{"id":1179,"date":"2015-03-12T14:33:53","date_gmt":"2015-03-12T18:33:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/espace.bsu.edu\/bestpractices\/?p=1179"},"modified":"2015-03-12T14:33:53","modified_gmt":"2015-03-12T18:33:53","slug":"directions-in-disney-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/espace.bsu.edu\/bestpractices\/directions-in-disney-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Directions in Disney World"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Creating Disney World Directions in Spanish Helps Students Learn<\/h3>\n<p>Second\u00a0year Spanish students have a unit on giving formal commands.\u00a0 Giving directions to a stranger at Disney World makes the exercise more realistic, so I collected maps in Spanish at Magic Kingdom, Epcot Center, Animal Kingdom &amp; Hollywood Studios.\u00a0 I created 4 stations, one for each park, and placed their maps at each station.\u00a0 Then I created 3 versions of worksheets listing a pair of attractions at each park.\u00a0 Students had to write directions they would give a stranger who asked them how to get from the first attraction to the last one.\u00a0 Students were given a &#8220;ticket&#8221; for one of the parks as they entered the classroom which designated the &#8220;park&#8221; they would &#8220;visit&#8221; first.\u00a0 This created a random grouping of students.\u00a0 Then I distributed all 3 different forms of the worksheets at each table.\u00a0 This gave the students in each group separate activities to accomplish. Each student could move at his\/her own pace and progress around the stations in a clock-wise direction.\u00a0 They could\u00a0also help each other although they didn&#8217;t all have the same &#8220;mission.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>Challenges or Obstacles:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Students tend to want to copy each other&#8217;s papers, so I made the different versions of the worksheets. It was easy to do on a computer.<\/li>\n<li>Some students could not finish, so I graded the &#8220;quality&#8221; of their work versus &#8220;quantity.&#8221; (I used to assign 2 sets of directions per park, but this proved to be impractical.)<\/li>\n<li>Some students may bother others while working. I just kept an eye on them as they worked. I was able to separate students by moving one to another station in order to separate them.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Benefits and Successes:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Students stayed &#8220;on task&#8221; throughout the activity and were highly interested in it. They worked at their own pace and felt a sense of accomplishment each time they moved from one &#8220;theme park&#8221; to the next.<\/li>\n<li>Since they had already studied the necessary vocabulary, the activity was practical and completed in a timely manner.<\/li>\n<li>Most students said they enjoyed the stations and now they want to go to Disney World and practice directions in &#8216;real life.&#8221; \ud83d\ude42<\/li>\n<li>Each student could work and progress around the stations at his\/her own pace.<\/li>\n<li>They could also help each other although they didn&#8217;t all have the same &#8220;mission.&#8221; Students who helped each other would discover that all the directions were linked.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Additional Material:<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/espace.bsu.edu\/bestpractices\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2015\/03\/Disney-worksheet-1.docx\">Disney worksheet<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/espace.bsu.edu\/bestpractices\/files\/2015\/03\/Magic-Kingdom-map.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  wp-image-1181 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/espace.bsu.edu\/bestpractices\/files\/2015\/03\/Magic-Kingdom-map.jpg\" alt=\"Magic-Kingdom-map\" width=\"376\" height=\"281\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<strong>Submitted by:<\/strong> Betsy Fitzgerald, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.muncie.k12.in.us\/chsweb\">Muncie Central High School<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Creating Disney World Directions in Spanish Helps Students Learn Second\u00a0year Spanish students have a unit on giving formal commands.\u00a0 Giving directions to a stranger at Disney World makes the exercise [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,48,10,50,1,29],"tags":[70,72,73,90,99],"class_list":["post-1179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2015-showcase","category-instructional","category-jr-highhigh-school","category-muncie-central","category-uncategorized","category-world-languages","tag-directions","tag-disney","tag-disney-world","tag-park-map","tag-spanish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/espace.bsu.edu\/bestpractices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/espace.bsu.edu\/bestpractices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/espace.bsu.edu\/bestpractices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/espace.bsu.edu\/bestpractices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/espace.bsu.edu\/bestpractices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/espace.bsu.edu\/bestpractices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/espace.bsu.edu\/bestpractices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/espace.bsu.edu\/bestpractices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/espace.bsu.edu\/bestpractices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}