Field Activity

Digital Fabrication WITH kids and sustainability

For this Field Activity, you will design, test, and reflect on a lesson plan for a subject you teach, with a strong focus on assessment and real classroom implementation. You will define clear, measurable learning objectives, including at least one related to sustainability or the Sustainable Development Goals covered in Week 2, and design an assessment protocol aligned to those objectives. You will then test the lesson with learners, collect feedback from students, colleagues, or AI, and reflect on the experience in your learning diary. Students may participate in any phase of the design process. While it is recommended that your lesson include either 3D printing or work with biomaterials, this is optional as long as the chosen technologies support your learning goals and students’ technological readiness.

In this field activity one key aspect is the assessment protocol. You need to consider assessment carefully, include the assessment procedure(s) in your lesson plan, and ensure that your assessment aligns with the learning goals. Additionally, you must reflect in your learning diary about the assessment.

Finally, you must test the lesson plan and collect feedback from one/several of the following 3 different sources:

• Students who participated in the execution of the lesson plan. Write your observations and share them in your learning diary.
• Other teachers with whom you have tested the lesson plan. Ask for written feedback from them.
• Generative AI: ChatGPT or other LLMs can provide feedback on the learning goals and alignment with the assessment rubric. Do not simply ask for general feedback, instead, try:
  
  1. Ask for feedback on your learning goals, to ensure that they are written clearly, tied to the project, and that they are measureable.
  2. Ask for feedback on your assessment rubric, to ensure that your rubric measures the learning goals.
  3. Ask for feedback on the project and how it supports the learning goals.
  4. Ask for help tying in a sustainability learning goal or more clearly tying the project to your selected SDG.
  5. You can also ask the AI to score your final lesson plan and rubric using the Assessment Rubric for THIS Field Activity. (opens new window)

Note that the the above prompts/questions can also be used if you are collecting feedback from your colleagues or other adult learners.

Finally, report and reflect on the provided feedback in your learning diary.

• Identify the source of the feedback: learners, colleagues, or AI.
• Describe how you collected the feedback: through observations, written feedback, direct questions, etc.
• What was the specific feedback about how the project aligns with learning goals? How does the assessment align with the learning goals? Does the assessment protocol make sense within the lesson (ie. type of assessment, pacing, difficulty of implementing)
• What are some changes you made or will make based on the lesson testing and feedback?
• Did you succeed integrating developed sustainable goals / sustainability? Are they include in the learning goals and assessment? There were any challenges related to the integration?

Steps

1. Identify the subject and concepts for the lesson plan. You can adapt an existing activity or lesson plan that you have used in your classroom.
2. Set 3-5 learning objectives: at least one should be related to sustainability (or another SDG), at least one should be non-technical learning goal, all of them shoulod be clearly written and measureable.
3. Research and plan technology integration: for/with kids, what processes or technologies will be used?
4. Assess your students’ technological fluency: make sure that the technology used is appropriate for your learners'ZPD
5. Define assessment protocol: formative/summative, when and how does the assessment(s) take place, clearly align the rubric or summative assessment to the learning goals.
6. (Recommended) Design and create a project example, so you can test it yourself before trying it with your learners. Take photographs of the process.
7. Develop the lesson plan using the SCOPES template
8. Test your lesson plan with learners (see above)
9. Gather feedback from any of the 3 proposed sources (see above).
10. Reflect on the activity and the feedback received in your learning diary.
11. Include some pictures of the activity in your learning diary. Be sure that you hide children's identities.
12. Post your lesson to the SCOPES website. (be sure to add the link to the lesson plan on your learning diary)

Assessment Rubric

This summative assessment rubric will be used for your Global Evaluator to assess your Field Activity.

• Full Rubric linked here. (opens new window)
• Rubric Fields (overview)

  • Select, list and describe 3-5 specific learning objectives for the lesson plan Learning objectives are clear, specific, and measurable. At least 1 is non-technical, and at least 1 is related to sustainability.

  • Develop a digital fabrication activity to support your learning objectives The activity aligns with lesson content, fits within the lesson flow, and uses technology appropriate to students’ technological fluency level.

  • Design an assessment protocol for the lesson plan. Assessment procedures are clearly described, align with learning objectives, and fit within the flow of the lesson.

  • Post detailed lesson plan on SCOPESdf and link from your learning diary. Lesson steps are clearly described and include teaching strategies and facilitation approaches to support implementation.

  • Test the lesson plan with learners and reflect on implementation and feedback on your learning diary. Reflection documents lesson testing, learner engagement, and feedback used to inform reflection and revision.