LI+09+Projects

This is the page to support the Powerful Projects for English / Social Studies session at the Laptop Institute

Get the presentation PowerPoint file at slideshare.

PDF file of the presentation.

Link to [|Project Based Learning Co-Laboratory]

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. What successful projects happen at your school? [|Click here] to respond.

NEW! Results of the poll here as promised:


 * Living Museum

UN Day ||
 * Web Quests that provide an opportunity for students to create something in the end ||
 * English/ US History Research paper 1st 15 Presidents ||
 * Students research a current human rights violation and ways in which a teenager can make a change. They then create public service announcements for teens. ||
 * Making Indian Artifacts

Made a Scavenger Hunt to practice Map Skills ||
 * Wildflower project- pick or take pictures of wildflowers, identify by scientific name, press or use pictures to creat a book (online book if using pictures ||
 * We do a simulation of the Salem Witch Trials that I found online. We do it with our study of The Crucible. It involves a cheating situation and brings in other teachers/administrators and judges to put the students in the "hot seat." ||
 * Distinguished Women - girls research a famous woman, then dress and give a presentation in character

Iditarod - girls track the race, read Black Star Bright dawn, create stories and track race on Google Earth ||
 * Nuremberg Trials connected to Night by Elie Weisel ||
 * Grade 10 does a Truman Trial situation - charging President Truman with human rights abuses for his decision to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki ||
 * Kite Runner - read book and use Google Earth to see the landscape ||
 * We make model brains out of oranges and candy ||
 * History-Students interview veterans and set up wikis ||
 * My 5th grade students research the possible "discoverers" of America and present their arguments in a panel to their parents and other students. This is an Interact product called "Who Really Discovered America?" ||
 * student choice continent projects (language, food, creating artifacts/buildings, filming "trips" to the continent, making clothing, music, etc.) ||
 * Real life plan- budgets,planning,apartment rental, grocery purchase ||
 * We have several classes that make history documentaries for our PBS station. We have aired ten 30 minute episides that focus mostly on Evansville IN history. Please check out our web site www.feelthehistory.com<[|http://www.feelthehistory.com]> and see what my kids have produced. I'm proud of their work. ||

What do teachers need to design successful projects? [|Click here] to respond.

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[|Poll One] (don't click until we get there please!)

Links mentioned in the session Link to Andrew Churches's website, [|educational origami,] and revision of Bloom's Taxonomy. Link to Greensboro Day School's 6th grade class wiki.

Social Bookmarking Diigo: [|www.diigo.com]

Screencasting Tool Jing: [|www.jingproject.com]: