Saturday, 17 December 2016

Fire and Safety - Lesson 3

Lesson 3- Plan Phase
3.1 Work Breakdown, Products and Milestones:
Note: Products are shown in ( )’s. Milestones are in bold font.
Ø  Classroom instruction: 1. Fire: Origin, Uses & Threats. 2. Preventive Measures
Ø  Select student groups (student groups)
Ø  Research: Online and Library (research report)
Ø  Class activity: Awareness Class (Fire Brigades & Fire Prevention Measures)
Ø  Survey: Awareness About Fire – Its Uses, Threats & Prevention (survey report)
Ø  Activity: Conducting an Interview – Principal
Ø  Activity: Creating an assessment sheet based on questionnaire
Ø  Activity: Fire and Safety briefing/ “oral report” (student briefing)
Ø  Presentation: Fire: Introduction, Uses, Hazards and Prevention (presentation)
Ø  Celebration: A “mini exhibition” on Fire Brigadeand Preventing Fire Hazards (exhibition)
 3.2 Role definitions:
·         Project leader: teacher will fulfill this role
·         Researcher
·         Survey writer (all students will contribute to this)
·         Surveyor
·         Fire & Safety advisor: will present  Fire & Safety measure to the class
·         Presentation author
·         Presenter (all students will take some part in the presentation)
 3.3 Task schedule:
Project start date: 1st November 2016
Project end date: 3rd December 2016
Activity: “Interviewing - Principal”
Activity:  “Conducting an awareness class”
 3.4Special Activities Plan:
Interviewing the Principal will take place on 24th November

Awareness Class: 2nd December

           3.5Resources Plan:
Computer lab: Date and period in the Time Table
Maths Lab: Assessment of Survey details
Work Experience Lab: Model Preparations
 3.6 Direct Instruction:
§        Fire: Introduction and Origin
§         Uses, hazards and prevention
§         Creating a survey
3.7 Reviews and checkpoints:
Every day a meeting with the student group leaders for 10 minutes to discuss the steps to be done the same day and the next day.
At the end of every week there will be a 20 minutes class conference to discuss progress, successes and challenges.
A checkpoint meeting for each team will be held for 10 minutes twice per week.
3.8 Assessment plan:
·         Opportunities for authentic assessment will include: the surveys and results, visiting and interviewing a fire brigade, presenting the topic: Fire – Origin, uses, threats and prevention.
·         Formative assessment will primarily focus on the artifacts created by the students during the project. Special attention will be paid to survey prototypes, learning journals and presentation outlines.
·         Summative assessments will be performed on the survey results, presentations on Fire and related topics and the portfolios of work.
·         Rubrics prepared: Survey questions and results rubric, mathematical data tabulation rubric, presentations on fire rubric, interviewing rubric, grading rubric.