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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.

New Goals for a New SCHOOL Year STEM challenge

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Class Community

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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

Explore the Titanic

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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

Around The World: A Country Study

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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

American Heroes Research Collection

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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

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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

Chinese New Year Project

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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

Pyramid Board Game

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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

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)