Blair Conley

Willy Francis

Lee Maring

Shrone Van Loon

Mr. Jenks

OUR GOAL

Our goal is to make our school more interactive, with hands-on collaborative projects and less textbook-oriented material.

Organizations to Help Us

Student Leadership Council

Planned Activities

We plan to construct examples of interactive and collaborative projects.

We plan to hand out a survey to find out the opinions of other students.

Goal Achievement

Examples of projects will give people a better idea on what we want to do, and hopefully they will support our ideas. Examples will also help us to get new suggestions.

A survey will show how many students support our plan.

Research

We need to find out how to turn a textbook into an action.

We need to see how much of a course is based on textbook work.

We need to create and hand out a survey to see how many students agree with our plan.

Opposition

Teachers may be opposed to this plan because they think they would not be covering enough of their curriculum.

Parents may be opposed to this plan because they might think that students are not learning enough.

Answers to Opposition

We think that it is better to cover less, but do it in a way that we’ll learn more about what we cover.

We think that if our parents see us understanding more schoolwork, they would agree that less is more.

Target Date and Team Meetings

Our target date is December 12, 2008.

We meet in class every weekday afternoon.

Budget/Expenditures

No money is needed. The school will supply all of the materials.

Media Attention

We may use the Inuvik Drum to attract attention to our plan. We may also hand out informative flyers.

Survey Results

Grade 91 Note Taking 2 Hands-On Projects

3 Computer Work x Tests

Grade 101 Hands-On Projects 2 Independent Research

3 Group Work x Homework

Survey Results cont.

Grade 111 Hands-On Projects 2 Computer Work

3 Textbook Work x Independent Research

Grade 121 Hands-On Projects 2 Textbook Work

3 Homework x Tests

Our Example….

Our example covers Chapter 7 of the Social Studies 20-2 textbook. It deals with Ultranationalism and Crimes Against Humanity. We have included all of the chapter’s key terms, as well as 4 of its examples. We learned a lot….much more than if we had simply read through the chapter and answered questions!