8th Grade French Projects

Kickstart your French 2 classroom with this comprehensive Back to School Bundle! Perfect for the first weeks of school, this bundle has everything you need to review previous knowledge and build new skills for the year—plus, save 20%!

Included in this Bundle:

• Academic Contract and Student Information Sheet: Essential first day of school activity is designed to set clear expectations, promote accountability, and start relationship building!
• Ice Breaker: Fun ice-breaker activity to help students get to know each other
• Cognates: Build on what students already know! Learn about false cognates, morphology and building blocks of language.
• Discussion Topics: 60 seasonal topics to use as bell-ringers, for early finishers or enrichment.
• Ultimate French I Grammar Review: Presentation highlighting more than a dozen concepts including conjugation, negation, sentence structure and more.
• French Review Boardgame Project: Review Grammar, Vocabulary, and Culture from the previous year through an engaging, student-led project.
• Regions of France Virtual Field Trip: Student-led geography project combines research, creativity, presentation skills, and cultural exploration to deep-dive into the birthplace of the French language.
• All About Me Infographic: Students create visual representations of themselves including adjectives, family, hobbies/activities, likes/dislikes, and school subjects.
• School Vocabulary Activities: Vocabulary lesson plan is packed with fun and interactive activities to help students brush up on school subjects and supplies at the start of the year.
• First Quarter Review Packet: Includes reading, writing, speaking and listening activities that cover greetings, numbers, time, date, and weather.

Designed with busy teachers in mind, this bundle provides a variety of resources to make your back-to-school transition smooth and effective. Each activity is crafted to build confidence in your students while fostering a love for the French language and culture to last for years to come!

Make your French II class a success from day one with this essential Back to School Bundle. Ideal for new and experienced teachers alike, these resources will set the stage for an exciting and productive year of learning.

Engage students in exploring cultural diversity through enlightening interviews and vibrant creative projects focused on food. Foster empathy, curiosity, and global awareness.

This 13-page project-based (PBL) unit features three assignments for students to explore cultural diversity through:

• "Mon projet de patrimoine familiale": Interviewing their own family members and creating a brochure or pamphlet summarizing their family's traditions.

• Included with this project is a lesson plan with suggestions, rubric, success criteria, a letter to parents (in both English and French) as well as the interview (in both English and French).

• "Mon héritage culinaire": A class recipe book activity featuring your students' traditional recipes used in their families and passed down through generations.

• Included with this project is success criteria with explanations.

• Includes simple recipe template sheet.

• "L'exploration des plats culturels": A project that will have students creating a realistic, informative ethnic cuisine menu.

• Included with this project are 6 short stories about kids around the world and their culinary traditions (Japan, China, Africa, India, Mexico and Greece).

• Also included are success criteria and explanations as well as a rubric.

I use this product with my 5th graders, but teaching cultural diversity, acceptance and global awareness are universal. This project-based resource would work for students in grades 5 through 9.

For goodness sakes, don't forget to have fun!

Mme. Kaitlyn.

The French Culture Points Project is a student-centered cultural project that puts students in the driver's seat! This was one of my students' favorite projects to complete because it let them explore their own interests. It was also one of my favorite to grade because each one was different!

Students pick from tasks relevant to them like music, cooking, history, etc. Each tasks has points assigned to it so they must complete enough of these small tasks to total up to the grade they would like to receive (generally 4-5 tasks).

This project worked great for middle school and lower levels of language but could be adapted to upper language levels as well.

Duration varies. I assigned this as a take-home project. Several tasks can be completed in school, but not all. We took a 90 minute block period to present to the class. Some classes where students brought in speakers lasted longer.

Includes rubric to total points gained for project.

Cet ensemble contient tout ce dont vous avez besoin pour enseigner confortablement l'écriture à vos élèves de 5e et 6e années. Ce bundle contient 23 documents et 700 pages (!!) et inclut:

• Toutes mes minis-leçons d'écriture

  • 14 mini-leçons scénarisées/scriptées;
  • 15 tableaux d'ancrage explicites;
  • 8 exemples modélisés;
  • 11 activités imprimables.

• Tous mes produits sur les stratégies de lecture et d'écriture

  • Affiches d'écriture.
  • Affiches de lecture
  • Incitations de lecture
  • Incitations d'écriture

• Tous mes produits sur les conventions (verbes et grammaire)

  • Affiches + Signets POMMES
  • Affiches: La phrase de base
  • Verbes en -er

• TOUS les genres d'écriture de ma boutique 

  • Le genre persuasif (Le texte d'opinion)
  • Le genre narratif (Les petits moments)
  • Le genre poétique (La poésie)
  • Le texte descriptif justificatif (La critique)
  • Le rapport de recherche (Le texte informatif)
  • La bande dessinée

• Des activités à l'oral

  • Dragon's Den
  • Le débat

• Un ensemble d'organisateurs graphiques

• Mon ensemble d'évaluation en littératie (cartable de littératie)

• Mon ensemble de compréhensions de lecture:

  • Biodiversité
  • Sports extrêmes
  • Espace et le système solaire

Ces documents ont un total combiné de presque 100 $. Vous économisez plus de 10 $ en l'achetant dans ce bundle. Suivez les liens ci-haut pour plus de détails et informations spécifiques - et plus d'images de chaque document :-)

Merci TELLEMENT pour votre support continue. Je suis vraiment reconnaissante de vous et je vous apprécie! 

Mme. Kaitlyn

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Looking for a great way to start off the school year? The Exploring French Influence in American Culture project is a great intro to French class at back to school time! Students will discover that French might not be such a foreign language after all. By exploring various influences, they will gain profound insights into how French language, traditions, and people have woven their presence into modern American life.

Students will research:

• French Words in English: Illustrating linguistic fusion.
• American Cities with French Name: Reflecting historical connections.
• French Foods: Showcasing culinary diversity.
• Famous French Americans: Investigating influence on various career fields.
• French Holidays or Customs: Bridging cultural traditions.
• Bilingual Product Labels and Signs: Demonstrating the impact of dual languages

Projects are presented to class in infographic, slide or even good-old posterboard format.

*Includes Graphic Organizer for students with diverse learning abilities and detailed rubric.

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My (very) low-level middle-schoolers love learning about niche objects and concepts in Core French. I use their interests and personalities to create engaging projects that meet the outcomes. I actively use this particular project with grades 4, 5 and 6 but it could easily be used in a grade 7 or even grade 8 classrooms. If you use Pearson's Échos Pros, this works AMAZINGLY alongside "Ah oui, j'aime ça!"

This 30+ page project will prompt your discussions and activities and will provide your students with engaging, highly visual, clear and simple instructions and examples. My products are not babyish -- this is the main reason I started creating products.

You will find:

• A pre-created WheelDecide game on Bento Box food to practice the sentence structures ("Qu'est-ce que tu apporterais dans ta boîte bento?" "Dans ma boîte bento, j'apporterais...")
• A kinesthetic game: "Qu'est-ce que tu as dans ton sac à lunch?"
• 4 visual lunch bag examples for students to practice the sentence structure ("Qu'est-ce que tu as dans ton sac à lunch?" "Dans mon sac à lunch j'ai...")
• Lunch bag vocabulary - En français with images.
• 2 "Messages du jour" - with prompts for mots amis and mots familiers.
• 2 slides for explaining why we like or dislike with sentence starters.
• Criteria for final project with two options (Drawing or Collage using flyers).

My products consistently grow. Anytime I create a new activity, I modify this document so that it is always up-to-date and complete.

Enjoy!

Kaitlyn.

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Unlock the possibilities of using artificial intelligence (AI) in your French classroom! Students will learn how to program ChatGPT to act as a new friend named AndreAI from Belgium. They will embark on a captivating language-learning journey with AndreAI by joining in an immersive conversation about their school, subjects, supplies, teachers, and more.

As students engage in roleplay with their new language partner, they will receive valuable individualized feedback to refine their French speaking skills. Once they have completed at least 10 exchanges and taken time to reflect on the pros and cons of practicing language with AI, they will create a slide presentation, offering them a deeper understanding of 21st-century language learning. Together, let's blend the magic of AI with the beauty of the French language and witness the incredible possibilities unfold!

Topics covered in this project are inquiry-based and can be tailored to your curriculum but may include:

-Greetings/Introductions

-School Subjects

-School Supplies

-Personal Descriptions

-Time/Ordinal Numbers

This project is the perfect culmination to a unit on school vocabulary in Middle School Foundations of French, French I, or French II. It can also be modified for more advanced students.

If AI is restricted on student computers, this can be completed as a class using smartboard projection.

*The use of AI in this teaching project is solely intended for educational purposes and does not replace the guidance and expertise of a qualified human instructor. While AI can provide valuable insights and assistance, it may have limitations in understanding the individual needs of students. It is essential for educators to exercise discernment and adapt AI tools responsibly in the learning process. Students and teachers are encouraged to collaborate and prioritize human interaction for a well-rounded and personalized educational experience.

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Ce document de 67 pages est disponible en formats PowerPoint et PDF et comprend tout ce dont vous pourriez avoir besoin pour motiver et engager vos élèves dans le débat et la persuasion.

Il est très engageant et idéal pour les groupes difficiles à motiver. Inclus dans cette ressource est :

39 diapositives de contenu:

• des invites de discussion,
• des explications et des exemples de sujets controversés,
• des comparaisons détaillées de pour et de contre,
• des rondes d'entraînement drôles comme brise-glace,
• différentes composantes d'un débat,
• des exemples détaillés et des explications pour faire une argumentation efficace,
• des preuves factuelles et anecdotiques (avec des exemples et des explications),
• des activités sur des sources crédibles et fiables,
• un jeu qui amène les élèves à reconnaître les faits et opinions,
• un tour de pratique où les élèves peuvent mettre en pratique ce qu'ils ont appris en préparation du grand débat.

25 feuilles d'imprimables:

• 5 tâches d'écriture argumentative,

• 4 articles modélisés au langage persuasif,

• "Transport en commun? Non merci!"

• "Vous ne prenez pas le bus? Vous faites partie du problème!"

• "Le gaspillage alimentaire"

• "L'arbre de Noël - est-ce le bon achat pour moi?"

• 4 pages d'activités en lien avec ceux-ci.

• "Comment attirer l'attention de quelqu'un?"

• Ma liste de "pour" et "contre"

• "Mes opinions de niveau supérieur"

• "Transitionner entre les idées"

• "Lier les idées"

• "Mots de liaison"

• "Utiliser un langage opiniâtre"

• "Un texte d'opinion de pratique"

• "Mon affirmation"

• "J'évalue mes preuves"

• "Planification de débat"

• "Planification de débat" (une autre version)

The Loire Valley is famous for beautiful castles like Chambord and Chenonceau, but France is loaded with hundreds of other gorgeous historic castles! With this project, your students will research one of 25 famous French châteaux, create captivating travel videos, present their videos to the class, and vote to select the top 3 castles. This unique student-led virtual field trip combines research, creativity, presentation skills, and cultural understanding, offering an interactive and fun learning experience. It can be tied into units on French culture, history, geography, and architecture. Not only will you have busy students for a week while they develop individualized projects, but the grading is made easy too!
Depending on language level, projects can be completed in French or English. Get ready to ignite a passion for French language and culture in your classroom one country at a time!

Key Features of the Project:

1. Real-Life Application: This project taps into the real-life context of travel, allowing students to explore 25 châteaux across France and practice language skills in a meaningful way.

2. Research and Inquiry: Students conduct research on a specific châteaux enhancing their critical thinking and information-gathering abilities.

3. Cultural Awareness: The project fosters cultural understanding as students delve into the significance of each castle within the rich context of French culture and history.

4. Creative Expression: Students showcase their creativity by producing engaging travel videos, enhancing their communication and storytelling abilities.

5. Collaboration and Peer Learning: Students present their videos to the class, encouraging peer learning, active listening, and cross-cultural appreciation.

6. Competitive Element: The voting aspect adds an element of friendly competition, fueling excitement and motivation in the classroom.

7. Language Proficiency (Optional depending on level): Through script creation, video production, and oral presentations, students sharpen their language skills in writing, speaking, and listening.

Project Includes detailed notes to teacher with implementation schedule, list of 25 châteaux, project instruction sheet for students, storyboard templates, guided presentation notes with voting sheets for presentations and grading rubric.

Project works well for any level of upper school French (Foundations of French, French Exploratory, Middle School French, French 1, 2, 3, 4, and can even be modified for AP French),

Let's embark on this enriching virtual field trip around the world together!

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Middle schoolers dive into reading, writing, and speaking, culminating in the exciting challenge of designing their very own Food Truck. Watch language skills soar in this engaging, hands-on experience!

This MEGA (in size and popularity!) 76-page document contains everything you could possibly need to comfortably, confidently (and with as little effort as humanely possible) lead a long-term unit with your low-vocabulary middle-schoolers needing a high interest BOOST.

Tired of finding documents that are too advanced for your Core French/FSL kids or babyish and full of cartoon-y, childish clipart? This frustration is what gave me an epiphany 3 short years ago. Are you, too, losing the buy-in before you even JUMP in? Created with middle school in mind, this unit of activities, games, vocabulary and content, communication prompts, lesson plans, worksheets and templates will get your kids saying "Je vais prendre..." "Quelle est ta nourriture préférée?" and "Dans mon camion-resto, je servirai..." in two shakes of a lamb's tail!

My Core French products are high engagement, low-level. This 76-page document has everything you need to effectively engage your students to build the vocabulary needed to become confident enough to create something that will WOW you!

Students are provided with roughly 14 days of fun and engaging activities:

• 28 Slides with animated, engaging content and "messages."

• 1 x Kahoot link is included

• 3 x "Wheel Decide" links are included

• 42 page teaching document with:

• Detailed lesson plans and suggested activities,

• Worksheets,

• Vocabulary cards + games,

• Templates for food truck creation,

• Rubrics (French and English included),

• Activities to promote discussion with a partner,

• Money math activities,

• Mock menus,

• Skits,

• Artistic activities...

• ... and much more!

What sorts of themes/activities are included?

• Money (cost) and numbers,
• Ordering, recommending and asking questions,
• Creating menu items and designing a menu,
• Creating a logo and a company name,
• Curb appeal,
• Stating preferences,
• Designing a food truck,
• Making choices about details,
• Determining meal categories,
• Numerous oral activities!

Your students will create their very own Food Truck - with Core-French friendly materials to help you along the way.

If you're on the hunt for more game-based learning and project-based learning for your hard-to-reach, hard-to-impress middle-schoolers, have no fear! I've got a bundle with all of it right here.

Here are some others for you to check out!

⭐️ Mon café Starbucks / My Starbucks Café!

⭐️ Mon pizza party! / My Pizza Party!

⭐️Mon animal perdu! / My Lost Pet

⭐️ Je vous présente... / Presenting...

⭐️ Prof du jour / Teacher of the Day

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For goodness sakes, don't forget to have fun!

- Mme. Kaitlyn.

Celebrate the Global Influence of Francophones with this Dynamic French Video Project!

From artists to activists, this engaging project invites your students to explore the remarkable contributions of Francophones from around the world. With a choice of 200 influential historical figures, students will create captivating video presentations, showcase their work in class, and participate in a voting process to select the top 3 most influential individuals.

This comprehensive project blends research, creativity, presentation skills, and cultural understanding all while providing an interactive and enjoyable learning experience. Your students will be fully engaged, working on individualized projects throughout the week.

Project can be completed in French or English depending on your students' language level. Spark a passion for discovering French language and Francophone culture, one influential figure at a time!

Francophone Categories Include :

• Writers & Philosophers (25)
• Artists (25)
• Musicians (25)
• Politicians & Explorers (25)
• Scientists & Inventors (25)
• Fashion Designers (25)
• Athletes (25)
• Actors & Cinema Icons (25)

File Includes:

• Detailed teacher notes with an implementation schedule
• List of 200 Francophones to assign (plus additional blank template)
• Project instruction sheet for students
• Visual Storyboard templates
• Guided presentation notes with voting sheets to keep students engaged
• Grading rubric
• Certificate template for the "Most Influential Francophone" to be awarded at conclusion of project!

This project is ideal for any level of upper school French, including Foundations of French, French Exploratory, Middle School French, French 1, 2, 3, 4, and can even be adapted for AP French.

Embark on this enriching journey through Francophone culture today!

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If you teach Core French (FSL) to grades 4-8 and struggle to engage, interest and get them excited about French, then this is the bundle for you. It contains every single Core French product from my store.

My students have been known as low-level and require high levels of engagement. My products match that and are ready to be used, require no prep and are quick and easy to project and GO.

Check out the preview to see what you'll get from this mega bundle which will cover you for the year!

This is one of my students' favorite projects and a great way to wrap up a unit on clothing. In this project, students will embark on a virtual shopping adventure to purchase clothing items for a family in need. With $600 American dollars collected for a family affected by a recent house fire, students will use their language skills to navigate an authentic French online store to select clothing items for a family of four. My fashionistas get particularly into this one!

Students will:

• Translate their American dollars into Euros

• Browse through clothing categories

• Convert to European sizes

• Add items to their virtual shopping cart

• Stay within a given budget

• Take notes on new French vocabulary encountered during their shopping experience.

• Complete a "Liste de Cadeaux" to document their purchases

• Prepare a brief oral presentation in French to share with the class.

This project not only reinforces essential language skills such as vocabulary acquisition and currency conversion but also promotes empathy, cultural awareness, and community engagement. With clear instructions, interactive online shopping, and engaging presentation components, Allons Faire du Shopping! is sure to be a hit with your students too!
Bring real-world relevance and excitement to your French classroom -
Allons Faire du Shopping!

Do your students need to brush up on their clothing vocabulary before shopping? Check out French Clothing/Les Vêtements Vocabulary Activities/Practice/Emergency Sub Lesson!

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Cette unité d'apprentissage par projet est centrée autour de "Dragon's Den" et suit le format général de ce type d'émission (Shark Tank, Dans l'oeil du dragon, etc.).

Les étudiants travaillent en binôme ou en autonomie pour proposer une invention de leur choix et créer un projet écrit et un pitch devant le jury (les dragons).

Cela intègre de nombreuses stratégies d'écriture et d'expression orale; à savoir, la persuasion, utiliser les émotions pour influencer un public, choisir notre public et livrer en pensant à notre public, etc.

Cette ressource commence par 10 diapositives qui expliquent le déroulement du projet et est ensuite suivie par une multitude d'activités, de textes modèles et de rubriques :

• « Qu'est-ce qui m'intéresse? » (Une activité de remue-méninges)
• « Améliorer une expérience » (Une stratégie pour trouver une idée)
• « Des possibilités intéressantes » (Une stratégie pour trouver une idée)
• « Mon prototype : ma vision » (une activité visuelle sur le dessin et la description de l'idée)
• « Montre et raconte » (Une activité sur l'utilisation des cinq sens)
• « Le pour et le contre de notre idée » (Une activité pour savoir si l'idée est bonne)
• « Quelle est notre GRANDE idée ? » (Une activité sur la recherche du problème et de la solution)
• « Les avantages de mon produit » (Une activité sur l'utilisation de la persuasion pour vendre)
• « Qui est votre public ? » (Une activité sur la découverte de votre démographie)
• « Publicité et médias sociaux » (Une activité sur le marketing visuel sur les médias sociaux)
• « Mon panneau d'affichage » (Une activité sur le marketing de type panneau d'affichage)
• « Mon jingle publicitaire » (Une activité simple sur la création d'un jingle qui correspond à la marque)
• « Tout est dans l'emplacement » (Une activité sur la conception de la manière dont le produit est présenté)
• « Un emballage stylisé » (Une activité sur la conception de l'emballage du produit)
• « Mon plan d'affaires » (Une activité sur l'organisation des informations pour le pitch)
• « Que diriez-vous?! » (Une activité pour aider les élèves à planifier leurs réponses aux questions difficiles dans la tanière !)
• « J'anticipe les questions potentielles » (Une activité pour anticiper les questions des Dragons)
• « Mon pitch - du début à la fin » (Un modèle de 2 pages pour planifier un pitch)
• « Les serres Aventures Tropicales » (Un pitch fictif d'une page avec 1 page de questions)
• « What's Good ? » (Un pitch fictif d'une page avec 1 page de questions)
• « Évaluation du pitch » (Rubrique d'évaluation)
• « Évaluation du travail de groupe » (Rubrique d'évaluation)
• « Évaluation par les pairs » (Pour faciliter la prise de notes lors des pitchs de leurs pairs).

The French-speaking world is so much larger than just France! With this project, your students will research one of 29 francophone countries, create captivating travel videos, present their videos to the class, and vote to select the top 3 tourist destinations. This unique project combines research, creativity, presentation skills, and cultural understanding, offering an interactive and fun learning experience for your students. It's a perfect back to school activity to introduce students to the French-speaking world. Not only will you have busy students for a week while they develop individualized projects, but the grading is made easy too!
Depending on language level, projects can be completed in French or English. Get ready to ignite a passion for French language and culture in your classroom one country at a time!

Key Features of the Project:

1. Real-Life Application: This project taps into the real-life context of travel, allowing students to explore 29 francophone countries and practice language skills in a meaningful way.

2. Research and Inquiry: Students conduct research on a specific country enhancing their critical thinking and information-gathering abilities.

3. Cultural Awareness: The project fosters cultural understanding as students delve into the significance of each country within the rich context of French culture and history.

4. Creative Expression: Students showcase their creativity by producing engaging travel videos, enhancing their communication and storytelling abilities.

5. Collaboration and Peer Learning: Students present their videos to the class, encouraging peer learning, active listening, and cross-cultural appreciation.

6. Competitive Element: The voting aspect adds an element of friendly competition, fueling excitement and motivation in the classroom.

7. Language Proficiency (Optional depending on level): Through script creation, video production, and oral presentations, students sharpen their language skills in writing, speaking, and listening.

Project Includes detailed notes to teacher with implementation schedule, list of 29 countries to assign, project instruction sheet for students, storyboard templates, guided presentation notes with voting sheets for presentations and grading rubric.

Project works well for any level of upper school French (Foundations of French, French Exploratory, Middle School French, French 1, 2, 3, 4, and can even be modified for AP French),

Let's embark on this enriching virtual field trip around the world together!

This resource is in ENGLISH! If you're looking for this document in FRENCH, please click here!

This 38-page resource has everything you need to lead a Dragon's Den or Shark Tank in your middle school classroom!

This resource begins with 10 slides that explain the project rundown and is then followed by oodles of activities, mentor texts and rubrics:

• "What Interests Me?" (A brainstorming activity)
• "Improving an Experience" (A strategy to find an idea)
• "My Prototype: My Vision" (A visual activity on drawing and describing the "idea")
• "Show & Tell" (An activity on using the five senses)
• "The Pros and Cons of our Idea" (An activity on knowing if the idea is a good one)
• "What's the BIG Idea?" (An activity on finding the problem and solution)
• "The Advantages of my Product" (An activity on using persuasion to sell)
• "Who's your Audience?" (An activity on discovering your demographic)
• "Advertising and Social Media" (An activity on visual marketing on social media)
• "My Billboard" (An activity on billboard-style marketing)
• "My Company Jingle" (A simple activity on building a jingle that fits the brand)
• "It's All in the Display!" (An activity on designing the way the product is displayed)
• "The Whole Package" (An activity on designing the packaging for the product)
• "My Business Plan" (An activity on organizing information for the pitch)
• "What Would you Say?!" (An activity to help students plan their answers to tough questions in the den!)
• "Anticipating Potential Questions" (An activity to anticipate Dragon questions)
• "My Pitch - From Beginning to End" (A 2-page template to plan out a pitch)
• "Tropical Adventures Greenhouses" (A fictional 1-page pitch with 1 page of questions)
• "What's Good?" (A fictional 1-page pitch with 1 page of questions)
• "Pitch Evaluation" (Rubric for assessment)
• "Group Work Evaluation" (Rubric for assessment)
• "Peer Evaluation - Pitch Notes" (To facilitate note-taking during pitches from their peers).

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There is so much more to France than Paris! It's time to explore all the regions of France with your students. Your students will research one of 13 administrative regions of France and it's 5 overseas departments, create captivating travel videos, present their videos to the class, and vote to select the top 3 tourist destinations. This unique project combines research, creativity, presentation skills, and cultural understanding, offering an interactive and fun learning experience for your students. And for you? You will have busy students for a week, individualized projects, and easy grading!

Depending on language level, projects can be completed in French or English. Get ready to ignite a passion for French language and culture in your classroom one region at a time!

Key Features of the Project:

1. Real-Life Application: This project taps into the real-life context of travel, allowing students to explore France's varied regions and practice language skills in a meaningful way.
2. Research and Inquiry: Students conduct research on a specific region, enhancing their critical thinking and information-gathering abilities.
3. Cultural Awareness: The project fosters cultural understanding as students delve into the significance of each region within the rich context of French culture and history.
4. Creative Expression: Students showcase their creativity by producing engaging travel videos, enhancing their communication and storytelling abilities.
5. Collaboration and Peer Learning: Students present their videos to the class, encouraging peer learning, active listening, and cross-cultural appreciation.
6. Competitive Element: The voting aspect adds an element of friendly competition, fueling excitement and motivation in the classroom.
7. Language Proficiency (Optional depending on level): Through script creation, video production, and oral presentations, students sharpen their language skills in writing, speaking, and listening.

Project Includes detailed notes to teacher with implementation schedule, list of regions, project instruction sheet for students, storyboard templates, guided presentation notes with voting sheets for presentations and grading rubric.

Project works well for any level of upper school French (Foundations of French, French Exploratory, Middle School French, French 1, 2, 3, 4, and can even be modified for AP French),

Let's embark on this enriching virtual field trip through France together!

Middle schoolers dive into reading, writing, and speaking, culminating in the exciting challenge of designing their own hair style, poster and scrapbook. Watch language skills soar in this engaging, hands-on experience!

This MEGA 60-page document contains everything you could possibly need to comfortably, confidently (and with as little effort as humanely possible) lead a long-term unit with your low-vocabulary middle-schoolers needing a high interest BOOST.

Tired of finding documents that are too advanced for your Core French/FSL kids or babyish and full of cartoon-y, childish clipart? This frustration is what gave me an epiphany 3 short years ago and what gave life to my store! Are you, too, losing the buy-in before you even JUMP in? Created with middle school in mind, this unit of activities, games, vocabulary and content, communication prompts, lesson plans, worksheets and templates will get your kids saying "Je me fais couper les cheveux tous les six semaines!" "Mes cheveux sont bouclés et châtains" and "À quelle fréquence laves-tu les cheveux?" in two shakes of a lamb's tail!

My Core French products are high engagement, low-level. This 60-page document has everything you need to effectively engage your students to build the vocabulary needed to become confident enough to create something that will WOW you!

In this document, you'll find:

• A 24-page Slide Deck with:

• Messages du jour

• Games (Qui suis-je?, 4 Coins, etc.)

• Recaps of vocabulary they should know (but likely forgot, who are we kidding?)

• Oodles of oral prompts, reading and writing activities.

• A 40-page teaching guide & worksheet document

• Your lesson plans for 5 formal days before projects!

• "Mes cheveux sont..." An interactive translation dictionary activity on textures, styles, colors, and cuts.

• "Mes cheveux maintenant..." A creative, writing activity.

• Printable wall numbers for 4 Corners (4 Coins)

• "Que préfères-tu?" An oral partner activity on asking and stating preferences about hair.

• "À quelle fréquence coupes-tu les cheveux?" An oral surveying activity which requires asking and answering questions and filling out a table.

• "Est-ce que tes cheveux sont..." An oral surveying activity which requires asking and answering questions and filling out a table.

• "Quel est mon type de cheveux?" A writing activity on descriptive language and using learned vocabulary to write full sentences.

• "Comment sont tes cheveux?" A printable vocabulary list for students.

• "Qui suis-je?" (Version 1) Teacher copy with prompts + additional clues.

• "Qui suis-je?" (Version 2) Teacher copy with prompts + additional clues.

• Word search with answer key.

• Printable matching game on beauty services (Vocabulary + Images)

• Printable matching game on salon accessories (Vocabulary + Images)

• Your gradebook/roster with all outcomes explored.

• Final projects section

• "Coiffures à travers le temps" (a scrapbooking project featuring baby pictures and hair cuts through time, with a focus on descriptive language and preferences)

• "Ma coupe de cheveux préférée" (an additional activity that goes with the scrapbooking project.

• "Une coiffe à la mode" (a group project on inventing a hot new hair trend and creating a poster for it!) + Rubric

• 2 scripts on asking for services in a hair salon.

• 2 fake "services menus" for hair salons.

If you're on the hunt for more game-based learning and project-based learning for your hard-to-reach, hard-to-impress middle-schoolers, have no fear! I've got a bundle with all of it right here.

Here are some others for you to check out!

⭐️ Mon café Starbucks / My Starbucks Café!

⭐️ Mon pizza party! / My Pizza Party!

⭐️ Mon animal perdu! / My Lost Pet

⭐️ Je vous présente... / Presenting...

⭐️ Prof du jour / Teacher of the Day

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Looking for a collaborative project this Winter that focuses on cultural traditions? Most of your students are probably already pretty familiar with Christmas, Hanukkah, New Years, and Valentine's Day. But have they ever heard of La Chandeleur, La Fête des Rois, Jour des Aieux, Carnaval, or dozens of other holidays celebrated throughout the Francophone world from December through February?

This flexible group project is a great way to expose your students to a wide variety of cultural traditions and practices in a short amount of time with minimal effort on your part!

Students will work in groups of 2-4 to research Winter holidays in a given francophone country. Each member will focus on one holiday in their country, conduct research, and create a group slide presentation to teach the rest of the class what they have learned. Optional graphic organizers are perfect for diverse learners and guided notes for students to use during presentations keep everyone engaged and learning!

Includes:

-Notes to teacher with pacing suggestions

-Detailed Project Directions and Easy grading rubric

-29 Francophone Country cards

-Graphic Organizer

-Presentation Notes

-Materials available in English and French to make this work for all levels!

Perfect for giving yourself a break before Winter Break by focusing on teamwork and letting students teach each other! This is also a great project for those long, slow winter days that tend to drag in January and February.

Do your students work better alone? There is an Individual Version of this project! Are you looking for both options? These projects are also sold together as the Francophone Country Winter Holiday Project Bundle.

Need other seasonal ideas?

Explore my comprehensive French Noël/Christmas Vocabulary Activities/Practice/Enrichment/Emergency Sub for more vocab fun! With 10 pages of engaging written practice (featuring word searches, short answers, jumbles, and more) there is something for everyone! These activities not only utilize the same core vocabulary here but also introduce 8 additional seasonal words!

Or let them play a little with Noël Vocabulary Dominoes, Noël Vocabulary Cut & Paste Bingo, or Noël Vocabulary Dice.

Looking for something a little more secular? Try my Winter Vocabulary and Emergency Sub Plan. This one is good all season long!

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Plongez vos élèves dans l'exploration fascinante des légendes du monde entier avec ce projet de recherche interactif ! Ce produit pédagogique offre aux étudiants l'opportunité d'étudier des légendes provenant de cultures variées, allant des histoires locales du Québec et des cultures autochtones, jusqu'aux récits d'Afrique, d'Écosse, de Porto Rico, de Nouvelle-Zélande, d'Hawaï, de Russie, et bien plus encore. Les élèves découvriront comment les traditions orales ont traversé le temps et comment elles reflètent les valeurs et les croyances des différentes cultures.

Dans ce document, vous trouverez tout le nécessaire pour démarrer ce projet :

• Explications claires : Des instructions détaillées pour guider les enseignants et les élèves à travers chaque étape du projet.
• Critères de réussite : Des indicateurs précis pour aider les élèves à comprendre les attentes de leur recherche et présentation.
• Rubriques d'évaluation : Des outils d'évaluation pour les présentations orales et les travaux écrits, facilitant la correction.
• Clés de réponses : Un guide complet pour corriger les graphiques, les infographies et les présentations des élèves.
• Organisateurs graphiques : Des modèles pratiques pour aider les élèves à structurer leurs recherches et à synthétiser les informations.
• Auto-évaluations : Des outils pour que les élèves puissent réfléchir sur leur propre travail et leurs compétences.

Les enseignants auront également le choix entre deux versions pour que les élèves sélectionnent leur légende :

1. Tirage au sort : Imprimez et découpez les différentes légendes pour les placer dans un chapeau ou un bocal, permettant un choix aléatoire.
2. Activité de carousel : Utilisez les versions résumées des textes pour une activité de type caroussel, où les élèves pourront explorer les 40 légendes et choisir celle qui les inspire le plus.