Bear Exploration Center facilitates students' creativity and critical thinking skills through a collaborative approach to STEAM learning.
Bear Exploration Center facilitates students' creativity and critical thinking skills through a collaborative approach to STEAM learning.
Why Español?
As the world becomes increasingly interconnected through the internet, the ability to communicate in more than one language is more important now than ever before, particularly in STEM industries.
Studies show that multi-linguists have better concentration and problem solving skills and are more able to multi-task – qualities that any good scientist needs.
At Bear, we help students understand that speaking a foreign language is highly prized in a competitive, globalized STEM workforce. Bear is the place to nurture the scientists of the future.
Grade level 5
Content Area: Spanish / Technology
Objective
Students will apply the vocabulary learned about what we wear in the winter to design a digital poster for a shop.
Directions
Real life project:
The teacher pretends to be a client coming to see a group of graphic designers. She explains that she's opening a boutique in town and that she will be having a winter sale. The graphic Designers (students) will design a digital poster with the items of clothing that she has on sale, and her personal likes (color, fonts, etc.). One important detail, the poster must be in Spanish!
*Rubric was given to the students before they started working on it.
Presentational Mode
3. Present material in oral and written form.
Communities
8. Acquire the ability to interact in the target culture beyond the classroom and set goals for life-long learning. Examples: Collect evidence to demonstrate achievement of goals such as self-assessment checklists, portfolios. etc.
Third to Fifth Grade
Communication and Collaboration
10. Use digital environments to collaborate and communicate. Examples: publishing online journals, sharing presentations, contributing to online discussions, communicating with experts • Producing digital works collaboratively Examples: developing shared writing projects and group multimedia projects
Creativity and Innovation
12. Create a product using digital tools. Examples: products—digital story, podcast, digital artwork.
Guidelines
To design the poster, students used the program CANVA. The teacher sends them the rubric via Canva assignments. Students open the assignment, create a poster, add images, textboxes, elements, etc. They share it with the teacher once they are done. The teacher writes notes and grades them on Canva.