Appendix- Implementing District Standards
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.8.2 Determine a central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including its relationship to supporting ideas; provide an objective summary of the text.
CC.1.2.8. B Cite the textual evidence that most strongly supports an analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences, conclusions, and/or generalizations drawn from the text.
Students will read Fantastic Failures to determine the central ideas and provide supporting evidence. They will perform a sort of jigsaw where each student reads a portion of the book, synthesizes the information with what others in their group have read, so that they can work collaboratively on a project. This will provide the background information that supports the fact many successful people, whose names with which they are familiar, have backstories of repeated failures before they became successful.
ISTE Standard 3: Knowledge Constructor: Students critically curate a variety of resources using digital tools to construct knowledge, produce creative artifacts and make meaningful learning experiences for themselves and others.
15.4.8.K: Create a multimedia project using student-created digital media.
Students will create a Google Slides presentation using information obtained from the book Fantastic Failures. They will compile the information they each have read, create a presentation that follows a rubric, and includes text, images, transitions, and animations.
CC.1.4.8. V Conduct short research projects to answer a question (including a self-generated question), drawing on several sources and generating additional related, focused questions that allow for multiple avenues of exploration.
Students may also conduct research to learn about other innovations that were discovered or created by accident and create a second Google Slides presentation. This will allow students to create their own version of a Fantastic Failures presentation that is meaningful to them.
Science and Engineering Practices Based on Appendix F of the Next Generation Science Standards © 2013 Achieve, Inc. on behalf of the 26 NGSS Lead States.
Constructing Explanations and Designing Solutions:
Apply scientific ideas or principles to design, construct, and/or test a design of an object, tool, process or system.
Undertake a design project, engaging in the design cycle, to construct and/or implement a solution that meets specific design criteria and constraints.
Optimize performance of a design by prioritizing criteria, making tradeoffs, testing, revising, and retesting.
These standards will be implemented when students are designing, building, and improving upon the arcade game. They will develop a design, construct it, test it, revise it, retest it, and get feedback about the efficiency of their and how to improve it.
These standards will also be addressed when students are playing with the Failure Toy and/or designing their own version of the Failure Toy.
These standards will also be addressed when using the principles and process of Design Thinking to develop a solution to the problem of gun violence in Philadelphia.
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