Giving Back to the Community
                                                           By: Kristy Zimmer

Project at a Glance :

Students will be creating a good or service for our school community.       
 
Driving Question:

​How can we create a good or service to help our school?             

Standards:

• Market Economy Stds:  K -E1.0.1, K - E1.0.2, & KE1.0.3
• Opinion Writing

Team / Culture Building:

• Whole group Think-Pair-Share to start.

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Entry Event:

• Share favorite good or service provided by the school​​

Stakeholders:

• ZQuest students (potentially Roosevelt students)
• ZQuest staff

Empathy Building:

• Empathy Maps for the 2-3 stakeholders to show others point of view. (principal, teacher, student)

• Inquiry / Need to Knows:
•  Questions to answer:  What is a good/service?  What are needs and wants?  How do you make goods using Earth’s gifts?  What is an opinion?  Why is it important to learn about other people?
• Use SS, writing and ELA curriculum to guide learning. 
• Post learning on SeeSaw to see what they know and what they will need to know.

Incubation:

• Small groups will use sticky notes to generate ideas
  
• Draw solution ideas
  
• Sticky Notes​

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Solution Building:

• Pluses and Deltas protocol to narrow down ideas and dig deeper into good ideas.
• Gallery Walk followed by Dot Voting

Critique and Revision: 

• Provide feedback in the form of I like.../I wonder...

• Bring in stakeholders to give feedback on ideas

Authentic Audience:

• Principal
  
• Other classes at ZQuest!
  

Final Presentation:

• Students will get voice and choice about what final product to do when they do based on dot voting results.

Click here for teacher's full plan.

​Reflection and Feedback:

•  Skills for Success rubric

Click here for the  teacher's Journey through PBL on Padlet.

Meet the Educator:

Kristy Zimmer teaches kindergarten at ZQuest, Zeeland Public Schools. 

     "PBL in Kindergarten encourages students to use their imagination and creativity!"