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Offline Tinsley

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Project Based Learning
« on: August 04, 2015, 11:19:50 AM »
Hey all.

So, for the second half of the year my first grade class is exempt from testing and consequently, sticking to the textbook. No clue why, I imagine it's some sort of "happy school" thing, but regardless my CT wants us to focus on more project based learning. I'm looking for ideas on projects we could do. Thus far, I've got:

- A play (already in progress)
- A guide for local restaurants, things to do, etc.
- Write and record a dialogue with GoAnimate
- Game Jam, where they have to create and explain a game

I'm open to all kinds of suggestions, big and small. Is there something that's worked for you in the past? Anything you've been dying to try? Please share!
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Offline toddsqui

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Re: Project Based Learning
« Reply #1 on: August 04, 2015, 11:29:48 AM »
Great idea for a thread, Tinsley!

You know, oddly enough, I have been able to draw some inspiration for project-based activities from the Winter and Summer Camp threads here on Waygook, more specifically the Science Camps that people have done in the past. Doing some kind of a science-series seems to get all of the kids riled up, at least if we're talking middle school (which I'm assuming we are!). The Mentos Experiment certainly never fails.

Talent show is another sort of project that I have attempted, which the kids seem to enjoy.

Collage-making projects are also quite good! You can try different sorts of themes for this collage project: Things You Love, People You Admire, "What You Are All About," "Your Life in Korea!" The sky's the limit!

Finally, video-making is fun and promotes developing a relevant skill that the kids can use for years to come (video-editing and video-making, for better or for worse, should really be apart of everyone's repertoire in this YouTubed-era that we live in!)

Anyhoot, I hope this gets you off to a good start. I'll certainly be curious to read what other people say here on this thread.

Best of luck!

-T

p.s.

Quora is another great place to probe people for project-based ideas, so I am finding!
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Re: Project Based Learning
« Reply #2 on: August 19, 2015, 05:06:16 PM »
Oh my school is doing the same this year. It's a government direction apparently.

My co-teacher told me that this semester is optional for schools to participate, but next year all 1st graders in middle school throughout the country will be exempt from exams.

Seeing as my co-teacher just likes to translate everything and doesn't prepare, this is going to seriously add to my workload..
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Re: Project Based Learning
« Reply #3 on: August 20, 2015, 12:33:21 PM »
GoAnimate looks like a very interesting program. Tinsley - did you just use the trial option or did you get your school on board to sign up for a year?
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Re: Project Based Learning
« Reply #4 on: August 20, 2015, 02:05:40 PM »
We use J L Hass and are trying the projects in the chapter at the moment. Currently we're preparing to make a poster about helping the elderly.
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Offline Tinsley

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Re: Project Based Learning
« Reply #5 on: August 20, 2015, 02:35:07 PM »
Thanks for the input everyone! Our school uses the Christian H Kim series and iirc, they don't supply any project ideas sadly. But I think we are going to skip around in the book a bit. I just need to find some expressions and grammar that are conducive to the projects I want to do.

Quote from: starryeyed14 on August 20, 2015, 12:33:21 PM
GoAnimate looks like a very interesting program. Tinsley - did you just use the trial option or did you get your school on board to sign up for a year?

It does look cool, doesn't it? I haven't tried it out yet actually, so I can't report on it. I'm going to try and see if we can just use the trial version. I don't think I have the budget to get my school to pay for it, but if I really like it I might just pay for it out of pocket myself.

I'm going to update the first post with some more ideas/resources once I'm done researching, so keep them coming :)
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Re: Project Based Learning
« Reply #6 on: August 28, 2015, 07:01:56 PM »
Hey folks,

I owe waygook for so many of my awesome lessons, so here is my small contribution back. This is my plan for introducing a project based Free Semester (FS). It is not to be connected to the G1 textbook in any way.

Below is my intro and the semester plan (90mins per Lesson):

1. FS Introduction Lesson
+ Icebreaker (just copy from the Lesson Plan into word doc)
+ What is Free Semester?
   + contains my FS idea, prezi link -  tailor to suit your idea: 
   + http://prezi.com/z9mti7qclyad/?  utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy&rc=ex0share
+ Needs analysis
+ Fun lesson (found on waygook).

2. FS Project Schedule
+ Sorry no lesson plans - but you should be fine once you know the direction!


So far I have been having a great time, at first some students had difficulty concentrating for the 90mins...but as soon as I assigned individual jobs they copped on.

Slan, hope these can help you.  :wink:

UPDATE Mar 2016: I have to do another 'Free Semester' with Grade 1 next semester, I will only do 3 projects instead of 5/6 this time. This was due to unexpected events and school not really caring about Free Semester (Chuseok, School Tours, Auditorium events, Training, etc).
« Last Edit: March 09, 2016, 02:07:20 PM by Aine Byrne »
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Re: Project Based Learning
« Reply #7 on: August 30, 2015, 11:37:08 PM »
Hello,

I am not sure if this is what you are looking for but I have some projects that have worked for me in the past. A word of caution I did these projects with high school students and the way I did them, they took several classes. Although, I am sure they can be adapted for a single class or for middle school students.

Idea 1
Crazy Inventions
- students work in groups to create a company and three products that their company sells. The products can be futuristic and 'magical' to solve any issue they think needs to be solved.
- students then create an advertising poster for their company and their products. The poster could then be posted in the classroom, presented to the class, or both.

Idea 2
Introduce a culture/country
- students research a country or its culture, create a poster or presentation, and then present it to the class.
- students could be given information sheets about the culture/country instead of having to find the information on their own.

Idea 3
Make a class magazine
- the class chooses a topic to make a magazine about
- put the students into groups
- each group takes a page or two to talk about something related to the topic
- to make things more interesting some groups could make advertising for the magazine.
- when I did this I had the classes compete against each other, the other English teachers were the judges and the winning team got a class party as a prize

Like I said I don't know if this helps, but if not then maybe for something else  8)
Have a good one
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Re: Project Based Learning
« Reply #8 on: August 31, 2015, 04:27:35 PM »
Quote from: Tinsley on August 04, 2015, 11:19:50 AM
Hey all.

So, for the second half of the year my first grade class is exempt from testing and consequently, sticking to the textbook. No clue why, I imagine it's some sort of "happy school" thing, but regardless my CT wants us to focus on more project based learning. I'm looking for ideas on projects we could do. Thus far, I've got:

- A play (already in progress)
- A guide for local restaurants, things to do, etc.
- Write and record a dialogue with GoAnimate
- Game Jam, where they have to create and explain a game

I'm open to all kinds of suggestions, big and small. Is there something that's worked for you in the past? Anything you've been dying to try? Please share!

I just checked out the site GoAnimate- it looks very interesting! I see it costs money though. Just curious what kind of membership you're paying for and which site did you use? Did you use GoAnimate for schools or GoAnimate?
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Re: Project Based Learning
« Reply #9 on: February 23, 2016, 11:35:21 AM »
I'm also very interested in PBL. While I was checking some materials on the Internet, I found some examples of project based on the leves and procedures. Also, when you type the word 'Project based learning' in on the Youtube, you can find the actual classroom using PBL. 
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Re: Project Based Learning
« Reply #10 on: March 22, 2016, 08:36:31 PM »
I did a project with 1-3 last year writing stories. I used storybird.com

A fantastic site that's free and has all of these  wonderful illustrations to use. Which is great as the kids can focus on the writing instead of drawing.

I had a range for how many pages the story had to be to give them a goal and not let it get out of control. Then I gave them a class period to choose their art and create an overall story. It's best to write the story after as the illustrations are in themes and it can be hard to find the right one for your story if you write it beforehand.

The second class- they wrote the story, and the third they read them.

You can click through for free online, or you can download PDFs. I bought a pack of download credits and it's super cheap.

Each PDF comes in three sizes. I made one big size of each book to keep in the classroom and each student got the middle sized one to make on their own and keep.

The kids LOVED it. They came in before class started to work on their own! I was floored.
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Re: Project Based Learning
« Reply #11 on: April 25, 2016, 01:50:05 PM »
Hi elacosse,
I love your idea and have created an account with Storybird.

My students don't really have computer or internet access. There is a chance we can use the library for this. My question for you is did you have each group working on a computer at once? Is there some other way to do this without much internet or computer access?

Thanks.
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Offline elacosse

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Re: Project Based Learning
« Reply #12 on: May 08, 2016, 10:46:47 PM »
Quote from: Sylvidee on April 25, 2016, 01:50:05 PM
Hi elacosse,
I love your idea and have created an account with Storybird.

My students don't really have computer or internet access. There is a chance we can use the library for this. My question for you is did you have each group working on a computer at once? Is there some other way to do this without much internet or computer access?

Thanks.


Sorry, I've only just seen this. They worked three to a computer. You can always just have them write and illustrate a book without the computer, but it takes so much time and they focus much more on perfecting their drawings than their English...

Which is why the site is great. If you want to minimize computer time, you could have them make the story with the drawings, print it out, then handwrite the story on the pages.

Honestly, its just best if you can use computers ; ) Hope it works out.
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