Grasping the GRASP…

Creating an authentic,

real-world culminating project.

What is the GRASP?

The GRASP conceptualizes the project:The GRASP conceptualizes the project:

G – GoalG – Goal

R – RoleR – Role

A – AudienceA – Audience

S – SituationS – Situation

P – Product, Performance, and PurposeP – Product, Performance, and Purpose

S – Standards and Criteria for SuccessS – Standards and Criteria for Success

Worksheet

in your

binder:

Lucky for us the GRASP…

Serves double duty:Serves double duty:

This is the letter than you give the students to This is the letter than you give the students to explain the parameters of your assignment. explain the parameters of your assignment.

This is also the task description that you use to This is also the task description that you use to decorate the bulletin board.decorate the bulletin board.

GOALS

Your task is…Your task is…

The goal is to…The goal is to…

The problem or challenge is…The problem or challenge is…

The obstacles to overcome are…The obstacles to overcome are…

End ResultsScience Example: You will devise a plan to

protect sea turtles from the BP oil spill.

Stem statements

RoleConnect classroom learning with careers. Connect classroom learning with careers.

Frame this project to immerse your students in Frame this project to immerse your students in learning that extends beyond the classroom.learning that extends beyond the classroom.

Stem statements

Your are…Your are…

You have been asked to…You have been asked to…

Your job is…Your job is…

Role Examples:

Audience

EXAMPLES

Role Audience

Social Worker Family Court Judge

Newscaster Newspaper Editor

Community Activist City Councilman

Engineer Community 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 context you find yourself in is…

The challenge involves dealing The challenge involves dealing with…with…

Stem statements

Role – Real Estate Agent. Audience: Prospective Tenants. Role – Real Estate Agent. Audience: Prospective Tenants. Situation: You are trying to attract tenants to move to the Situation: You are trying to attract tenants to move to the Mesa Verde cliff dwellings. As a real estate agent, you have Mesa Verde cliff dwellings. As a real estate agent, you have to find the tenants and sell the advantages of living on the to find the tenants and sell the advantages of living on the cliffs. cliffs.

Role – Social Worker. Audience: Family Court Judge. Role – Social Worker. Audience: Family Court Judge. Situation: Your client is a 13 year old boy who has lived with Situation: Your client is a 13 year old boy who has lived with alcoholic parents. He has been truant from school, and was alcoholic parents. He has been truant from school, and was recently arrested for disorderly conduct. His 24 year old recently arrested for disorderly conduct. His 24 year old brother wants to take legal responsibility, removing him from brother wants to take legal responsibility, removing him from the parents’ home and moving him into his home. 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 will create a … in order to …

You need to develop … so thatYou need to develop … so that

Standards

Stem statements

Your performance needs to…Your performance needs to…

Your work will be judged by…Your work will be judged by…

Your product must meet the following standards…Your product must meet the following standards…

A successful result will…A successful result will…

Written: Digital or Hard Copy; Oral or Visual

StandardsThese are the concepts that the state and These are the concepts that the state and city requires you to teach. city requires you to teach.

English Standards – Common Core Standards. English Standards – Common Core Standards. Reading Literature:Reading Literature:RL3 - Analyze how particular elements of a story or RL3 - Analyze how particular elements of a story or drama interact (e.g., how setting shapes the characters drama interact (e.g., how setting shapes the characters or plot)or plot)

Social Studies StandardsSocial Studies Standards• Across time, technological innovations have had both Across time, technological innovations have had both

positive and negative effects on people, places, and positive and negative effects on people, places, and regions.regions.

• CCS Soc. St. Integration of Knowledge and Ideas. CCS Soc. St. Integration of Knowledge and Ideas. Integrate visual information (e.g. in charts, graphs, Integrate visual information (e.g. in charts, graphs, photographs, videos, or maps) with other information in photographs, videos, or maps) with other information in print and digital texts.print and digital texts.

Standards

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

Standards

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

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

Explanation Interpretation Application

Perspective Empathy Self-Knowledge

The Everglades Stewardship ProgramEverglades National Park2009 Crocodile RowEverglades, Florida 21709 

Congratulations!

You grasped the GRASP! You grasped the GRASP! The power is in your The power is in your

hands…hands…

Now go off and create Now go off and create your own GRASP!your own GRASP!

Source

UbD WorkbookUbD Workbook

pages 170 – 174pages 170 – 174