38 Projects for the German Classroom (with rubrics!)

Projects are a great way to add variety and “spice” to your world language classes, and your students will love to get away from the textbook! These 38 creative projects supplement what your beginning to advanced students are learning with opportunities for collaboration and authentic use of the language. If you want materials that you can photocopy and use in your classes tomorrow, welcome to this book of projects and evaluation rubrics!

The activities in this book provide a way to differentiate your instruction while creating lasting memories for your students. Some projects are geared for individual students while others are organized for partners or small groups. All projects are easy to adapt or modify and come with teaching suggestions from an actual high school teacher who taught for 33 years. Each project comes with a fully developed evaluation rubric. These assessment rubrics clearly define for the student and teacher what is “exemplary,” “proficient,” and what is still “developing.” Results from a rubric can also help to guide student review and reassessment.

This best-selling book was marketed in the Teacher’s Discovery catalog for over 25 years and has sold thousands of copies! Author Wade Petersen has just updated and added new projects to the fourth edition of this amazing resource. Petersen is a former Iowa world language Teacher of the Year and has published over 40 products for French, Spanish, and German teachers. These products were originally published by Teacher’s Discovery and currently are available online through the TeachersPayTeachers website.

Some of the projects include: a birthday skit, a café skit, warm-up groups, student biography composition and speech, a family photo, a family video, a school class schedule, online shopping activity, an extreme makeover, a flea market bargaining skit, planning a tourist stay, a bilingual tourist guide, a travel agency project, a fashion show, a fashion blog, a reflexive verb ”angry” letter, Jeopardy, a school newscast, a school newspaper, a dating service video, an emergency phone call, trial of the accused, a class learning carnival, solving a mystery project, a psychic connection to the future, a nightmare date with negative expressions, a fairy tale, a creative history project, a board game project, an art project, a final movie project, a portfolio project, and others!