I am not exactly sure what this machine is doing. I can think of several things it might be doing. I can also think of ways to make it do what I think it is doing better – punctuation lesson – add punctuation to this sentence so you don’t have to read it three times for it to make sense!
So, maybe a driving question is, “What is happening in this picture?” An authentic project might be to improve the machine in this picture. Or maybe, write a story about what took place in this room. A factual story about what the machine does, a fictional story about people who work this machine, or maybe a ghost story about something that happened in this room 200 years ago!
And if this turns into an authentic project about ways to improve apple farming, that is authentic learning.
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