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Discovering French Châteaux: Castles of France Virtual Field Trip Video Project
By Churros and Croissants
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:
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.
Research and Inquiry: Students conduct research on a specific châteaux enhancing their critical thinking and information-gathering abilities.
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.
Creative Expression: Students showcase their creativity by producing engaging travel videos, enhancing their communication and storytelling abilities.
Collaboration and Peer Learning: Students present their videos to the class, encouraging peer learning, active listening, and cross-cultural appreciation.
Competitive Element: The voting aspect adds an element of friendly competition, fueling excitement and motivation in the classroom.
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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