Earth and Environmental Science · Week 32 · Sustainability and Civic Action
Prototype and Feedback
Breaking the problem into manageable parts and giving and receiving kind, specific feedback on proposed solutions.
- Students will
- Students break a design problem into smaller parts and give and receive kind, specific feedback on proposed solutions.
- SEL skill
- Give and receive kind, specific feedback using i like, i wonder, what if
- What it looks like
- Students practice repair and trust by using a feedback routine that is kind and specific.
- Content focus
- Prototype and feedback
- Format
- Partner exchange
Relationship skills
Relationship skills are the ways you communicate, listen, cooperate, and work through disagreements to build healthy connections. More relationship skills activities
What you get
A teacher guide with what to say, step by step, plus student pages and a supports page for students with diverse learning needs, including those with IEPs. Print or Project it, or assign it in Google Forms and Google Docs for Google Classroom. Your first 10 activities are free.
Standards
- HS-ETS1-2: High School Engineering, Technology, and Applications of Science performance expectation
- Science and engineering practice: SEP6 Constructing explanations and designing solutions
- Crosscutting concept: CCC4 Systems and system models
- CA Environmental Principles and Concepts: Principle V: Decisions affecting resources and natural systems are complex and involve many factors
- Literacy in science: WHST.11-12.8 Gather relevant information from multiple sources and assess each source's usefulness.
- Traditional course: Earth and Environmental Science
More relationship skills activities for Earth and Environmental Science
- Rocks Tell Stories Relationship skillsExplaining how the valley and its mountains formed and sharing stories about places, real or imagined, respectfully.
- Field Teams Relationship skillsTeams plan a schoolyard soil and water investigation and agree on how to repair conflicts in the field.
- Saving Every Drop Relationship skillsTeams design a water saving solution for school landscaping and build on each other's ideas.
- Lithium Valley Relationship skillsGathering multiple perspectives on lithium extraction and communicating a position honestly to community stakeholders.
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RoseThread Connect activities are drafted with the help of AI and shaped by educators. Students never have to share anything personal. Our five SEL skills are informed by CASEL's SEL Framework; RoseThread Learning is not affiliated with or endorsed by CASEL.