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Independent Student Projects - I will be putting more information here throughout the school year. I have several step-by step guides to help you get started. Some choices that you have right now:
Create a multi-media presentation of a topic you want to investigate. Share the presentation with your classroom teacher and share with me during our individual meetings. (lesson to guide you or I have another version in my K-6 room)
Create a game that others can play to learn about what you are studying in your daily classes
Learn vocabulary or spelling words from your daily classes in another language
Create and present a live or animated puppet show about something you are learning about
Create a radio or television broadcast, video production, webpage, or podcast about a topic you are interested in.
Write a diary or journal of an important historical event or person as if you lived that life.
Create an invention to fill a personal or social need
Study the life of a famous entrepreneur such as Steve Jobs, Martha Stewart, etc. Create a manual, "How to Be a Successful Entrepreneur"
Create a song, rap, poem, story, advertisement, or jingle and perform it.
Create a travel brochure for another country or planet (example of steps).
Write a script for a play or a mock trial
Write to a local Representative or Senator about something you would like to see changed.
Create a learning center in your classroom (with the teacher's permission). Make this something that you think all students could learn from.
Gather political cartoons and analyze them (tell what they actually mean)
Write a "how-to" manual for people who need instruction on how to do or use something.
Contact publishers about how to get something you've written published
Find an email address to one of your favorite authors and email them questions that you have
Create a new recipe and then advertise it as if you were going to sell the product.
Develop an app to help students learn about our community. You can learn how to do this at code.org. Discoveries Unit 4 - the Design Process This will teach kids to develop an app.
Develop healthy eating and exercise scan codes to place around the school
Create a debate project
Create a survey project
Create a science project
Create a model project
Create a special event project
Make a podcast or a Ted talk of the knowledge you have and want to share
make a word card game - using information from one of your subjects
trading card creation - using information from one of your subjects
Additional activities to look through from readwritethink.org
Make an interactive greeting card
Create an interactive book report
Make a vocabulary poster in a foreign language
Create an interactive herbavorium
Build a diorama with QR codes
Create a crossword puzzle using vocabulary or facts
Create an interview of an expert in what you are studying
Create a flow chart or diagram
Write an interview of a relevant person
Create questions and an answer key
Write journal/diary entries
Write a postcard or letter exchange
Create a scrapbook
Create a photo album
Make an instructional video
Create an interactive notebook
Create a set of task cards
Make a pamphlet or brochure about your topic
Write a newspaper article
Perform a puppet show
Create an episode of a reality show
Create a game show
Have a panel discussion of “experts”
Use a Venn diagram to compare two aspects of the topic
Create a children’s story about the topic
Create a map
Write a fable or myth about the topic
Create a help wanted add and a letter/resume to answer it
Write a text message dialogue relevant to the topic
Write a series of tweets relevant to the topic
Create a Facebook wall relative to the topic
Create a Pinterest board relative to the topic
Start a blog
Decorate a box and fill with relevant objects
Create a foldable
Create a flip book
Create a Cootie Catcher
Create a cereal based on the topic (cover a cereal box)
Assemble a time capsule
Create several bookmarks about different aspects of the topic
Write a recipe relevant to the topic (good for showing causes of an event)
Do a newscast
Write an acrostic poem
Create an Internet scavenger hunt
Write an advice column with several problems related to the topic
Create flash cards or trivia cards
Create a cheer relevant to the topic
Make a short documentary film
Create a museum exhibit
Create a top 10 list relevant to the topic
Create a video game
Make a “Choose Your Own Adventure”
Create a mini book with one fact/idea per page
Create a glossary of relevant terms
Make a paper chain with a different fact for each link
Make a flower with a different fact for each petal
Write a handbook or instruction book
Create a newsletter
Readwritethink.org has many great lesson plans to walk students through projects.
See the Project-Based Learning Link on this site.
Credits: Westby, Susanna, et al. “72 Creative Ways for Students to Show What They Know.” Minds in Bloom, 9 Oct. 2020, minds-in-bloom.com/72-creative-ways-for-students-to-show/.
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