40 SRA FLEX LITERACY ™ IMPLEMENTATION GUIDE
The Project Experience
COLLABORATIVE LEARNING
Overview
The Project Experience engages students in real-world exploration, analysis, and problem
solving while developing 21st century skills. Throughout each three-week writing-centered
project, students work independently, as a whole class, and in small-group project teams.
They think critically, communicate ideas, and collaborate with their peers.
Each project focuses on opinion, informative, or narrative writing and includes multiple
opportunities for individual and team writing. The project is built around a set of Essential
Questions. Online research figures prominently; students learn how to evaluate, use, and cite
information from websites and print materials. Project teams collaborate to develop written
and oral presentations of research findings, each with a technology component.
Elementary System Projects
Project titles are listed below noting content connection, writing mode, and technology focus
used to support the presentation. Projects can be chosen in any order.
Project Title Content Connection Writing Mode Technology Focus
Animals in the Classroom Science Opinion Slide Presentation
Voting Day Social Studies Opinion Spreadsheet
Plan a Playground Science Opinion Slide Presentation
Helping Hand Social Studies Opinion Spreadsheet
Down the Drain Science Opinion Slide Presentation
Good Eating Science Opinion Podcast
Formula for Fitness Science Informative Blog
Use It Again Social Studies Informative Podcast
Sky Book Science Informative Wiki
What’s the Weather? Science Informative Vodcast
Our Town Social Studies Informative Website
Stay Healthy Science Informative Vodcast
I Am a Rock Science Informative eBook
Eye of the Beholder Science Informative eBook
Inventions Science Narrative Vodcast
Talk It Out Social Studies Narrative Wiki
Service Dogs Social Studies Narrative eBook
Exploration Journal Social Studies Narrative Blog
Location, Location, Location Social Studies Narrative Vodcast
Families on the Move Social Studies Narrative Blog
Moving to Mars Science Informative Slideshow
It’s a Mystery Science Opinion Website
New at School Social Studies Informative Desktop Publishing
Capstone Student Choice Student Choice Student Choice