The students practiced their presentations using the Critical Friends protocol before giving their final graded presentations. The last activity was a written piece  for students to reflect on their learning (content and skills) and their contributions to the cooperative group work.

Project Duration: 1 Month

Created with the support of the California Department of Education California Career Pathways Trust

Final Product: a video Public Service Announcement, in Spanish, to highlight the importance of the Three R’s (reduce, reuse, recycle) to a Spanish-speaking audience.

Key Academic Skills and Content: Research into sustainable practices, scientific interpretation, foreign language pronunciation, collaboration, screenwriting, data analysis, presentation skills

Suggested Duration: 8-10 weeks

Created with the support of the California Department of Education California Career Pathways Trust

Final Products: students collaborated with 826 Valencia, a nonprofit focused on writing by young people, to publish a podcast, a written magazine/newspaper, and a TV news segment. Their final work was critiqued by a panel of community members during a whole school academic exposition night. After appropriate revision, the final project lives as a source document in our school site library and in our shared homeroom news folder.

Suggested Duration: 9-12 weeks

Created with the support of the California Department of Education California Career Pathways Trust