A collaborative, hands-on way to use
technology to solve real world problems.
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An opportunity to use the technology in your
daily life to solve real world problems.
Collaborative
Hands-on
Working with peers, teachers, parents, experts in
your community and around the world.
Asking “Good” questions.
Developing deeper understandings.
Accepting and solving challenges.
Taking action.
Sharing your experience.
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A Big Idea
An Essential (necessary, important) Question
A Challenge
Guiding Questions
Activities
Resources
A Solution
A way to put your plan into action.
A way to judge if your plan worked.
Reflection on the process.
Assessment.
Publishing your results for others to read.
Resilience
 Separation
 Creativity
 Health
 Sustainability
 Democracy
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You will probably think of many questions,
eventually narrowing in on one.
This should reflect your interests and the
needs of those around you.
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Challenge Based Learning Website
Challenge Based Learning Video
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Here you are to
develop a
specific
solution that
will result in
concrete,
meaningful
action.
I think if I do
“this,” the
result will be
“this.”
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What are some smaller, guiding questions
that come to mind?
Now identify lessons, activities, and resources
to answer your smaller, guiding questions
from above.
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There might be many solutions at first.
Once you choose yours, it should be
thoughtful, concrete, clear, and able to be
carried out.
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Test your solution out. This can be a full on
implementation, or even in a test group.
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Was your solution successful?
How can you test it?
Surveys, interviews, videos.
What are the next steps?
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Document each step of the challenge in a
journal, or online blog, or video journal.
Create a portfolio along the way.
All of this information will make your
publishing easier.
Without it, you will forget much of what you
did.
Think about what
worked, what didn’t.
 Think about what
problems you had.
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 Think about the
interactions you had
with others.
 Think about your
learning.
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Through out your process of CBL you will be
keeping a journal. It can be audio, video,
written, drawn, a combination of several or all
mediums. I will guide you on your entries.
You will need your journal to help you record
your thoughts and findings and keep you on
track for your final stage of CBL-Publishing
your results and reflections. Your journal’s
will be graded, however they are informal
pieces of documentations-not essays!
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Written/visual:
(can use graphs,
Charts, etc)
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Video:
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Audio:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N98HpNPOCI0
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What part of the process are you working on
this week?
What new knowledge or skills have you
acquired this week?
What has been your biggest
challenge/success this week?
How is your group doing as a team?
What are your top priorities for next week?
Each group member should chose at least
one prompt to answer each week. (in addition
to any teacher given prompt assigned)
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After watching the two videos from slide 6,
brainstorm a big idea that you want to work
with, two essential questions and a basic
description of the challenge. It could be a
challenge that effects your community,
changes the world, a new invention or an idea
that “makes a buck”!
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Sustainability - Water
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How does my
water
consumption
impact my
world?
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I want to improve my home, school, or
community’s use of water.
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How do we use water?
How much do we use?
How is water wasted?
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Brainstorm everything you know about water.
Google water.
Determine how much water you and your
families use with the H2O water calculator
available from the USGS.
Use the Surf Your Watershed site provided by
the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to
locate my communities watershed. If
possible, interview local groups or experts
about the watershed.
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EPA Statistical
information about
water use.
http://www.epa.gov/WaterSense/pubs/indoor.html
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U.S. Geological
Survey site.
http://water.usgs.gov/edu/
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USGS water
calculator.
http://water.usgs.gov/edu/sq3.html
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We researched and recorded how much water was
being used in our school. We looked at student and
teacher use, and explored how water was used for
landscaping.
After considerable research, we determined that one of
the largest sources of water use was the school
landscaping. We then went about determining the
amount of water necessary to sustain the current
landscaping, the source of that water, and alternative
landscaping options.
We decided on the solution of making the landscaping
more water efficient. A plan for changing the school
landscaping that included a plant palette, a forecast for
the amount of water saved, and a budget and
prediction of the district’s return on their investment.
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To explain our plan, we created public service
announcements as well as brochures. All of
this information was then presented to the
school board. With board approval and
support from the community we worked to
implement the solution.
Plant palettes allow us to pair certain plants
with our specific climate. It also allows us to
provide the exact amount of watering, and to
avoid overwatering.
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We were able to use plants better suited to our
climate, plants that are hardy and do not require
as much watering as the previous plants.
We compared the amount of water used
previously to the amount of water used now, and
there was a considerate drop in usage.
In saving water, we also saved the School District
money, although it was not significant.
For our next step, we would like to attempt to
harvest water from the water spouts of the
school buildings, to use for future watering.
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Prompts
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Sustainability – Food, Energy, Air
Climate Change
Public Health
Economy
Conflict
Personal, group, or cultural identity
Health and wellness
What about Business opportunities?
What else can we add? Let’s look in the major
news stories.