Co-design a rough lesson plan with teachers
A lesson plan outline document with descriptions of the activities and stages of each project, what technical skills are addressed, and what scholastic standards are addressed
40 hrs
August 2021
September 2021
This would include the list of units/topics that students would cover through this project, and a sequence diagram of how student teams might progress through the project. This can still be tweaked as we add more detail to the project and revise it for future years.
From the connections, enumerate potential real-world projects and a few possible sequences
Code / build a technical demo as an example of what students could produce
A technical demo (piece of software) that is an example of what students could produce
40 hrs
September 2021
October 2021
Co-design a rough lesson plan with teachers
Develop the instructional content, videos, diagrams, quizzes, etc. for students and teachers to be able to follow along and build their own projects
A fully-developed curriculum project in the inventplatform webapp
80 hrs
October 2021
December 2021
Code / build a technical demo as an example of what students could produce
Collect and clean a variety of datasets for students to choose from
A list of datasets (approximately 1,000 to 10,000 entries) in each dataset
60 hrs
October 2021
December 2021
Cleaning means to put each entry of the data in a standard format.
We want to make available enough data that there is at least 1 topic that is meaningful to students.
Code / build a technical demo as an example of what students could produce
Curriculum implementation
inventXYZ trains teachers - teachers do the project as if they are the students and then reflect as educators
A teacher training session
25 hrs
December 2021
December 2021
Note: we can either have the teachers do the entire project or have them just do a few critical sections for a shorter training time (8-10 hours).
If done in a contiguous block of time, the training session could be done in 4 days.
Develop the instructional content, videos, diagrams, quizzes, etc. for students and teachers to be able to follow along and build their own projects
Collect and clean a variety of datasets for students to choose from
Revise project materials from teachers’ feedback
Revised curriculum materials in the inventplatform webapp
5 hrs
January 2022
January 2022
Since we have been working collaboratively with the teachers from the start, any revisions are likely to be fairly minor (e.g wording or diagrams)
inventXYZ trains teachers - teachers do the project as if they are the students and then reflect as educators
Curriculum implementation
Pre-test covering both data science objectives and ELA objectives
Pre-test results
1 hr
February 2022
February 2022
Collecting data about where students are starting from will help us truly measure the impacts on student learning and help improve the content
Revise project materials from teachers’ feedback
Curriculum implementation
Students create their data visualizations / write code for their analysis
Students in 9th grade ELA complete the project during class
30 hrs
February 2022
February 2022
Pre-test covering both data science objectives and ELA objectives
Curriculum implementation
Students present their data visualizations / analyses to school leadership, community members, and/or local companies
A student presentation
2 hrs
February 2022
February 2022
Students create their data visualizations / write code for their analysis
Curriculum implementation
Post-test covering both data science objectives and ELA objectives
Post-test results
2 hrs
February 2022
February 2022
Students present their data visualizations / analyses to school leadership, community members, and/or local companies