TIME TO ACTUALLY GET STARTED ON YOUR BIG IDEA PROJECT!!! You are going to actually give "birth" to your big idea that is going to have an impact on the world... home... school... neighborhood...community...church...team...organization...city... state... country...or the globe.
This project is YOUR OPPORTUNITY TO SHOW YOURSELF HOW AWESOME YOU ARE.
Class Activity: Based on our last class and blog entry, you were tasked to be ready to state your innovative big idea in today's class.
1. Look at the whiteboard in the front of the class, and you will see five different colored papers with an innovation category (STEM-Social) written on each.
Innovation Categories and Corresponding Colors:
Science: Red, Technology: Orange, Engineering: Blue, Math: Brown
Social: Green
2. Take two minutes and confirm what category you are curious or passionate about (this guidance is not new to you). Go to the back of the room and take a small colored piece of paper associated with the innovation category your big idea originates from and return to your seats.
3. Teacher will groups students by their innovation category (colored piece of paper) into small fishbowl (circular) groups.
Group interaction:
Small Group: One person at a time presents their "big idea" to your group and each person provides feedback, not agreement or disagreement to their idea. They rotate until each person has presented their idea and received & provided feedback.
Large Group (Class): Once small group interaction is done then, they will each present their idea to the entire class which provides their idea to exposure to the potential collaboration with other ideas from other categories.
4. Each student will write their big idea on their colored piece of paper and turn it into teacher by the end of class.
The Big Idea Journey has begun, you have taken the first step....