Project Based Learning
CLASS VIII SOCIAL SCIENCE
1.Project Plan
1.1)The
Define Phase
(1.11)Introduction:
· Write
a statement describing the overall purpose of the project.
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What is the key challenge or problem the
project is aiming to address?
· What
are students intended to learn from the project?
Purpose
1. The problems the tribals face as a marginalized society and
their health status.
2.
To know about the health, hygiene and nutritional status of the tribal people and to suggest a way to improve
their health.
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(1.12)Project
Scope:
Describe the scope of your
project. This may include class and section, subjects it covers, self skills to
be used etc. as well as other factors affecting scope.
Scope
Students from class VIII Chapter
Civics-Understanding Marginalisation (Tribals).
Subjects involved: Social Science and
science
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(1.13) Curriculum
and Standards:
List the curriculum and
standards this project with cover.
Class VIII
Civics Curriculum topics and
standards related to this project:
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Understanding Marginalization.
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Communities that are considered as socially
marginalized .
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Phase 2: Planning
2.1 Essential
Question:
Put in writing the
question that will engage the students
What is the Food habits and health status of Tribals in Kerala
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2.2 Grouping
Strategy:
Describe the criteria that
will be used to form students team and how this maps to the goals of the
project.
Team will comprise groups of 5 students of mixed gender, and mixed
ability and skills. One of the goals is to promote teamwork in mixed ability
groups so that higher ability students get opportunities for peer
instruction, and lower ability students benefit from the more advanced
collaboration that will arise from this.
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2.3 Learning
Environment:
Describe the learning
environment for the project including any classroom adaptation that will be
required.
Daily, in
our newspapers, we see that how people suffer from malnutrition. The cases in
Attapady are very familiar to us. The news on the death of a small boy due to
undernourishment inspired us to take up this project. Poor nutrition
undermines economic growth of a nation.
Selected
students from the formed group decided to conduct a survey on the Adivasy
area under vandikkadavu forest area Wayanad District.
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2.4Assessment
Approach:
Describe
the approach for:
2.41 Authentic Assessment:
Authentic do- able tasks that will be carried out by the team will
include-
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Maintaining a record of the information
collected from various sources .
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Recording such as filled questionnaires and video recordings, analysed data such as
charts.
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2.42 Formative Assessment:
Regular feedback will be provided as the students work on internet
and library research, surveys and presentation designs.
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2.43 Summative Assessment:
Assessment will be conducted on
Project report and presentations.
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Rubrics will be used to assess:
Surveys
Final presentations
Blog
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2.45 Gradings:
Project grades will be based on a combination of scores from
assessments made during the project. A rubric will be used to compile grades.
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Project Based Learning
Lesson 3- Plan Phase
3.1 Work Breakdown, Products and Milestones:
List the project task and, if possible at this stage include the
sub-tasks. For each task add the product that will be created and indicate it
will be a milestone.
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Activity:
1.Preparation of questionnaire after discussing with experts.
2. Getting concern fron respected authorities to conduct survey
and tests.
3. interact with tribal
people.
4. Analysing and extracting
results
5. Handing over the result to the respected authorities to take
necessary actions.
Presentation: Ppt .
Celebration: Mini exhibition on different climates
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3.2 Role definitions:
List the
roles team members will fulfill in the project.
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Project leader: Teacher
Researcher : One student
Survey writer : One student
Presentation : Group leaders
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3.3 Task schedule:
Note start
and end dates for the project.
Include
expected dates to start specific tasks
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Start date : Nov 1st 2016
End date : Dec 15th 2016
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3.4Special Activities Plan:
List
any special activities (e.g. Field trips or guest speakers) including dates.
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Mini exhibition: Dec 15th 2016
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3.5Resources Plan:
List resources
that will be required during the project and any other date constraints
associated with them.
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Internet, Books, Experts
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3.6 Direct Instruction:
List any planned
direct instruction sessions and link them to specific tasks if appropriate.
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Consulting with doctors and health inspectors about
the health status of tribals in that area.
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3.7 Reviews and checkpoints:
Describe
how you will incorporate review meetings and checkpoints in the project
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At the end of every week there will be discussion for
10 minutes.
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3.8 Assessment plan:
Describe the balanced assessment plan for the project. List products
that will be assessed during the project. List rubrics that need to be created
before project launch.
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It will include: The survey and results,exploration of
environment,ppt,analyzing health status.
Rubrics for the above will be prepared accordingly.
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LESSON -4
WORK PLAN
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Sl.
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TASK
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SUBTASK
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ROLE
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START DATE
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END DATE
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PRODUCT
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01
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Launch project
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01.11.16
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01.11.16
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Project launched
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02
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Deliver
classroom instruction
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Areas to be
covered.
1. Health status
2.food habits
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Teacher
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02.11.16
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02.11. 16
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Initial classroom
instruction is completed
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03
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Group selection
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Group leaders
1.
Sneha Maria Tijo
2.
Harinanda
3.
Sai Lakshmi
4.
Vishal S
5.
Vivek Mohan
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Teacher
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03.11.16
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03.11. 16
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Group selection
is completed
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04
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Conduct research
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1.Food habits
2. Health status.
3, Living conditions
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Student
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04.11. 16
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10.11. 16
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Students
recorded in the computer
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05
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Perform survey
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Exploration of Health
status
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Student
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11.11. 16
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20.11. 16
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Collected report
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06
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Programme sheet
activity
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1.
Preparation of questionnaire
2.
Survey.
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Student and
teacher
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21.11. 16
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28.11. 16
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Prepared
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07
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Advice meeting
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Team prepare
briefs
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All team members
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29.11. 16
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29.11. 16
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A meeting was
held
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08
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Programme sheet
presentation
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Presentation
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30.11. 16
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30.11. 16
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Presented
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09
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Preparation of
questionnaire
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Eliciting from
peer group and self analization
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Each member
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01.12. 16
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01.12. 16
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Prepared
questions
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10
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Lecture by specialist
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Dr. Sindhu mary
Mammachan on the health and food relations.
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Teacher
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02.12. 16
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02.12.16
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Completed
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11
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Exhibition
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Practice
presentation
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All members
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03.12. 16
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03.12. 16
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Completed
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12
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Project
presentation
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Ppt,Posting in
the blog
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All
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05.12. 16
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05.12. 16
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Completed
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13
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Assessment and
grading
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Prepare rubrics
and assessment
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Teacher
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05.12. 16
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05.12. 16
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Completed
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14
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Reflection and
evaluation
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Student
reflection and evaluation,Teacher refection and evaluation
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Students and
teacher
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05.12. 16
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05.12. 16
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Completed.
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15
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Project closed
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Submitting to the
Principal
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Teacher
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15.12. 16
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Closed
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Lesson 5
The Do Phase
(5.1) Project Launch:
Describe
how the project will be launched, including how goals, expectation, rules,
procedures, assessment, and grading will be presented to the students.
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The project will be launched
in class VIII C.
A briefing will be given
about the survey to be undertaken, how to go about the research work ,tips on
how to make a PowerPoint presentation etc. Students opinion and how best they
can contribute will be discussed
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(5.2) Artifacts:
List
artifacts that will be created during the project
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Research notes
Survey reports
Presentation
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(5.3) Culminating product:
Describe
what culminating product or products are expected to be created during the
project and how they will be presented.
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Ppt – analyzed results and videos
Chart- Health hazards
Report of the exploration work done in the
environment
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(5.4) Celebrating completion:
Describe
how the students will celebrate when the project is completed.
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A “mini
exhibition” of the project will be done in the class.
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Lesson 6
The Review Phase
(6.1)Student
Reflection and Evaluation:
Describe how student reflection
and evaluation will be conducted.
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For students
reflection the lesson I will take up in the Do phase
Each student will
write about the topics he got, new information gained, new skills learnt,
what they liked about the project and what they did not like. They will go
through the ppt, survey report, different activities and information
collected by the students before writing down the reflection.
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(6.2) Teacher
Reflection and Evaluation:
Describe how teacher reflection
and evaluation will be conducted.
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(6.3) Assessment of
21st Century skills:
List of 21st century
skills in this project and its assessment
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Artifact
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21st
Century skill(s)
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Research notes
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Problem solving,
initiative, ICT
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Survey designs
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Creativity, problem
solving, communication
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Message boards
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ICT, communication,
teamwork
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Presentation
outlines
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Initiative,
creativity, ICT, communication
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(6.4) Summative
Assessment and Grading:
List products and the
corresponding rubrics that will be used for SA and Grading
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Product
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Rubric
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Grading
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Survey results
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Survey questions
and results rubric
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Activity sheets
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Activity sheet
rubrics
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Presentation
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Presentation rubric
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Blog portfolio
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Blog rubric
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Lesson 7
The Manage Phase
(7.1) Process Management:
List
tasks that will be used to manage the process of conducting the learning
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Brief introduction : Health hazards in Tribal
area and how to assess it.
Each group will be given a sub topic to work
upon
The process of the students will be monitored
weekly followed by a discussion
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(7.2) Student Preparation:
Describe
how students will be prepared for the project prior to launch. List any
specific instruction or tasks that will be needed
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The students will be told about the idea for
the project 2 weeks before it starts. How to use ICT tools to be used during
the project (i.e. using a spreadsheet for survey results) will be practiced
before the project launch.
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(7.3)
Facilitation:
Describe
how facilitation of resources will be used to enable the students to be
successful.
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Use of the library and computer equipment
will be scheduled and booked in advance.
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(7.4) Progress Monitoring:
Describe
how program will be monitored throughout the project.
Group Progress -
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Whole class conference once per week
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Individual Progress
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Team checkpoint
meetings as well informally daily checking with teams and individuals on
their work.
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(7.5) Re-planning:
Describe
how‘re-planning’ will be used if the project goes off track
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Since student autonomy is low there is low
risk of the project going off track. 10% additional time allowance has been
included for overrun but the end date cannot be exceeded. There is an option
for homework to be used to catch up if necessary.
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(7.6) Conflict Management:
Describe
how to address problems related to participation, offer approaches to manage
other conflicts that may arise.
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Teamwork rules will be included in project
launch presentation. Students are asked to initially try to work out
conflicts on their own. In the case of a deadlock, issues are to be raised
with the teacher. Lack of participation will be dealt with by culprits being
removed from the project work and set to work on alternative individual tasks
for the duration of the project.
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