Life Skills Math Community Action Project: Trending Issues

Are you looking for life skills math PBL projects? This community action project is your ticket. Self-directed community action projects incorporate project-based learning elements such as sustained inquiry, authentic learning experiences and outcomes, community collaborations, and more.

Community action projects ask students to deeply explore one issue or problem in the community (locally, nationally, or globally), a problem that they identify through research, questioning, and observation. Students brainstorm solutions to the issue or problem, develop a plan of action, and act!

This particular project incorporates life skills math; identifying, analyzing, and utilizing trending data. Students choose their community issue of interest for this project by examining existing data sets for trends. Students select their topic for this project by analyzing those trends to determine which community issues are the most pressing, relevant, and/or in need of attention right now.

This self-directed community action project offers all of the templates to guide you and students seamlessly through this experience from start to finish. There is NO prep on your part because the students lead the projects. Your job is to facilitate this experience. The teacher guide included helps you to do so.

*Grab my free community action project implementation spreadsheet to help keep this experience smooth and organized. It includes C.A.P. checkpoints that align directly with this resource.*

This resource includes a printable (not editable) PDF, Google Slides, and TPT Easel versions to give you a variety of options and utilize the resource in a variety of scenarios.

Note: This resource is NOT editable at this time.

Product Includes:

1) Teacher implementation guide for seamless project management.

2) Project topic brainstorming activities including:

• An interest survey
• A concept map to refine issues of interest
• Trend analysis templates to help students identify and analyze existing credible and relevant data sets

3) Project plan/proposal

4) Trending issue research guide

6) Template to guide students through solution exploration

7) Action plan proposal/plan

8) Rubric 1: teacher-created rubric for project part 1 - researching the issue

9) Rubric 2: student-created rubric template for project part 2 - taking action

10) Category and levels of mastery word banks for student-generated rubrics

11) Daily check-in form

12) Project reflection guide sheet

If you love this resource check out these other great life skills math products as well:

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• Senior Project: Career-Based Community Action Project

Take a look at these FREE teacher tools to help implement project-based learning:

• Experiential Learning Tools Mini-Bundle
• Community Expert Contact Information Log

Try these blog posts for tips and guidance implementing community action projects:

• How to Facilitate Student-Led Community Action Projects
• Four Ways that Students Can Take Action in Their Communities

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