PBL at HHS in TERM 4 2016

“If you want to cheer yourself up, cheer someone else up.”  -Mark Twain.

Hornby High School’s Project-Based Learning at Year 10 for Term 4 2016. How can we enrich and/or improve the lives of others?

	Why are we doing project-based learning? What is project-based learning or PBL?

Student instructions

Introduction

This project-based module requires you to take action on a community issue to enrich and/or improve the lives of others. Click here for the teachers’ Slideshow on PBL topics to help you choose what to do. Then please ensure that you’ve filled in the Google Form we sent you regarding this.

During your project-based learning classes you will identify a range of issues which affect those in your local community. You will choose an issue and, working in a small group, research, plan and take action to bring about positive change in relation to this issue.

There will be milestone checks for each of the five parts of this project. Submission dates are included below. They may be subject to change. More specific dates will be given when we get closer to the time.

You will be required to provide evidence of learning for all five parts below.

LCS	Parts	Submission dates
Learn	1. Identifying, researching and explaining the issue	End of week 7
Create	2. Creating an action plan	End of week 8
Create	3. Implementing the action and completing a personal log	End of week 8
Share	4. Presenting the action	Thursday 8th December, term 4
Learn and Share	5. Evaluating your action	Friday 9th December, term 4

You will have 3 weeks of in- and out-of class time to complete this task.

PBL Calendar

Part 1: Identify the issue

Group task. Each student needs their own copy of the plan of action.

• Students will be out into groups
• An in class bus stop activity where you will explore the various topics
• Describe what the issue is (what, how, who, why).  
• Research information regarding your issue to enable you to answer the questions below. (Please click on the link and fill in the table as you go.)

• Explain how your planned action could enhance the well-being of people that are affected by your issue.

Fill in the template below:  

1. What is your chosen issue that interests you? Sustainability+Refugees

2. Describe what the specific issue is (what, how, who, why).   What are the good and bad effects to refugees? How the people survive in other country? Who  people is to poor refugees? Why because the people poor?

3. How do you know this is an issue? Evidence must be included. The issue is about Syria because they are a refugees and homeless without food and it is an included about refugees and Each person in syria is very hard life in syria.

4. How has this issue come about? Evidence must be included. (What, how, who, why.)   This issue has come about by/because/when…. What safe routes to sanctuary  for refugees is one important solution How to saves people for the refugees. Who the world system for protecting refugees is broken Why because people is very poor and no home.

5. Who is affected by your chosen issue? Think beyond the immediate people affected by discussing how people are affected at Personal, Interpersonal and Societal levels by your issue. In the largest refugee crisis since World War II, millions of refugees from Syria's conflict are suffering. Without adequate food, clothes, shelter, or healthcare, untold numbers are struggling to provide for their families. In Lebanon and Jordan, Oxfam is helping families get essential supplies, while protecting public health with clean water and safe sanitation. In war-torn Syria.

6. Why is this an important issue for your group to address? Think about the short term and the long term. This is very important for this group because to help the refugees and poor people for syria and the children is they feel is to hard to life for syria because no food and no education.The children on refugees to help them because this is poor and no food.For the refugees to help because is  life in syria is so hard. This is Picture shown in the picture is meant to help us become refugees and give it to food for the refugees.

7. What is it that your group will do to enrich or improve the lives of others? Explain what your goal is and how your goal will enrich or improve the lives of others.

Part 2: Detailed, workable plan of action (follow link)

Part 3:  Implementation of project-based learning and log of what I did  

Individual task. (a) You are to complete FIVE log entries and then (b) SHARE them on blogs with an appropriate photo.        

You need to keep a log as you carry out your action that details your personal contribution. Each entry in your log should include:

• The date of action that you did
• The action taken – your personal contribution
• What happened as a result of the action that you did – e.g,can you proceed to the next step as outlined in  your plan or are changes needed? Or it now means we can….
• Enablers (who/what helped and how)
• Barriers (who/what got in the way,  how this interfered and how you overcame this or issues that you faced)
• Other comments:  Any thoughts or feelings about the progress of your group; what’s going well/not so well.   
• You will need to write in full sentences with correct punctuation, grammar, and punctuation.

Date:  _________________________ Action taken: __________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ What happened as a result? __________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ Enablers: __________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ Barriers:  __________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ Other comments: __________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________

Part 4: Sharing your learning

Group task.

You are required to present your projects at a showcase event to an audience consisting of students, staff, whānau and the community. You may choose one of the following presentation formats:

• Google Slides/PowerPoint with Google Drawings
• Prezi
• Pow Toon (follow link to see how to make a Pow Toon)
• YouTube video
• Screencastify or Screencast-o-matic
• Mysimpleshow
• Goanimate

Sharing of your learning should include what your group learned about:

• How we enriched or improved the lives of others.
• The planning, organising, and implementing of your project
• How the group learnt.
• How your group functioned.

Be prepared to answer questions about your project asked by your whānau and community.

Part 5: Evaluating and sharing the outcomes of your project-based learning (PBL)

You are required to write a blog to share with others to reflect on what you did, and what you learnt through the whole process.

• You will write a blog
• Reflect on the outcomes of the implementation of your plan for the improvement or enrichment of other people
• Blogs have a compulsory (required) component and a choice component
• In your blogs you will use evidence to support your answers such as written explanations AND 4-6 photos
• You will also have to read at least two other blogs and make constructive comments on them

COMPULSORY COMPONENT: Please complete ALL of these sections.

Evaluation questions	Minimum sentence requirements	Checklist: put a ‘YES’ when completed
Explain what your group did for your PBL, what was and was not successful, and why.	5 sentences
Explain whether your group achieved your goals and why or why not	3 sentences
Describe and explain the impact your PBL had on enriching or improving the lives of others	5 sentences
Explain what you would do differently next time and why	3 sentences

CHOICE COMPONENT - Please respond to 4 out of the 7 prompts below

Reflection questions	Minimum sentence requirements	Checklist: put a ‘YES’ when completed
Describe what you thought about doing PBL	3 sentences
Discuss how you feel about the fact you enriched the lives of others	3 sentences
Explain how you felt about working in your group	3 sentences
Explain what you did well	3 sentences
Explain what you could have done better	3 sentences
Discuss whether you are pleased you chose your topic or whether you wished that you had picked another topic	3 sentences
Explain what you learnt about presenting	3 sentences
Explain what you learnt about yourself through this process	3 sentences

Blog Comments

You are required to read and comment on two other blogs on topics unrelated to your PBL. Each comment should have at least 3 sentences that are:

1) positive

2) thoughtful

3) helpful.

Click here for the PBL Blog Comments Success Criteria

Please fill in the box below as evidence you have completed this.

Student blog you are commenting on	Positive Sentence	Thoughtful  Sentence	Helpful Sentence
For example: Mary	I really liked how in your reflections you said it has been so satisfying for you to help improve the homeless problem in Christchurch.	I also felt really proud of the fact that we helped people in addiction by...	Out of all the steps you did to help the homeless, which one do you think was the most significant?

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