F.P.S

Future Problem Solving

On Tuesday the 5 of September,

the Year 6 FPS group did an exam.

Our topic was Water Quality.

All students participated in groups of 4.

The test took 2 hours and it started at about 9 o’clock.

Everyone was very excited...but some were more

nervous than ever!!!

There are 6 stages.

The first step is challenges.

We identified problems from a futuristic scenario.

The second step is the U.P.

(U.P stands for Underlining Problems)

We wrote down the best problem.

The third step is solutions

We created our own futuristic solutions that help solve our U.P.

The fourth step is the criteria-Questions-

We wrote down 5 questions that are related to our U.P.

e.g. Which solution will be the easiest to manufacture?

The fifth step is applying the criteria.

We choose the 5 best solutions and grade them from 1 (worst) - 5(best) and we added up the total. The one with the most points is our group’s solution to our problem.

The sixth step is the Action Plan.

For our Action Plan we wrote down who will provide the product, when it will help us, where it will take place and how it will solve the problem.

At last we were finished!!!!!

Our papers got taken to the office in Orewa on Wednesday, to be marked by judges.

The judges get 1 group of papers from each school,

when the papers get sent back we can check the comments and feedback , we also get marked from 3 or 7 groups (the best group gets marked a 1).

It would be great if one of Sunnybrae’s FPS groups got in the finals.

By Christine Sim and Sian Stuart-St.Clair