Spanish Project

[baires83]

Any ideas for a HS Spanish project. I already did one for dia de los muertos and one on the spanish speakin world. Any cool and fun project ideas?

[annettemcd]

When I was the classroom coordinator for the STEP/STAR Spanish II class, the teacher assigned a project on a restaurant which covered a few weeks of work. Each week the group of students would produce some dialog written and orally and a project. They first named their restaurant and picked a Spanish speaking country.
Week One:
Create a city map to locate their restaurant
Write and record a dialog of a tourist asking and a local giving directions to the restaurant
Week Two:
Create signs and a menu for the restaurant (prices must be in the appropriate currency for the country and reasonable prices as determined by converting to US dollars)
Dialog: customer and waiter handling an order from the menu
Week Three:
Create a help wanted ad and job application
Dialog: job interview

I think that there was more, but you get the idea.

[Unregistered]

You could assign your students a particular spanish speaking country and they can create a travel guide that would include everything a person would need to know if they were to visit that country!

For example:

geography, government, popular food/music, entertainment, toursit sites and 20 important phrases (like hello, whats ur name, wheres the bathroom, how much is it? etc - depending on the level of your students they can do more or less)


I did this with my classes and many of them brought in beautiful creative tour guides - it was a success!

[Unregistered]

Here is one that I found while searching..check it out... read the whole thing--it has a project after the webquest!

http://cuip.uchicago.edu/~djamieson/webquesttemplatenoframestudentversion.html

[Unregistered]

Have your students do a food day. A food day is where they bring in a food from 1 out of the 21 Spanish speaking countries.

[Unregistered]

I have a food day once a year, either when we do the "food" chapter in our text or around the cinco de mayo. I am not that defined, however, as we're in TX and my students are familiar with TX-Mex food. I only state that no obviously American foods be brought (except drinks) and we listen to Spanish music. I've already decided that next year that it will entail "more," I just haven't decided in what direction. The students really enjoy this day and prove to be cooperative and well-behaved.

[Unregistered]

I am on a library computer which takes you to a site automatically with your search! I have two weeks to do a 3D Spanish project that is colorful and creative, has something to do with Spanish Speaking Countries, and is impressive. You also have to be able to tell that it took a while and a lot of work was put into it and preferably something that won't bore me to while I am doing it! Thank you so much and I would very much appreciate your help!

[Liane]

Any ideas for a HS Spanish project. I already did one for dia de los muertos and one on the spanish speakin world. Any cool and fun project ideas?

If you have access to a video camera & possibly some video editing software:

One group project I did with my ESL class was to create commercials. They first came up with a product they wanted to sell (yours could be a product from a particular Spanish-speaking country). Then, they created a magazine advertisement for that product (mine was in English, yours would be in Spanish). This would entail learning about the specific target audience for that product.

Next, they created storyboards, and finally they used the storyboards to record their ads to video (my kids spoke English, yours will speak Spanish...).

We have a great multimedia teacher at our school who helped us edit all the takes and combine the commercials, but you could also use a hand-held camcorder and make sure the kids practice a whole lot to get everything in one shot.

The best part of this project was watching the videos, and inviting the administrators and other teachers to watch the students on the big screen.

I'm curious to know which suggestions you end up using, so be sure to let us know!
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