1. How will your project meet you students' learning styles and needs?
Our project, "A Vision of Peace," incorporates all learning styles. Students will receive and produce information through auditory, visual, and kinesthetic means. All intelligences will also be incorporated at different times throughout our project.
Linguistic intelligence - writing through online journaling, peace poems, persuasive letter, reading response
Logical-mathematical intelligence - organize work, fit music & pictures together in a logical way
Musical intelligence - music for iMovies
Bodily-kinesthetic intelligence - footage for iMovies, presenting projects
Spatial intelligence - create website, iMovie organization/layout
Interpersonal intelligence - interviews for iMovie, cooperation with partners/groups
Intrapersonal intelligence - reading responses, choosing topics for persuasive letter
Existential intelligence - connect to larger issue of world peace through all aspects of project
Naturalist intelligence - chronological organization, heirarchy for persuasive letter, peace topic
2. How will your project address higher order thinking skills?
Over the course of the project, students will use higher-order thinking skills in several ways, from contemplating critical world issues to evaluating information to making connections to their novels. The section of the project which most uses higher-order thinking skills is the persuasive letter, where students draft an action plan for ways to improve peace in our community, and research which community leader to send their letter. This step of the project involves a lot of problem solving and critical thinking as students integrate the various sections to complete a successful letter.
3. How will your project address the skills business and industry tell us are important? (Collaboration, Decision Making Skills, Connecting to the Real World)
During a large part of the project, students will be working in cooperative groups, with each member responsible for contributing to the end result - very common in business settings and work place environments. Students have to make many critical decisions throughout the course of the project as well, ranging from small (choosing which images and music to use in their iMovie) to large (deciding how they will promote peace in their community). In addition, students will become familiar with world issues such as genocide and war, and will become familiar with their community as they search for community leaders to help them in their mission to promote peace. Students will learn how to have their voices heard in the larger community and how put their impact on the world.
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