Project-based Learning ABE Level 40, High Intermediate Jackie Hamlett, ABE Instructor, College of Lake County An integrated lesson plan covering 8-10 sessions of approximately 1 hour each including reading, writing, editing, research, technology, and working as a group Lesson Overview

Students will create a Powerpoint presentation describing their chosen project, and including relevant research information. Students will research their topic on the Internet, learn how to take relevant notes, summarize information, and present their findings through pictures, graphs, charts, descriptions, and an oral class presentation. Students will use Power point to design a presentation incorporating graphics, charts, maps,audio, and transition to effectively relay project information to the class. Each group or project must use at least 3 web sites to research their topic. These must be listed as sources on the final project. Websites must have credible content based upon The 5 W’s of Website Evaluation. Students need to take notes on websites, a book, or magazine, and then organize this information, and write a project summary. Students will use graphic organizers for these tasks which will be collected as part of the final project. The instructor and tutor will monitor progress, but students are expected to ask for help as needed. Each project must have a final written summary that includes information about the chosen topic, why the topic was chosen, what was learned during the process, and a list of sources that were used to gain information. This summary needs to be at least one page, but not more thantwo pages. Sources must be listed as a separate page.

Fall 2014 Semester Level: ABE 40, and GED Instructor: Jackie Hamlett An integrated lesson plan covering 8-10 sessions of approximately 1 hour each including reading, writing, editing, research, technology, and working individually orwith a partner 1. Subject: Technology Integration Across the Curriculum

Student generated or chosen topic 2. Content: Hobbies, personal interests, holidays, business, current events, biography, history, science, art 3. Goals, Aims/Outcomes:

1. Students work alone or with a partner to create power point presentation 2. Identify project components and needs. 3. Design and Create the Power point project itself.

4. Write instructions, summaries, statements, findings, or creative writing5. Read and Research relevant background materials from books, web sites 6. Interview community members or people outside the school if necessary. 7. Use technology to research websites, make videos, recordings, insert graphics and audio

4. Objectives:

1. Students will develop skills in how to work with a group to complete a project. 2. Students will learn how to use the Internet to do research, search for information,

and learn about site credibility. 3. Students will develop and improve their ability to use computer programs such as Powerpoint,

MS Word, and others to create project components. 4. Students will learn how to edit their written work, and evaluate their media work. 5. Students will develop and improve their skills in writing a project summary. 6. Students will improve their reading comprehension skills related to main ideas,

details, and summaries. 7. Students will develop and improve time management skills.

5. Materials and Aids:

Computer Lab 1 hr. week Laptop computers 1 hr. week Internet access Powerpoint Classroom website: http://adultbasiceducation.weebly.com Graphic organizers

6. Procedures/Methods: A. Introduction-Discussion of project-based learning

1. Class brainstorming 2. Students choose topic 3. Groups formed based on topic and interests

B. Development:

K-W-L Process for a general topic. This progresses to modeling and explicit instruction on how to take notes and summarize.

Each group does KWL on their own topic Graphic organizers introduced

C. Practice:

1. Note taking and graphic organizers using web sites or books 2. Students use notes to summarize 3. Groups review notes/summaries with instructor or tutor

D. Independent Practice:

1. Students use notes to create written reports 2. Students create their projects incorporating graphics, music, sounds

E. Accommodations (Differentiated Instruction):

Reading level of web sites, sites with audio Students are working in groups with different project goals and peer support Graphic organizers Instructor/tutor assistance

F. Checking for understanding:

1. Student audience asks questions about topics 2. Teacher asks questions about process and topic 3. Students summarize research and process.

G. Closure:

1. Classroom presentations 2. Evaluations 3. K-W-L process as a class

H. Evaluation:

Class evaluates group presentations using rubric Students evaluate their own group work using rubric Teacher and tutor(s) evaluate group presentations and review student evaluations Teacher evaluates project summaries created by each student, and assigns

a project grade which reflects an average of class rubric scores plus final student project reflection report