Example lesson for Case 2 "Responding to COVID-19" from Dr. Erin Lark, science teacher at Vancouver iTech Preparatory in the Vancouver School District.  This high school science lesson guides students through developing design objectives for their State of Innovation Challenge case project -- how will they balance information they want and information they need to have?  What are examples of design objectives used in different sectors.  

Example lesson for Case 2 "Responding to COVID-19" from Dr. Erin Lark, science teacher at Vancouver iTech Preparatory in the Vancouver School District.  This middle school science lesson introduces students to infographics and how they are used to convey public health information, and has students create their own infographic based on COVID-19 data and/or their State of Innovation Challenge project topic. 

Example of an introductory lesson for Case 3 "Our Communities after COVID-19,"  created by Claire Bruncke, CTE Teacher at Ilwaco High School, Ocean Beach School District. This lesson is uses the Challenge to help students learn about Tuckman's model of team development, and encourages them to create innovative solutions for team development in a post-COVID-19 world

Example of an introductory lesson for Case 3 "Our Communities after COVID-19,"  created by Claire Bruncke, CTE Teacher at Ilwaco High School, Ocean Beach School District. This lesson would be used as a starting point for a larger State of Innovation project or could be used as a stand-alone project to help students practice research skills and developing solution-based questions.

Example lesson plan for Case 1 "The Food Chain,"  created by Tom Wolverton, Science Teacher at Vancouver iTech Preparatory, Vancouver School District. This lesson has students research Washington State's agricultural crops and commodities and then use the State Department of Health's nutrition guidelines for cafeterias to create a healthy, locally sourced, environmentally sustainable cafeteria menu

Example lesson for Case 2 "Responding to COVID-19" from Don Rogers, Math teacher at Vancouver iTech Preparatory in the Vancouver School District.  This lesson asks students to research COVID-19 data and then use exponential functions to understand COVID-19 growth rates and create graphs of their data. 

This guide is intended to support you in adapting the State of Innovation’s “Food Chain” Challenge case into a lesson plan to implement with your students. It includes background information on the case, problem solving questions for students to work on, and suggested activities to use with your students. It also explains how you can get support during the Challenge, including helping your students connect with industry leaders throughout the Challenge.

This guide is intended to support you in adapting the State of Innovation’s “Our Communities after COVID-19” Challenge case into a lesson plan to implement with your students. It includes background information on the case, problem solving questions for students to work on, and suggested activities to use with your students. It also explains how you can get support during the Challenge, including helping your students connect with industry leaders throughout the Challenge.

Instructional guide for educators and program leaders to support lesson and activity planning during the State of Innovation Challenge 

Instructional guide for educators and program leaders to support lesson and activity planning during the State of Innovation Challenge 

For OSPI content area teams or their collaborating educators. This guidance is for curating resources to include on the Washington OER Hub in the Continuous Learning Collections.

Are you a CTE teacher or a school district leader interested in getting the State of Innovation Challenge approved for a local credit equivalency for your students? Watch the recorded training with Lisa Fish, OSPI's Course Equivalency Project Coordinator and Marianna Goheen, OSPI's Health Sciences Program Supervisor, to learn how to apply for local credit equivalencies and apply them to your courses. 

Training for CTE teachers on how to request credit equivalencies for your students/ State of Innovation Challenge projects.

Training on how to create and submit lessons and activities through OER Commons. If you're new to using OER Commons and want to better understand the available tools and resources, this is the place to start. Questions? Contact Barbara Soots, OSPI's Open Educational Resources and Instructional Materials Program Manager.

New to OER Commons and not sure where to start?  Watch the training session with Barbara Soots, Open Educational Resources and Instructional Materials Program Manager at OSPI to learn how to use OER, how to find materials you want, and how to upload and share your own resources. Watch the recorded training here and follow along with the attached PowerPointStill have questions?  Contact Barbara Soots: barbara.soots@k12.wa.us 

Join State of Innovation team leads Eli Sheldon and Julia Reed as they explain how to use the provided instructional guides to create lesson plans and learning content to use with participating youth.

Training was held November 9, 2020
For questions and follow up contact: Julia Reed: julia.reed@kineticwest.com

Learn what it takes to get milk from the farm to your table on real Washington dairy farms. It takes serious dedication to keep cows healthy and comfortable while preserving the planet—see everything that goes into producing dairy in Washington’s own backyard with this interactive lesson plan for grades 6-8. 

Learn what it takes to get milk from the farm to your table on real Washington dairy farms. It takes serious dedication to keep cows healthy and comfortable while preserving the planet—see everything that goes into producing dairy in Washington’s own backyard with this interactive lesson plan by the Washington Dairy Council for grades 6-8.