Build Your Own Project
“Build Your Own” Technology Project
Throughout the year you've been told what to do and how to do it. You have also done a lot of critiquing of the assignments you were given. Now is your chance to take the reins and do it your way. If you could design your own assignment what would it be? Would it be fun? Would it be difficult? Could it be both?
In this assignment you will design your own technology related project with all its components: a backward planned how-to guide, a final product, and a rubric to grade it. Be sure to budget your time accordingly. This project is due in two stages, but all steps must be completed by due date.
STAGE ONE
Step One: Brainstorm your ideal tech project in its completion First, do some brainstorming to get ideas for your project. You can do research on the internet, review past projects for ideas, or use your imagination. Clear the overall project with me verbally. Once approved, submit a detailed project explanation on paper.
Step Two: Decide what it would take to create such a project Next, you will work backwards until you get to the first step. Write these steps down in a Word document. List all the steps with sufficient explanation for each. Teachers use backward planning to create your assignments. Start with what you want to create/learn/understand etc. and work your way backward through the steps to get to the beginning. We have all worked a maze? Did you know that if you run it backward it is much easier? Try it sometime.
STAGE TWO
Step Three: Create a model of the finished product What will be created by following your directions? Provide an example of a completed product.
Step Four: Create a rubric for grading the final product How will you grade the final product? To accomplish this you will create a rubric by inserting a table into your Word document and populating it with the appropriate assessment data. A rubric provides a framework for assessing the completed product.
Using this model, you will fill in the requirements for each of your categories you choose:
Grade 4 Categories of Your Choice Here
(For example: Creativity, Neatness, Effort, Thought out, Appeal, etc.)
Excellent HP Very creative, very well done, put the most into, very easily understood, flashy, catches the eye
Good P creative, well done, put a lot into, easy to understand, enjoyable
Getting there PP moderate, so - so, moderate effort, understandable, not bad
Poor MP not creative, not very neat, sloppy, incomplete doesn't make sense not attractive
Throughout the year you've been told what to do and how to do it. You have also done a lot of critiquing of the assignments you were given. Now is your chance to take the reins and do it your way. If you could design your own assignment what would it be? Would it be fun? Would it be difficult? Could it be both?
In this assignment you will design your own technology related project with all its components: a backward planned how-to guide, a final product, and a rubric to grade it. Be sure to budget your time accordingly. This project is due in two stages, but all steps must be completed by due date.
STAGE ONE
Step One: Brainstorm your ideal tech project in its completion First, do some brainstorming to get ideas for your project. You can do research on the internet, review past projects for ideas, or use your imagination. Clear the overall project with me verbally. Once approved, submit a detailed project explanation on paper.
Step Two: Decide what it would take to create such a project Next, you will work backwards until you get to the first step. Write these steps down in a Word document. List all the steps with sufficient explanation for each. Teachers use backward planning to create your assignments. Start with what you want to create/learn/understand etc. and work your way backward through the steps to get to the beginning. We have all worked a maze? Did you know that if you run it backward it is much easier? Try it sometime.
STAGE TWO
Step Three: Create a model of the finished product What will be created by following your directions? Provide an example of a completed product.
Step Four: Create a rubric for grading the final product How will you grade the final product? To accomplish this you will create a rubric by inserting a table into your Word document and populating it with the appropriate assessment data. A rubric provides a framework for assessing the completed product.
Using this model, you will fill in the requirements for each of your categories you choose:
Grade 4 Categories of Your Choice Here
(For example: Creativity, Neatness, Effort, Thought out, Appeal, etc.)
Excellent HP Very creative, very well done, put the most into, very easily understood, flashy, catches the eye
Good P creative, well done, put a lot into, easy to understand, enjoyable
Getting there PP moderate, so - so, moderate effort, understandable, not bad
Poor MP not creative, not very neat, sloppy, incomplete doesn't make sense not attractive