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Recent Designs

How Hawaiian is a Hawaiian Plate Lunch?

Grade level: 8th Grade

Initial ideas

Explore Change in Hawaii during Kamehameha II (Liholiho) reign through introduced food items. Students engage prior knowledge of a one of the Five Themes of Geography: Movement; in this case food products. Students will examine and reflect on an image of a typical Hawaiian Style plate lunch and identify the origin of the food items, when they arrived in Hawaiʻi, how they arrived in Hawaiʻi. They will then produce a "plate" using construction paper models with information about when the food arrived, from where and by whom.

Habitat Heroes: Build a Zoo-Ready Animal Home

Grade level: 1st Grade

Initial ideas

i want a project for my first graders where we are studying animal habitats and animal adaptations. i have a picture of a polar bear in the desert to spark some curiosity with a notice and wonder and want the final project to be a diorama of the habitat and their animal. i want the community based learning project to be connected to the san diego zoo and how they create habitats for each of the animals at the zoo.

Mythical Characters: From STEAL to Meal

Grade level: Middle School

Initial ideas

The final deliverable of this project will be a menu that showcases the chracterization of the protganoizst and/or antogonist in a creation myth. I will teach my studetsn characteristics using the STEAL method and the reipces/ingredients have to showcase parts of STEAL

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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.