What is a BOB?
A BOB is a personalizing project designed to meet a variety of curriculum expectations and presented in class over weeks or months.
You can incorporate multiple BOBs throughout a school year.
What is a Tri-BOB?
What is a Tri-BOB?
Tri-BOBs are BOB projects that recur three times. Each iteration spirals to deepen skills while adding a new aspect with each revisit. This allows students the time and space to build skills and much more. Here is a post on the power of Tri-BOBs.
Some BOBs
What's in a Name (W.I.N.)
What's in a Name (W.I.N.)
What's in a Name (W.I.N.)
Interview your parent(s) about why they chose your name. Then research the etymology of your name and others who share it. Determine why your name does/doesn't suit you and what you would change it to if you could.
The What's in a Name BOB has been done from Grade 3-12.
Healthy Start
What's in a Name (W.I.N.)
What's in a Name (W.I.N.)
Choose 1 thing to start or stop doing related to eating, exercise and/or wellness. Track experience for 21 days through a journal. After the allotted time, create a product to reflect the outcome. Student achievements have ranges from learning to exercise, eat healthy , sleep better, hydrate, use breathing or other well being strategies and more.
History Beats
What's in a Name (W.I.N.)
Precious Cargo
Locate a song lyric related to an historical person, object or event. Annotate the lyrics. Investigate the meaning of the song. Conclude to what degree the lyrics are congruent with other historical accounts of the same person, object or event. Present the annotated lyrics, analysis and song to the class.
Precious Cargo
Precious Cargo
Imagine you are emigrating from your home. Select one object you would have to bring with you. Bring that object to class and present the reasons for your choice.
TTalk/Impact Projects
This was a way to use Genius Hour/20% Time projects. TTalks for Impact begins as a PBL and culminates in a BOB. The essence is that students choose a topic under the umbrella of the Sustainable Development Goals. Students then complete a deep inquiry into the topic and produce a TED-like talk, podcast or video presentation.
Your Deeds Are Your Monuments
Inspired by RJ Palacio's Wonder, students read a biography or autobiography. Then, they design, create and present a monument in the person's honour or one that reflects their contributions.
Some Tri-BOBs
Students begin by selecting a storybook to read to the class. This is very user-friendly way to begin.
Master Story Teller (MST)
Students present a different picture book using visuals that they create. Any medium is acceptable and the products vary from all corners of the imagination.
After a year of explicit instruction in the writing process, students write and present their own original story with visuals. It may be a fictional or personal narrative, but they have had the time and space to become storytellers.
PS Series
The PS Series begins with a Portrait of yourSelf. The presenter shares who they are, their family, interests and hobbies in whatever visual manner they choose. Students have made collages, videos, scrapbooks, games, puzzles and much more.
PS Series
PS Series
PS Series
The second stage of the PS Series was originally called a Personal Soundtrack. Students share a nostalgic song, one related to their identity and one that is an anthem or theme song- to pick them up and inspire them. This was the inspiration for the Personal Playlist Podcast (P3). Now, this project is a P3 of its own- The Personal Playlist Project.
PS Series
PS Series
Students experience weekly Friday Photo. where they go through four stages to analysing a photograph. This culminating task is also the third part of this Tri-BOB. After several months of this teacher-led experience, students are ready to take their own photographs and lead the decoding of that meaningful text through
Snapshot- a Photo Synthesis.
The Trifecta Of Tri-BOBs
What's News
News and Schmooze
What's News
This is an introduction into what makes something newsworthy, evolves into annotating and summarizing the article, with questions and a response and then the presenting of a visual to enhance the communication of the issue or event.
This was introduced in Grade 6.
What's Up
News and Schmooze
What's News
What's Up begins with a visual and summary and then adds a critical analysis of the bias(es) in the article or related news coverage (video or image). This task culminates with comparing and contrasting 2 articles on the same subject for bias and presenting the different perspectives by leading a photograph analysis.
This was offered in Grade 7.
News and Schmooze
News and Schmooze
News and Schmooze
This begins with a small group deciding on a news story to investigate independently and schmooze about in front of the class, recorded on video for the purpose of reflection. Next, the same/different group of students select a new issue or event to investigate and collaborate to create a series of tableaus telling the beginning, middle and end of the news story titled News, Schmooze and Tableaux, Too. Finally, the same/different group investigates a news story that they film as a news broadcast called News, Schmooze and Produce.
This was a culminating middle school experience for the Grade 8's.
More BOBs
What About You Shines (WAYS)?
What a wonderful way to begin or end a school year! Celebrate the things that students love, and bring the outside world into the classroom with WAYS. Here's a post to give you more details on how this project gives students a means to share something about themself that makes them proud and highlights an aspect of who they are and what lights them up!
Did You Know...
In any content area unit, you can extend the inquiry by giving students the freedom to choose, investigate and present on a topic. In less than 15 minutes of class time, with no more than 3 presenters on a given day, students can broaden and deepen their understanding of the topic at hand through a personalized lens.
Game On!
Students lead a game of their choice. They have to be able to communicate the details to their class and prepare all the needed materials. From as young as Grade 1, it's a great way to teach procedural writing, organizational skills and leadership while having a ton of fun learning new games from each student. This was created for Physical Education/Gym class or Daily Physical Activities (DPA). For DPA, only Learning Skills are assessed.
LOL
Students choose and share an age-appropriate joke. It's a great way to start a unit on humour by having them unpack the elements one joke at a time. It also helps students prepare to present and develop the tools to include timing, presentation skills and organizational skills. Students can co-construct the aspects of humour after a few weeks of daily LOL's.
Rock It
This BOB introduces a unit on Rocks and Minerals, allowing the students to build the foundation of the unit by sharing their research on the rocks and minerals to which they are most drawn. It breeds deep engagement in the unit because students have been a part of building it. This was the very first BOB where I worked directly from the content curriculum from Grade 4 Science (in Ontario) instead of beginning with learning skills and making curricular connections.
POETS
This TRI-BOB takes students from reading a poem and explaining its meaning, to reciting a poem and the literary tools, to presenting an original poem incorporating all of the elements taught and explaining its intended meaning.
Whatchamacallit
Students create a new word and use the media and marketing tools taught to try to make it "stick".