Design Thinking - Intro & Empathize

What is design thinking?  How can this type of thinking help us do science together?

What does it mean to empathize?  How can this be important in creating new things?

Class Friday, September 27

Use our class time today to get involved in the following activities:

1. Consider design thinking - Take some time to look over this diagram, how could it be helpful to us in the class this year?

   

   Design Thinking Can Help Us Make Things People Want

2. Get feedback from classmates and post to Twitter on the notebook
3. Mr. Farren's Portal Feedback Form
4. Mr. Scanga's Survey on Class so Far
5. Look at new unit goals (below), consider ideas for designing an experiment/graphic/movie for next unit
6. Give feedback or ideas on Google Moderator to classmates ideas for experiment/project for next unit

Scientists In Action Group Activity

As we are learning the world of science is HUGE!  The goal in this activity is to explore the common characteristics of how scientists think.

You have already come up with some great ideas in our group brainstorm.

Your task is to use what you know and read about actual scientists to identify examples of how they are exploring and experimenting in our world.  Use this project guide with an assessment rubric and an example.

Hopefully after this activity you will have a better idea of how a scientist thinks and acts.  This will be very helpful as we continue to do science this year and beyond.

Finish Portal - Paste Link

Find your class with tabs at the bottom and paste your link into this spreadsheet. You are expected to have the 6th Grade Academic Calendar tab, links to Veracross and to all of your teacher's pages. Other links are optional, but could make your portal more useful.

Portal Google Image Search

Creating an AISB Portal

Last week we had a great start to our work on our Portal.

We used Blogger to make a space to help us organize all our links.

Feel free to take some time at home to add links to your portal.  The more links you add, the more useful your blog will be to you this year.

Check out the Portal Creation Help Sheet and see Mr. Scanga or Mr. Farren if you need any help at all.

Portal help sheet gives checklist and examples to help you create your blog