Decide: Step 2 - Issue Selection

• In this activity, students work collaboratively to choose an environmental problem in the community that they want to solve.
  
• This is designed to be Step 2 in a larger community-action and problem-solving process that helps students determine what they would like to work on.
  

Positives

• The website for this activity includes a video showing students engaged in this process and several tools to help students with the selection process.
  

Additional Prerequisites

• There is no lesson plan given for this activity, so you will need to construct one using the given resources.
• Review the decision-making options ahead of time and either choose one for your students to use, or work with your students to pick one.

Differentiation

• This resource can be helpful to students when learning how to work collaboratively, think critically, and evaluate a number of options or choices.
• Younger students should be guided through the process, while older students could be grouped with assigned duties to carry out the process.
  
• If doing the full process, be sure to have students continue to gather their work in a project portfolio for use in the final reflection in the last steps.