*At this point students should not be moving. All of the making experiences and group-building have been setting students up for successful projects in the discipline they originally chose.
Addie will be in Drew's room and Heather will be in Tim's room for the first 30 min, to introduce the ELA Process Journal. (Kimberly will be in Tara's room on Thursday)
DO NOW: On a post it note, write a topic that you are interested in doing a project on or one that you would be interested in if someone else did a project on it. Be general or specific. (Example: Tree Climbing. Example: Tree Climbing as Protest for Deforestation in Pacific Northwest)
- Choose one of the topics as a whole group. This will be a sample.
- Use the Question Sorts document to discuss types of questions: (A)
- Provide 5 minutes of silent generate time: On additional post it notes, have each student generate at least five questions on the topic chosen as the whole group.
- For each type of question start, have each person who chose that 'start' share their questions one at a time and post them in groups by type of question start. (What if... Why... etc)
- Reflect on the similarity or range of questions
GOAL SETTING:
- Identify a whole group or individual goal for studio time. Write down specific steps, how you know you are successful, and why you think this will help you get to a specific project idea.
STUDIO TIME:
- Use Question Sorts (A) or (B) to begin brainstorming questions surrounding a topic you are considering for your project. Use Brainstorming rules...don't hold back...ask a peer to generate some questions with you, offer to generate some for them.
- After a lot of questions have been generated, reflect on the most compelling questions. Try to imagine what it would look like to pursue one of the questions as a project....what would your next step be? what would you need to know? how would you go about figuring it out?
CHECK IN:
- Circle up
- Share exciting/surprising questions
