Possible First Project: Energy Choices

Using project based learning integrates many different disciplines to complete a unit of study. However, I am responsible for teaching all of the science standards in one year. Therefore, I only have the instructional time with students proportional to those science standards. Also, I have no time during the school day to collaborate with other teachers at my school.

I am thinking of setting up a wiki to enable the teachers to collaborate on one project this fall, once things settle in at the beginning of the year. We would hope to start the project by late September to early October. I am hoping for a project related to energy plans of the two presidential candidates.

To incorporate Web 2.0 tools, I hope for students to be able to create graphic organizers, presentations, and videos that can be posted to our St. Adalbert Middle school wiki space. I am not exactly sure how this will all fit together. I am still hoping for a classroom laptop set for our school in the fall. If not, I'll have to start getting resources/activities in order for this project to be successful.