10th Grade Earth Event 2014

Essential question: What is the value of food?

Project Overview: Over the next month, you will be working with teams of three to four students to research, design, and assemble a professional quality display, with an interactive component. This interactive display with be used by your group, and visiting students, to educate children K to 8 about food and food related issues. The final booths (and presentations during Earth Event on June 6, 2014) will use multi-media and concise writing to present accurate research and data, while demonstrating teamwork, creativity, and artistic skills. Individual component: Each student will be writing an individual essay and reflection based on guiding questions where student answer questions using support from your research and coursework.

Project components: 1. Annotated bibliography a. Description: This is a research outline where individual students will answer What? How? and Why? for each source. You must have at least ____ sources for each guiding question. b. Due date: Beginning of class Thursday May 8/Fri May 9 c. Requirements: i. What? What is the source about? ii. How? How am I going to use this source to support my research? iii. Why? Why do I trust this source? 2. Holistic plan for presentation a. Description: This is where students will design their exhibit including plan for each element of the project. If no plan is submitted, the project will not be assessed. b. Due date: Monday May 12 c. Requirements: i. Goals- what are the goals for my project? ii. Tone- what is the overall persuasive tone that you will be using? iii. Essential and guiding questions- What is the juicy question that want people to think about. What are more specific questions that you are teaching about? iv. Role of each group member during Earth Carnival (and pre-presentation) v. Age range of audience- sign up May 8/9. vi. Plan for booth layout and space needs. vii. General plan for visual display and location of activity.

3. Lesson plan a. Description: Students will prepare a lesson plan that will be used during the event and given to the teachers to teach a follow-up lesson in their own classrooms. b. Due date: Rough- Tuesday May 20/ Wed May 21 Final- Thursday May 22/ Friday May 23 c. Requirements: i. Detail the 10 minute lesson that the students will present during the event. 1. Introduction 2. Activity for students- designate ages 3. Closing activity ii. Include resources for the teachers to use in their own classrooms 1. Activities that can be done in the classroom- for each age 2. Websites with resources

4. Visual display a. Description: This is a visual display that will attract attention to your exhibit. It will include your creative visual component and information for your activity. It should include both words and images. b. Due date: End of class Thursday May 29 or Friday May 30 c. Requirements: i. Title- a creative title to attract interest ii. Visual display of guiding questions- The questions you create should be used. iii. Visual display of essential question- This is the BIG question. How do you want to get the audience thinking about it? iv. Overview of the activity- The display should include something about the activity they will be doing. v. Information - appropriate for age level, easy to read from a distance. Bite size chunks of writing. vi. Research- from annotated bibliography AND original collected data vii. Creative visual component- Should be large enough to see from a distance (and make people want to come over.) Sign up May 8/9..

poster painting photographs with captions and obvious connection map

video infographic diarama wire model

digital story cartoon other sculpture

5. Activity component a. Description: This is a student led activity that engages as audience to participate in something . b. Due date: End of class Thursday May 29 or Friday May 30 c. Requirements: i. Adaptations for each age range. ii. Plan your space so that its appropriate for the activity iii. Gather materials for the activity. iv. Incorporate into your lesson plan and visual display. v. Choices below for activity type- - sign up May 6/7. Game where objective is assessed Inquiry activity Craft Interview activity Math activityanalyze data set; budget plan Data collection

interactive story book

Build something with audience for classroom or for homes Write a letter or postcards to government, family...

Map of restaurants/stores for food choices who has access? Dance

Song

Design solution for outsourcing campus food; using campus food for our lunch time Plant something or organize community planting event

OTHER

scavenger hunt with camera