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Our group explored Critique and Revision and Public Product Essential Elements within the Project-Based Learning (PBL) sequence, which helps students receive feedback during the project and prepare for their presentation.

Students engaged in a Prototyping Protocol. This protocol provides students with the opportunity to create a representation (a physical model and/or a drawing) of the solution to our driving question.

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We explored Critique and Revision and Public Product Essential Elements within the Project-Based Learning (PBL) sequence, which helps students receive feedback during the project and prepare for their presentation.

Students continued to use Flipgrid to create short videos and Legos to show what the solution can look like. Students selected their Google Slides theme for their presentation.

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Our group created posters to showcase ideas that might work best to solve the driving question, which is: How can students at Lakeside Elementary reduce Lakeside’s carbon footprint? Included in the newsletter are the 6 posters and their theme. Next, our group will decide which idea(s) we will choose.

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Our group engaged in a gallery walk protocol, which allowed students to review previous protocols/activities we have done in the past couple months. Students were encouraged to write down 2-3 things that were most important to them while keeping the driving question in mind: How can students at Lakeside Elementary reduce Lakeside’s carbon footprint?

After the gallery walk, students were given 10 minutes to write down as many ideas as possible to solve the driving question. Students wrote down one idea for each sticky note. When they were done, they added their notes to the poster; 239 ideas were generated!

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After a week of student observations, students worked together to generate a list of things that “bug” them at Lakeside regarding the carbon footprint. Students considered different areas within the school setting. Students participated

in a rip, slap, pass protocol for the purpose of creating questions to ask staff and students. Below are some of examples

of the questions:

Are you leaving projectors on when you are gone?

Why do we leave the lights on?

Do you walk to school?

Do you leave your electronics on when you are not there?

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Our group engaged in an interview

protocol, which encouraged the

Kindness Counters to ask staff and

students questions about the

Lakeside carbon footprint. These

interviews helped us understand

different perspectives and uncover

more information.

After interviewing staff and students, our group reconvened and took turns sharing their findings through engaging in a talking chip protocol. This protocol allows everyone the opportunity to talk in the group and have their voice be heard. The following were some findings that

students gained through the interviews:

Recycling has been an ongoing effort

Bring back the “Green Team”

Most people (7) drive to work while some walk to work (3)

Create recycling posters to spread awareness

On average, 3 hours a day are spent on laptops

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Fourth and fifth grade students were selected to participate in the Kindness Counters's committee. This brochure was sent home with students for families to learn more about Kindness Counters and Project-Based Learning.

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Our group divided the 239 sticky notes/ideas into 6 piles based on bigger themes. The 6 themes included:

technology, community/teamwork, less waste, educate, green team/paper gator, and other.

Next, students

will create posters to showcase what ideas might work best to solve the driving questions, which is: How

can students at Lakeside Elementary reduce Lakeside’s carbon footprint?

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We were excited for our first meeting on Tuesday, January 30, 2024 in the Lakeside Elementary artroom! Students learned about factors that contribute to Lakeside's carbon footprint. Next, students will learn what additional information needs to be uncovered to have a stronger understanding of Lakeside's carbon footprint.

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During our committee meetings, students earn "teamwork tickets" for attending weekly meetings and for being a teammate/ leader. There is a ticket drawing at the end of each month for a special prize! This week's winner was June!

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Students reflected on their project learning as they were given 10 minutes to review the posters we created at our previous meeting.

After the gallery walk, students were given 3 dots each and were instructed to vote for their favorite solution/idea. 1 dote = 1 vote. The students voted on the following ideas and solutions:

Technology: Use computers less and automatic lights

Less waste: donate books instead of buying new ones

Green team/paper gator: re-establish the green team

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Not pictured: Donovan Frazier and Jay Schmidt

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The Kindness Counters presented their final presentation to the Lakeside Elementary school principal, Mrs. Thelen, on 5/28/2024 at 9:15am. Here is the link to the final presentation through Google Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1arWUP-FePjSIw2CmUs63xHOSAjGWrtKBmh0mV_PZrJA/edit?usp=sharing

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Students were given visual reminders for our meeting today.

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Our group engaged in the NUF (New, Useful, and Feasible) protocol. The purpose of this protocol was to evaluate whether our solutions/ideas are new, useful, and/or feasible. We reviewed the following solutions/ideas:

Technology: Use computers less

Technology: automatic lights

Less waste: donate books instead of buying new ones

Green team/paper gator: re-establish the green team

Each student received a NUF test rubric and students provided a NUF rating (1-10) for each solution ( = you strongly disagree; 10 = you strongly agree).

(156) - Technology: Use computers less

(182.5) - Technology: automatic lights

(197) - Less waste: donate books instead of buying new ones

(185.5) - Green team/paper gator: re-establish the green team

During our next meeting, the Kindness Counters will start finalizing project details for the public product.

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Students generated hopes for

this project and norms of how to

treat each other. Students

identified fears they had related

to our project. This will serve as

our group's social contact. Some

of the hopes included: reduce

carbon footprint by 5% and make

a difference to save the planet. We took our first picture as

Kindness Counters last week! We

are missing 5 students out of 15

total in this picture. They are a

great group of students.