1. First- Guest experiment.
2:
Food Day 2
A Second Helping
Food
Day 2 is a follow-up event with two other classes also studying other food
issues. The purpose of the day’s event will be to have students try to,
together, come up with some solutions to food issues of hunger, sustainability and fairness.
Procedure
Three different classes will come
together. Each class has been studying food issues from a different
perspective. One class has studied food workers’ rights, one class has studied
hunger and your class has studied sustainability and food. Together the classes
will try to create some solutions to problems they have studied that also
address the other class’s issues.
The discussions will take place in two rounds. The first round will
be focused on discussing the needs and perspectives of the groups, while the
second round will be focused on brainstorming and agreeing upon solutions.
During the discussion, it will be important that you effectively
voice the needs and concerns from your perspective, but you also need to listen
to the needs and perspectives of others, and seek a resolution on which all
parties can agree.
You will be placed into teams of 3 with one member
from each class, in preparation for the discussion, you should:
1) Develop a
very short opening statement and a fact sheet handout. This statement is meant
to educate the other 2 members of your team on your issue (hunger), and the
fact sheet (with sources) is meant to increase your ethos.
2) Think
about where the other team members might be coming from; and,
3)
Develop options to propose on your issue;
Discussion Procedures (in class, room OSW 203)
Step 1
We’ll begin with opening statements.
You may also ask questions about one another's opening statements.
After the opening statements, the formal discussions begin.
·
Begin by discussing the needs and perspectives of each group
member. As you discuss, you should aim to learn what is important to the other
group members and test this against what you thought they might bring to the
discussions.
·
You also need to make sure that the other group members understand
what is important to resolving your issue, instead of just making assumptions.
You should then try to identify points of commonality and points
of difference.
Step 3
The second round is focused on brainstorming and agreeing upon solutions.
·
Once you understand one another's needs, begin to brainstorm
options—"what ifs"—that might meet those needs.
·
Think about your priorities and identify the things you are
willing to give up in order to get things that are more important.
·
To move toward resolution, the group will need to establish
objective criteria to help decide what is "fair." In situations where
it is impossible to fully satisfy the interests and needs of all group members
on an issue, you will need to think of reasons why the group should select one
solution rather than another, finding criteria of fairness agreeable to all
group members.
At the end of the allotted time, write down any agreements you
have reached and any points of disagreement that remain.
Step 4
After class today, please write a short reflection essay (1-2 pages). Please
turn in the essay on Canvas. Reflect on what you learned from the negotiation
process. The
purpose of the Reflection Paper is for you to reflect or think about what you
learned from the Food Day 2 activities. It also allows for me to individually
assess you for the Food Day 2 activities.
Please
write a short essay answering the questions:
1. What did your group
at Food Day 2 accomplish, decide or present?
2. What did I learn
about the problem of feeding a growing world population?
3. How was my learning
on this issue affected by the activities at Food Day 2?
Grading
The essay is worth 20 points
1.
Answered
all 3 questions thoughtfully. (15 points)
2.
Good
spelling and grammar. (5 points)
#-Also, Projects continue...
Knowledge of Conventions
- Practice appropriate means of documenting their work
- Control such surface features as syntax, grammar, punctuation, and spelling.
Earn two stars to leave....
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