Expedition Education

KEY LEARNING #1: What do you think? 

1. Warm-up: Watch the video interview clip featuring students from our RCS community: What is School for?

2. Now, it's your turn. Take some think time to consider... What do you think the primary purpose of school should be?

 3. When you're ready, click on this Key Learning #1 link to record your answer. We will be reading and reflecting on your posts throughout the day to share out with the larger school community.

Now that you've had the chance to consider "the why" of school, you'll take some time to reflect on your own personal needs, values, passions, and strengths before thinking about how you might share your talents to contribute to making your vision of school a reality.

Key Learning #2: Values, Needs, Trust 

Document your thinking by responding to the Key Learning #2 short answer prompts.

  Click on this Key Learning #2 link to access the Google Form. 

Passions and Strengths 

Now step away from your device for 10-15 minutes. Take some time to sketch, write, do some toe-touches, go for a quick walk, or choose another way you like to take some think time to clear your mind. During your time away, think about the following questions:

• What are some things you enjoy doing?
• What are some things you do well?
• What are some things you might feel comfortable or confident teaching others? (You will be asked to do that in later sections)

WATCH 2-3 VIDEOS BASED ON YOUR INTEREST

In Step 3, you are researching and brainstorming what you'd like to teach your classmates, and how you'd like to teach it. One important part of exploring our passions is to think about how they might connect to our future goals and dreams. Spend about 10-15 minutes exploring some of the categories that look interesting to you to gain inspiration before creating your own teaching plan.

Optional

Extend the Learning by researching additional career paths connected to your passions and interests using your RCS District Xello Account. 

• Login to Xello using the JOINING LINK
• If you haven't already completed your EDP, you can continue to work on it 
• You can also Explore Careers to make connections between your areas of interest and possible future career paths.

For more information on how to login to Xello, you can watch this "How to" Tutorial.

Now that you've taken some time to reflect and done your own research, it's time to design a learning opportunity for your classmates. Choose ONE of the templates below to help you plan.

1. Choice # 1 Video Planning Guide 

   Plan your own "How to" Video to teach your classmates something new on Flipgrid. You will use this plan to share your thinking in the next step. Click on this Video Planning Guide link to access a copy of the template 

2.  Choice #2: Written Response Planning Guide  
   Submit your own "How to" Written guide to teach your classmates something new. You will use this plan to share your thinking in a Google Form in the next step. Click on this Written Response Planning Guide link to access a copy of this template.  

Watch the video below if you need further directions 

Choose one of the two options below

  KEY LEARNING #4: View the ideas shared by at least one other classmate & share comments 

When you’re done posting your own video or submitting your Google form in Step 5, then you’ll take some time to review at least one post from our community on Flipgrid.

If you’re the very first one to post, no worries. You can come back to visit our Flipgrid later when there are more posts. Click on the icon below that most closely connects with your area of interest. To respond to classmate's videos, use the sentence starter “I noticed ______, and I appreciated…”

Now that I've completed this expedition, I can give back by...

• Continuing to share my opinions to make my learning experience in school the best opportunity possible
• Spending time teaching others in my community about my areas of passion or interest.
• Making continued connections between my areas of passion and interest and my future career choices