The Workshop

This session will show how science, technology, engineering, and math topics can serve as the content and discussion framework for world language classes. Research shows that students learn language best when engaged in hands-on activity. Content-based language teaching simultaneously promotes language acquisition and advances content knowledge. By selecting STEM topics, world language teachers can foster language learning by engaging students in important, real-world projects, while having students utilize their second language knowledge, skills, and abilities to complete the work. Project-based learning integrates all four language skills (listening, reading, speaking, and writing), incorporates collaborative teamwork, and challenges learners to use the target language in different capacities inside and outside the classroom.

Resources

• Slide Deck: Integrating STEM in the World Language Classroom (Lacey 2018)
• Learning Standards for WL and Science
  UNIT PLAN FORMAT
  GOUIN SERIES SCIENCE EXPERIMENTS
• Next Generation Science StandardsExperiments in French (for elementary school)
  More experiments in French (for elementary school)MD WL Elementary STEM
• MD Curriculum Modules (elementary)
• Sustainable Development Goals Knowledge Platform
• SDG Lessons

FOR PURCHASE:
MARACAS’ Las Ciencias (Seewald)
Global Language Project