Project Overview

Design Principles

Defining Design Principles

Learning experience contextualized in the issue

Learning experience contextualized in the issue

  • Attention to the global/local dynamic
  • Opportunities to consider political, economic and ethical dimensions of the issue
  • Explore affordances and limitations of science for a solution

Culturally responsive

Culturally responsive

  • Address equity issues
  • Promote social justice
  • Relate to student experiences, preferably connections to home and community

Practice oriented

Practice oriented

  • Opportunities for modeling
  • Opportunities for argumentation
  • Students engage in science investigations
  • Access and use public data

Prioritize student voice

Prioritize student voice

  • Development of agency and action
  • Classroom discourse
  • Draw on student backgrounds and experiences
  • Culminating synthesis/activity highlighting student perspectives and solutions

Inter-unit coherence (connecting with and building on other GC units)

Other Design Commitments

Included in every GC unit

Included in every GC unit

  • Formative assessment
  • Highlight career/professional opportunities

Look for opportunities

Look for opportunities

  • Media/information literacy
  • Connect with outside experts
  • Highlight technologies that can help with solutions

Design for teachers

Design for teachers

  • Options for teacher modifications
  • Educative materials for teachers