60 Minutes
Each group uses Agile practices to rapidly develop solutions to sustainability challenges related to their selected focus area.
Explain the Agile principles to the students: flexibility, adaptive planning, continuous improvement, and rapid and flexible response to change. Discuss how these principles can be applied to solving sustainability challenges.
Students form small groups and draw 5 Challenge Cards from a deck of 50 Cards but get to keep 1 Challenge Card. The Challenge Card contains a specific sustainability issue.
Task: Each team uses sticky notes to brainstorm potential solutions to the challenge.
Approach: Encourage rapid idea generation without judgment.
Output: A collection of diverse ideas on sticky notes.
Task: Teams categorize and prioritize the ideas based on feasibility and impact.
Approach: Use the whiteboard or tracking sheet to group similar ideas and select the top ideas to develop further.
Output: A prioritized list of ideas.
Task: Develop a detailed plan or prototype for the top ideas.
Approach: Encourage iterative refinement. Teams can split tasks among members to focus on different aspects of the solution, such as research, design, or impact analysis.
Output: A basic prototype or detailed solution plan.
Task: Each group presents their solution to the class.
Approach: Other teams provide constructive feedback based on a set of criteria, such as innovation, impact, and practicality.
Output: Refined project proposals.
Task: Reflect on what went well and what could be improved.
Approach: Discuss as a whole class or within small groups to identify lessons learned and possible improvements for future sprints.
Output: Insights that can guide future projects and iterations.
Encourage students to take the feedback and insights from this session to refine their projects further.