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This project encourages interdisciplinary learning by designing a product that showcases knowledge of the local environment and sharing it in another language. It aims to engage, challenge, and demonstrate learning through a performance. Students will develop new skills, research independently, and apply them in new contexts while presenting high-quality work. Challenges include timetabling, resource management, and task enrichment. The design process involves choosing a context, aligning department contributions, setting delivery timelines, establishing assessment criteria, and clarifying expectations. Ideas for contexts include cross-cutting themes, discipline-based topics, big concepts, or pupil interests. An example project integrates languages, art, drama, and social subjects around the topic of fashion, enhancing vocabulary and skills through association with real-life scenarios like a café setting for dialogue practice and pricing budgeting. Good luck with your project!
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Local Environment Cross Curricular Project Thea Searle, French Teacher Grantown Grammar School April – June 2009
What is a Rich Task? An activity which: • is interdisciplinary • has a real life context & is relevant to pupils • is engaging and motivating • is challenging and demanding • demonstrates learning to others via a performance
Project brief Working in groups, you will design and make a product which shows what you have experienced and learnt about the local environment. You will use your skills in another language to share some of this information with people from another country. What would you do?
Feedback • Pupils – learning was connected, learnt new skills, developed subject knowledge. • Teachers – liked the structured approach, pupils were enthusiastic and motivated, produced high quality work. • To develop: independent research, application of skills in new contexts, challenge
Challenges • Timetabling of lessons • Class sets for different subjects • Storage of resources / project work • Time for teachers to plan • Developing a rich task that is ‘rich’
Rich Task Design An activity which: • is interdisciplinary • has a real life context & is relevant to pupils • is engaging and motivating • is challenging and demanding • demonstrates learning to others via a performance
How to do a Rich Task? • Develop a task by choosing a context • Decide on contribution of each department via CfE outcomes / core skills • Figure out time line & order of delivery • Develop assessment criteria • Ensure pupils know expectations at start • Build in time for performances & assessment
Brainstorm of Contexts • CfE Cross cutting themes: Enterprise, Health and wellbeing, Citizenship, Sustainable Development, International Education, Creativity • Discipline based topics with relevance to other subjects: food, fashion • Big idea or concept: conflict, space • Topic of interest to pupils: my school
Maths English Advertising Budgetting Enterprise Languages Home Economics Dialogue Make something
Your turn…. • An Enterprise project involving Languages, Art, Drama, Social Subjects using Fashion as the topic.
Knowledge, skills & understanding Languages input • New vocabulary for food & opinions • Dialogue vocab / phrases for café including numbers, transactional language. Links across subjects Advertising work in English – poster for café in French Budgetting work in Maths – price of products to be sold at café in Euros.
