Grasping the GRASP…

1. Grasping the GRASP… Creating an authentic, real-world culminating project.

2. What is the GRASP? • The GRASP conceptualizes the project: • G – Goal • R – Role • A – Audience • S – Situation • P – Product, Performance, and Purpose • S – Standards and Criteria for Success

3. Worksheet in your binder:

4. Lucky for us the GRASP… Serves double duty: This is the letter than you give the students to explain the parameters of your assignment. This is also the task description that you use to decorate the bulletin board.

5. GOALS Stem statements End Results Science Example: You will devise a plan to protect sea turtles from the BP oil spill. • Your task is… • The goal is to… • The problem or challenge is… • The obstacles to overcome are…

6. Role Stem statements • Connect classroom learning with careers. • Frame this project to immerse your students in learning that extends beyond the classroom. • Your are… • You have been asked to… • Your job is…

7. Role Examples: You are a social worker … You are a newscaster/a photojournalist… You are a community activist… You are an engineer… You are a music critic/film critic/art critic… You are a Native American tribal leader... You are an elected official…

8. Audience EXAMPLES • Devise a project that the students will present. • … • You are an elected official…

9. Situation What is a practical application for what you are teaching the children? Stem statements • The context you find yourself in is… • The challenge involves dealing with…

10. Situation Examples Role – Real Estate Agent. Audience: Prospective Tenants. Situation: You are trying to attract tenants to move to the Mesa Verde cliff dwellings. As a real estate agent, you have to find the tenants and sell the advantages of living on the cliffs. Role – Social Worker. Audience: Family Court Judge. Situation: Your client is a 13 year old boy who has lived with alcoholic parents. He has been truant from school, and was recently arrested for disorderly conduct. His 24 year old brother wants to take legal responsibility, removing him from the parents’ home and moving him into his home.

11. Product, Performance, Purpose This is the reason you are asking students to do this work. What is the academic purpose of this assignment? What is the educational value? What is the real-world value? Stem statements • You will create a … in order to … • You need to develop … so that

12. Standards Stem statements • Your performance needs to… • Your work will be judged by… • Your product must meet the following standards… • A successful result will…

13. Product, Performance, Purpose Written: Digital or Hard Copy; Oral or Visual Purpose is to Create a brochure Compose a newspapar article/ editorial Write a position paper Poetry Reading, Radio Script, Dramatization Powerpoint, idocumentary, podcast, Public Serivce Announcement

14. Standards English Standards – Common Core Standards. Reading Literature: RL3 - Analyze how particular elements of a story or drama interact (e.g., how setting shapes the characters or plot) Social Studies Standards Across time, technological innovations have had both positive and negative effects on people, places, and regions. CCS Soc. St. Integration of Knowledge and Ideas. Integrate visual information (e.g. in charts, graphs, photographs, videos, or maps) with other information in print and digital texts. • These are the concepts that the state and city requires you to teach.

15. Standards Math. Common Core Standard Grade 8: Understand the connections between proportional relationships, lines, and linear equations. 5. Graph proportional relationships, interpreting the unit rate as the slope of the graph. Compare two different proportional relationships represented in different ways. For example, compare a distance-time graph to a distance-time equation to determine which of two moving objects has greater speed.

16. Standards Math. Common Core Standard Grade 8: Analyze and solve linear equations and pairs of simultaneous linear equations. 7. Solve linear equations in one variable.Give examples of linear equations in one variable with one solution, infinitely many solutions, or no solutions. Show which of these possibilities is the case by successively transforming the given equation into simpler forms, until an equivalent equation of the form x = a, a = a, or a = b results (where a and b are different numbers).

17. Put them together and what do you got? Bibbity, bobbity, boo:

18. Present your GRASP in the task sheet or as a letter to the students. Your grasp should incorporate the Six Facets of Understanding:

19. The Everglades Stewardship Program Everglades National Park 2009 Crocodile Row Everglades, Florida 21709 Dear Student: Congratulations! We are pleased to inform you that you have been accepted as a fellow in the elite Everglades Stewardship program. In addition to researching this unique ecosystem, you will be devising a plan to restore the Everglades, in part, to its ancient glory.. As an Everglades Steward, you join a community of scholars social scientists, artists, and activists whose research and advocacy are saving the American alligator and the Everglades, one of the most unique ecosystems on Earth. Please read and return the enclosed contract, so you can start your work as soon as possible.

20. Congratulations! You grasped the GRASP! The power is in your hands… Now go off and create your own GRASP!

21. Source UbD Workbook pages 170 – 174