kapu to Change: Hawaiʻi’s Power Players

Grade level: 7th Grade

Initial ideas

Students investigate how Hawaiian society changed following the end of the kapu system and increasing missionary and foreign influence. Students analyze primary and secondary sources, examine who held power and how different groups experienced change, identify what was changed, preserved, adapted, or lost, and ultimately develop a historical argument about who had the power to shape cultural change in Hawaiʻi. Students will then work in teams to transform their argument and evidence into a public historical exhibit, while each student independently writes a historical argument.

Feelings in Color: A Six-Week Art Adventure

Grade level: Kindergarten

Initial ideas

Create a 6 week long project centered around the basic emotions and tie in different visual art materials. keep it as simple as possible with the art products that students produce. focus on one type of art a week and 2 emotions to go with those are forms. select books to go with each weeks art and emotions. make this project more hands on with art materials such as paints, oil pastels, water color, etc.. launch with a read aloud of the book "The Way I feel". Incorporate learning about lines into the art pieces

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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.