ProjectGals
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McKinney, Texas, United States
About the store
ProjectGals offers school, district and region wide make-and-take workshop opportunities in and around the Dallas/Ft Worth area. The following are workshops we have done in the past: Project Based Learning (How to utilize long term project based learning to engage students), Versatile Make-n-Takes for any classroom (A six- hour workshop that introduces teachers to a wide range of projects from all subject areas), A Make-n-Take a Day Keeps the Boredom Away (Keep your students excited about learning by introducing them to project based learning), Math Make-n-Takes (Unique projects that help reinforce mathematical concepts), Holiday Make-n-Takes (Favorite holiday stories are featured with making make-n-take projects), Putting Students in the Driver's Seat (A Bloom's based Make-and-Take Workshop), Quick-n-Easy Make-n-Takes to organize content. We would love to lead a make-and-take workshop for your school/district/or region. Please email if you are interested in booking one of the workshops above or another hands-on, higher order thinking based training.
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Class Community
Build community in the classroom by actually creating a community! Each student chooses an important building or service, completes several activities within the building and together the class discusses the best placement of each business or service in a city planning exercise. In this project, students will interview their parents to discover the reasons why they decided to live in their community, brainstorm the reasons why communities are formed (share resources, company,protection, etc), di
K - 4th
English Language Arts, Social Studies
Life Cycle Collection
This project definitely has the ‘wow” factor for your students! By simply using 1 piece of paper per animal you are able to uniquely highlight the cycle of life of a frog, chick, butterfly, pig and bean plant. Students will be able to create a collection book that holds their life cycle transformations by stapling 5 Ziploc bags together for safe keeping! Students can keep track of the life cycle stages by using a flip book. Capture the appeal of your visual learners with this phenomenal book
K - 3rd
Science
Invent a Sport
This project is a great way to stimulate creative thinking and problem solving! Students must use their imagination to invent a brand new sport including rules, scoring, field and equipment
design and more! What a great way to spend those indoor recess days inventing new games and sports while challenging students to think at high levels in a fun way! This also makes for a great project for parents to see at Open House as students showcase their creativity and imagination.
2nd - 6th
Physical Education
Fiction Writing: Puppet Show Storyteller
Use this creative way to allow students to present their work motivating your reluctant writers, performers and artists. This project would be great to present a piece of student written historical fiction, a respun fairytale or alternate ending to a story. This could also be altered to teach beginning, middle and end as students write their own work and get to perform it for their classmates. Turn it into a math project as students tell the story of what happened to the number 5 as it travels
K - 4th
For All Subjects, Writing
American Heroes Research Collection
Your students will enjoy this hands-on research project that combines reading, writing, research skills and a lot fun! Students will pick 3 American Heroes that they want to research, complete the research templates that are comfortably housed in the paper bag flag, and re-create their American Heroes out of spoons!
Students will love this hands-on project that will keep them highly motivated and engaged. The more people they research, the
more spoon people they can make!
Take it up a Bloo
2nd - 5th
English Language Arts, U.S. History
Interactive Math in a Bag
The perfect integration of reading, writing and math! Students write a short story and then infuse math problems that match that
part of the story. The best part of the project is that it is interactive! Once the project is organized in plastic bags, others can read it and use Expo markers to answer the problems, then you can erase the
answers and let someone else try and solve the problems! Perfect for a class library or open house activity! Two templates to choose from!
3rd - 6th
English Language Arts, Math
Party Bag Planner
This project definitely has the “wow” factor
for your students! They will absolutely love to plan a birthday
party for a relative or classmate. Along the way they will
strengthen their research skills and problem solving as well as reasoning and math skills.
3rd - 6th
Math
Research Pouch
Another easy project to help your students deepen their understanding and love of books. This style of report works great for biographies as the pockets hold room for various categories including; childhood facts, famous quotes, achievements, family life, impact on our society, and personal sturggles. You can also adapt it to a thematic unit and use it as a place to store work and notes on topics within the unit. Spice up your notes and practice in math by using this project to give students a
2nd - 6th
For All Subjects
STEM Journal Foldable
Want a way to organize and store your students STEM projects throughout the year? Check out our STEM Journal Foldable which provides templates for students to reflect on their personal strengths and weaknesses, the design process, the SCAMPER strategy, and brainstorming questions about the world around them. This product provides reproducible pages that can be used along side any STEM project that include areas for brainstorming, planning, drafting, testing, revising, and reflecting on each as
1st - 6th
Engineering
Characterization using apps, selfies, voicemail, profiles, and posts
In this foldable project, students will use text messaging, voicemail, selfie photos, Facebook status updates, photos to reveal what they have learned about the characters in the book.
Challenge students thinking and depth of knowledge by providing the opportunity for them to develop a facebooklet and phone profile from the perspective of a character in the book.
This project includes:
Directions for making the Characterization foldable along with the templates needed to complete the project
3rd - 7th
English Language Arts
Chinese New Year Project
Introduce your students to the traditions and celebrations surrounding the Chinese New Year as they conduct research, identify story elements, and develop a tangram character for a story of their own. Finally, keep all of their work in a Chinese House foldable that even includes a hook for a hanging lantern.
Project pages include:
Directions for making house foldable
Templates for research and tangram story
Directions for making 3D lantern to hang from house the holds students work on identif
K - 4th
Ancient History, Creative Writing, Reading
Book Report Pouch: Store your mini reports
Complete seven reading activities within this wonderful Book Report Pouch including; a letter to the author, parts of the story, main character analysis, summary, sequence and word work. Keep
the activities connected and organized within this handy pouch.
3rd - 6th
English Language Arts
ABC Vocabulary Book
Spice up your daily vocabulary work by having your students create their own vocabulary book as a reference guide and reinforcement of new words. Each page has space for several words, definitions, examples and pictures. Organize the book by alphabet order for easy reference. This project is appropriate for every grade and is specifically helpful for math vocabulary.
1st - 6th
For All Subjects
Student Spotlight Presentations
This project is perfect for student presentations, plays, writing and research projects. Students gather the research for their play or T.V. show, write the script, create the background, characters and put on their presentation. This foldable contains a perfect place to store the puppets, and script for easy access as students present!
1st - 5th
For All Subjects
Learning Messenger Bag
Enhance your students' collection of projects within a clasroom theme or create a place for students to store the reserach they are collecting on given topics from various sources with a Themed Messenger Bag. Students will enjoy creating this project that allows them to store work within any theme and make connections along the way.
PreK - 4th
For All Subjects
My Math Business
This 3D foldable provides for a yearlong math enrichment project that reinforces math skills taught in the classroom! Students open up their own math store to write and publish their own skill puzzles and problems for fellow classmates.
Project Download Includes:
Ideas for using this project all year long
Directions for 3D foldable
Step by Step student friendly directions for opening your own math store
Templates for math research, vocabulary, drafting and final products
Tags: math, centers,
2nd - 6th
Math
Pyramid Board Game
Pair this project with a study of Egypt by having students use books and internet resources to research the great Pyramids and design a board game complete with objectives, rules, question & answer cards as well as game pieces putting it all together with this 3-D show stopper!
Change up the content to use it in a study of 3D shapes and their characteristics with a pyramid shaped board game demonstrating students grasp of this concept!
Finish it up with a game day allowing students to put th
2nd - 5th
Math, Social Studies
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About the store
Experience
ProjectGals offers school, district and region wide make-and-take workshop opportunities in and around the Dallas/Ft Worth area. The following are workshops we have done in the past: Project Based Learning (How to utilize long term project based learning to engage students), Versatile Make-n-Takes for any classroom (A six- hour workshop that introduces teachers to a wide range of projects from all subject areas), A Make-n-Take a Day Keeps the Boredom Away (Keep your students excited about learning by introducing them to project based learning), Math Make-n-Takes (Unique projects that help reinforce mathematical concepts), Holiday Make-n-Takes (Favorite holiday stories are featured with making make-n-take projects), Putting Students in the Driver's Seat (A Bloom's based Make-and-Take Workshop), Quick-n-Easy Make-n-Takes to organize content. We would love to lead a make-and-take workshop for your school/district/or region. Please email if you are interested in booking one of the workshops above or another hands-on, higher order thinking based training.
Teaching style
Our style of teaching is centered on students' talents and learning styles. Hands-on projects give students freedom to make connections between learning and real life experiences, practice valuable planning and analyzing skills as they synthesize information into a meaningful product. These proects also allow students to view work from an evaluative point of view and discover the varying perspectives in their peers as they see others' work. Ulitmately, our goal is to produce life-long learners through meaningful student-centered work and higher order thinking.
Awards & shining teacher moments
Teacher of the Month – April 97.5 KLAK
Allen ISD District Teacher of the Year (2009 – 2010)
North Texas Girls Coach of the Year (2009 – 2010) (U9G & U15G)
Norton Elementary Volunteer of the Year (2009)
Allen ISD Bright Idea Award (2008)
Allen ISD Strategic Planning Committee for Technology (2012)
Project-Based Learning Grant (2009)
My own education history
ProjectGals have a combined 18 years in the education field with a passion for hands-on projects that challenge students to dig deep into content, collaborate with peers in making connections, and produce products that showcase high levels of thinking. Student engagement and excitement for learning are top priority in these student-created projects. We lead workshop experiences to inspire and transform typical classroom projects into original masterpieces full of creativity and individuality while demonstrating learning at the highest level of Bloom's.
Additional biographical information
Project Gals is based on the theory that "Students whose teachers emphasize higher-order thinking skills and hands-on learning activities outperform their peers significantly. Students who ENGAGE IN HANDS-ON LEARNING on a weekly basis outperform those who engage in this manner of instruction on a monthly basis. Students WHOSE TEACHERS CONDUCT hands-on learning actvities outperform their peers by 72% of a grade level in math and 40% of a grade level in science. This study indicates that the MOST EFFECTIVE classroom practices involve conveying HIGHER ORDER THINKING SKILLS and engaging in HANDS-ON LEARNING activities." (Educational Testing Service 2001) We value the idea that "Creative thinking is not a talent, it is a skill that can be learnt. It empowers people by adding strength to their natural abilities which improves teamwork, productivity and where appropriate profits." (Edward De Bono)
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