Deliverable
✏️ Ocean PSA Idea Sketches
Critical Thinking & Problem Solving
Collaboration
Content Expertise
Effective Communication
Product
Assessment
Reflection
Core Content
Essential Question
Critique and Revision
Submission Required
Grading Required
Students work in small teams with role cards to generate many possible PSA approaches for the problem statement they defined earlier. Each student creates 2 quick concept sketches for different formats such as a poster, brochure, story page, or video scene card, then the team clusters ideas by audience need and selects 1 promising direction using a simple criteria chart: clear message, helpful facts, strong visuals, and usefulness for real people. Teams record why their chosen idea best helps protect marine life and keep local water clean.
Plan day
Day 6
Duration
50 min
Grouping
Small Group
Steps
6 steps
Lesson plan
6 steps · 50 min| # | What teachers do |
|---|---|
| 1 | Launch the ideation session by revisiting the two essential questions and briefly naming today's goal: generate many PSA ideas that could help protect ocean animals and keep local water and beaches clean. Model one quick sketch with labels and a call to action, and define audience as the group your message is for and criteria as the things you will use to judge an idea. (5 min) |
| 2 | Students move into small teams, review role cards, and gather materials such as sketch paper, pencils, crayons, and the simple criteria chart. Teams quickly name one audience they want to reach, such as families at the beach, boaters, or classmates, and keep marine pollution facts from earlier learning nearby for support. (5 min) |
| 3 | Each student creates two fast concept sketches for two different PSA formats, such as a poster, brochure, story page, or video scene card. Students add short labels to show the message, at least one fact or example, and the action they want people to take to reduce pollution and help marine life. (12 min) |
| 4 | Partners pair and share their sketches, giving one glow and one grow for each idea using sentence starters. Students listen carefully, ask questions about the message and audience, and make one quick improvement to at least one sketch before taking it back to the team. (8 min) |
| 5 | Teams place all sketches together, cluster similar ideas by audience need, and talk about which messages seem most useful for real people. Using a simple chart with clear message, helpful facts, strong visuals, and usefulness, teams compare ideas and select one promising direction or a combined idea. (8 min) |
| 6 | Teams record their decision on a planning sheet by naming the chosen format, intended audience, key message, and call to action. Each team writes 1-2 sentences explaining why this idea best helps protect marine life and keep local water clean, then prepares to carry the idea into the next feedback round. (7 min) |
Preparation (10 items)
- Prepare team role cards with simple jobs such as facilitator, materials manager, timekeeper, and speaker.
- Copy or set out quick sketch sheets with space for two idea sketches per student and room for labels.
- Create a simple criteria chart with pictures or icons for clear message, helpful facts, strong visuals, and usefulness for real people.
- Prepare a short model example of a PSA sketch in one format that includes a fact, a visual idea, and a call to action.
- Gather drawing materials, clipboards or hard writing surfaces if needed, and planning sheets for the team choice statement.
- Post the two essential questions where all students can see them during the activity.
- Set out sentence starters for peer feedback such as 'I notice...', 'A glow is...', 'A grow is...', and 'This helps people know to...'.
- Have previously learned marine pollution facts, vocabulary cards, and visual references available for students who need content support.
- Plan team groupings that balance talkative students, developing artists, and students needing reading or language support.
- Prepare an exit check or quick teacher checklist to note whether each student produced two sketches and whether each team selected and justified one idea.
Student-facing instructions
Today you will work with your team to invent different PSA ideas about marine conservation. You will use sketch paper, pencils, crayons or markers, your team role card, a criteria chart, and facts you have already learned about pollution and marine ecosystems. First, you will make two quick sketches in two different formats, such as a poster, brochure, story page, or video scene card. Your sketches should show who the PSA is for, what message you want people to understand, one helpful fact or example, and what action you want people to take. Then you will pair and share your ideas, give Glows and Grows feedback, and improve one sketch. Last, your team will group the ideas by audience need, use the criteria chart to choose one strong direction, and write why your idea will help protect ocean animals and keep local water clean.