Natural History Museum project

Level: pre-intermediate / Age: 10-year-olds / Time: 60-90 mins

In this project connected with the topic of prehistory students create a Natural History Museum and they go on a guided tour of their museum.

1. First students go on a visit to a virtual Natural History Museum (museum). Nominate individual students or pairs to come to the computer and navigate the visit. On the website they can move around the museum and explore different rooms. The teacher elicits names of exhibits and any information students may know about them.
2. Students work in pairs to prepare exhibits for their museum. They have to draw their exhibits.

Here are some of my students’ pictures:

3. When the exhibits are finished and hung around the classroom students prepare for the role of museum guides. They write a short description of their exhibit.

4. After that they prepare for the role tourists and they prepare questions they may have abut the other exhibits:

5. Finally, students are taken by the teacher on a tour of their museum. They walk around the classroom, stop at each axhibit and act out their roles of guides and tourists.

Here is a pdf version of the slides I used in class:

pre-history

The Moon Landing Project

Level: intermediate / Age: teenagers / time: 60 mins

---

1. In this project related to the topic of space students first watch a video of the first moon landing (the first moon landing video) and answer general questions about it.

2. Students watch again and focus on the famous sentence spoken by L. Armstrong.

3. In the next stage students work in groups and write a script for their version of the first moon landing. There are certain elements they have to include in their script.

4. Students are given time to prepare to act out their scenes and write a question about their scene for the other groups to answer.

5. Students perform and the audience listens and answers the question at the end.

Here is a pdf version of the slides I used in class:

moon landing project

Jobs project

Level: intermediate / Age: teenagers / time: 90 mins

---

1. In this project connected with jobs students work in pairs. They are first given a name of a job (choose less common professions, e.g. a florist, a detective, an astronaut, a spy, a dentist).

2. Students brainstorm their ideas about what skills, knowledge and duties the job involves.

3. Then they write a description of the job they were given.

4. When they have finished they start working on their poster.

5. Students prepare for a more interactive part of the project and write a questionnaire for their classmates. The purpose of the questionnaire is to find out who is the best person to do the job they have described on their posters.

6. In the final part students present their posters to the class and talk about the findings of their questionnaire.

 

Here is a pdf version of the slides I used in class:

project – jobs