Steps for creating a project for high school students
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1. Creating a Project/Web Quest How to allow students to learn
what they have neglected so far
2. Planning Phase: First, examine and select the standards you
believe are the most important for your students to know.
3. Next: Ideas Now, you will need to brainstorm ideas on how
best to implement the lessons for the students to learn on their
own. Interest Vary Differentiate Media Text Other
4. Define the Tasks This part you need to be very clear about.
Students should not be confused by your language or the directions,
Thereforebe CLEAR!
5. Resources You will need credible and various resources in
order to keep students interested. The use of videos, audio, art,
pictures, and text will help your students to learn on various
levels. If you are creating a Web Quest or a Project, be sure to
check all links for your resources. It will be a tragedy if the
links you provide for your students are broken!
6. Finding Resources SCDOE: http://ed.sc.gov/agency/programs-
services/36/ History.com Projectgutenberg.com PBS.org NBC Learn
Classtools.net ISTE.org-search for web 2.0 tools Google scholar
I-tunes University Surf & search!
7. Relevancy How does one make the Puritans relevant to today?
Look at the principles and precepts! Surely there are ways of
linking what the Puritans believed to religions or sects today!
Hunt out the parallels and draw from those. The body is not the
only thing that needs exercise!
8. Assessment Without assessment, there would be no reason to
learn! Vary your assessments Essays Videos Presentations Music
Podcasts Journals The most important aspect of assessment is to
make it authentic. If it is not authentic, then it is just useless
knowledge!
9. Questions A good way to check that students are learning is
to provide questions for them to answer as they are reading,
viewing or listening to a lesson.
10. Higher level thought While a little knowledge is a good
thing Application of it is so much more exciting! Think outside the
normal comfort zone Walking in anothers shoes is one way to apply
learning Creating something Imagine Compare & contrast Be the
Judge! What if???
11. Putting it all together Your task, as the teacher, will be
complete once you have assembled all of the instructions,
questions, resources and standards then present it to your
students. You may wish to supply a rubric You may wish to use
resources already in the course content.
12. Across the Curriculum One good thing about projects and web
quests is that they are often more effective when created across
the curriculum. Integration of various disciplines is one of the
wonders of student learning. When they can make connections to
other classes and things they have learned, it reinforces the
learning that has taken place.
