“Students will create an exhibit to show who, what, when, where, and how other countries celebrate the Christmas holiday and compare and contrast it to America’s holiday.”
“Students will prepare their country of choice traditional holiday meal.”
Bear Lodge High School has adopted the project based learning model for 2011-2012 school year. As part of the project based curriculum, we are proposing that BLHS students will be able to teach and experience how different countries celebrate Christmas using 21st Century Skills. This will be achieved by preparing students to examine and apply the how the Christmas holiday is used around the world. The students will research, design, organize, budget, and understand and perform a Christmas holiday from another country.
In today’s classroom, the students have diverse backgrounds, a variety of achievement levels, and different learning styles which will affect their ability to acquire knowledge. The project based learning model will move away from the traditional methods of teaching and will bring into the classroom new and innovative approaches.
Project Based Learning is a curriculum in which students:
· Engage in a rigorous, extended process of inquiry focused on complex, authentic questions and problems
· Work as independently from the teacher as possible, and have some degree of “voice and choice”
· Create high-quality projects and performances which are presented to a public audience.
· Demonstrate in-depth understanding of academic knowledge and skills
· Build 21st century skills such as collaboration, critical thinking and communication.
A variety of techniques and strategies for students will build their own understanding through real world applications and interactions with their peers in group activities.
The students, under the supervision of Bear Lodge teachers, will address the following core 21st Century Skills which they will need to be successful in the 21st century:
· Life and career skills
· Learning and innovation skills
· Information media
· Technology skill
· Critical thinking and problem solving
· Creativity
· Collaboration
Outcomes
A. Students will research, examine, evaluate and present a document, both orally and through the use of media, which will document their understanding of a country of their choice celebrates Christmas.
· Choose a country and research how it will affect them personally.
· Examination the country they choose celebration of the Christmas holiday.
· Products that cover written, presentation, technological, media, construction, and planning.
· Students will describe and explain how the country came up with the way they celebrate Christmas.
B Students will use 21st Century Skills in the areas of math, language arts, social studies, science and technology. These 21st century skills will include:
· Creativity and Innovation: Students will use a wide range of idea creation techniques such as brainstorming
· Collaboration: Students will work with peers to develop, implement and communicate ideas about how small businesses affect the subject they are interested in. Students will demonstrate their ability to work effectively and respectfully with their fellow students. Importantly, students will share responsibility for the team work for this project and value each other’s input. Students will also understand the value of compromise
· Critical thinking and Problem Solving: Students will use research and understand the interrelationships among people place and environment.
· Make Judgments and Decisions: Students will effectively analyze and evaluate evidence and interpret information
· Communication: Students will articulate to staff and their fellow students their thoughts and ideas effectively on how to start up a small business. Students will utilize multiple media and technologies and will be able to communicate to their peer group effectively
· Media Literacy: Students will use technology to research, organize evaluate and communicate during the phases of inquiry, development and assessment on how to start up a small business The selected project of examining how other countries celebrate the Christmas holiday will be based on a set of learning experiences and tasks that guide students in inquiry toward answering a central question, solving a problem, and meeting a challenge. This project will involve intellectually challenging tasks and products focused on research, reading, writing discussion and oral presentation.
Subject Areas: Math, Science, History and Government, and Language Arts
Language Arts:
A. Research papers
B. students will have a write the following
· Speech
· Narrative essay on a country
History and Government
· Students will demonstrate and understanding of interrelationships among people, places, and environment and interpret how the country they choose celebrates Christmas.
· Students will be able to compare and contrast America to another country on how they celebrate Christmas. .
· Students will be aware of the effect of life it has on their country.
State Standards 1 Citizenship, Government, and Democracy
· SS11.1.1 Students describe unique freedoms, rights, and responsibilities of living in a democratic society and explain their interrelationships by comparing their country to others.
State Standard 4 Time, Continuity and Change
· SS.11.4.2 Students analyze how the events of the Christmas holiday has changed to better understand the world in which they live in.
State Standard 5 People, Places, and Environment
· SS11.5.1 Students interpret charts, maps, and graphs to answer questions dealing with people, places, events , environment
· SS11.5.3 Students demonstrate an ability to organize and process information about people, places, and environments.
Science
· Compositional study to determine lifetime of materials
· Mixture and measurement of food products
Math
· Measurement of materials to build their Exhibit
Activities
· Build an Exhibit
· Cost analysis of materials
· Cost analysis
Project Summary
Students will conduct research from the above mentioned activities
· Written product
· Media product
· Construction product
· Technological product
· Planning product
· Presentation product
· Oral presentation to an audience
Lesson Schedule for Project
Monday December 12
0800-0850 Counseling
0850-0930 Silent Sustained Reading
0930-1030 Teacher will demonstrate to the students how families celebrate Christmas in Mexico
1030-1210 Students will work on PBL.
Students will research country and write research paper (rough draft)
1240-1400 Students work on PBL
1. Power points/Slide Show
2. Work on Research paper
3. Music/Dance/meal feast
4. Collage
1400-1440 Guided Reading
1440-1540 Spanish/Computer APPS/Work Study
Tuesday December 13
0800-0850 PE
0850-0930 Silent Sustained Reading
0930-1045 Students work on PBL
1. Slide Show/Power point
2. Collage
3. Decorate Exhibit
4. Work on Research Paper
1045-1105 Math/Science Game Review Semesters
1105-1210 Students work on PBL
1. Slide Show/Power point
2. Collage
3. Decorate Exhibit
4. Work on Research Paper
1240-1345 Students work on PBL
1. Slide Show/Power point
2. Collage
3. Decorate Exhibit
4. Work on Research Paper
1345-1405 Social Studies and Language Arts Games Review Semester
1405-1500 Students work on PBL
1. Slide Show/Power point
2. Collage
3. Decorate Exhibit
4. Work on Research Paper
1500-1540 Students do work study
Wednesday December 14
0800-0850 PE
0850-0930 Silent sustained Reading
0930-1030 Students work on PBL
1. Slide Show/Power point
2. Collage
3. Decorate Exhibit
4. Work on Research Paper
1030-1045 Math/Science/ English/ Social Studies Game Review
1045-1210 Students will work on PBL
1. Slide Show/Power point
2. Collage
3. Decorate Exhibit/Find Recipe for Christmas meal
4. Work on Research Paper
1240-1400 Students work on PBL
1. Slide Show/Power point
2. Collage
3. Decorate Exhibit/Find Recipe for Christmas meal
4. Work on Research Paper
1400-1440 Guided Reading
1440-1540 Spanish/Computer APPS/Work Study
Thursday December 15
0800-0850 PE
0850-0930 Silent Sustained Reading
0930-1040 Cook for Christmas
1040-1110 Christmas Party Iraq
1110-1140 Christmas Party Algeria
1140-1210 Christmas Party Columbia
1240-1320 Christmas Party Egypt
1320-1410 Christmas party Italy
1410-1440 Christmas Party Ireland
1440-1540 Spanish/Computer APPS/Work Study
Friday December 16
0800-0850 Students cook for Project
0850-0920 1st Christmas Party Angola
0920-0950 2nd Christmas Party Argentina
0950-1020 3rd Christmas Party Norway
1020-1050 4th Christmas Party Samoa
1050-1120 5th Christmas Party France
1120-1150 6th Christmas Party Finland
1150-1220 7th Christmas Party Russia
1250-1320 8th Christmas Party Australia
1320-1350 9th Christmas Party Iceland
1350-1420 10th Christmas Party Japan
Each student will have to:
1. Present a Slide Show on the country that they choose explaining; Who, What, Where, Why, and How the country came to celebrate this Holiday
2. Make an exhibit on their country with food samples, Music, Dance, Decorations
