Wake Up Sleepy Heads!: Sleep Habits of High School – 6913

TIPC Ratings

Ideal/Target – Students will be conducting research in conjunction with the consciousness chapter to learn about the sleeping habits of their classmates. As we learn about sleep patterns and habits, students will be asked to participate in a week long survey of their own sleep habits and will also create a survey to get a general idea of their classmates’ sleep habits. They will take the data that is generated from their sleep surveys, as well as those of the entire student body’s, analyze it, and present information to the administration about the sleeping habits of the school.

Approaching – The teacher facilitates and formatively assesses authentic tasks where student are engaged in research and using information fluently through the use of Google Form to survey their classmates, the whole school and faculty. Student assembly and synthesize information to address the authentic task of whether or not to move the school’s directed study period to a different time-slot. Students’ use of Google Docs, Google Presentation and Todaysmeet.com to display and interact with information through group presentations and fishbowl discussions.

Ideal/Target – Teacher has designed lesson that promotes solutions to authentic tasks by having students create, collect and analyze raw data to solve the problem of whether or not to move the school’s Directed Study block to a different time of the day, based on evidence of the school’s sleep patterns. The teacher models a range of critical thinking and/or problem solving strategies and associated digital tools with the dissemination of data using Google Forms and Spreadsheets. Students generate and respond to purposeful questions, justify decision making and problem solving practices and apply digital tools to think critically, and solve open ended authentic tasks that require higher order thinking skills in the Fishbowl Discussion and reflect on their roles as problem solvers.

Approaching- Students analyze trends and make predictions that inspire new solutions to solve the authentic task of whether to move the school’s directed study to a different time of the day. Students created surveys, presentations and generated engaging discussions to create meaningful work within the assignment parameters. The teacher designed the opportunity for students to engage in a problem based learning assignment for student sot synthesize, research, apply critical thinking skills to address the authentic task.