Rule#1: use your ressources. There is no point in re-inventing the wheel, or a project. I contacted the other two teachers in this division who already did this type of project. I visited their blogs to read about their growing pains. I contacted the Curriculum Coordinator for the division, since one of the blogs had a comment from her about the Curriculum Corner on our website. I couldn't find the templates and rubrics she indicated might be useful. I followed the links on Kirk's website about this topic.
While I am gathering all of this information to hopefully be able to use and adapt to my students and my project, in the back of my mind is the language. Even the greatest rubrics and templates have to be translated for me to use. However, even though it is done from scratch, the ideas are there and it can be a simple exercise in translation. Also, the other two projects were done at gr 5 and gr 8 levels. I wanted my senior students to do much more, so I have to devise a higher-level thinking exercise for them.
And still...turn all of this into a working activity.
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