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"Creating a Green Lifestyle" The planner

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"Creating a Green Lifestyle" The planner

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An ending reflection to a wonder PBL planned activity.

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An ending reflection to a wonder PBL planned activity.

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Closing reflexion activities might include the following:

We can use this strategy as a guide to support the reflexion process, so students will be able to reflect on what they did in the project and how well the project went.

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Closing reflexion activities might include the following: My Thoughts About the Project I Used to Think... Now I Think... We can use this strategy as a guide to support the reflexion process, so students will be able to reflect on what they did in the project and how well the project went.

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https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1fmmfhnxT3vPSfl4BMlem9xC1PSTihPY0WucXshSzTcU/edit?usp=sharing

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https://docs.google.com/document/d/1I__1ZKC28tevsgDFeHsIPDXokuvxMNiiaNURAT-pmug/edit?usp=sharing

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How can we motivate people in our families to start a green lifestyle?

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Tiktok videos to showcase students' mothers cooking.

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Cooking with Mom by elissatescum on Genially

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Discover more about Cooking with Mom ✌️ - Presentation

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Cooking with Mom

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Indigenous Communities

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The Beauty of Home project is being developed by five Access teachers as part of their training course on Project Based Learning. This project started in June 2021 and brought together professors from different parts of the country, like Monterrey, Yucatán, Durango, and Guanajuato.

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Measure your plan against this rubric. The original can be found at https://www.pblworks.org/

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Plan your PBL Unit with this handy template.

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One of the most common misconceptions about Mexican cuisine is that it is cheap, greasy, and unhealthy. On the contrary, Mexican food is healthy, nutritious, and sophisticated

Here we have some reasons why Mexican cuisine is so important, irresistible and unique:

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One of the most common misconceptions about Mexican cuisine is that it is cheap, greasy, and unhealthy. On the contrary, Mexican food is healthy, nutritious, and sophisticated Here we have some reasons why Mexican cuisine is so important, irresistible and unique:

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Worth keeping this in mind as you develop and plan your own PBL Course.

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Project Based Learning is for everyone. It's not meant to be used only for those who are done with their work. It's not meant to be used only for those looking to be challenged. It's meant to hoist up every student to their highest standard.

PBL is about opportunity and expectations, and to give all students access to engaging and rigorous learning we must provide scaffolds that help them achieve their best. But many teachers think that students must be able to achieve at a certain level before even attempting to jump into PBL.

English Language Learners are one of the groups that tends to be looked over when thinking about who is "ready" to do PBL. But all students are ready if armed with appropriate scaffolding by their teacher. In fact, if we look at learning in terms of growth, EL students are likely to show huge success due to how immersive PBL is in communication skills and critical thinking.

So I have to push back on this notion that a student needs a certain level of ability to be able to create, think critically, collaborate, and communicate.

All students, with guidance, can mull over, research, and respond to driving questions related to their content. Second graders of all levels can think about "What do we have to do as a school community to allow dinosaurs to enroll?" Middle schoolers reading The Giver can think about " How can we, as Givers, decide on the most important memories to bestow on the new Receivers? "

Will a student struggling with communication standards produce a perfectly fluent product? (Shrug). Maybe not. But with PBL, it's not about the outcome, it's about the journey and growth the students show while chugging along the path. Learning isn't proved only at the end of the unit; students prove their growth throughout the unit.

The Need to Have Access to Engagement and Rigor

It's frustrating to find so many EL students stuck in drill-and-kill classes simply because they lack foundational English. Their lower level of English somehow condemns them to worksheets and Level 1 thinking expectations. But research proves that what they really need is thoughtful engagement with authentic experiences in language. And PBL, as defined by the Gold Standard, is just that.

Jennifer Miyake-Trapp, an Assistant Professor of Education at Pepperdine University and Lead Faculty of their MA TESOL Program, agrees. She believes that "engagement in PBL increases opportunities for students to authentically use and apply language and literacy skills in a meaningful context, making learning relevant and fun."

Here's what is true: using PBL takes more frontloading. But that is true when teaching any underrepresented population. Nevertheless, there is a misconception that just because you are providing scaffolds means you somehow aren't teaching independent learning. This couldn't be further from the truth. Giving EL students the resources they need to access "the good stuff" means you're giving them the tools to improve and grow so that independence is more accessible later.

Therefore, PBL, with its focus on writing and speaking and thinking and cross-curricular reading, is just what these students need to improve quickly and deeply. Miyake-Trapp emphatically states that "In PBL, English Learners develop a sense of agency and take ownership of their learning... simultaneously practicing academic language and literacy skills while engaging in critical thinking."

So what are some strategies that teachers can use in the classroom to give EL students more access to PBL?

8 Strategies to Scaffold PBL for EL Students:

Provide choices of accessible research.

Don't release EL learners to research alone. Give them curated choices. Miyake-Trapp suggests, "Think podcasts, leveled books, magazine articles, online tutorials and videos, in addition to traditional classroom resources."

Make sure all directions use visuals.

Anything that is written in text can be illustrated in icons, pictures, gifs, or videos. Better yet, try Screencasting your instructions so that students can view them over and over as needed.

Frontload key vocabulary and concepts.

Give EL students a head start to help them build schema around PBL and your content area.

Create a PBL Roadmap with visuals.

Create a timeline in the classroom with a general overview of the journey to come. "Consistently refer to this poster," says Miyake-Trapp, "so learners have a sense of Where they've been, Where they are, and Where they're going."

Teach collaboration.

Knowing how to work together must be taught explicitly. Have students practice the structure of discourse so they can participate in meaningful conversation and debate. Provide sentence stems. Teach different ways to come to a consensus. Give the EL students the language to advocate for themselves with peers, and give mainstream students the language and comfort to collaborate with empathy. Note: Rotate around the groups, adding your own input and listening to how EL students are interacting, as an easy and authentic informal assessment.

Don't neglect explicit English language instruction.

PBL embraces direct instruction, small group instruction, and independent learning. That gives you ample time to pull students for extra support while other students are continuing their research or preparations. Note: Why not pull EL students to help them WITH research and preparations so they can come back to the group with something new to contribute to the whole?

Integrate students' backgrounds and experiences into the process.

Voice and choice are front-and-center in a PBL unit. Honor the connections EL students make with the content by giving them opportunities to bring their backgrounds and experiences to the product or process.

Have a PBL-focused bulletin board.

The same kind of bulletin board that helps visitors understand what's going on in a PBL-focused room can also be used to help EL learners. Keep this board updated with current instructions and exemplars using visuals, keywords, and text. But rather than take down last week's instructions in lieu of current directions, build on those earlier visuals and texts without taking them down so that those who progress slower can still have independent access to this information.

All students can benefit from these targeted tactics, and you're probably using some of them without even knowing it. So don't be nervous about engaging in PBL with your English Language Learners. The inevitable growth that you will see, and their enthusiasm for what they are learning and how they are contributing, will help you realize their strengths and potential.

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PBL with English Language Learners: A Vital Need

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A powerful argument that all students are "ready" for PBL, with 8 strategies for scaffolding projects for English Learners.

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These ideas will help solidify your additions to the website.

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Check here for more about those THINKING strategies we talked about today.

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PZ's Thinking Routines Toolbox | Project Zero

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The Toolbox organizes the Thinking Routines into categories that describe the types of thinking the routines help to facilitate. Some routines appear in more than one category, and some routines have different versions that offer modifications for specific age groups or more specific conceptual challenges.

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Mexicans say that Veracruz has the worst beaches in the country, but they are lying. In the coast of my beatiful city you can find different islands that are famous for jarochos, one of them is the "De Enmedio" island. The only way to get here is by a 30 minutes or more boat ride. There you can find fishes with beautiful colors, white sand (sand mixed with crushed coral) and a turquoise sea.

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In the vvery hear of Mexico, the lovely old city of Guanajuato — capital of the state of the same name — has long been a popular destination for non-Mexicans, whether for vacationing or as permanent residents. Thanks to its valley location, Guanajuato's streetscape is one of narrow, winding lanes and alleys, often suitable only for pedestrian traffic due to their width and flights of steps (some of these lanes are even located underground).

Adding to the great attractions and places to visit in this delightful UNESCO World Heritage Site cityscape are numerous small plazas, colonial-era mansions, and churches built using pink or green sandstone, along with many excellent museums and art galleries.

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How can we highlight the contribution of the Mexican cuisine in other cultures?

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How can we highlight the contribution of the Mexican cuisine in other cultures?

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Resources and suggestions including a PBL podcast!

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Our Foundations of PBL Workshop, the center of both PBL Hilton Head and PBL Grow 20, is focused on helping you learn project-based learning through the creation of a project for implementation in your classroom.

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How would you make indigenous communities visible for the rest of the world?

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How would you make indigenous communities visible for the rest of the world?

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Pictures and other resources to promote critical thinking skills from the Learning Network and the New York Times.

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Intriguing Times images stripped of their captions — and an invitation to students to discuss them live.

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How can we encourage tourism in our hometown?

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How can we encourage tourism in our hometown?

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Product

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Multidisciplinary

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Investigation

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Take a look at some of the project videos on this page to see PBL in action.

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of videos, planning forms, rubrics, blogs, and more. Whether you want to learn about PBL, or find classroom resources, our materials will support your journey.

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For your planning toolbox.

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This amazing place is located in what is called “bolson de Mapimi” In prehistoric times this zone was submerged under the waters of the Thetis Sea, that is the reason we can nowadays find a he diversity of fossils.

In this place full of history, we are able to face myths and stories that qualify this place from an alien base to a dimensional portal.

The Truth is that there is a big compilation of aerolites, the zone is magnetized and the radio waves cannot be transmitted, compasses and watches do not function in this zone.

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This is the most beautiful avenue we have in Mérida. It is famous for its wide and clean alleys sorroundes by trees and flowers. It hosts lovely buildings which reflect the opulent lifestyle of Yucatan elite in the early 20th Century. At Christmas time, the whole avenue is illuminated to create a warm and seasonal environment.

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Our Final Product

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This English Language Specialist project was conducted from June to August of 2021 with the participation of approximately 140 teachers from Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador. The focus of this training was on Project-based Learning (PBL). In this website, we share the steps of a model

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Parque Fundidora showcases the history of the steel industry of Monterrey, also you can found in the same area some amazing green spaces, the Santa Lucia Riverwalk, playgrounds, museums (Horno 3, Papalote, Cineteca, among others), and even an ice-skating rink.

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Nombre de Dios is the name of the oldest town in the state of Durango.

The town was founded in 1563 and it has recently become a “Magical town“ (pueblo mágico) a designation awarded to communities in Mexico that throughout the years have maintained their roots in architecture, traditions, history and culture.

Alongside the rich history that Nombre de Dios has to offer, the town is surrounded by natural areas and waterfalls, being the “sabino” an emblematic tree in the region.

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One of the reasons visitors from abroad remember Veracruz is for the constant comings and goings of fishing boats, immense cargo ships from the end of the earth, and naval vessels (it is home base for the Mexican navy and the national naval academy).

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It is one of the most emblematic buildings in the city of Merida,Yucatán.
The architecture of this place is in the eclectic style known as Beaux Arts, which was popular in the Europe of the Belle Epoque and in Mexico during the Porfiriato (it makes you feel as if you were in Paris).
It is home to the Regional Museum of Anthropology of Yucatan.

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This beautiful cenote (a natural sinkhole) is located in Valladolid, Yucatan, which is about 2 hours away from Merida. If you go upstairs and look down from there, you'll get an astonishing view!

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A little bit of Veracruz... A place rich in history, traditions, beautiful sceneries and delicious food!

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A little bit of Veracruz... A place rich in history, traditions, beautiful sceneries and delicious food!

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These cicadas visit Maryland once every 17 years! Talk about "long time no see" or hear as the case may be.

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Helpful resources and guidance to continue the work!

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PBL leads to deeper understanding and greater retention of content knowledge

PBLWorks offers online and in-person Project Based Learning workshops and courses for educators seeking to give their students more. Whether you are new to Project Based Learning, advancing your practice, teaching in-person, or facilitating PBL curricula online, we have a path just for you. Pick your pathway and explore how to get started today...

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Project Based Learning for all. We build the capacity of teachers and school leaders to design and facilitate quality Project Based Learning.

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This is an overview of The Beauty of Home.