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Shared Outcomes for 10PSd and the EMR Project Actions

I would normally see 10PSd, three x 50min long lessons throughout the week for one semester which is 12 weeks long.  As mentioned in previous posts, I had jumped onboard the EMR Project with 10PSd after we were already three weeks into the semester.  This meant that the class did not start the EMR Project until Week 4, and have seven weeks to complete the project, develop a digital media outcome (in this case a multi-level game) to submit the outcome for the EMR Project Action Competition.  This is a really tough ask for everybody involved.

As a part of the collaborative process, I am grateful and fortunate to have negotiated teaching and learning time out of both Social Studies with Alex Brown of one lesson, and Science with Graham Stoddard of two lessons, to enable 10PSd to have six lessons that they can commit to developing their games for the EMR Project.  This is largely due to the Shared Outcomes that Technology (DigiTech), Social Studies and Science, have for the students and the commitment to enabling the outcomes to be met.  The sharing of teaching and learning time was negotiated during one of our collaborative planning sessions after the Snorkelling at Goat Island Presentation delivered by Graham.

Design Brief

Project Action Collaborative Planning

After the discussions around teaching and learning, safety and disciplinary procedures, and the logistics of the Snorkelling Session at Goat Island facilitated by Graham, the staff of the Year 10 classes broke out into further discussions around the Project Actions.  From here I was able to share with my colleagues the latest updates of the teaching and learning in DigiTech for 10PSd.  I asked a couple of the other classroom teachers for 10PSd, whether they'd like to be added to the Brief Development Workspace for 10PSd.  Vaughan, who teaches 10PSd English, and Alex, who teaches 10PSd Social Studies (which is a split class with another Social Studies teacher), were keen to be added.

By adding the other teachers into the Workspace, this enables the staff to view tasks that the students within the Workspace are working on or have submitted, as well as view or add to teaching and resources that are being used within the Workspace.  This allows for a greater level of collaboration within both the planning, teaching and learning processes across multiple Learning Areas.

Today, the EMR Project included an EOTC activity based between Pt England Reserve and the local YWCA Swimming Pool complex close to the school.



Students from the three Year 10 classes participated in three different activities, including:

• Point England Reserve Cleanup
• Marine Investigation
• A Pool Session as an introduction to snorkelling in preparation for the Goat Island Trip

The following is the brief delivered by Katie of EMR, prior to students from 10PSd participating in the Marine Investigation session.  Click on the image to view the video.

The students from 10PSd used the following resources to help develop the Project Specifications for the Multi-Level Game that they will be producing to address a Project Action relating to Experiencing Marine Reserves:
Year 10 DigiTech Project - Experiencing Marine Reserves
The Poor Knights Competition Criteria 19 - supplied by Lorna Duggan of EMR




The following is an example of a students' list of Project Specifications that were developed from both the Year 10 DigiTech Project, and the The Poor Knights Competition Criteria 19.  The project specifications works as a guide for the student, as an ongoing evaluation for design elements and other considerations that need to be included in the development of the outcome.

Project Specifications

• A minimum of three game levels
• Challenges at each game level that players would find cool, fun and educational
• At least one sprite
• At least three backdrops
• At least three levels
• (Year 10 project)
• Difference between your local area and marine reserve(Competition)
• Creativity, presentation, leadership and kaitiakitanga
• Demonstration of understanding of marine conservation, marine reserves, marine protected areas and or/marine issues in New Zealand
• NZ marine biodiversity and conversation context
• You need to make sure you are addressing a social action
• At the beginning of the game you need to state the social action that the game is addressing
• Each game level and backdrop needs to state in a text box the issue that relates to the social action
• A challenge on each game level needs to include pop up texts that says how the issue has been solved