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Preamble Adventures: A Story of We the People

Grade level: High School

Initial ideas

Create a children's book based on the US Constitution Preamble. Your story should be a story using the concepts of the Preamble. It should not be a line by line, as in the Preamble. For example, what is a story that would be compelling to little kids regarding "we the people" or "to estqablish justice".

Pop-Up Profit: Market Day Makers

Grade level: High School

Initial ideas

Market Day Event- This will be a 11-13 week project. High School Students, Advanced Business and Entre Students Year 2 will create their own pop up shop, groups of 2-4 are allowed. Students will invest in their own companies, create their own products and create their business pop-up shop for MD 2026. Team created deliverables include but not limited to: An initial business proposal, complete business plan, design and create displays for their booth and tables, and of course create their products to sell!

Kindness Connections: Bridging Generations for Wellness

Grade level: 8th Grade

Initial ideas

I want to design an interdisciplinary, community-based PBL project in Taiwan focused on elderly care in rural communities. Students will investigate population aging, access to healthcare, and the challenges faced by elderly people who cannot bathe independently. We hope to partner with the Fools for Friends Foundation in Nantou, which provides mobile bathing services for elderly people. Students will act as journalists, interview community members, explore local history, grow herbs such as mugwort, ginger, and edible chrysanthemums, and develop handmade soap and herbal products for charity fundraising. They will also organize community exhibitions, share their learning with the public, and eventually establish a student-led community resource station. Please help me design this project using backward design, including a driving question, learning goals, authentic student products, community partnerships, assessment strategies, and a sustainable three-year implementation plan. elders in our community, take care of their healthy, mental issue, let students company with them

Wildfire Wise: Science for a Safer SoCal

Grade level: 5th Grade

Initial ideas

Fifth graders will investigate the science of wildfire and explore what it means to live with fire in Southern California. Through hands-on experiments, fieldwork, data collection, and collaboration with community experts, students will learn what fire is, what fuels it, and how weather conditions such as wind, heat, and humidity can increase wildfire risk. They will explore how firefighters and communities prepare for and respond to wildfires, while also learning that fire can play an important role in healthy, fire-adapted ecosystems. As the project continues, students will examine what happens after a wildfire and how plants, animals, people, and communities recover and rebuild. Throughout the experience, students will think like scientists by asking questions, analyzing evidence, testing ideas, and considering ways science can help communities become safer and more resilient in a changing environment. Essential Questions: How can we help our community live safely with wildfires?

Nature’s Change-Makers: Evolution Mobiles

Grade level: 8th Grade

Initial ideas

I want to design a project that covers natural selection. We are aiming to visit the LA Natural History Museum and to create hanging mobiles that demonstrate specific examples of natural selection occurring throughout history. Students will construct a timeline in which they emphasize the environmental pressures that eventually lead to changing traits within a population and the eventual diversification of species. We want to create interactive/foldable notes along the way for students to reference.

Ocean Heroes: Dive In, Speak Up!

Grade level: 1st Grade

Initial ideas

I am doing an ocean project for 1st grade. We are hoping to add more to this unit. We would like to add an advocacy piece. Students will create a pamphlet on piccollage or an app you suggest to create a pamphlet. We would like to add some community partners such as a trip to the aquarium, or inviting a marine biologist into the classroom. The first grade buddies who are 6th graders can help the first graders understand the advocacy piece and provide critique and feedback to the students reports that will be writing. I need some ideas for reflection pieces. We are also planning on creating a 3d printed animal and using delightex to create a ocean habitat for their 3d printed animal. Our exhibit will be at open house. We thought of adding an art mosaic, or interpretative dance. Also, students could be the tour guides at open house to show parents the projects. We would also like to create a display for the library.

Bats to the Rescue: Balancing Our Ecosystem

Grade level: 7th Grade

Initial ideas

Students will be exploring ecosystem cycling of matter and energy. The school campus has an issue with mosquitos due to abnormally wet year and impact of new more resilient mosquito species. My essential question so far is "how to relationships impact environmental systems?". My end goal for the project is students will create bat boxes to help balance the system needs with excess mosquitos. I would like them to do research about ecosystem cycling, regional bats and their ecosystem services, what you need to make a good bat box, how to get materials for a project donated, marketing, and where to share out their product (city dispersal program, partner with local elementary school with mosquito issue, etc.), and get input from local bat expert on their bat box project. We have a woodshop teacher who might be willing to collaborate with me.

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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.