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Estimated Time and Notes

Before the project begins:

Resources:

Gather the resources you will need. Possible resources include people, Internet, news media, library materials etc.

Schedules:

Schedule any extra activities such as field trips or speakers and extra library time or time with other specialists who may help in this project.

Files:

How will students save the project? 

Learning the technology

Will you use technology the students already know?

Do you need to teach any technology ahead of time?

Introducing the project:

How will you introduce your project? To students? To parents?

Plan to share the final project rubric with students.

List due dates now and post where visible.

Stage

Estimated Time and Notes

Preliminary research and planning

How long do you plan to have your students spend on research?

Will you provide them with note taking sheets to assist them?

Concept design and storyboarding

Have you built in time for students to design and plan their project? 

What planning/organization sheets will you make for students?  

Build in time for students to share their with others to gain feedback.

Research On Two Animals 

This is a good time for peer review or walkabouts to gain feedback from others before the final editing stage.

How will students get help? Can you limit one-on-one troubleshooting?

Ideas? “Ask the Expert”:  List students who can act as an expert during the day’s work sessions.  Those in need ask the “experts”.

“Ask three before me”.  Students ask three others before they come to you for help.  

Stage

Estimated Time and Notes

Assessing, testing, and finalizing presentations:

Plan time for students to do both functional testing and presentation testing.

Functional testing: Do all the buttons, pictures, and sounds work?

Presentation skill testing: Does the student know their parts?  Practice!

Provide time to revise presentation before the “Real Production”

Evidence of learning the content and standards:

At what stage will you assess their knowledge of the topic and assess evidence of the learning the standards?  

How will you work independently with those who are not meeting the standard?

Concluding activities: Celebrate! Allow time to present and share the hard work with others.  Other classes? Parents?  Community?

Posting on your Web page?

Take time to reflect as a class and individually on the project.

Take time as a teacher to reflect and write notes to yourself for future project use.