{"id":14144,"date":"2018-08-13T06:37:41","date_gmt":"2018-08-13T10:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/americantesol.com\/blogger\/?p=14144"},"modified":"2018-07-17T03:13:38","modified_gmt":"2018-07-17T07:13:38","slug":"pblaprilsmith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/americantesol.com\/blogger\/pblaprilsmith\/","title":{"rendered":"Project Based Learning Made Simple by April Smith Features 101 Classroom-Ready Activities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- VideographyWP Plugin Message: Automatic video embedding prevented by plugin options. --><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/ulyssespress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/9781612437965_FC.jpg\" width=\"138\" height=\"208\" \/>If you employ project based learning (PBL) to engage your language learners or you are part of a Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) curriculum then you will enjoy our featured book this month,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ulyssespress.com\/?books=project-based-learning-made-simple\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Project Based Learning Made Simple: 101 Classroom-Ready Activities that Inspires Curiosity, Problem Solving and Self-Guided Discovery for Third, Fourth and Fifth Grade Students<\/a> by\u00a0April Smith. April Smith created this book for busy teachers who want to get their students to learn hands-on with projects, but just don&#8217;t have the time or know where to start. Some fun English projects in the book that enhance reading and writing, include marketing candy bars, modernizing a fairytale, celebrating folktales around the world, and planning a party.<\/p>\n<p>Teachers will also find the following useful:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A ready to use resource of 100 innovative lesson plans<\/li>\n<li>Grouped by skill set to improve Math Literacy, Language Arts, Social Studies and STEM<\/li>\n<li>A great way to increase student engagement, and accountability<\/li>\n<li>Includes the basics of customizing projects to classroom and student needs<\/li>\n<li>Projects range in time commitment from one class period to a few weeks to all year long<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For more ideas about PBL and CLIL, check out our webinars, <a href=\"http:\/\/americantesol.com\/blogger\/amtesol-webinar-whats-the-deal-with-clil-content-language-integrated-learning\/\">What&#8217;s the Deal With CLIL<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"http:\/\/americantesol.com\/blogger\/american-tesol-webinar-designing-class-projects-for-language-learners\/\">Designing Class Projects for Language Learners<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Each week we scour the internet to find incredible books to highlight on our various social networks (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TESOL\">@TESOL<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AmericanTESOL\">@AmericanTESOL<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ESLWebinars\">@ESLWebinars<\/a>). Check out our past favorites <a href=\"http:\/\/americantesol.com\/blogger\/category\/book-of-the-month\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">To learn more about integrating technology to support English language learners, attend our <a href=\"http:\/\/americantesol.com\/tesol-lectures.htm\">free Friday webinars<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you employ project based learning (PBL) to engage your language learners or you are part of a Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) curriculum then you will enjoy our&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2153],"tags":[233,2156,270,2185,344,2307,2276],"class_list":["post-14144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-of-the-month","tag-clil","tag-featured-elt-book","tag-literacy","tag-pbl","tag-project-based-learning","tag-steam","tag-stem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/americantesol.com\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/americantesol.com\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/americantesol.com\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americantesol.com\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americantesol.com\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14144"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/americantesol.com\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14150,"href":"https:\/\/americantesol.com\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14144\/revisions\/14150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/americantesol.com\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americantesol.com\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americantesol.com\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}