Finished products

You can view our finished products on our PBL Wiki!!

You will need to get the user name and password from your teacher! (Ms. Torres, Ms. Burgess, or Ms. Imonode)

Class 2/3 - 236 Police Station

Class 2-202 Our Trip to the Animal Hospital

Class 204 - At the Park

Class 2/3 - 236 wrote some poems

Create a Graphic Organizer

Each student (or pair of students) should select a different place in the neighborhood as a focus topic. Over the next few weeks you will have students explore their assigned place. For example:

• Have them read books about that place (fiction and nonfiction)
• Who are the people that work there?
• What are the things you can find there?
• Why is the place important to our community?

Have them create a graphic organizer like the one below. (A full sized version of this is in your project plan). This will help them when they are ready to begin building their PowerPoint.

You might also want to take a walking tour around the neighborhood. Plan to visit the places your students have picked for their projects. You can bring a digital camera and take pictures for the project. You can have students "interview" the people who work there.

An Acrostic Poem

Here is a sample of an Acrostic Poem:


Students can write their own acrostic poem. The primary word can be:

• A place in the neighborhood (library, school, etc.)
• The name of their neighborhood (Harlem, New York, etc.)
• Their own name
• Another word related to the project

Students can write a single word, a phrase, or a sentence for each line of the poem. Each line starts with one letter from the primary word.

Students can finish their poems by next session. They can draw pictures or you can take pictures with a camera. The poems will be the first page of our PowerPoint presentation.