Contextual Learning Portal
Connect with others who are creating contextual learning experiences in classrooms and out-of-school settings. Browse projects and resources and submit your own. Be inspired by others; get insights into ways of planning and organizing projects; find resources; and share your results!
         
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What is Contextual Learning? Contextual learning projects engage students in academic work applied to a context related to their lives, communities, workplaces or the wider world. Projects may range in length from a single class period to a semester-long exploration. Projects may take place in after-school or summer programs or in work-based learning programs as well as in a regular classroom. What are the Projects About? A Tag Cloud adaptive-technology animals Anti-bullying architecture arts biography biology books build-it career-pathways careers carpenty children civic-literacy communicating community community-garden community-needs composting conflict-resolution construction-design cooking cooking-math CSL cultural-exchange culture dance disabilities economics ecosystems endangered-species engineering English-language entrepreneurship environment fitness food-security forensics friendship game-boards gardening genetics geometry Government Grade-Wide greenhouse green-in-middle health healthcare high-school-transition hip hop & writing history homework honey-bees horticulture hunger interdiciplinary intergenerational international-pen-pals internet-safety invasive-species investment kitchen-science life-skills/vocational literacy marine math media mentoring museum nature-trail nutrition peace/tolerance peer-education poetry poverty professional-development public-service-announcement reading reading-strategies recycling safety salt-marsh science -Select- self service service-learning sewing Spanish-language special-needs statistics surveys sustainability tax-preparation teaching universal-design vegan veterans web-design wetlands woodworking world-issues writing Purpose of the Contextual Learning Portal The intent of this web resource is to provide a place for the sharing of curriculum and instruction techniques in a virtual professional learning community. It seeks innovative, contextual based solutions to gaps in student learning. Reference in this web site to any specific products, processes, or services, or the use of any trade, firm or corporation name is for the information and convenience of the public, and does not constitute endorsement or recommendation by the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. |