One of the fashion phrases that floated in the world of education during the last decade is “student-centered learning.” Student-centered l...
One of the fashion phrases that floated in the world of education during the last decade is “student-centered learning.” Student-centered learning is when the focus is on the students and not the instructor; The instructor still serves as a facilitator, but students are doing most of the work creating a product or presentation. Direct instruction or conferences have become an unpopular approach to teaching. Although direct instruction is attractive because of the large amount of information that one can deliver in a limited period of time, the quality of this learning experience is questionable. In my opinion, a good classroom has a combination of both approaches. The concepts are presented in a reading style class, but to reinforce the ability, students have the opportunity to be constructive. Here are some creative project ideas that you can implement in your class. Leave comments sharing with others how you have implemented project ideas in your classroom.
1. Ads: Create an advertising campaign to sell a product. The product can be real or imaginary. Try using this to teach persuasion, as a task for speech class, or to reinforce the skills learned in a consumer class.
2. Album covers: Create illustrations for an album. The album can be connected to a skill (such multiplication) and must demonstrate or explain how that skill is used. Or the album cover can be connected to a novel and the art work can present a relevant theme in the story. Another use would be to have students create album covers of natural disasters in a science class where the cover would represent and explain the event.
3. Autobiographies: write the story of your life. This task can help you teach autobiography or reinforce a wide range of writing skills.
4. Prizes: Create prizes to present historical figures, scientists, mathematicians, authors or characters from a novel.
5. Banners: create an informational banner. Students could create timelines of the American civil war or the Spanish alphabet.
6. Bar charts: Create illustrated bar charts. These can be used to explore data sets, use statistics to support a point or illustrate a growth or change in a market.
7. Biographies: write the story of another person’s life. It could be a friend, a family member, a historical figure or a fictional character.
8. Blogs: Create blogs for literary characters or historical figures. Create a real blog for free or simply have students write and organize articles on white printer paper if the Internet is not available.
9. Plans: Create plans or plans of a scene described in a novel, a historical environment or an earthquake-proof bridge or structure.
10. Board games: Create board games where students review the course concepts. The game should be based on correctly answering the review questions.
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