Step 3 | gowickedglobal

-This project based adventure was designed as a hybrid using the Asia Society Global Competence Matrix and the National Council for the Social Studies C3 Framework. C3 stands for College, Career, and Civic Life.

-In Step 1, I indicated that students should be taken through mini-lessons that emphasize the 4 parts of the Global Competence Matrix: Investigate the World, See Perspectives, Communicate Ideas, and Take Action. However, we spend most of our time at the start of the year working on how to investigate the world. For that, we utilize the 4 social studies lenses - history, civics, economics, and geography.

-As kids get ready to tackle projects on their own, it's important to make sure we've prepped them on how to approach a topic. I'm 100% OK with a student doing a project on KitKat bars, but that student will have to explain the history of the product, the economics behind its production, any civics involved such as FDA rules, etc., and where the ingredients come from geographically.

-Steps 4-7 give some ideas of how I approach the 4 lenses.