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Outriggers to Internet

Authors: Chris Stapleton, McKenzie Kessel, Vivi Ris

Grade: 7

Subjects: Science, Social Studies, Language Arts, Writing

Timeline: 3 Weeks

Project Description

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During this three week program, students explore a variety of innovations in communication and transportation to better understand how these advancements impact society, contribute to pace of change, and, in turn, globalize our world.

Learning Goals

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  • Students will study the science, technology, and history of land and air transportation.

  • Students will study the science, technology, and history of communication.

  • Students will investigate innovations that have dramatically impacted pace of change and globalization.

  • Students will analyze how communication technology has transformed tourism.

  • Students will work closely with others to innovate.

  • Students will showcase their learning through an immersive experience, employing both multimedia and hands-on demonstrations.

  • Students will engage in productive critique and apply feedback to multiple drafts of a project.

  • Students will craft historical fiction to illustrate how adopting innovations results in globalization.

Products and Exhibition

 

Choose Your Own Adventure Story

Students write a CYOA using Inklewriter to give the reader the chance to make choices that would lead either to isolation or globalization.  These choices are made around five innovations: the boat, the telegraph, the airplane, Virtual Reality, and space colonization on Mars.

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Podcast

Students experience the critique process through performances of Hawaiian legends and myths.  Eventually they produce a podcast using Garageband, they create short summaries, and an art piece to represent their legend.

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Exhibition

Students create seven immersive experiences to allow for the community to build an understanding of their essential questions and enduring understandings. These immersive experiences include posters, presentations, and interactive activities.  These stations have included: Airplane innovating, Boat creation and racing, Virtual Reality, Postcard Making, Drone flying, Reading Choose Your Own Adventures made by the students, and listening to Student Podcasts.  This exhibition takes ~ one hour.

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Standards Addressed:

 

Social Studies AERO:

      8.8.a Explain prerequisites for the adoption of a particular technology (social need, social resources, cultural attitude, etc.).          8.8.b Describe the process whereby adoption of scientific knowledge and use of technologies influence cultures, the environment, economies, and balance of power.

      8.8.d Describe how technologies might have effects and uses other than those intended.

      8.8.e Explain the concept "pace of change."

Science Next-Gen:

4-PS4 Waves and Their Applications in Technologies for Information Transfer Analyze data from tests to determine similarities and differences among several design solutions to identify the best characteristics of each that can be combined into a new solution to better meet the criteria of success.

21st Century Skills (RUBRIC)

Creativity

Collaboration

Communication

Critical-Thinking

Essential Question

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How do innovations in communication and transportation transform a society from isolation to globalization?

Project Extensions and/or Real World Connections

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Students discover how pace of change in both communication and transportation have moved businesses, education, and tourism to globalization.  Because of this evolving economy, new innovations in both communication and transportation have become increasingly important and have a direct impact on their future.

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Off Campus Experiences include:

Outrigging at the ocean

Building an outrigger canoe

Visiting Hawaii News Now station

Visiting Hawaii Public Radio

Visiting the Bishop Museum

Visiting Hawaii Tourism Office

Visiting the Aviation Museum at Pearl Harbor

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On Campus Experience include:

Building Boats

Making Virtual Reality Video

Flying Drones

Recording Podcasts

Editing audio files

Organizing Timelines of Communication

Creating a Human Timeline of Flight

360 Footage from Outriggers to Internet

 

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