Do Now: Go Around
What is your focus for today’s studio time? Do Next: Open / Closed Questions For those that have submitted their PRELIMINARY PROPOSAL, you can start to do some preliminary research while you wait for feedback and approval from your Project Block teacher.
Studio Time: Proposal Continue to make progress on your ideation. Find professionals to support your topic / idea. Conference with your Project Block teacher to brainstorm and get help.
Ticket Out: Check In Habits of Work Check… If you had to rate your Habits of Work during today’s studio time [using our grading scale], what would you give yourself and why?
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Do Now: Go Around
When was the last time you needed support and help from others? How did it make you feel to be surrounded and uplifted? Professional Model Here is a dance film by the dancer / choreographer Kyle Hanagami | Give Me Love.
Go Around What is your focus for today’s studio time? Studio Time: Proposal Continue to make progress on your ideation. Find professionals to support your topic / idea. Conference with your Project Block teacher to brainstorm and get help.
Ticket Out: Check In What is ONE thing you accomplished during your studio time? Do Now: Go Around
Go Around What is your focus for today’s studio time? Studio Time: Proposal TODAY’S GOAL = Contemplate your TENTATIVE PRODUCT IDEA… What will you MAKE?
Ticket Out: Check In Habits of Work Check… If you had to rate your Habits of Work during today’s studio time [using our grading scale], what would you give yourself and why? Do Now: Go Around
If you could slow down time, which particular moment would you slow down and why? Professional Model Here is a music video by the band OK Go | The One Moment.
Studio Time: Proposal TODAY’S GOAL = Find professionals that support your thinking / any claims / some ideas / etc. Start working on your proposal.
Ticket Out: Demonstrate / Share connections you are making to professionals academically or creatively. Options:
Do Now: Quick Jot
Choose an idea [or a possible idea] from your brainstorm. Answer the following questions: 1. Why is the chosen topic important to you? 2. Why should other people care? Go Around Share your responses with the class. Studio Time: Preliminary Research Take 10 minutes and do a brief Google Search on your possible topic. Find ONE source that teaches you NEW information about your topic. Quick Jot Write that fact down and record the source it came from. Mix & Mingle Take your quick jot response and move around the room. Find someone who you have NOT spoken to yet today. Stop and take turns sharing your facts and sources. Then, exchange notes. Mix around the room again. Repeat the sharing process… Each round is an opportunity to share new facts! Ticket Out: Proposal Review the proposal document. PRELIMINARY PROPOSAL SUBMISSION = WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 2. FINAL PROPOSAL SUBMISSION = WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 9. Do Now: Professional Model
Here is a short dance film created by a handful of creatives from the Sheboygan community and CONTRA-TIEMPO Activist Dance Theater. Over a course of three weeks, they imagined an inclusive and welcoming future for Sheboygan. Read more about this project HERE.
Studio Time: Continue to Brainstorm! What are your passions and how do they intersect with concerns that you have with yourself, within your community and within the world? A couple options for you…
Ticket Out: Go Around What is a possible idea you have been thinking about? Is it the same one from yesterday, or a new idea? Which creative form will communicate your idea? Do Now: COMPASS POINTS
Today marks the FIRST DAY of Project Block. What are the things you…
Jamboard Open a Jamboard. Share your Jamboard with your PBlock teacher. On YELLOW sticky notes, jot down a minimum of 3 key words that represent interests you have. Studio Time: Brainstorm! Space your sticky notes out, and add new ideas with GREEN sticky notes. Draw connections between notes. Ticket Out: Go Around What is a possible idea you have been thinking about? And if you are stumped, what is something you find yourself being passionate about? |
COURSE DESCRIPTIONProject Block focuses strongly on developing critical thinking and 21st century skills in students through project-based and experiential learning. Throughout the semester, students conduct research, synthesize information, write, revise, and create. Students have the opportunity to explore disciplines of interest as well as make a lasting impact on pressing issues affecting the community and the world at large. Exhibitions of Learning are the culmination of months of intensive thinking and making. DEADLINES
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