Abstract
TASC, DISCOVER, PBL, and Prism models were integrated and applied in a Community Awareness Unit designed for sixth grade. The students listed different problems they considered important in their community and then selected a theme that was of the greatest interest to them: The effects of alcohol on the community. The teacher wrote a problem based scenario to explain the theme and the students divided into six stakeholder groups to investigate and gather information on the essential question from their stakeholder group's viewpoint. At the end they presented their results to their peers and the community. The students developed realistic solutions to a community problem that affected all of them. The students gained valuable skills from the required curriculum as outlined in the Arizona State Standards in language arts, science, math, and technology. They applied these skills and concepts in an integrated way and exercised their creative problem solving abilities to propose innovative solutions to persistent problems.
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