Curriculum for Project-Based Learning
Your School, My School
The Similarities and Differences between Your School Life and that in China
Subject Area - Foreign Language
Course - Chinese
Unit - Learning about the Similarities and Differences of the School Life in China
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This course is designed to allow you to learn the school life from your peers in China. The teacher will facilitate the learning through constructivist Project-Based Learning (PBL). The project will have real world meaning and application to you making you relevant and of interest.
Hands-on activities are designed to advance your online communication skills and offer you the authentic language learning experience with the native Chinese speakers.
The final product would be the demonstration co-created by you and your peers. Communicating with your cross-cultural buddies would be an on-going activity that supports the primary, essential learning question of the unit.
Course Objectives You will feel profoundly connected to the world through the use of e-mail communication.
You will feel enthusiastic about the learning from your Chinese peers.
You will feel confident in what you have learned about the similarities and difference between your school life and your peers' life in China .
You will create a presentation that will offer a clear demonstration that you have acquired a strong enough sense of the similarities and differences between cultures that you can impart information and ensure understanding in others.
You will acquire a base of vocabulary that is solid enough to allow you to have clear, text based, email communications with your peers.
You will peer teach and intuitively use the technologies including communication on network, audio, and video without formal training.
You will pull all data, photos, and other information from your Chinese peers together to generate reports.
The value of the project = 180
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Excellent (20 - 16) |
Good (15 - 11) |
Average (10 - 6) |
Below Ave. (5 - 0) |
Scores by peers / teacher |
Design Ideas |
Creative, authentic, challenging, collaborative |
3/4 of excellent |
2/4 of excellent |
1/4 of excellent |
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Collaboration
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Demonstrates cooperation, respect, and leadership, helps others in the group, and does the assigned work without having to be reminded, performs all duties of assigned team role
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Cooperative, participates and follows the lead of others, does the assigned work-rarely needs reminding, performs nearly all duties
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Does little to participate; lets others do the work, rarely does the assigned work--often needs reminding, Performs very little duties |
Always relies on others to do the work, does not perform any duties of assigned team role, usually argues with teammates |
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Homework and Work Habits
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Homework and assignments completed always on time and all corrections are made |
Homework and assignments usually completed on time. All mistakes are corrected except 1 or 2 |
Some assignments and homework completed on time; Some mistakes are corrected. 3 or 4 are not corrected |
Few assignments and homework complete one time; Never correct mistakes. No homework completed |
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Vocabulary
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Rich use of vocabulary, without any character mistakes |
Adequate and accurate use of vocabulary with 1 to 3 character mistakes |
Somewhat inadequate and/ or inaccurate use of vocabulary with 4 - 7 character mistakes |
Inadequate and/or inaccurate use of vocabulary, with more than 8 character mistakes |
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Grammar
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Correct use of the grammar we have learned without any mistake
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Most correct use of the grammar we have learned with 1 to 3 mistakes |
Somewhat correct use of the grammar we have learned with 4 to 7 mistakes |
Inadequate or inaccurate use of the grammar we have learned with 8 mistakes |
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Comprehensibility
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Text readily comprehensible, requiring no interpretation on the part of the reader |
Text comprehensible, requiring minimal interpretation on the part of the reader
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Text mostly comprehensible, requiring interpretation on the part of the reader
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Text barely comprehensible
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Oral Presentation
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Speech continuous with few pauses or stumbling. No English
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Some hesitation but manages to continue and complete thoughts. Some English
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Speech choppy and/or slow with frequent pauses, few or no incomplete thoughts. Most English
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Speech halting and uneven with long pauses and/or incomplete thoughts. Most English
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Course Syllabus
Week 1 -
Week 2 -
Week 3 -
Week 4 -
Week 5 -
Week 6 -
Present your demonstration, including graphs, pictures, movie or other relevant information.
This syllabus is a living document; activities and assignments not listed in
the syllabus may be required when necessary.
This PowerPoint project was made by 4 eighth graders at the Bishop's School. Multimedia technology was used as tools for their oral and written reports in both English and Chinese. It will take about 7 minutes. Please click on the link to view it, Your School, My School. For the same project, other students are working on the video (movie) technology to see if it is a more effective tool for their presentation, but the video one is not ready to present yet. Here is an old one of a different unit. If you are interested in it, view the video.
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