Project-Based Learning Resources

Project-based learning refers to students designing, planning, and carrying out an extended project that produces a publicly-exhibited output such as a product, publication, or presentation.

Projects could last anything from a week to a whole term, but should grant students independence to create an authentic final product, requiring them to explore a subject or a combination of subjects in a deep sense throughout the production. Projects are designed to build knowledge and develop skills, to incorporate language learning and inter-cultural understanding and to connect learning to the real-world.

Come Dine with Me was inspired by the long-running television show Come Dine with Me, in which a group of people plan and hold dinner parties. Resources include a Come Dine With Me Project Plan and an exemplar scheme of work (as well as an extended version).

Dalí and Surrealism explores how we can we use the works of Salvador Dalí and surrealism to inspire language learning. This arts-based project uses histories and concepts of surrealism to develop students’ vocabulary, grammar, visual literacy and knowledge of art history.

Going Places is inspired by travel writing and what makes a particular country interesting and different: what makes it tick? How do people spend their free time? What makes it different from the UK?

The Multilingual Digital Storytelling project uses film-making / animation to encourage students to investigate an aspect of culture, identity, lifestyle and perceptions of that culture, in their target language.

The Block is a creative project giving students, in their language groups, the opportunity to use language they have learned to create a picture of life in a fictional block of flats in their target country. Explore the Apartment Block SoW and The Block Pupil Project.

Using the song I Am the Music Man as a template, students choose their own instruments and work in groups to plan, perform, and present a version of the song in their chosen language.

Explore a range of regional and national competitions and projects developed by Routes into Languages, such as RIL East Sing to the Future: Language Beatz Competition and Language on Film Competition, which can be used to support aspects of PBL and also to reward students' involvement in Language Futures.

The Playing with Language project is an arts-based project where students draw on their visual literacy skills to learn about different word categories and develop techniques to learn spellings, gender, and plural forms.

Explore our pupil-led projects including The Block, Wish You Were Here, The Voice and Lights, Camera, Action.