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Explore famous prisons and escapes, build a prison maquette, create escape plans, practice language skills. Engage teens in a creative and educational project.
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Project ideas forteens Sometried and testedtopics
Project ideas forteens Project: The Great Escape
Project ideas forteens Project: The Great Escape Objectives: • To learnaboutthehistory of somefamous and unusualprisons and prison escapes • Tobuild a maquette of a high-securityprison • Topresenttotheclassanelaborate plan to escape fromprison Languageaims: • Prepositions of place & movement • Past simple • Vocabularyrelatedtobuildings, actions, arts & craftsmaterials • Secondconditional • Adverbs of sequence • Givingreasons, describing a process, general fluency
Project ideas forteens 1. Introduction to topic: blind drawing
Project ideas forteens Example of photos to project
Project ideas forteens 3. Research in pairs, presentation to class
Project ideas forteens 4. Build a prison maquette in pairs
Project ideas forteens 5. Creativethinking, howto escape
Project ideas forteens Project: The Great Escape Objectives: • Tolearnaboutthehistory of somefamous and unusualprisons and prisonexcapes • Tobuild a maquette of a high-securityprison • Topresenttotheclassanelaborate plan to escape fromprison Languageaims: • Prepositions of place & movement • Past simple • Vocabularyrelatedtobuildings, actions, arts & craftsmaterials • Secondconditional • Adverbs of sequence • Givingreasons, describing a process, general fluency
Project ideas forteens Haveyouever done any similar activities in yourclasses? If so, howdidtheygo?Whatotheractivitiescouldyouinclude in thisproject?Whatfollow-up activitiescouldbe done?
Project ideas forteens Two more project ideas… • Amelia Earhart • Food and health
Project ideas forteens Some other tried and tested topics: Tribes around the world (research, build a tribal village using only natural materials) The Circus (fitness, auditions for a circus, put on a circus show/documentary) Natural Disasters (research, build a maquette for a natural-disaster-proof city, make a documentary or play about a natural disaster) Science (research, do hands-on experiments, make a scientific TV programme) Hollywood (history, a day in the life of, make a reality TV programme) The environment (research, field trip, find ways to mend/reuse things instead of throwing them away)