Uiit item 1
- 1. UIIT item 1 Project-Based Learning (PBL) Proposal Subject: English Language Grade: Form one Theme: Festivals to celebrate Learning outcomes: At the end of the PBL activities, students will be able to develop: Study skills (self-directed learning) Communication skills (students discuss the design of a questionnaire, interview their schoolmates, discuss and present the findings.) Information technology skills (making use of online resources, search engines, social network) Critical thinking skills (students evaluate and decide on the best report and the best chart) Stage one: Preparation Learning outcome: Develop students’ study skills by asking students to surf the internet for more information about festivals from around the world. 1.Start by asking students“what Festivals do they like the most and why?” Q&A to involve students and schema building. To activate students’ prior knowledge of the topic and any language expressions that related to festivals as they might already know through students’ elicitation 2. Instruct students to surf the internet to gather information on festivals from around the world. Showing a video clip on YouTube in class and asking students to note down the Christmas activities that shown in the video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Omxl47NzpaE To arouse students’ interest in the topic and prepare students for the context of the traditional festivals
- 2. 3. Introducing the project-work: A survey on traditional festivals to students and the possible ICT tools can be used. 4. Students are asked to work in group of four. Each group will decide a sub-topic (e.g. Christmas) based on the main theme and submits the sub-topic to teacher before the next lesson Stage Two: Implementation Task: A survey on traditional festivals Learning outcome: Develop students’communication skills (students discuss the design of a questionnaire, interview their schoolmates, discuss and present the findings) and information technology skills (making use of online resources, search engines, social network to gather and present the information) 1. Teacher will introduce Delicious to students so as to assist them to find and bookmark sites and information of their selected sub-topic (e.g. Christmas) 2. Each group will use RSS features in iGoogle for collecting data from different website, together with the help of Delicious to gather information about traditional festivals and how people celebrate the selected festival. 3. Then, students work in groups of four to design a questionnaire on the selected festival based on the information they have collected from the internet, and with reference to a set of guidelines and a feedback sheet provided. 4. Students are asked to upload the questionnaire on the English Society website.The best questionnaire is used for the school survey 5. Students work in groups to interview their schoolmates with the help of the questionnaire by video-recording. The clips will be edited by Windows Movie Maker for later use as part of the presentation. 6. After they have finished all the interviews, all the groups take turn to present their findings to the other groups in class by using power-point and YouTube. 7. Students in their groups work together to present the overall data. (i.e. Oral presentation). Next, each group then produces a chart and writes a report (200 words) of the survey. 8. Teacher will explain the assessment criteria to students and instruct students to download the assessment rubric from teacher’s blog.
- 3. Assessment items Assessor(s) PBL report Teacher (50%) Oral presentation Teacher (15 %), Other groups (15%) Group assessment Group members (10%) Self-assessment Yourself (10%) Stage Three: Data analysis and conclusion Learning outcome: Develop students’critical thinking skills (students evaluate and decide on the best report and the best chart) 1. Each group will analyze and further process the data collected. 2. Each group will edit the video clips (the interview with their schoolmates) by Windows Movie Maker and upload them in YouTube. 3. Each group will present the overall data. (i.e. Oral presentation). Then, each group will produce a chart (the statistics about what activities that the schoolmates usually do to celebrate the selected festival) by using statistics software such as Exceland writes a report (200 words) of the survey and 50 words of self-reflection. 4. Students need to fill out the peer evaluation forms during oral presentations and self- assessment forms after completing the group report. (The peer evaluation form can be downloaded from teacher’s blog.) 5. The best report and the best chart are selected by the groups and posted up on the school web-site for the reference of all students and teachers.