Plan As you move through each phase, plan what you will do based on input and ideas from your group or class. You won’t be able to plan your entire challenge before you start. Rather, use the information from each phase to help you plan the next phase as it begins. | Document and Reflect For each phase, document what happens, reactions, opportunities for future investigations, and reflections. These will help you as you plan the following phases. | |||||||||
Big Idea Challenge Based Learning starts with identifying a big idea. The big idea should be something important to your lives such as community, water, gender equality, or climate change. What are you interested in examining? What broad concept will you focus on? Use the Sustainable Development Goals for ideas of global challenges that could be relevant to your community. | | |||||||||
E N G A G E | Engage Planning Select which engage activities you will complete to begin exploring your challenge and help you develop and refine your essential question. Depending on the amount of time you have to complete engage activities, you might not be able to complete all five types of activity, but try to engage in a few different ways. | | ||||||||
Discuss Talk about the big idea, how it relates to you, and what you already know. | Notice Take time to observe your big idea within your community, your personal beliefs, and the larger social and political systems. | Empathize Talk with members of your community to learn about their experiences with your big idea. | Connect Make connections with others in your community or around the world working on your big idea. | Define Consider the parts of your big idea to understand the factors that contribute to it. | ||||||
Essential Question The question should be answerable through research, help focus efforts, and provide a framework for the challenge. What question is driving your Challenge? | | |||||||||
I N V E S T I G A T E | Investigation Planning Select how many investigations you will complete. For each investigation, identify a guiding question. Then, select an investigation method that is appropriate to answer that question and plan your guiding activities using that investigation method. Make sure to complete at least one guiding activity for each guiding question. Once you have selected your guiding activities, explain why you selected this investigation method and guiding activity to answer your questions. | | ||||||||
Guiding Question: | Guiding Question: | Guiding Question: | ||||||||
Investigation Method & Guiding Activities: | Investigation Method & Guiding Activities: | Investigation Method & Guiding Activities: | ||||||||
Guiding Activity Rationale: | Guiding Activity Rationale: | Guiding Activity Rationale: | | |||||||
A C T | Action Pathway(s) What tool(s) will you use to act toward a solution to the essential question? | | ||||||||
▢ Create a Campaign ▢ Create a Model or Simulation ▢ Create an Animation ▢ Design an App | ▢ Create a Digital Publication ▢ Create a Piece of Digital Art ▢ Design a 3D Object ▢ Design an Electronic Object | ▢ Create a Game ▢ Create a Podcast ▢ Design a Space ▢ Design an Interactive Map | ▢ Create a Data Driven Story or Visualization ▢ Create a Video ▢ Design a Website ▢ Other: _______________________________ | |||||||
Why is this the most effective action pathway for the audience that you want to reach? | ||||||||||
Action Concept What actions will you take toward a solution to the essential question? In order to ________________________________ I/we will use _____________________________ to create _______________________________________. | ||||||||||
Connect & Share How will you share the work you have done with your community? | ||||||||||
Scale & Sustain How will you maintain the work you have done and measure its impact? | ||||||||||