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
The Trojan Horse: A Reader's Theater/STEM Activity
Do you know the real story of the Trojan Horse and who is really to blame for the 10 year war? Allow your students a chance to travel up the levels of BLOOMS as they pick a side, rank those involved, justify why a specific character is responsible for the cause of the war and defend a character they think was not to blame. Next, challenge each group with a Trojan Horse STEM activity. Finally, build the Trojan Horse foldable using the given directions to display the work they have completed in
2nd - 5th
English Language Arts
Explore the Titanic
The Titanic is one of most tragic and fascinating topics in history. This research project is designed to teach and emphasize reading for information research skills. With plenty of resource materials
available online and in text, your students will be completely
engaged in the learning process.
3rd - 6th
English Language Arts, U.S. History
Snowflake Measurment
Challenge your student's measurement skills as they build a beautiful snowflake to ring in the winter season. These snowflakes can be hung from the ceiling or on the wall! The project may look hard, but once you make one petal, the students excitement will mutliply like snowflakes falling to the ground. Take it a little further and have your students write a story about their snowflake's adventure!
4th - 6th
Measurement
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
You Make the Game
Your classroom will have a blast creating their very own game with our "You Make The Game project". Students design their very own game board, make up the rules and most importantly, research and write all of the question / answer cards. Once the games are finished you can have a big game day and let the students play each other’s games! What a great way to challenge students to apply and synthesize what they have learned. To create a game you must work high on the Bloom's levels as you use
2nd - 6th
Math
Winter Math Carnival
Create a winter carnival environment that is allows your students to review and practice math concepts and have fun at the same time. This kit has 15 easy to create games that can be played all winter. These games can be done in a large room with students rotating activities or you could do them as whole group activities once a week on a chosen day of the week such as “Freezing Fridays”.
1st - 3rd
Math
Around The World: A Country Study
Send your students around the world as they research a country highlighting the cultural dress and native animals, as well as comparing nationally celebrated holidays to our own celebrations. Students will explore another country and build a flag out of a paper grocery bag to store their research information. Templates include worksheets for students to research the following; Quick Facts, Landforms, Famous People, Food, Tourist Attractions, Hot Topics, and Compare / Contrast of customs or hol
3rd - 6th
Social Studies
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
Storefront Math
Students use their math and organizational skills to
plan, create and manage a budget for their own store front. Students research and set their own product prices, hire their own employees, create a work schedule, map out their store front layout, create an advertisement and write their own word problems for others to solve. New and improved version includes more in-depth student directions and a few extras.
3rd - 6th
Math
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
Travel Around the World
Let your students explore the cultures, traditions, achievements, and daily life of others around the world. In this country study project students will choose a country and gather information about the culture by resesarching various aspects such as the official language, native food, tourist attractions, currency and much more. Allow students to deepen their understanding by comparing this country's customs to that of the U.S. This project includes space for 1st and final draft information
1st - 5th
Social Studies, Writing
Snow Globe Storybook
Let your students create their very own Snow Globe Storybook to enjoy over the holidays or to give as a gift to their family! Easy to make and fun to read. Snow Globe Storybooks are sure to shake up the rigor in your classroom as students plan, create, construct, elaborate and make connections in writing these books.
K - 4th
Writing
Invention Portfolio
This Invention Portfolio is a great place to store work, whether it is in the draft copy stage or already published. With four accessible pockets you can store all of their planning guides for their invention project as well as use the surfaces to display additional work. No more project display boards, this project serves as both an organizer and a display board. Adapt to any project in any content area.
2nd - 6th
For All Subjects
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
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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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