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Originally Posted by Monochron
That looks like a solid plan. In what way do you plan to convey the information? Would that be mostly lecture style? Do you have small projects that the students would be doing to go along with the lessons, or are projects included in the lessons? Do you anticipate each lesson taking the same amount of time or is that more of a general overview?
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I've been adding to this outline for the better part of six(ish, I lose track of time) years now, but my team is fairly young (third season this year) so our method for application is still evolving. Our first season (2014) I didn't get involved until kickoff, so that whole season was trial by fire. For the 2015 pre-season everybody was more or less on same page, so we did structured four hour meetings weekly with the first two hours being lesson time and the second two hours being project time. Each two hour lesson block was split about 50/50 between lecture and laboratory work. For pre-season this year we actually ended up taking a bit of a step backwards as it was the first year we had to cater to both experienced students and rookies and that didn't go over as well as it could have (we were also busy moving into a new shop, so we weren't focused on training as much). I haven't super thought out methodology going forward, but it'll be a mix of lecture (presentation and/or video lessons), discussion based, laboratory work and activities, and workbooks and written assessments. I do know what I don't want, for students to be disengaged or turned off by the curriculum implementation, or for the academic element to overshadow the project/maker space vibe.
As far as timing of the lessons it's pretty all over the place right now. Some lessons just have a lot more content than others, and in some cases the group would get really into a lesson so we'd work on it for two or three days. Other topics we'd fly through multiple lessons in one day. We went in order-ish one year, and then not at all another and both worked out pretty well. There's activities, lab work, written workbook style pages, and assessments associated with most lessons, but it's all over the place in about 15 different documents and mindmaps and bits of pieces of notebooks/email drafts/etc. at the moment.
I attached a slightly more updated version and a partially exploded version of the main outline. Is anybody sees anything plagiarized please call me out on it! I've been trying to search back through my decades worth of notes and bookmarks to figure out where I got everything from. It's a tedious process.