Project school achievements an inspiration

Title of project

Objectives

1. To know the School Children Achievements during the last 5 years.
2. To make the children inspired and feel proud of their school.

What prior skills are assumed

1. Collecting data
2. Entering data in spreadsheets
3. Typing in text document
4. Introduction to using an audio recorder/ camera (can also be a mobile)

Resources needed

Hardware, software

1. Camera, Recorder, Mobile phone (number of devices based on number of students)
2. Computers for data entry
3. Paper, pencil, etc for data collection
4. Spreadsheet, Text editing software

Project output

Activities

1. Interviewing
2. Data collection
3. Data entry and analysis
4. Presentation
   1. Pictures and graphs
   2. Audio and Video Presentations

Digital portfolio

Level 1

1. Tabulated and analysed data
2. Text summary of interviews and analysis

Level 2

1. Capturing photographs of the students
2. Text summary of interviews and analysis with photographs
3. Demonstrate the wall poster of the school achievements

Level 3

1. Video clips of interviews
2. Concept maps exploring achievements in various areas.

Implementation notes

Notes for the teacher

School inspires many students. The students need to get inspiration for getting better achievements in various areas like academic and competitions in sports, drawing, elocution etc. It will be more effective if the inspiration comes from their neighbourhood i.e. the passed out students of the school. It will be very easy to collect the data from the passed out students for the last 5 years and from the school records. This project contains 3 levels.

Level 1 - Collecting the data, organizing, analysing and presenting in the form Text document by using spreadsheets and graphs
Level 2 - Capturing the Photographs of the passed out students and Connecting them to the previous textual presentation. ( prepare a wall poster)
Level 3 - Recording Audio and Video clippings of the students about their experiences. ( prepare a Digital Advertisement)

When during the school year will it be done

1. Level 1-After completion of data processing module
2. Level 2-After completion of graphics module
3. Level 3-End of year

Duration and modality of the project

Level 1

1. Data collection - through homework based questionnaire
2. Data entry - 1 week
3. Data analysis - 1 week

Level 2

1. Data collection - through interviews
2. Data entry - 1 week
3. Data analysis - 1 week

Level 3

1. Data collection - through interviews
2. Data entry - 1 week
3. Data analysis - 1 week

Subject anchor

This can be anchored by any subject teacher.