My Collaborative Project

I am going to use Google Sketch Up with the students to design physical spaces. I have two different groups, a group of level 1 & 2 students who are learning basic English and a group of level 3 & 4 students who are reading a variety of texts. Upcoming are units on home & family in one group and one on a piece called "Talking Walls" about monuments. I will design a collaborative project where the students can use Google Sketch Up to design a home or a monument. For the home project the students each need to produce a room in the home of their group while collaboratively designing the home as a whole, inside and out. For the monument project, the group will design a monument to a person or event and create a rationale for their monument to present to the class community. The students in the class can then vote on the monument that they would like to erect in their community.