Negative Effects of Vaping
                                                       By:  Tammy Holwerda

Project at a Glance :

This project introduces 8th grade students to the realities of vaping while helping them determine reliable/unreliable sources and recognize themselves as a target market.       
 
Driving Question:

How can we create an anti-vaping learning experience for 5-6th graders to understand the health risks & future consequences of vaping?             

Standards:

• MS Health Standards:  2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, & 2.10

Team / Culture Building:

• TEAMS will be intentionally formed to represent various learning types, strengths, gender, and interests.
• Hopes, Fears, and Norms protocol​

Entry Event:

• Pain/Gains of being a teen and having more choice/freedom - share out; create pain/gains T-chart on post-it pad for future reference​

Stakeholders:

• 5-8th grade students
• parents
• School employees/families
• Friends/random strangers - secondhand smoke
• Self

Empathy Building:

• Empathy Maps
• True Colors activity
• Stakeholder Map (students identify and recognize different perspectives regarding the choices of one person)

• Visitor - invite a high schooler to come and speak to the class about the realities of vaping.

Inquiry / Need to Knows: 

• Know/Need to  Know sticky note activity on Stormboard
• Respond to guiding questions from teacher
• Discussion/teaching: valid/non-valid sources, bias,etc.
• Interview classmates, older siblings,and explore online resources in school database.

Incubation:

• Think/Pair/Share 
• Share solution ideas on sticky notes, then categorize on large whiteboard.
• Gallery Walk → put statements on pieces of posterboard (one statement per poster) and place them around the room; students walk around the room with a marker to make a comment on each poster.
• Idea Quota - 100 ideas in 5 minutes  ​

• Talking Chips - Each person uses/shares 2 potential solution ideas.

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Solution Building:

• Use the "I like, I wonder" strategy for giving feedback on solution ideas.
• Tell it to a Toddler" -- explain how your solution ideas is valid and valuable.

Critique and Revision: 

• Use the $100 Test to determine best possible solutions.

Authentic Audience:

• ​Students will travel to the elementary school and meet with younger students in groups. Their authentic audience will be 5th and 6th graders, but since they will also practice on their classmates, their peers will be their audience as well.

Final Presentation:

• Students will create an object (Chromebook sticker, poster, model, something they determine) to help them teach about vaping. As small groups, they will pitch it to another group and to the teacher using FlipGrid. 

Click here for teacher's full plan.

​Reflection and Feedback:

• A single point rubric will be used to give students feedback.
• Students will self evaluate and provide feedback to their group members following the project. 

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

Meet the Educator:
Tammy Holwerda teaches  7th short stories, 8th health, 8th career exploration, 8th relationship health at Hudsonville Christian Middle School.  

     "I teach 8th grade health and am excited to explore hot topics such as vaping and marijuana using PBL. I believe that when students wonder, learn about reliable sources, dig for information and then turn around and teach others, they will be uniquely impacted."