Intel Ranking Tool Week 2

What's Important to you?
Grade Level: 7
Subject: Value and Decisions/Critical Thinking
Time Needed: Approximately 40 minutes a day for 3 days
SummaryMaking decisions is not always easy. What will you choose? Which way will you go? More importantly, what will influence your decision?
This unit encourages students to think critically and be responsible. It will help them understand values and why people make the choices they do.Also they will learn that values are important and they are different for everyone.

Curriculum-Framing Questions

- Essential Question:
How do people make important decisions?

- Unit Questions
Where did you acquire your values at?
Which one of the places to acquire values at most affected your values?

- Sample Content Question
Why are values important to you?
How has your values helped shape the person you are?

Description
This project will use the Intel Visual ranking Tool. (There are 25 students creating 5 teams , all were given a list containing their Team ID and password, and the web site address for the Intel Visual Ranking Tool.)
Day 1The students will read the articles about the Nichter family and the lost wallet. Once they have read the article they will discuss it and see if they can pick out values that were seen in the article.
Day 2The students will read the article "What's Important to You?". They will then discuss the article content. They will list the different places values can be acquired from. They will then rank the places values come form in the order from top down the one that they feel they got their values from. (There are no right or wrong answers. It is to help them understand that there are different values and they come from different places. The different places that values are acquired from in this article will be the titles of the ranking choices.
Day 3The students will use the Intel Visual ranking Tool.
The teacher ID: mksole63
Password are: A names; M names, J names, S names, and W names (The passwords are the students first letter of their first name and they are on the team with the same letter. Team A, Team J, Team M, Team S, and Team W) Students can click here to login and enter the above information.
We will work through the process so that the students can see how the ranking tool works. Then they will input their list that they created as a team into the ranking tool. Once all five teams have made their list the teams will take turns comparing with the other teams to see what correlations there may be and to discuss the outcomes.
The above 'What's important to you?' project sheet can be viewed by clicking here.

The following graphics will help the students stay on track. These graphics were made by using the Snipping tool in Windows. (Click on image to see larger view.)



This is the student area.


This is the list of teams.


This is the list ranked by Team W.