Tech Safari Rubric and Checklist

A vintage field guide-themed project guide, deadline tracker, submission checklist, and complete analytical rubric for the Tech Safari online field trip assignment. Tailored specifically for pre-service K-12 teachers to evaluate their curation, career planning, and video presentation skills.

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Iceberg Investigators Presentation Slides

Weaving Worlds

A 3-lesson unit on culture, identity, empathy, and building an inclusive school community. Students explore the cultural iceberg, share personal perspective narratives, and collaborate on actionable school-wide inclusion plans.

Cynthia Rios

Tech Field Trips

A lesson focusing on identifying, analyzing, and presenting versatile digital tools and learning supports. Students learn how to storyboard a video presentation mapping their technological toolkit to future career goals.

Lenny

Digital Expedition Storyboard

An exemplar video storyboard document showing how to integrate 5 favorite websites and learning supports into an online tech field trip presentation, framed around a general productivity and digital collaboration career.

Lenny

True Influence Journey

A comprehensive restorative leadership and peer advocacy sequence designed for students transitioning to middle school. It guides students from understanding their social influence to actively protecting peers and spreading positive school culture.

Marcia Cullinane

Tech Safari

An interactive online field trip project where pre-service K-12 teachers curate, analyze, and present five essential educational technologies. This resource provides a detailed project guide, submission checklist, and evaluation rubric to ensure professional standards and seamless peer collaboration.

Lenny

Final Flight Guide

A 4-page teacher-facing facilitation plan and printable prompt cards. Outlines day-by-day lesson scripts, pacing, community-building strategies, and printable pocket-sized cards for facilitating the morning circle.

Andrew Mulvaney

Norm Navigators

A comprehensive 4-day small-group social-emotional learning sequence for grades 3-5. Aligned with the CASEL Social Awareness framework, this unit teaches students to identify how expectations and social norms change across different school environments and how to adapt their behaviors successfully.

Erin McFarland

Final Flight Transitions

A comprehensive, week-long morning meeting series for the final week of school. Helps students celebrate growth, outline summer plans, address fifth-grade transitions, set future goals, and build class community before departure.

Andrew Mulvaney

Future Flyer Journal

A 5-page student-facing morning meeting reflection booklet styled as an aviation flight log. Includes space for daily morning responses, activity summaries, transition goal-setting, and classmate autographs.

Andrew Mulvaney

Crew Control Cooperation

A 3-day small group curriculum for middle schoolers (grades 6-8) focused on cooperation, role delegation, navigating power dynamics, and ensuring equitable team participation. Aligns with CASEL's Relationship Skills and Responsible Decision-Making core competencies.

Erin McFarland

Own Your Day Campaign Kit

A school-wide campaign kit designed for middle and high school settings to build an empowering attendance culture. Includes high-impact motivational posters, an administrative campaign blueprint with low-cost incentive ideas, and ready-to-use daily announcements and homeroom discussion prompts.

Lenny

Final Flight Slides

A 5-day daily morning meeting presentation featuring a hot air balloon aviation theme. Each day includes a daily morning question, a cooperative transition activity, and an interactive group discussion prompt to prepare students for fifth grade.

Tech Safari Rubric and Checklist