Name: Kyle Stumpf
Email address: kstumpf@jpsonline.org
School: Jenison High School
Grade/subject/s taught: AP Government/Government
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Project Planning Template
Project Title: Making a Positive Change in our Community
Project at a Glance : Students will be researching government entities or local organizations that make a positive impact in the community? Students will identify a major issue in the community, research what is being done to address the issue and utilize a government entity or local organization to make a positive change in the community.
Driving Question: How can we reform a government entity or local organization to make a positive impact in our West Michigan community?
Example: How can we meet a need of someone in our community?
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Project Planning Template
Project timeline:
When do you plan to run your classroom PBL project (ex: November)?
Possibly October, November or February.
Approximate length of project (ex: 2 weeks)?
2-3 weeks.
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Project Planning Template
Observation Stage
Project Planning Template
Please include all protocols that you will be using. Try to be specific by naming them!
What Standards and Skills do you want your students to master during the PBL? | -Analyze the role of a citizen (Khan Academy) -Analyze problems and causes of issues affecting the West Michigan community -Assess options for action -Research -Collaborative discussion -Peer decision making |
What will you do to put your students into Successful Teams and Build Culture? | Value Cards, Flippity (truly random nature so that compromise is necessary) |
What will you do for an Entry Event? | Panel or field trip. Roundtable discussion with panel from GR, Holland, Jenison ,etc. |
Investigation Stage: Empathy �Project Planning Template
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Who are your Stakeholders? | Community members, government entities, local organizations |
How will you help build Empathy? | Panel. Interviews. Stakeholder map. |
Investigation Stage: Inquiry Building�Project Planning Template
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How will you help your students determine the Need to Knows to for the Driving Question? | Hopes and Fears, Classroom discussion of the need to knows for the driving question, maybe even rewriting or rephrasing the driving question |
How will you help your students uncover information to solve the challenge? | Circulation and daily check ins with each group and each student |
Incubation Stage
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Please include all protocols that you will be using. Try to be specific by naming them!
What do you already do to encourage your students to brainstorm or think outside the box? | -Investigate what has and has not been tried in an attempt to solve the problem that they are looking into. This way they know what has been attempted. The idea quota or telling a toddler protocol can also get them to think outside the box because it removes conventional narratives after a short amount of time |
What strategies will you use to help your students generate ideas? | Idea quote protocol. Generate as many as possible in ten minutes or fifteen |
Narrowing Investigation: Checking In
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How will you check-in with your students? How often and when? | SWOT, Daily check ins, |
What type of Check In strategies will you use to make sure your students are ready to start coming up with ideas? | SWOT, Daily check ins, |
Solution Stage
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How might you have your students begin to develop solutions from all their ideas? | SCAMPER, 3/12/2 protocol Rule of thirds, amazing analogies. |
What process will you move through to help your students get from an infinite amount of ideas to a handful of possible solutions? | Group them together by category $100 Test NUF Test |
Solution Stage: Critique/Revision Focus
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How might you have your students make a decision for what solution to move forward with? | -$100 Test or Dot vote to ensure that this is the group consensus to advance forward with the proposed solution |
How could you provide critique and revision opportunities for your students? | Individual NUF tests then group discussion to truly see how everybody feels about it Critical friends with another group before the pitchout |
Validation Stage: The Pitch
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Who will your authentic audience include? | -Administrators, government officials, leaders of local government agencies or non-profits |
How will your students present their final solutions to the authentic audience? | -In person (hopefully) this school year in classroom or a different audience setting like the Jenison Center for the Arts, the Library, the Auditorium |
How will you give them voice and choice? | -Giving them a say in what topic they tackle and what solutions they present -Values card activity in the beginning to sort so they can possibly be grouped with others that share their values |
Validation Stage:
Feedback/Reflection
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What tools will your authentic audience use to give feedback to your students? What tool/rubric will you use to assess your students work? | -Rubric from ISD -Background on the project -What I liked/What I would do better or what I would do next time |
What will you do to provide reflection for your students? How will they reflect together, with the authentic audience and on their own? | -Reflection at end of project (What worked/What could have gone better) -Group/Class reflection with authentic audience at end of the class (time permitting) |
Educator Profile:
Teacher Background: Kyle Stumpf teaches AP Government and US Government at Jenison High School.
Quote explaining your passion for PBL/Design Thinking: I love how PBL promotes responsibility, empathy and collaboration to the next generation of problem solvers. It gives me great hope for the future because I have seen the great things that young minds can accomplish with projects like these. The future looks bright!
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Project Padlet
While running your project document the journey on Padlet. Be sure to include photos, artifacts, and student work. Also, be sure all photos included can be published.
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