Applying Your Lessons
Look back at your Padlet brainstorming activity to reflect on what you’ve learned in this class and then answer the following questions:
How will you apply the...
Find Common Ground
Finding common ground is important because it promotes understanding, builds trust, facilitates problem-solving and encourages respect. By finding common ground, people can work together...
Your Project – Part Three
Take all of the Post-it notes your classmates have left you and sort them into piles that relate to the type of feedback given...
Your Project – Part Two
It’s time to take your rapid prototype and see if others like your idea.
Create a simple display station (a bullet point outline or a...
Your Project – Part One
Rapid Prototype Your Idea
Before launching into your final project - proposing a new policy - it's helpful to create a rapid prototype of your...
Process Planning: How Will You Develop Your Policy?
Now that you have determined the question you want your policy to answer, next up? Make a plan to design your policy!
Create a timeline...
Collaboration is Key
You have your better question and an idea of what policy you want to propose to help answer it. Now you need support.
Review tips...
Policy Investigation
What makes a for a good piece of legislation? How does a policy or law solve a problem? Time to find out!
Select a policy...
Problem Solving
First you came up with a list of questions and then you researched the answers. Great! With this information, now you're almost equipped to...
The Art of Decision-Making
This activity will help you:
Realize how the issues we face are incredibly complex
Better understand the diversity of voices - stakeholders - involved in an...