Learning Tasks for Thursday, April 3

Essential Question:  How does Project-Based Learning teach 21st Century skills?

Objectives:  I can...
-make connections between local, national, and global issues.
-identify issues that I may address in my future career.

1.  Writing into the Day
Very few students read newspapers or keep up with current news.  Why do you think this is?  What are the effects of not knowing what is going on in the world?

2.  Review

What is project-based learning?  What makes it unique from traditional education?

3.  Connecting Isuues

1. Select 4-5 issues from our Issues Charts that are most intriguing to you.
2. Using the LucidChart app in Google Docs, create a cluster chart demonstrating how these issues are connected.  Consider the people they affect, the locations in which they occur, the nature of the issue (e.g. environmental, social, political,...) etc.
3. Share with the class!

3.  Career-Focus
Select three of the issues on the walls that a person in your intended career field might be interested in.  Select one of these issues and write a TPEQEA paragraph explaining how someone in your career field would address that problem.  Be sure to cite the source of your quote!

4. Vote!

On a notecard, indicate your first and second choice of an issue to address with our PBL projects.  You will be working on this project for about two weeks, so be sure to put thought into it!  Based on your responses, I will organize you into peer groups.  Groups will be announced during class Friday.

5.  Exit Ticket

Look back at the Career-Focus issues you selected.  How interested would you be in working with those issues? Rate your interest from 1 (Not at All Interested) to 10 (Super Interested!).