Design for Deeper Learning

How might we design a welcoming community park that helps residents of different ages, abilities, interests, and sensory needs feel healthier, safer, connected, and included using mathematical geometry?

A stations activity centered around the idea of returning home after a long journey (physical or emotional).

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.

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

Use students understanding of sound and song travels by creating their own noise canceling headphones as a design challenge.

I want students to investigate how our town has changed over time using old photographs, maps, and local stories. They enjoy making videos, so we could combine history and storytelling in a tour or exhibit for families.

We read "The Ugly Pumpkin" as a class then made our own symmetrical pumpkins and discussed how every pumpkin is different just like we are. We lined them all up at the end. Pointed out how boring the patch would be if every single pumpkin looked exactly the same. Celebrated the bumps and unique shapes! Show them that our differences are the very things that help our friends recognize and love us.• "Look around our room. Do we all look exactly the same?" (Have them notice different hair colors, heights, or eye colors). • "What makes you unique and special?" (Encourage them to share a favorite food, a silly face they can make, or a special skill).

Students build and perform an original "magic" illusion that relies on real properties of light—such as reflection, refraction, total internal reflection, or polarization—and explain the science behind it to an audience. Project Overview • Driving Question: How can we use the behavior of light to design a magic trick that fools our audience while revealing true science? • Target Concepts: Reflection (plane/curved mirrors), refraction (bending light in water or oil), total internal reflection (mirages, disappearing glass), or light blocking/polarization. • Final Product: A live "Science Magic Show" where student teams perform their trick, hand out a blueprint/scientific breakdown, and host an interactive Q&A.