Community Service PBL
                                                                       By:  Samantha Ludlam

Project at a Glance:

This project was meant to help students make an impact on their local communities, practice their problem solving and leadership skills. 
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Driving Question:

How can we have the most impact on our community?             

Standards:

• Act as a responsible and contributing citizen and employee (Career Ready Practice I.A.1)
• Communicate clearly, effectively, and with reason (Career Ready Practice I.A.4)
• Demonstrate creativity and innovation (Career Ready Practice I.A.6)
• Employ valid and reliable research strategies (Career Ready Practice I.A.7)
• Model integrity, ethical leadership, and effective management (Career Ready Practice I.A.8)

Team / Culture Building:

• Students got to choose their mini-teams, and the class did  a would you rather ice breaker question at the beginning of each class to build culture. ​​

Stakeholders: 

• Coopersville Community 

Empathy Building:

• Students created Empathy Maps for different parts of the community make-up. 

Inquiry / Need to Knows:

• ​​ Students did sticky not brainstorm session where they added ?????
• Students were assigned questions from the Need to Knows to investigate and present to their classmates.

Incubation:

•  Students made a list of things in the community that have already been done as community service projects.
  
• Students conducted interviews to get ideas from outside of our classroom. 
  

Checking in:

• Check ins will occur at least every five class periods on our “FFA Day.”  We may check in more frequently. 
  
• Use the snowball one-word activity as well as the emoji check in. ​

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Solution Building:

• Students used the Idea Quota protocol to generate solution ideas. 
• After generating ideas students narrowed their solutions using the Saturate and Group strategy.

Critique and Revision: 

• NUF Test
• $100 Test
• Students used the Rip, Slap, Pass protocol to revise solution ideas.​

Authentic Audience:

• Local Farmers

Final Presentation:

• Students created an appreciation dinner for their final presentation.  This involved purchasing, cooking, inviting, and decorating for the final event.​

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​Reflection and Feedback:

• Students communicated with the stakeholders after the events to see what they would like changed/have done differently. 
• Students received verbal feedback from the public at their event. They also completed a written reflection individually in class. ​​

Meet the Educator:
Samantha Ludlam is a 9-12  Agriscience teacher and FFA advisor at Coopersville High School. 

     "PBL is the way that I like to help give my students voice and choice in their learning experience."