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Sample Course Description |
Greg Adams
Course Description: Students will be divided into groups and work on several different problems during the trimester. The class will provide a hands-on experience that will allow students to use their creative problem solving skills and learn to work in a group.
Required Materials: Most materials will be provided by the school. Students periodically purchase items on their own.
Graduation Standard (s): Resource Management; Group Resources; Write and Speak: Interpersonal Communications
To meet requirements for class: Students will be required to complete assigned projects, attempt to make progress on projects each day, and successfully work in a group. A minimum of 85% class attendance is also required to fulfill requirements for the course.
Homework: as assigned by instructor
Assessment: Students are assessed by class attendance, completion of assigned projects, and visual observation by teacher on work completed within the group To attain Level I of the graduation standard, students will be required to give a short presentation to the class on how the solutions to their problem was achieved from start to the finish.
Students in grades 7-12 must complete the following three levels during their school career in order to fulfill the graduation requirements in the Creative Problem Solving area.
Graduation Standard(s): Resource Management; Group Resources; Write and Speak:
Interpersonal Communications
Overview: Level I: Students will begin to develop different problem solving skills.
Level II: Students will demonstrate that they can work effectively in a group to solve a problem.
Level III: Students will compete as a problem-solving team in a state-sponsored competition.
Level I:
Due: May 15, 2002
Team:______________________________________
Problem: "The Un-ordinary Reaction"
You are to design and build a chain reaction device that will incorporate the following:
- An airplane must be shot
- Some sort of teeter totter
- Some sort of ramp with a ball rolling
- A mouse trap reaction
- Bow and arrow shot to break a balloon
- One of your choice
You must start the reaction by pushing or pulling some sort of switch. It must then function on it's own.You must have a minimum of 6 reactions, but you can have more. You may add 2 or more reactions of which 2 will be scored and added as a bonus. Each team will be allowed two attempts. You must take at least 5 seconds from start to finish or there will be a penalty imposed.
| Creativity of the reactions | 1 to 10 pts each 60 pts |
| Engineering of the device | 0 to 30 pts |
| Reaction starts with a switch | 10 pts |
| Airplane flies | 10 pts |
| Balloon breaks | 10 pts |
| Bow and arrow fires | 10 pts |
| Mouse trap reaction | 10 pts |
| Ball roll | 10 pts |
| Required choice | 10 pts |
| Bonus 1 | 10 pts |
| Bonus 2 | |
| Total Score |
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