PERFORMANCE TASK
Take a look at what’s going on in our communities and around the world. In what ways can you be an Agent of Aloha to make the world a better place? You will decide on a project or task to improve a community you belong to, using the Design Thinking Process.
YOU WILL:
- Empathize with people in your community by:
- Conducting interviews
- Observing peopleʻs reactions through videos and articles
- Creating a survey to implement
- Asking questions
- Define a problem by observing patterns in an area or through your research (people, spaces, routines and behavior).
- Record your observations (research and collect information)
- Submit an informational essay
- Plan
- Create a prototype or design a solution that address the problem.
- Share
- Share your their learning at our Third Grade Aloha Festival
ANNOTATION
This is an example of proficiency because student identified a pattern as evidenced by quantative “5 out of 8 people that I surveyed have stepped on dog poop”. The student analyzes the pattern as she connects it to impacts of the pattern:
- It’s annoying to clean off
- Tracking germs
- Toxic to humans and other dogs
The analysis of pattern was clearly connected to the decision that was made to create a doggie poop station… “and because of this I decided to make a doggie doo pick up station”
This would have been an advanced if she recounted the results of her decision as it relates back to the pattern that she identified. What would the impact of the station do to the park, the people, the community, etc… For example, “by installing the doogie doo pick up station, people would be able to enjoy being at the park without worrying about stepping on dog poop”.