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**PBL Projects - Other**
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**Your name (s):** **Other Content area(s) (if applicable):** **Project title:** **Grade level:** **Project idea:** **Driving Question:** **Content:** **Student Product(s):**
 * 21st Century Skills to be taught and assessed:**

**Your name (s): Allison Sniegowski, Bridget Smith, Jeanette Utter, Gaynell Castor, Rene Steingraber, Kelly Welch** **Other Content area(s) (if applicable): Mathematics, English, and Science** **Project title:** To Give or Not to Give ~ That is the Question **Grade level:** 10th Grade **Project idea:**  How can we raise awareness about the stigmas attached to organ donation? Students explore facts/myths/religious and the cultural reasoning surrounding the issue. They will be expected to utilize critical thinking skills, and a variety of technology, inform and educate others on their acquired knowledge. **Driving Question:** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Would I want to be an organ donor?

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Content:** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Biology__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">: Genetics behind donor matches, ethics of organ donation, current research into the genetic engineering of human organs. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Mathematics__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">: The statistics and probability involved on the need for organ transplants versus how many people die every year due to no organs available. Charts and graphs will give a visual representation of the data collected. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline;">__English__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">: researching articles on ethics, debating the myths and facts, connecting to real life stories and bios of those on both sides of the fence, persuasive writing pieces on both the larger issue and smaller details.

Information, Media and Technology Skills** [|Learning and Innovation Skills] ** 1. [|Creativity and Innovation] 2. [|Critical Thinking and Problem Solving] 3. [|Communication and Collaboration] 1. [|Information Literacy] 2. [|Media Literacy] 3. [|ICT Literacy]
 * 21st Century Skills to be taught and assessed:**
 * NETS-S:**
 * 1) Creativity and Innovation – Students demonstrate creative thinking, construct knowledge, and develop innovative products and processes using technology.
 * 2) Communication and Collaboration – Students use digital and environments to communicate and work collaboratively, including at a distance, to support individual learning and contribute to the learning of others.
 * 3) Research and Information Fluency – Students apply digital tools to gather, evaluate, and use information.
 * 4) Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, and Decision Making – Students use critical thinking skills to plan and conduct research, manage projects, solve problems, and make informed decisions using appropriate digital tools and resources.
 * 5) Digital Citizenship – Students understand human, cultural, and societal issues related to technology and practice legal and ethical behavior.
 * 21st Century Skills:**
 * [|Information, Media and Technology Skills] **

DL-Look at the 21st Century Skills Framework and NETS-S and **specifically** identify the skills/standards you will be deliberate about with this unit of instruction. You should be citing the P21 framework areas and NETS-S standards.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Student Product(s):** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Community/parent presentation, Informational fliers, presentations to anatomy classes or other groups, Creation of Wiki/Website/blogs sharing project findings, links to project resources and other contact information including podcasts and vodcast commercials (Will this be a repository created by teachers or students or both?). Utilize the morning video announcements to air PSA created by students (great idea...how does it fit into the goal of the unit? or is it just something else to do? This is a big task.) We plan to being this project the on October 17th and working through January 13th. This will be appoximately one quarter plus two weeks to account for the winter holiday and Thanksgiving break.

Details by content area:
English Language Arts - Bridget Smith/Allison Sniegowki <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The following are a list of possible activities we are considering,within the To Give Or Not To Give Project, in our classroom: creation of brochures or online ads, presentations on organ donation, creation and presentation of public service announcements, creation of podcasts/vodcasts, participation in blogs/Wikis, writing newspaper articles, speeches, Voicethread, and the writing of an expository essay and a variety of persuasive pieces. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The activities that I will be looking at are: blogging, presentations on the biology of donor/recipeint matching of organs, ethics of genetic engineering research, students will take part in lab activities that look at genetics and tissue matching. I will be working from the aspect of why there are so many people on the list, yet not an easy thing to make the match. **<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Rene' Steingraber: Technology Support ** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">My role will be to support all team members in technology needs associated with this project, including how-to use equipment and developing lessons for student development.
 * Jeanette Utter: Biology Activities**