Design with DEEDS

Build projects and skills that matter.

The DEEDS Design Tool creates meaningful learning journeys rooted in relevant community topics, student voice, career skills and real-world problem-solving.

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Recent Designs

Time Travelers: Uncovering Our Town's Tales!

Grade Level(s): 4th Grade

Initial ideas

Organize a local history project, where students research and present the history of their town or city. This will include visits to historical sites and interviews with long-time residents.

Newsflash Ninjas: School Scoop Showcase!

Grade Level(s): 7th Grade

Initial ideas

Create a school newspaper, where students can learn about journalism, writing, editing, and layout design. They will publish articles on school events and topics of interest.

Library Adventures: Internship Extravaganza!

Grade Level(s): Kindergarten, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade, 4th Grade, 5th Grade, 6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade, 9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade

Initial ideas

internship project with local library

Weather Wizards: Forecasting & Disaster Defense!

Grade Level(s): 3rd Grade

Initial ideas

Students will be learning about weather, climate, natural disasters, safety procedures, weather forecasting, and analyzing weather data. Students will learn about the difference between weather and climate by reading and analyzing weather data and creating their own weather graphs based on local weather patterns. Students will learn about glyphs and weather for different fronts and pressure systems. They will use this information to create a weather map. They will use the weather map to film a weather forecast. Students then study different natural disasters and track where they normally occur across the states. Students pick a region and natural disaster to study. Then they create a saftey brochure to prepare for the disaster and a prototype model to reduce impact of a disaster

RoboBuilders: Craft, Code, Conquer!

Grade Level(s): 5th Grade

Initial ideas

Develop a robotics program to explore basic engineering and programming concepts. Students will design and build their own robots to solve simple tasks.

Fort Wayne Engineering Challenge: Solve & Innovate!

Grade Level(s): Kindergarten, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade, 4th Grade, 5th Grade, 6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade, 9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade

Initial ideas

create an authentic problem that engineers would solve using this math standard. Make a connection to a local issue in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

Shoot & Score: Hypothesis to Hoop-Success!

Grade Level(s): 9th Grade

Initial ideas

Students will choose a topic of interest, and make a hypothesis about how at how one quantity related to the topic depends on another and changes over time. For example, how will consistent practice over many days improve ones basketball shooting percentage. Collect empirical data on the relationship between two variables. Graph the data on a graph and determine whether hypothesis was correct, and what is the relationship between the variables? Create a video montage to show how with practice ones shooting percentage improved.

Internship Adventure: Learning & Earning

Grade Level(s): Kindergarten, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade, 4th Grade, 5th Grade, 6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade, 9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade

Initial ideas

internship project

Why DEEDS Works

Responsive

Powered by Inkwire's cutting-edge AI model, educators & learners can now create comprehensive project-based learning at the push of a button.

Relevant

Rooted in YOUR community's context! Teaching and learning can focus on relevant issues and/or local or global business needs. Learning has never been more impactful.

Results-Driven

DEEDS integrates standards and researched-backed practices into the learning journey for improved academic outcomes and enhanced professional skills.

DEEDS Lab Site soars with academic outcomes

At LEAD 359, a K-8 Public School in Bronx, New York, students were more than twice as likely to meet grade-level standards.

LEAD 359 Students Twice as Likely to Outperform District and State

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