Jason Thorne

EDCI 568 Assignment 2C

Driving Question: What can you discover in agriculture that leads you to a career in advanced technology and science? What is the context of the unit? This unit is targeted at juniors and seniors in high school who are looking at different college degree programs. This unit consists of two parts, a museum exhibit that students visit in person and an online part that takes place on Facebook. Students will apply to be part of the program. Those accepted will be sent a starter packet and asked to go see the exhibit. The museum exhibit will be located at 4 county extension offices: LaPorte, Tippecanoe, Owen, and Dubois County. Students will go to their local extension office and tour the exhibit. The exhibit will contain photos, graphics, computer interactives, and hands-on interactives. Facebook is the second part of the unit. Students will join a Facebook group that will provide ongoing learning about the field of agriculture. This will consist of a quiz, guest speakers, discussions, and a video. Two tools will be used in conjunction with Facebook to provide students with more engaging lessons. Ustream is a Facebook app that will allow guest speakers to stream live video onto Facebook. This will allow for guest speakers to engage in conversations with students and answer their questions. Additionally, Articulates Storyline will provide guided learning with a quiz. These two parts will be tied together. After touring the museum exhibit, leaners will be asked to join the Facebook group. Their first task upon joining the group is to discuss what they learned in the museum exhibit. The Facebook portion of the unit will allow them to further develop their knowledge and understanding as well as focus on their interests. Learner motivation Guidance counselors will direct students who are juniors or seniors to become involved in the unit. They will make students aware that successful participation in the program will lead to a $500 scholarship at Purdue Universitys College of Agriculture. Guidance counselors will make students aware of the limited openings in the unit and suggest they apply quickly in order to create a demand. This will motivate learners in two ways, intrinsic and extrinsic. The first reason is intrinsic; they want to find a degree program and career that excites them. They will also be motivated extrinsically because they will want the $500 scholarship. What Will Learners investigate? In order to investigate the driving question, learners will be answering the following questions: What majors are available in agriculture? Why should you consider a career in agriculture?

Jason Thorne

EDCI 568 Assignment 2C

What technology is used in agriculture? What sciences are used in agriculture? What are your career options when you have a degree in agriculture? How do current students in agriculture feel about their degree program? What would you do if you had a degree in agriculture?

How will you monitor student learning during the unit? Student learning in the museum part of this unit will mainly be monitored by summative assessment. The students will complete their starter packet during the exhibit. The starter packet, example below, will be assessed by extension coordinators after it is submitted online. The only summative feedback during the exhibit will be the interactives. These will provide immediate feedback to the students and help them to gain an understanding of different career activities. Interactives:
A computer game where the learner studies animal health in a chicken coop to simulate a career in animal science. A balancing game will provide a challenge for learners to test their creativeness in balancing grain costs with the money spent to grow the grain. A puzzle will let learners test how a seed can be modified by not allowing bugs to destroy it.

Student learning during the Facebook portion of the unit will be monitored by both formative and summative assessment. As students join the group for the first time they will be directed to take a quiz. The quiz questions are in the starter packet and the students will submit the answers they have written down. Extension coordinators will monitor the comment section of the guest speakers and videos that the students will be asked to watch. In the comments area, students can ask questions, discuss, and submit their answers to questions. The comment area will be the main form of communication during the unit. Students or extension coordinators may need to talk to one another in other ways such as direct messages but this will not be the main form of classroom discussion. To organize the monitoring of the comment section, extension coordinators will use a checklist method to keep track of the answers the students complete. They will be looking for students to communicate complete thoughts and fulfill the question requirements. The final summative project will be a video project that the students complete. They will share this video on the Facebook group page and discuss their interests in agriculture and what careers they are interested in.

Jason Thorne

EDCI 568 Assignment 2C

What evidence/artifacts will your student produce to demonstrate the desired learning? Initial quiz from starter packet - After touring an exhibit the students will complete a starter packet to show an understanding and a growth of knowledge from the content of the exhibit. Answers submitted in comments section After watching guest speakers and videos of current agriculture students, the students will submit answers to the questions presented to them in the comments section of the video. These answers will be visible to the other students and allow for discussions as well as students to rethink their own ideas. Video project The final project will students composing a video that contains their interest in agriculture as well as what careers they think they may want to do. It will be a cumulative project that asks them to reflect on all of their prior activities. How will you assess students' processes and products (e.g., rubrics, checklists, presentations, exams)? Checklists Extension coordinators will document the students participation in the program. As students engage in the activities, extension coordinators will monitor their activity. They will use a checklist to ensure students complete all of the steps in the unit. Students who complete all of the steps will be eligible for the $500 scholarship to Purdue Universitys College of Agriculture.

Jason Thorne Table 1 Investigations What majors are available in agriculture? Objective: Learner will identify the three different majors they find most appealing.

EDCI 568 Assignment 2C

Why should you consider a career in agriculture? Objective: Learner will describe their interest in the field of agriculture.

Investigations at the Museum Exhibit Activities Scaffolds Tools Large Visitors will review Strategy: Photographs and photographs, graphics that describe the graphics will visually graphics many majors available in represent what agriculture agriculture. consists of. Example: It will show a financial person working in an office selling They will review the 40 grain or cattle. different bachelor programs that Purdue Guide: Learners will see the University Agriculture areas of agriculture grouped offers. in sub-categories to help see the relations of the different areas. Example: Agribusiness Students will begin will be the category with completing their starter Agrifinance, Food pack answering what three Marketing, and so on as sub majors they find most categories. interesting. Large They will read the graphics Common interests will be photographs, that contain benefits of a linked to careers in graphics, degree in agriculture. agriculture to help students computer Examples: High pay, make the connection to available jobs, research their life. Example: A love of games, and hands on opportunities. animals may go well with interactives. animal science. They will use the interactives to simulate Interactives will simplify and what they might do in simulate what a person in an different careers. Examples agriculture career might do. above under monitoring Hands-on experience will student learning. help the student understand what that career might be like.

Assessment Strategies Summative Upon learning about the different agriculture programs, the student will identify three that they find most interesting. This will show that the student reviewed and gave consideration to what they might do in different programs. They will write their three majors of interest in the starter packet they received.

Summative Students will describe benefits they feel they could gain with a degree in agriculture. They will briefly write what the benefits are and why they are valuable. They will write this in their starter packet. Formative Students using the interactives will gain feedback on which careers they find most appealing. Some of the simulations they might enjoy and picture doing for a living, others might lead them to believe it wouldnt be a good career choice.

Jason Thorne What technologies are used in agriculture? Objective: Learner will describe a technology that they find most interesting. On graphics panels of the different majors, learners will read about the many advanced technologies that are relevant. After reviewing all of the majors and the advanced technologies they will describe the technology that they find most interesting. Example: GPS systems that steer farm equipment. Leaners will read about the sciences used in agriculture. The sciences will be connected to the majors and careers. Students will learn how and why they use the science. Students will be asked to identify and then describe why they find one of the areas of science most interesting. Learners will read about the technologies that are being designed and used in agriculture. Learners review trends in agriculture that demand greater technology.

EDCI 568 Assignment 2C Large photographs and graphics Summative Students will identify and then describe a technology used in agriculture that they find most interesting. They will write this in their starter packet.

What sciences are used in agriculture? Objective: Learner will describe a science that they find most interesting.

Students will read about different sciences and how they correlate with agriculture. Students will learn how the science is used to improve agriculture. Example: Students learn why biotechnology can protect crops in drought.

Large photographs and graphics

Summative Students will identify and describe why they find a particular area of science more interesting than the other areas. They will write this in their starter packet.

Jason Thorne

EDCI 568 Assignment 2C

After completing the museum exhibit portion and filling the starter packet they received at the beginning of the program they will login to Facebook and join the group. The first task they will have upon joining the group is to submit the information they wrote on their starter packet to the online quiz. The online quiz will be created in Articulates Storyline. The quiz will contain the graphics from the museum to provide guided learning and a reference. This will provide students with an opportunity to develop and add to their answers. When students submit their packets online the extension coordinators can review the answers and provide immediate feedback if necessary or choose guest speakers that fit the interests of the students. STARTER PACKET EXAMPLE

Jason Thorne Table 2 Investigations What are your career options when you have a degree in agriculture? Who can you become with a degree in agriculture? Objective: The learner will gain an understanding about different career fields from guest speakers.

EDCI 568 Assignment 2C Investigations on Facebook and Twitter Scaffolds Tools Facebook, Learners will hear from Ustream app professionals in the installed on field what they think of Facebook their job and what they do. This will help the students to make the connection between what they have read and what happens in real life. Guide: Students can read other students questions and hear answers. Questions raised by others may be useful to all students. Tool: Using a streaming service, students can visually see and hear from someone in a career of their interest. They will also be able to engage with them by asking questions in real time. Facebook Guide: High school students can hear from current students what the programs are like. Strategy: The similar age will help students in high school make the

Activities Students will attend Facebook events were people in various agriculture careers will stream live discussions using Ustream app on Facebook. Speakers will describe the many characteristics of their job along with their favorite parts and the parts that they dont like as much. Presenters will answer questions from students and engage them in conversation.

Assessment Strategies Summative After the event, the recorded video will be uploaded to the Facebook group page. Students will be asked to write a comment to the video and answer the following questions. Describe the three most interesting parts of the guest speakers job, something they didnt expect in the speakers job, and one thing they wouldnt like about the guest speakers job. The extension coordinators will monitor the comments section. They will look for completion of these questions as well as provide additional guidance as needed. Formative Students can ask questions on areas they dont understand as well as comment what the guest speaker says. Students will receive immediate feedback on their comments and questions during the event. The feedback will allow them to realign their understanding. Other students may ask questions that help them better understand the career the guest speaker is presenting. Extension coordinators will encourage students who had incomplete descriptions to finish the descriptions.

How do current students in agriculture feel about their degree program?

Mini videos of a current student in each of the majors will be uploaded to the Facebook group. Current students in College of Agriculture at Purdue will describe why

Summative Students will be asked to describe how their classes will help in their college classes in order to help them think of the connection that school has from high school to college. This will help them see the value in the classes they are taking and to finish their high school classes strong. Students will post this description in the comment section of

Jason Thorne How do current students feel about their degree in agriculture? they chose agriculture and what their classes are like. Students will watch and comment on the video that matches the major they are most interested in. In the comment section of the video they will describe how the classes they are taking in high school will help them in their college classes. Students will be asked to create an outline for a video about why they are interested in agriculture and what career interests them. Students will submit outlines of the video to the extension coordinators. Students record themselves on video, edit it, and then upload it to the Facebook group. Students will comment on other students videos providing words of encouragement and feedback. connections to where they could be in a year or so. Strategy: Students can get an idea of what school will be like.

EDCI 568 Assignment 2C the mini video for the major they are considering. Formative Extension coordinators will moderate the comments section. They will provide feedback to students on what high school classes they might consider. Students will watch the mini videos. As they watch the videos they will see comments made by other students. This will help the form their thoughts and start discussions. They might find it useful to edit or change the major they are interested, how they think their classes relate, or what classes they should take in high school. Strategy: Students can see other students in similar situations. Guide: Interaction between peers can develop a support network. Strategy: The tough decisions the students are making are shared to show everyone is going through the same thing. Facebook, Camcorder, Video editing software Summative Learners will create a short video of themselves describing why they are interested in an agriculture degree and what they want to become after college. The students will upload these videos to the Facebook group page. Formative Before the leaners create the videos they will submit outlines of the video to the extension coordinators. The coordinators will review the outlines and provide feedback and direction for the content of the video. After they upload the videos, students will provide feedback to other students.

Objective: Learner will recognize relation between high school classes and college classes. What would you do if you had a degree in agriculture? Why are you considering a degree in agriculture? Objective: Learner will describe their interest in an agriculture degree and what they hope to become.