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Facilitator Guide: Week 0 Option — Moon Landing Teamwork Challenge

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Week 0 Option — Moon Landing Teamwork Challenge

Run the current student lesson with its existing evidence, resources, and submission route.

Daily Learning Contract

Topic: Evidence-based team decisions

Objective: Students will justify a team decision with evidence and revise it when a stronger reason changes the group's thinking.

TEKS: No independent Grade 8 Technology Applications TEKS claim. This lesson provides operational, preparatory, or cross-curricular evidence.

Demonstration of learning: Completed individual and team ranking chart plus one written or recorded explanation of a decision the group kept or revised.

Use what is already in Canvas

Student-facing task: OPTION · Moon Landing Teamwork Challenge. Keep the current student page, requirements, points, and rubric as the source of truth.

  • Moon Landing option
  • Moon Landing Team Decision teacher deck
  • ranking-chart teacher key

Before students begin

  • Open the student task in Student View and test the exact sign-in, link, file, or submission path students will use.
  • Prepare only the listed existing materials; do not require a personal account or a new unlisted product.
  • Keep the current student page available as the accessible and absence route.

Lesson flow

  1. 1. Launch: Put the purpose in front of students: Students will justify a team choice with evidence and listen for a reason to revise it.
  2. 2. Model: Use one current example, tool, or teacher resource before students begin collaborative decision-making.
  3. 3. Guide: Complete the first decision or step together; conference before students commit to a direction.
  4. 4. Build: Students complete the existing Canvas task. Do not add a second product or change the current rubric.
  5. 5. Check + next step: Verify this evidence before students leave: Completed team ranking/chart and challenge discussion.

Scaffolds and teacher decisions

Keep the student lesson's bilingual tabs, word bank, models, and current support route in view while students work. Reduce the number of examples or provide a partially completed planning frame before reducing the evidence. If a student needs an alternate format, preserve the same named evidence and use the current rubric or teacher judgment rather than adding a hidden requirement.

Close the loop

Use the current Canvas submission for grading. Record the specific misconception, access issue, or revision need you observed; use it to choose the next lesson's launch rather than creating a duplicate exit assignment.