Richard+Round+One

=Finding Plan B: Getting to the Heart of the Problem= a) Who owns this problem? b) What are the parts of the problem? c) Where can solutions come from that the student provides? 2) Describe the main steps of the activity/lesson/project here How do we best assess the learning of real-world learning activities that provides authentic feedback to students? ||
 * **Title**: ||< Identifying the problem ||
 * **Subject**: ||< Works with any subject ||
 * **Grade**: ||< Focused on 6th - 8th grade ||
 * **Time Frame**: ||< This activity is an ongoing process as I work with students who present problems to me. ||
 * **Summary:** ||< Problems that students present to a librarian frequently contain a single problem that is combined with other factors that obfuscate the real problem. This activity will help students find their real problem by answering teacher questions that will help the student find the real focus of their problem. This would be an example of computational thinking. ||
 * **Tasks**: ||< 1) Develop a set of questions that will prompt students to focus on the parts of a problem.
 * Students will be required to take apart the problem and break it down into smaller parts.
 * Students determine which parts of the problem they can address and determine who or where other parts of the problem can be solved. ||
 * Objectives: ||< * What State, Common Core or other objectives does this activity/lesson project meet?
 * Please include at least one !gnite objective here as well (communication with text and non-text resources, collaboration, higher order thinking skills, problem solving, etc.) ||
 * Assessment: ||< How will you assess the students learning?
 * Resources: ||< * What resources will be needed? ||
 * **Teacher**
 * Reflections:** || Please share what went well, what was challenging and what you might tweak or modify for your next round.... ||
 * **Examples**: ||< * Links to teacher or student work examples. ||

Discussion:
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