1. REVIEW THE
CHALLENGE - Design a way to educate students and staff about the students’
paper recycling campaign.
2. INVESTIGATE THE
PROBLEM - Students spend one day surveying classrooms. They need to look in each classroom for
where the teacher can store a container, where around the school to place large
collection containers, how they will get the recycled paper to the dumpster,
and who will take on the responsibility to follow up and make sure the program
is being implemented around the school.
3. FRAME/REFRAME THE
PROBLEM - Give a mini-lesson on the 3Rs - Reexamine, Rethink, and Redefine -
Have the students discuss what they think the problems will be with the
implementation. Have students work
in small groups of four to six to discuss issues found in investigation. Circulate through the groups to make
sure they are still discussing the problems, not ways to solve issues they
see. Help the students narrow down
their problems to what they need to address in their campaign and what problems
they cannot solve. Meet with each small group in order to focus their
thoughts. They are to chart their
ideas and share with the whole class.
4. GENERATE POSSIBLE
SOLUTIONS - Small groups meet to discuss solutions to the problems they
identified that they must address with the students and staff. This is a brainstorming session so
anything is a good idea. Ideas can
be charted on a group chart. Give
this step a time limit, about twenty minutes. Then have the students share
their ideas and have the rest of the class help them practice the 3Rs, as they
question and discuss each others’ ideas.
5. EDIT/DEVELOP IDEAS
- Have the students meet again in their small groups to discuss their group’s
ideas and the ideas of others in the class. Students then develop a
presentation to share the program with the students and staff. They need a symbol, a slogan, and FAQs
that are to be included in their presentation. They are to chart their solution and examples of how their
solution can work.
6. SHARE/EVALUATE THE
PROCESS & IDEAS - Partner groups up so that they can present to each other
their thinking. Have the students
question each other’s presentations and offer advice regarding making each
group’s project stronger.
7. FINALIZE THE
SOLUTION - Groups are to finalize their solution by presenting their ideas,
through a PowerPoint presentation,
to each other. They are to plan an oral presentation in which each member takes
a turn to speak to the audience.
In their presentation they should explain their thinking at each step of
the design process and how this helped them arrive at their solution for the
problem.
8.
ARTICULATE THE SOLUTION AND PROCESS - Present to their ideas to each
other. They are to include in
their presentations how and why their solution will be the better way to
encourage people on campus to recycle paper daily. Based on the many ideas presented the class finally votes on
a symbol, slogan, and plan(s) that should be implemented. Then the final presentation can be
prepared for the school.