Reflections+on+Project-Based+Learning

Don Doehla's projects are great and I came to school the very next day and began to implement the 'ABC' Book Project as a way to facilitate my ESL students' knowledge about Texas. We're doing a unit called "The Frontier" out of the __Shining Star series__, (//Pearson/Longman).// I divided them into six groups of three and assigned each group four letters of the alphabet. I assigned different topics i.e. provide the names of famous people born in Texas with your letters from the alphabet; locate cities and towns in Texas that begin with your letters or; identify sports teams in Texas that begin with the letters you have. The group with letters //w/x/y/z// was assigned a hodge-podge. They could come up with the names of interesting things in Texas that began with their letters. Ever heard of the Xit Museum? I want to share a video with you that I took using my Flip camera the day after I introduced the project. Then you can read what Betty Ray had to say about Don Doehla's project. []

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