Students will be in groups of three or four
children, and they will design a mini-lesson of their choice to teach second
language learners a skill or topic of study like: weather, time, calendar
concepts (days of the weeks, months of the year),
synonyms/antonyms, figurative language terms,
etc.. Students will design their lesson
plan as a group. They will design props, gather graphics, music, digital
photos, hands-on materials, and personal art products to use in their mini-lessons.
The class will review and edit the lessons to improve them using a
student designed rubric. Students will use Power Point or iMovie to
record their mini-lessons, and then the teacher will put the Power Point
or iMovies onto links that will link to the El Toro Elementary
School web page. All students will keep a journal
throughout this project to record their thoughts, plans, goals, progress,
and areas to improve upon. The journal
will also be a place to record tech information that they will need to remember
to apply to their project development.