At first, I figured I should pick out some screencaps and have the young ones match captions I translated from the audio to them. Then I got to thinking, “Well, heck, they’ll just read ’em and match ’em.” So THEN I took ANOTHER video and made Spanish captions to go with those screencaps. I was still undecided, so I experimented on my patient and enthusiastic first period guinea pigs with both and ended up with this
Fortunately, I had done some resource gathering for the inquiry phase of the project to equip a local business with children’s menu placemats back in Hawaii. UNfortunately, I hadn’t really fleshed out what I was going to do WITH those resources as of about 5AM Wednesday morning. So here’s the plan I threw together
I said it before, and I’ll say it again: I hope school subjects are abolished in my lifetime. The archaic notion that understanding can be split into neat categories and segregate “math people” and “artist types” is doing no one any favors. If you want to know something now, in Read more…
My grand experiment this year will be a semester-long personalized PBL passion project. Everything we do will lead up to the interdisciplinary marketing project that has become a keystone of the sophomore experience at our school. I have also been really excited about attempting to integrate a TPRS novel this Read more…