Decide: Step 4 - Goal and Strategy Selection

• In this activity, students collectively select the goals they would like to achieve and choose a way to address the environmental challenge selected.
  
• Students design and determine strategies for reaching the goals in a realistic manner. 

Positives

• There are many exemplars given that can be reviewed with students.
  
• This activity relies heavily on students learning how to make collective decisions democratically and it provides many resources for teaching students how to do this.

Additional Prerequisites

• Review the resources linked to gain additional ideas for implementing this activity.
  

Differentiation

• This is one step in a larger problem-solving process that can be applied to many subjects and classes. 
  
• If doing the full process, be sure to have students continue to gather their work in a project portfolio for use in the final reflection in the last step. 
• Guide younger students through the process and determine the best method for privately voting on the criteria.
• It includes a Google Doc resource specifically about justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion that can be utilized in social studies classes.
  

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