Project+Based+Learning

====//My goal for this school year is to incorporate much more project based learning (PBL) into my teaching approach. I want students to use their language skills and find their own meaningful connections to real life problems that are of interest to them. I'll use this page to post links to wikipages I'm using with my students as well as links that may be helpful to teachers who are also interested in implementing PBL.//==== You can also link to what we are doing on a daily basis in my Pre-Diploma IB classes at SPLessons Home

Good resources:
Gives an overview and lots of good info.: [|PBL Online]

I like this article [|"What Does Successful Project-Based Learning Look Like?"] for its listing of elements that "best enable, encourage, and ensure student learning."

Tips for the kickoff of projects: []

This site helps you make a customized checklist (rubric) for projects you design: [|PBL Checklist]

Buck Institute for Education is dedicated to improving 21st Century teaching and learning throughout the world by creating and disseminating products, practices and knowledge for effective Project Based Learning (PBL). Their site gives lots of helpful information as well as videos of PBL in action: [|BIE]

Handout from my Project Based Learning Presentations:

My Projects:
Here are some new units I'm working with my Pre-Diploma Spanish 2 classes on as part of my quest to integrate more Project Based Learning in my classroom: Exploración de Carreras que usan español (Careers Exploration) Viaje a Costa Rica\

You can also link to what we are doing on a daily basis in my Pre-Diploma IB classes at SPLessons Home



UNIT IDEAS--These are some older ideas that could be reshaped into project based learning...
**__Walk through a Unit--En un restaurante Yucateco__**

** Enduring Understanding: ** Food in the Yucatan peninsula of Mexico has been influenced by the climate, geography and the integration of Mayan and Spanish culture

** Essential Questions: ** What is the climate & geography of the Yucatan? What was the diet of the Ancient Maya? Is the diet of their descendents very different? How did the arrival of the Spanish influence the food of this region? What would I find on a menu in a restaurant that offered traditional dishes?

**__Unit Objectives:__** l Use and understand common phrases used in a restaurant and on its menu to order a meal l Know how to identify the items found on a table in a restaurant l Use adjectives & phrases to describe how food tastes l Use verbs like pedir, servir, preferir, traer to talk about a past experience in a restaurant

**Link to El Faisán Restaurant--Restaurant in Cuernavaca, Mexico that serves Yucatán cooking** [] --Have students scan menu to circle items they can recognize --Discuss some of the regional dishes: [|article on specialties of Yucatan cooking]

vocab list--talking about how food tastes [|Talking about food and how food tastes.doc]

**__Ideas for Integrated Performance Assessments__** __ Interpretive __ -- View an authentic menu and answer questions about what is offered __ Interpersonal __ --Roleplay a situation in which you ask a waiter about items on the menu __Presentational__--Write a comment card about the experience you and your family member had during a recent visit to the restaurant. [|El Faisan comment cards.doc] Use comment cards again in an Interpersonal activity in which the manager is asking about the family's previous trip to the restaurant. Complete 3-column chart to log comments about what foods were ordered and how it tasted, etc.

[|Follow-up speaking activity to comment cards.doc]

Ideas for a Unit on Clothing and Shopping
[|Clothing Unit Ideas.doc] additional ideas - la ropa

más ideas - la ropa

Ideas for a Unit on Ecology/Environment/Recycling
=== [|ECOLOGY UNIT PLANS.doc] === [|recycling unit ideas.pdf] [|Volunteerism Survey Unit 2.doc] [|poster--proyectos de accion social.doc] [|Mana article about ecology.doc] [|Donde jugaran los ninos.doc] [|Cloze Donde jugaran los ninos.doc] [|Writing prompt-Maná.doc]