Part 1:  Driving question:   (*You should schedule a time to meet with your partners to discuss this before doing Class Prep#7)

• What are your three initial driving questions?

• 1. How do leaders create change?

• 2. How do leaders become leaders?

• 3. Do leaders represent the people?

• What is your one, final driving question?

How did past leaders represent citizens  when they made changes?

• Background information of this driving question:

The students will pick a leader and examine them and how they live their life. Background knowledge on each specific leader will be researched by the student. This targets first graders.

• 1.1.4  Identify people from the past who have shown honesty, courage and responsibility.

• Why do you think this is a good driving question?

• Each student will have to explore their leader in depth to answer the asked question.

• The question is relevant and will make the students think about who to put in charge of themselves in the future.

• There are many solutions, because every leader is different and represents themselves and the people in a different way.

• Yes, because not everyone sees all leaders in the same way.

Part2: Grabber

• What is your grabber?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnjJpa1LBOY - paused at 1:52

• Why do you think this grabber is beneficial and how it  align with your driving question?

Try to answer these questions. (But you should not answer them with yes or no, instead explain the details and convince me that you’ve met these criteria)

• Does the story, article, video, announcement, role play, or other resource hook the learner into asking more questions about the topic? Yes, because they get to see several different instances of teamwork and leadership by a particular member of the team showing qualities that could be discussed after the video.

• Does the grabber capitalize on novelty and / or high emotion situations? The grabber uses animation and in one scene the use of certain very popular characters that young children love.

• Does the grabber establish authenticity & relevance? Yes, because the grabber gets the attention of the students through animation and introduces the topic

• Make sure to explain in detail how this grabber would be used. I would show the video then ask the students to identify the leaders in each scene and how they know that this is the leader.

• Culminating activities: List all your activities here:

1) Activity 1

• What is your first activity?

Research your group’s assigned leader on your iPad. Accumulate information for the upcoming poster project. (Will give several appropriate links)

• Why do you think this is a good activity for PBL?

• How is the activity authentic? It teaches the children about good leaders in the past and present.

• Does the activity provide students with the opportunity to present and defend problem solution? Yes, because they can decide who they believe is a good leader and why, although others may disagree.

• Does the activity require student collaboration? Yes, the students will work in groups of 3-4.

• How will I judge what students have learned from the activity?

• You will need to create a rubric for this step and potential example materials as well.

2) Activity 2

• Students will create a poster based on their assigned leader. Students should include the leader’s name, when they were alive, and things that the leader was known for.  Students should include pictures to make the poster visually pleasing.

• Students will show their knowledge on their assigned leader.

• The students will present their poster to the rest of the class so they can share their knowledge of this leader with the other groups

• The students will work in groups of 3-4