Thinking with Technology

Activity 9.6

Step 2: Creating a Showing Evidence Project from an Existing Project

If you saw a project online that you would like to use as a starting point, you can use the project wizard to copy the project’s description, prompt, and any teacher-created evidence or claims to your teacher workspace. If you choose to complete this step, go to Step 6 when you are finished to assign teams to your new project. If you want to create a new project based on your own ideas, skip this step and go directly to Step 3.

Copying an Existing Project to Your Workspace

Open Showing Evidence from your Favorites. (www.intel.com/education/showingevidence)
Click Enter, and then on the page that opens, click Project Examples.
Open the appropriate project in either Unit Plans or Project Ideas.
Copy the project into your Teacher Workspace.

Note:If you are not already logged in, you will be directed to a page that requests that you log on. Your login information may be written in the Login Information document in your Project Folder.

Review Your Unit Ideas and Edit the Project Information Online

Open your Project Plan.

Review your Curriculum-Framing Questions. Consider how your learners’ work with Showing Evidence could help to support your project ’s questions.
Review your Project Priorities.
Preview the project Reflection Checklist.

Note: You may also want to review the Project Rubric
In the Teacher Workspace: Your Projects page, click the name of the project in the Showing Evidence Projects section to review and edit the title, description, and/or prompt. You can also change to the standard or simplified version of the workspace, or the vocabulary used in the workspace. (See Step 7)

Change the vocabulary of the Showing Evidence labels, if desired. The vocabulary that is used in the Showing Evidence Tool can be changed to match the particular project or subject matter that your Student Teams will address.

Note: All of your learners assigned to a project use the same vocabulary set. The labels you select are used in the tool for just this project.

Add or edit any pre-populated evidence or claims, if desired.

Note:You will not be able to change, delete, or add to any pre-populated evidence or claims after you have assigned teams—unless you unassign them first. If you have doubts about any elements you are considering as pre-populated items in this practice case, you may want to simply add them in the Student Workspace, rather than in the Teacher Workspace. Since this is a practice project, it will not impact your practice project in any significant way.

After editing the project information online, copy the details into your Project Plan.

Note: If you do not think Showing Evidence is a good fit for your project, save and open the Showing Evidence Project Idea document try out a project idea for a different unit.

Save your Project Plan.
Return to your Teacher Workspace and click Submit. This will bring you to a page where you may assign Student Teams.
Review Steps 3 – 5 to familiarize yourself with the project-creation options.
Go to Step 6 to assign teams to your project.

Next: Proceed to Step 3 of Activity 9.6