I had the opportunity to attend the National Enviroschools Hui.  This included a session delivered by Tai Tokerau facililator, Jacque Knight, about using cross curricular project based learning at the secondary level.

One of the Planning Processes that we undertook, included a collaboration between four different teachers, of three different schools, covering five different learning areas.  Other than myself and my colleague Dorothy, as a collective we were largely unfamiliar with working together.

Our first mission was to discuss and decide on an environmental context within our local area, that impacted the learners within our schools in some way.  We were then given a Planning Process to follow that would enable us to identify Inquiry Questions, Activity Possibilities, Resources, and then Assessment/Curriculum Links.

The Planning Process was very simplistic but very effective for collaborating.  It felt like a very natural way of discussing learning possibilities and then connecting the learning activities to assessment opportunities within specific and specialist learning areas.

I'd like to try this process with the next collaborative project that I'm involved in at school.