Week 5: February 21-27

Welcome to Week 5 of the #GoalsProject!

Classroom objectives for this week:

  1. Reflect on Week 1-4 learning and experiences
  2. Hear from Ayush and Ananya, our #GoalsProject Student Ambassadors
  3. Package up your solution, share your impact

Objective 1: Reflect on Week 1-4 learning and experiences

  • Review all the 17 SDGs and remind students of your own class Global Goal. ​
  • Check in on your group Flipgrid
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Objective 2: Hear from Ayush and Ananya, our #GoalsProject Student Ambassadors ​Learn more about Ayush and his work: website and @WizardAyush on Twitter 

Objective 3: Package your solution, share your impact
During Week 5, classes should begin to get their class projects “packaged up” and ready to be shared out with the world. Reminder: during Week 6, classes will share the link to their final projects. Links can point to any type of content (YouTube video, class-created website, eBook, collection of resources, photo slideshow, Google doc, etc; examples from the past Goals Project experience for inspiration). 
As classrooms consider ways of packaging and sharing projects, encourage them to consider (1) audience, (2) medium, (3) message, and (4) call to action.
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1. Audience: Invite students to consider their intended audience, and lead with empathy by designing for others. Have students each offer a “persona” of a representative recipient of the project. Though the audience will likely be a world of students and teachers, invite them to add details (hypothetical name, location, interests, learning needs, passions, access to resources/technology, etc). Visualizing an actual person will help students young and old to move from abstract to concrete and to create with people at the center.

2. Medium: Consider as a class the medium for sharing your message as it relates to your project. Here is a short list of types of sharing methods, but be sure select one that works best for you and your students. Remember, the only requirement will be that it is a sharable link (and that all students pictured/videod have permission forms in place).
  • ​​YouTube video of an interview, presentation, dance, PSA, experiment
  • Music recording a class-composed song, performance
  • Podcast of a story, interview, 
  • eBook of classbook, story, instruction guide
  • Website showcasing your initiative, advocacy campaign, invention, model
  • Graphic with designs, art creations, 
  • Slideshow of photos, paintings, drawings
  • Collection of resources, ideas, talks
  • Tools to consider: Adobe Spark, Wakelet, Weebly, Book Creator, Padlet, YouTube
3. Message: Based on the learning, new knowledge, and skills you have developed over the past four weeks, what is your main message you hope to share with the world? Consider word choice, multiple meanings, words representative of action, words that inspire, words that empower. Consider your audience--always of thinking of who may be left out or not represented  based on your final message. Finalize your message then return to it 1-day later to revise and reconsider. 

4. Call to Action: What is your call to action to classrooms of the world? Do you want them to learn, act, or expand ideas? Be sure to clearly state your “CTA” (call to action) in your message. 

Prepare your message for final submission on March 4th. Watch for the Week 6 update next week with more information on submitting solutions. 
Coming up next: 

  • Watch for Week 6 update February 24
  • Don’t forget to share on your progress on social media with hashtag #GoalsProject

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