by Petra Willemse | Feb 17, 2020 | Everyone Can Create, PLP 10, PLP 11, PLP 12, PLP 8, PLP 9, Video
When you work and learn in a PLP classroom, a snow day does not disconnect you from your teachers and fellow learners! It just means the learning shifts to a more directly online presentation and the work can be moved truly outside our classroom! So when the North...
by Bryan Hughes | Oct 18, 2019 | Everyone Can Create, Field Study, Photo, PLP 11, Video
One of the fundamental building blocks of PLP is our absolutely drive to take learning beyond the classroom. Often, this is best showcased in a field study. Recently, PLP 11 had the amazing opportunity to go to New Mexico for a whirlwind field study of just 6 days...
by Bryan Hughes | Sep 30, 2019 | Everyone Can Create, PLP 9, Video
One of the most fundamental skills in PLP 9 is that of video. We actually use this as our medium for the whole school year with PLP 9 as part of our overall focus across the grade level: Many visitors to our classrooms ask how we instruct students on the...
by Petra Willemse | Nov 13, 2018 | Everyone Can Create, PLP 9, Video
After the great success we had with our PLP 9’s and their silent ghost town movies, we wanted to build that momentum even further and take on the video creator’s ultimate challenge: a live event. For the purposes of this project, we encouraged students to pick an...
by Bryan Hughes | Oct 30, 2018 | Everyone Can Create, PLP 11, Video
For the past couple of years, we have taken PLP 11 down to Hanford, Washington to the Manhattan Project National Historical Park as part of our Manhattan Project2. The driving question for the project was: how did the development of the atomic bomb affect the lives of...
by Bryan Hughes | Oct 9, 2018 | Everyone Can Create, PLP 10, Video
We have always been known to do exceptional video projects in PLP. However, the final products have taken many revisions and a lot of critique from teachers and peers to get to those stages. Years ago, we realized one of the keys to good films from our students were...
