Grade 7 students,

Today you will continue working on the Global Issues Photo Essay you started on a couple of Fridays ago.  This should be a relatively easy summative task for you to complete considering that your persuasive essays for your selected global issue you investigated has been completed.  

A reminder that your photo essay should be limited in the amount of text each slide contains. And no more than 10 image slides. The images you select should help tell the story and convince the viewer that your global issue is a bid deal worth attention and compel the viewer to want to do something to help solve this global issue.  

Students will present their photo essays to the class on either June 3rd or June 7th. For this, you will stand and present this photo essay to your classmates by sharing the images and "telling" the story of this global issue. You will not be allowed to read off of a script or notes. You will persuade your classmates that this is an important issue that the world should be concerned about and should address. You will use the power of images to persuade them to be concerned.

Good luck and please refer to the information below for more details about this.

You will develop a photo essay presentation that you will present to your class on either June 3rd or June 7th. This will be the final summative project for this course this year.

Link to Summative Photo Essay Project Presentation

Today... you will continue working on Steps 4, 5, and 6. You need to finish this section this week or complete it by next Tuesday's class...

Helpful link for today's task:

• Summative Investigation Presentation (Google Slides)

Next Tuesday, you will begin writing the summary/conclusion (answering your research question). This will require you to have completed collecting and recording data.
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Today, you will be working on developing your investigation plan.  This is planning your research methods, timeline of completion (paying attention to when each step is due) and looking at possible resources and research strategies. 

Once you finish developing your investigation plan, you are ready to start your research and begin taking notes!

Please be aware that you will have a one-on-one checkin with Mrs. Stewart on Thursday, May 18th. Mrs. Stewart will look at steps 1-3 (research question, explanation of research and your investigation plan). Please be sure you have completed steps 1-3 prior to Thursday's class!

Everyone should be ready to begin researching and taking notes no later than Thursday!

Helpful links for today's task:

• Summative Investigation Presentation (Google Slides)
  
• Submit Link to Your Investigation Document!!! (fill out form)

Information for Friday's Field Trip:
Schedule and Activities for Friday's Field Trip

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Today, you will begin working on a Photo Essay for your selected global issue you have been investigating and are now writing a persuasive essay on.  You will develop a photo essay presentation that you will present to your class on either June 3rd or June 7th. This will be the final summative project for this course this year.

You will stand a present this photo essay to your classmates but you will do so by sharing the images and "telling" the story of this global issue. You will persuade your classmates that this is an important issue that the world should be concerned about and should address. You will use the power of images to persuade them to be concerned.

Link to Summative Photo Essay Project Presentation

Today, you will be introduced to the summative investigation on economic disparity in Korea. You will make a copy of the summative investigation template and begin working on an investigation research question and developing an investigation plan.

• Summative Investigation Presentation (Google Slides)
• Summative Investigation Research Template (Make a copy!)

Today, you will be wearing your handmade shoes from scrap materials.

We will participate in a "Gallery Walk" of your Levels of Development presentations today.

In class, you will participate in a walk outside--barefoot as well as with your scrap shoes you made. You will compare how your feet felt walking barefoot vs. how it felt walking on the ground's surface with your shoes made of scrap material.

We will also watch a video about the hardships and health challenges faced by some who could not afford a pair of shoes. I hope today is a day that brings awareness to each of you of how privileged we are to own shoes, attend such a great school and have so many things and opportunities in our life that so few of the world's people have-- we are fortunate to be born into circumstances that allow for a high standard of living--and also a chance at a good quality of life. I hope today reminds you of this as you reflect on the experience and your learning.

I hope today's experience plants a seed of hope and desire to change this situation for so many of the 1+ billion people who do not have even the simple luxury of a pair of shoes.

For this design challenge, you asked to try to wear the shoes all day, if they last.

All students are expected to wear them and make repairs to them until at least 12pm (Advisory class). During today's Advisory, you will take a photo of your shoes (on your feet) and upload this to a formative task in Managebac. You will also fill out the Criterion D - Evaluation handout given to you for the performance test of your shoe design. This must be completed and turned in by the end of the day.

This week you will be designing and making a pair of shoes out of scrap materials in preparation for next Tuesday, May 10th's International "One Day Without Shoes".  This project is an interdisciplinary project with Individuals and Societies and Design Tech.

You will be assessed (summative) on Design Criterion D for your shoe design and completing the written requirements.