AMA School Design Challenge

August 5, 2011Silver Spring, MD

Team Members

Scott McKim 7th and 8th Grade Applied Technology

Begich Middle School Anchorage, AK

Greg Ennis 8th Grade TechnologyGood Hope Middle

SchoolGood Hope, AL

Susannah Cowden8th Grade Science

Roxbury Preparatory Charter SchoolBoston, MA

Project Goals

Students will collaborate within and across schools to apply alternative energy, school design, energy transfer, and energy efficiency concepts to the creation of a dream school.

Curricular Connections

Science: Sustainability, Energy efficiency,

Alternative energy sources, Energy conversion and conservation.

Technology: Drafting and design software application

Engineering: Engineering Design Process, Structural components

Mathematics: Scale, area, energy efficiency calculations

Project Plan

Students become content experts in focus areas- Anchorage: Alternative Energy Sources- Boston: Energy Transfer and Structural Components- Good Hope: Energy Efficiency

Students create short media files summarizing their research. Students share these resources with students at other sites.

Phase 1 – Research and Share

Phase 2 - Collaboration

School Requirements. - 150 Students- Given square footage- Realistic and drawn to scale- Justified site-specific energy source

Students use their content knowledge and new resources from their collaboration to design their dream schools using Google SketchUp.

Phase 3 – Comment Period

Students prepare draft presentation videos justifying their design decisions

Students share videos and SketchUp drafts with students at other schools.

In return, students provide meaningful feedback to peer groups with guided questions.

Phase 4 – Revisions and Final Presentations

Students incorporate feedback from peers.

Students present final schools to their classes.

Project Timeline

Early February – Project Launch via SkypeLate February – Publish research media filesMid March – Initial draft conferencesLate March – Final Presentations

Tools and Technology

Introduction – SkypePhase 1: Research and Share – iMovie, Animoto,

Google DocsPhase 2: Design - Google SketchUpPhase 3: Collaboration - EdmodoPhase 4: Revisions and Presentations – Google

Presentations, Glogster, Prezi

Questions and Feedback?