I'm thinking about projects. Our reading this week, Strategies for Discovery has me thinking about important features of good projects. Among some of the features:
Reach beyond school to involve others
Structured so that students learn with and from each other
Get at 21st-century skills and literacies,including communication, project management, and technology use.
Have students learn by doing
I would like to do a project with our Epals in Spain. My 5th grade classes exchanged eletters to students from a school in Zaragoza, Spain and have exchanged some videos. (here's my favorite)
I'd like to take this connection with our amigos in Spain further. My fifth graders will be starting a unit on balance and motion soon and one idea that occurred to me is to have students make their own instructional videos about how to balance different objects and explain to the students in Spain (in Spanish of course) how they to do it (using counterweights, etc). It would be interesting to have the class in Spain then respond with their own videos, following our instructions to see if they could balance the same objects. Students teaching students.
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