Grasping the GRASP… Creating an authentic, real-world culminating project.

What is the GRASP? The GRASP conceptualizes the project: G – Goal R – Role A – Audience S – Situation P – Product, Performance, and Purpose S – Standards and Criteria for Success

Worksheet in your binder:

Lucky for us the GRASP… Serves double duty: This is the letter than you give the students to explain the parameters of your assignment. This is also the task description that you use to decorate the bulletin board.

GOALS Your task is… The goal is to… The problem or challenge is… The obstacles to overcome are… End Results Science Example: You will devise a plan to protect sea turtles from the BP oil spill. Stem statements

Role Connect classroom learning with careers. Frame this project to immerse your students in learning that extends beyond the classroom. Stem statements Your are… You have been asked to… Your job is…

Role Examples:

Audience EXAMPLES RoleAudience Social WorkerFamily Court Judge NewscasterNewspaper Editor Community ActivistCity Councilman EngineerCommunity Board Native American Tribal Leader Bureau of Land Management

Situation What is a practical application for what you are teaching the children? The context you find yourself in is… The challenge involves dealing with… Stem statements

Role – Real Estate Agent. Audience: Prospective Tenants. Situation: You are trying to attract tenants to move to the Mesa Verde cliff dwellings. As a real estate agent, you have to find the tenants and sell the advantages of living on the cliffs. Role – Social Worker. Audience: Family Court Judge. Situation: Your client is a 13 year old boy who has lived with alcoholic parents. He has been truant from school, and was recently arrested for disorderly conduct. His 24 year old brother wants to take legal responsibility, removing him from the parents’ home and moving him into his home.

This is the reason you are asking students to do this work. What is the academic purpose of this assignment? What is the educational value? What is the real-world value? Stem statements You will create a … in order to … You need to develop … so that

Standards Stem statements Your performance needs to… Your work will be judged by… Your product must meet the following standards… A successful result will…

Written: Digital or Hard Copy; Oral or Visual

Standards These are the concepts that the state and city requires you to teach. English Standards – Common Core Standards. Reading Literature: RL3 - Analyze how particular elements of a story or drama interact (e.g., how setting shapes the characters or plot) Social Studies Standards Across time, technological innovations have had both positive and negative effects on people, places, and regions.Across time, technological innovations have had both positive and negative effects on people, places, and regions. CCS Soc. St. Integration of Knowledge and Ideas. Integrate visual information (e.g. in charts, graphs, photographs, videos, or maps) with other information in print and digital texts.CCS Soc. St. Integration of Knowledge and Ideas. Integrate visual information (e.g. in charts, graphs, photographs, videos, or maps) with other information in print and digital texts.

Standards 5. Graph proportional relationships, interpreting the unit rate as the slope of the graph. Compare two different proportional relationships represented in different ways. For example, compare a distance- time graph to a distance-time equation to determine which of two moving objects has greater speed.

Standards 7. Solve linear equations in one variable.Give examples of linear equations in one variable with one solution, infinitely many solutions, or no solutions. Show which of these possibilities is the case by successively transforming the given equation into simpler forms, until an equivalent equation of the form x = a, a = a, or a = b results (where a and b are different numbers).

Put them together and what do you got? Bibbity, bobbity, boo:

ExplanationInterpretationApplication PerspectiveEmpathySelf-Knowledge

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Congratulations! You grasped the GRASP! The power is in your hands… Now go off and create your own GRASP!

Source UbD Workbook pages 170 – 174