5th grade Courtyard Project

This video starts with a teacher planning meeting where they are starting to design a project for the 5th grade to undertake. It is interesting to see all of the ideas come out and how the teacher collaborate. This discussion highlights how the skills they are trying to engender are so much more forefronted than the content. Content is there but it is really about doing. The video then shows the kids attach the project of the courtyard. They are engaged, working, thinking, learning, and having fun in a real life project that is meaning and real.