Coronovirus Handwashing Innovation Challenge for Secondary Students (18 pages)
Coronovirus Handwashing Innovation Challenge for Secondary Students (18 pages)
An innovation challenge for middle/high school students aimed at finding solutions of the problem of how we get more students and staff to practice recommended hand washing practice. Hand washing is one effective way to reduce the spread of infectious disease in schools. Very few students and staff practice good hand hygiene. Can students come up with and test better solutions to this problem by following an innovation process? This real-world problem is perfect for students in a science, health, or other middle school class to take on. With coronavirus (COVID-19) spreading rapidly, what is more real-world than engaging students to come up with solutions to increase the key behaviors needed to prevent the spread of disease in schools (handwashing)?
A Classroom Innovation Challenge is an opportunity for your students to solve a problem that exists in your school or community. This Playbook s designed to support the process of applying design thinking and innovation methods to this challenge. There are lots of pathways that will lead students to design and test workable solutions to the problem, but this is a reasonable set of "plays" that will get results. The steps in this playbook follow the Innovation Box process (www.edinnovationbox.com), which is a process specifically designed for teachers and students to solve real-world problems based on ideas from Lean Start-Up, improvement science, and design thinking. This Playbook is specifically designed for young students (K-5) to use design thinking and other innovation tools to come up with a solution to get students o wash their hands more and prevent the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19).