We started with vague ideas and expectations that the students felt would need to be included to be successful and show their learning. I needed science information, we decided to write a story (comic, picture book, iBook, etc) and the students wanted to be creative (art). The students created the following chart we will use as our Success Criteria.
Once we had a preliminary vision of our questions (Driving Question & Wonder questions from the KWL) we could form our mini lessons based on where the students are coming from. We created a Project-based Learning Wall with our Driving Question, N2K (Need to Know lessons that we added to as we went through) and the new vocabulary from the curriculum (that will help us form the mini lessons for the unit). Quizlet is an awesome website to help students learn new vocabulary.
I will update once the projects are done and we will hopefully have lots of cute photos reading our stories to our kindergarten inquiry buddies.
