Passion Projects: Enigma ? Minilesson Micaela Wenger

 

EDUCATIONAL VIDEO


 Watch the following videos and come up with your own conclusion. See the question below.

Passion Projects for Children

 Question 1

In which way do Passion Projects enhance the quality of the learning experience of school children?

Question 2

What do the statements "self-starting" and "managing conflict" mean in the context of Passion Projects?


 Question 3

After watching the video above on a specific type of Passion Project, (which is the Enigma Project); what kind of skills do students develop through it?

Question 4

List the parts of the Enigma Project and explain the role of each part.

 

Question 5

Why would the Enigma Project be an important methodology to implement in the classroom?

Question 6

What is the mission of the school where these Enigma Projects are implemented?


Activity

American Expats

Our Enigma Project will be to focus on a community of American expats living in a specific part of the world (a specific country) of your choice as a group. 

Develop the different parts of the project addressed in the video, but adapted to the circumstances of our own class (context, time, resources).

 

Process

  • Create content
  • 10 questions
  • Contract
  • Answers
  • Biblio
  • Presentation
  • Audience interrogation
  • Add new questions


STUDENTS' WORK

TAL 324 O

LESSON PLAN


Micaela Wenger 


Lesson plan 

10/26/21

 

 

MDCPS / K-12

Competency Based Curriculum

[Correlated to the Sunshine State Standards & the Grade Level Expectations]

 

1. Volumen III

 

2. Subject: Visual Arts

 

3. Level: Elementary

 

4. Grade: Grade 1

 

5. Component: I Aesthetic & Critical Inquiry

 

6. Objective(s): Makes and explains choices in his or her art work.

 

7. Competency: Through the critique process, the student can understand that works of art can be rendered realistically, symbolically, or abstractly.

 

8. Materials: Paper and pencil 

 

9. Activity: Every student will draw a symbol that they believe represents their life. For example, a heart can represent love and/ or kindness.

 

10. Assessment: Once the students are given a few minutes to pick and draw a symbol, the students will be put into breakout rooms for 5 minutes to discuss why they chose the symbol that they did and share it with each other. After the breakout rooms are over, the class can discuss as a whole and share their drawings with each other. When the activity is over, students will post a picture of their drawing on Blackboard and write a sentence or two about why they chose it. 


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