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Local Environment Cross Curricular Project

Local Environment Cross Curricular Project. Thea Searle, French Teacher Grantown Grammar School April – June 2009. What is a Rich Task?. An activity which: is interdisciplinary has a real life context & is relevant to pupils is engaging and motivating is challenging and demanding

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Local Environment Cross Curricular Project

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  1. Local Environment Cross Curricular Project Thea Searle, French Teacher Grantown Grammar School April – June 2009

  2. What is a Rich Task? An activity which: • is interdisciplinary • has a real life context & is relevant to pupils • is engaging and motivating • is challenging and demanding • demonstrates learning to others via a performance

  3. Project brief Working in groups, you will design and make a product which shows what you have experienced and learnt about the local environment. You will use your skills in another language to share some of this information with people from another country. What would you do?

  4. Final presentations

  5. Feedback • Pupils – learning was connected, learnt new skills, developed subject knowledge. • Teachers – liked the structured approach, pupils were enthusiastic and motivated, produced high quality work. • To develop: independent research, application of skills in new contexts, challenge

  6. Challenges • Timetabling of lessons • Class sets for different subjects • Storage of resources / project work • Time for teachers to plan • Developing a rich task that is ‘rich’

  7. Any questions…….?

  8. Rich Task Design An activity which: • is interdisciplinary • has a real life context & is relevant to pupils • is engaging and motivating • is challenging and demanding • demonstrates learning to others via a performance

  9. How to do a Rich Task? • Develop a task by choosing a context • Decide on contribution of each department via CfE outcomes / core skills • Figure out time line & order of delivery • Develop assessment criteria • Ensure pupils know expectations at start • Build in time for performances & assessment

  10. Brainstorm of Contexts • CfE Cross cutting themes: Enterprise, Health and wellbeing, Citizenship, Sustainable Development, International Education, Creativity • Discipline based topics with relevance to other subjects: food, fashion • Big idea or concept: conflict, space • Topic of interest to pupils: my school

  11. Maths English Advertising Budgetting Enterprise Languages Home Economics Dialogue Make something

  12. Your turn…. • An Enterprise project involving Languages, Art, Drama, Social Subjects using Fashion as the topic.

  13. Knowledge, skills & understanding Languages input • New vocabulary for food & opinions • Dialogue vocab / phrases for café including numbers, transactional language. Links across subjects Advertising work in English – poster for café in French Budgetting work in Maths – price of products to be sold at café in Euros.

  14. Good luck & thanks for listening!

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