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Lessons

The value of Connected, Effective and Agentic projects lies in the overall philosophy and way that the structure allows students considerable freedom, but I am including the daily project resources to provide context. You will notice that, in sticking with the Agency-focused theme of the project, the vast majority of the activities are simply opportunities to reflect or formative assessments.

Whenever I hear about an awesome project that someone else has done, the easiest way for me to understand it is by taking a look at the scope and sequence. As such, the project Calendar and Agendas may be the most useful part.

Organizational Project Documents

• Calendar and Agendas
• Rubrics
• Resources Provided to Students

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Student Work Samples

• Website - a student's webiste made for curious voters
• Brochure and Infographic - brochures and infographics to be distributed at voter centers
• Video - a video targeting the YouTube crowd
• Board Game
• Website - a website designed to be built in to the current Registrar website
• Dungeons and Dragons Style Tabletop Game - a tabletop game designed to teach the campaign process

Lesson Activities

• Democracy Gap "Need to Knows"
• Political Spectrum Warmup
• Political Spectrum Essay
• Political Party Sheet
• Electoral College Quickwrite
• ​Logical Fallacies Activity
• Political Spectrum Quiz Activity
• Party Ideology Task
• Costa's Questions Journal
• Electoral College Vlog Assessment
• California Direct Democracy Journal
• Campaign Spending IAKT
• Closing the Democracy Gap IKTO
• Democracy Gap Rubric Defense
• Redistricting Game

Rationale

In addition to the Common Core standards and the State Content standards, the students at my school site (and therefore the case study project that this site focuses upon) are held accountable for meeting the New Tech Network Learning Outcome rubrics. Of particular note is the NTN Agency Rubric, which is used to support and assess the agency skills so heavily emphasized by this site. In order to assess the content, our school also utilizes the NTN Knowledge and Thinking rubrics. In my class, of course, I use the Social Studies Knowledge and Thinking rubric.

To continue to reinforce student's Agency skills, the research that spawned this project also prompted me to create rubrics for the students to assess their own learning. ​

In these rubrics, students are presented with the content they are expected to understand by the end of the project, and determine the most appropriate way of demonstrating their understanding on their own. An excerpt of such a rubric can be seen below, and will link ​to the more complete form.

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