End of Year Culminating Assignments
With SOL, PALS and other tests wrapping up, this often becomes my favorite time of year as I see students imagining, creating, collaborating and exploring in their classes while also reflecting on their growth, learning and relationships. Some of the great things I’ve seen in the past: Create a class book. Each student/pair of students creates a chapter reviewing material from the year. Students create skits, chapter/unit reviews, commercials, movie trailers, news clips. These could be subject matter related or they could be personal reflections (What I learned about myself this year? I’m proud of…Next year, I hope to) Make use of Zoom to host an expert, go on a virtual field trip, collaborate with another class in virtual school or anywhere in the world. Give the students a FedEx Day (or several shorter FedEx periods). Essentially, a FedEx Day is where you allow the students to take an idea of th...