Rubric: Soil, Erosion, Landforms Presentation

Please find your rubric for this project.

Notice that you will get feedback on your critical thinking, feedback, and final presentation in class.

Your focus for the project should be on critical thinking, your thinking while you present, as well as your openness to use others thinking to help you think more deeply and clearly.

While your class appreciates well decorated and polished projects, the focus should be on how you are thinking.  Thinking is the focus of this assessment.

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Feedback: Are you looking for it or waiting for it?

Feedback is an important part of the Design Thinking process.  Successful companies that make products from The iPhone to Coca-Cola are constantly looking for feedback about how they can become better.

In each stage of design, how do we know if we are on track and creating something people can use?  Feedback can provide this help.

How are you getting feedback for your project?  Are you waiting for the feedback to come to you, or are you going out and actively finding feedback?

What is your mindset when it comes to feedback and learning?

Consider looking at the following documents to give yourself feedback on your project and how you are working in a group.  They can be used as a guide in the midst of the collaborative design process.  Parts of these rubrics will be used in your final assessment of this project.

Feedback rubric - working together

Feedback rubric - presentation of your project

Due Dates: Soil & Erosion Project

To help you keep track of important project dates, please find your unit goal in the class calendars below:

6.1 Science Project Due Dates

6.2 Science Project Due Dates

6.3 Science Project Due Dates

6.4 Science Project Due Dates

Add it to your personal Google Calendar; look for "copy to my calendar," (highlighted below) when you click on the individual assignments.

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