Blog Task 6: 6th July 2009
When I think of my personal “dream project“ in school, I probably would combine to subjects. Of course, the whole project would be done in English to learn to speak this foreign language more freely and to add new vocabulary to the existing knowledge of each student. This new vocabulary would contain many technical terms concerning the “Olympic Games”, therefore the second subject compared with my project would be sports, athletics and its disciplines in detail, e.g. high jump, shot put or javelin throw. This year the Olympic Games will take place in Germany and this would be a good reason to it out as central theme in class.
The students of my English class would be arranged in small groups to represent an expert-team of one of the main Olympic disciplines in track and field. Each group would have to choose one of those and then do a research on their individual topic. Printed material as well as digital information is welcomed when I would organize such a project. The expert groups should find some interesting information on their disciplines, concerning its technique, required equipment, its special practice and they should find some information on an athlete who is famous for his or her kind of sport.
In the end of this sports-project all groups should have prepared a PowerPoint Presentation to present their result in class and to inform the other students of their special kind of sport, naturally in English. Moreover, each group would have to design a blog, which should be constituted like a diary and which includes their presentations and all the other material they would have found during this project. Such a blog would make the information available for everybody in class and so the students could have a closer on all the results of the expert-teams.
I probably would organize a project like this in a 11th or 12th grade, shortly before they will do athletics in sports. It could be a good theoretical preparation for each student and the corresponding teacher could build on such a basis of knowledge.
Hey….
I was just reading your recent blog task. It was very interesting. I really liked your idea of dealing with the theme olympic games. And also your structure was very logical. I totally agree with you that such kind of project is more feasible.
Hey Christin,
I really like your project. I think it’s always a good attempt to combine two different subjects in school and cooperate with other teachers. This way the students are able to relate better to the topics. I also liked your topic very much because there are a lot of things you can do with it. It’s realistic and this should arouse the students’ interest.
Letting the students work in groups is always a good idea. It supports the students’ ability to work in teams and depend on one another. All I all I believe your project is realistic and would probably be a lot of fun for the students.