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Recent Designs

Mission: Veteran Wellness—Move, Learn, Connect

Grade level: 9th Grade, 10th Grade

Initial ideas

onoring Local Veterans Through Fitness and Wellness The Multimedia Creator Track Health & Physical Education | Grades 9–12 | Three-week project | Partners: pairs or trios Project Mission Create a thoughtful, evidence-informed media project that highlights veteran wellness and a local resource, program, or story. As health journalists and advocates, your group will connect human experiences with accurate health science—without reducing a person’s story to a “feel-good” message or making assumptions about veterans’ experiences. Project Overview Work with a partner or in a trio to select one media track, research your topic, and produce an accessible final project. Your work must address all three health-science pillars below and include a clear, responsible call to action, such as learning more about a local resource. You may focus on a veteran who freely chooses to participate, a veteran-serving organization or program, or published veteran stories. You are not required to interview a veteran or discuss personal trauma.

Skyfall to Rainforests: Chasing Water Across Earth

Grade level: 6th Grade

Initial ideas

We investigate how ice can be falling from the sky on a warm day, how clouds form, why some clouds produce storms with large amounts of precipitation and others don’t, and how all that water gets into the air in the first place. Also trying to figure out what could be causing such a large-scale storm and why it would end up affecting a different part of the country a day later. Finally we apply our understanding to develop an explanation for why South America has a tropical rainforest in one part of the continent and temperate rainforest in another part of the continent, despite having some of the driest places on Earth relatively close to both.

Water Wise: Little Stewards, Big Splash!

Grade level: Kindergarten

Initial ideas

Problem / Challenge: : We live in climate challenged times where using water wisely and being aware of its importance to our world is vital to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Project Summary: : Students will look at water uses at school, in their homes, and in the community as well as exploring water in different forms and states. Through observations, data collection, and hands-on experiments students will engage with water and its various properties. The results of our work will generate ideas and suggestions to use water more mindfully. Driving Question: "How can we help our school use water wisely so there is plenty of it for plants and animals including people?"

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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.