Welcome to Holland
                                                            By: Jessica McDonald

Project at a Glance :

This project gives Spanish 2 students the opportunity to use the language by designing resources for Spanish-speaking visitors in Holland. (4 week project)
       
 
Driving Question:

​How can we use the Spanish language to help visitors learn about our Holland community?            

Standards:

• Michigan World Language Stds:  1.1.A.RW.a, 1.1.N.SL.g, 1.1.N.SL.i, 1.1.N.RW.i1.2.N.R.b, 1.3.M.S.c, 1.3.M.W.c, 2.1.N.RI.c2.2.N.C.b, 4.1.M.a, 4.1.M.b, 4.2.N.a, 5.1.M.a

Team / Culture Building:

• Survey for interests of project
• Use the Creative DNA protocol
• Lockbox Activity
• Hopes, Fears, and Norms
• Consider knowledge/experience with travel when forming groups.​

Entry Event:

• Virtual field to Holland's sister city:  Queretaro, Mexico
• Invite a guest speaker from Quertaro via Skype​

Stakeholders:

• Spanish speaking visitors to Holland
• Spanish speaking residence of Holland
• Holland area businesses and tourist attractions
• Citizens of sister city Queretaro, Mexico
• Travel agents
• LAUP/Tulip Time organizations​​

Empathy Building:

• Empathy Maps
• Pains/Gains Map
• Determine team values
• Share travel horror stories with communication/misunderstandings

Inquiry / Need to Knows:

• Use Padlet to document Interviews with stakeholders
• Create Stakeholder Maps
• Complete a 120 second Google search for information
• Write pen pals letters
• Explore tourism websites

Incubation:

• Use the Think-Pair-Share protocol to generate ideas.
• What if?  Have you thought about  . . .? protocol
• Idea Quota protocol​

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• Anti-Problem to sort out ideas
• Brainwriting
• Mind Mapping

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Solution Building:

• Combine individual student ideas to form group ideas
• Rank ideas
• Saturate and Group - 100 ideas
• Gallery Walk to share ideas with other groups for feedback
• NUF and $100 Tests to determine best solution/s.​

Critique and Revision:

• Tell It to a Toddler
• Pluses and Deltas of potential solution ideas
• Ask stakeholders for input

Authentic Audience:

• Members of sister city Queretaro, Mexico)
• Spanish-speaking citizens of Holland
• Travel agents, tourism office employees, and city of Holland officials

Final Presentation:

• Groups will choose the format of their final product, which may be in the form of a video, brochure, sign, song, website, etc .​

Click here for teacher's full plan.

​Reflection and Feedback:

•  Skills for Success rubric
• Audience feedback
• Group members evaluate peers 
• NUF Test results

Click here for the  teacher's Journey through PBL on Padlet.

Meet the Educator:

​Jessica McDonald teaches Spanish 1 and 2 at Macatawa Bay Middle School, West Ottawa Public Schools.  

     "I am passionate about PBL because it allows me to show my students how they can use Spanish with an authentic audience and for an authentic task."