project based learning
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IMPLEMENTING PROJECT BASED LEARNING
RACHEL COOK AND STEPHANIE DULMAGE
SESSION AGENDA
The Why and What of PBL
7 Whys of PBL PBL Video
The How of PBL
Essential Elements of PBL Project Vs. Project Based Learning Project Planning PBL in Action You Are What You Eat Energy Makes The World Go Round - 1st grade PBL Un Restaurante Nuevo - MS Spanish PBL
Getting Started
Resources and Tools
Q and A
WHY PBL?
PBL Helps Students Develop Skills for Living in a Knowledge-Based, Highly Technological Society
Solving highly complex problems requires that students have both fundamental skills and 21st century skills:
personal and social responsibility planning, critical thinking, reasoning, and creativity strong communication skills, both for interpersonal and presentation
needs cross-cultural understanding visualizing and decision making knowing how and when to use technology and choosing the most
appropriate tool for the task
http://www.edutopia.org/project-based-learning-guide-importance
THE WHY CONT’D
PBL and Technology Use Bring a New Relevance to the Learning at Hand
PBL Lends Itself to Authentic Assessment
PBL Promotes Lifelong Learning
PBL Accommodates Students with Varying Learning Styles and Differences
PBL Increases Opportunities For Relationship Building and Personalized Learning
Research Supports PBL
WHAT IS PROJECT BASED LEARNING (PBL)? HTTP://WWW.YOUTUBE.COM/WATCH?V=LMCZVGESRZ8
What is Project Based Learning?
ESSENTIAL
ELEMENTS
“A project is meaningful if it fulfills two criteria. First, students must perceive it as personally meaningful… Second, a meaningful project fulfills an educational purpose. Well-designed and well-implemented Project Based Learning (PBL) is meaningful in both ways.”
- BIE
http://www.bie.org/
PROJECT ORIENTED LEARNING VS. PROJECT-BASED LEARNING
Remember… this is not simply doing a project or culminating activity that demonstrates what students learned from teacher-directed lessons or lectures.
Watch and reflect…
http://howtovideos.hightechhigh.org/video/265/What+Project+Based+Learning+Isn
CONVENTIONAL VS. PROJECT BASED INSTRUCTIONAL APPROACH
Teacher –centered Student-centered
Teacher-directed Self-directed
Listen, memorize, repeat Discover, apply, present
Independence Collaboration
Teacher decision-making Teacher and student decision making
Knowledge of facts, terms, content
21st Century Skills
Direct instruction Varied instructional strategies
Short, isolated lessons with predetermined answers
Long-term investigations
Standards-based Standards-based
Assessment tests Ongoing assessments
School-based Real-connections
Quizzes and tests Reflections
http://www.intel.com/education/video/pbl/content.htm
NOW WHAT? DEVELOPING AN IDEA AND
DRIVING QUESTION(S)
Begin with the end in mind…sound familiar?
http://www.bie.org/
DEVELOPING A PROJECT IDEA:
Developing a Project Idea
Summary of the issue, challenge, investigation, scenario, or problem
Student-driven
Project resources
Planning Forms
Entry Event
“A project without a Driving Question is like an essay without a thesis. Without one, a reader might be able to pick out the main point a writer is trying to make, but with a thesis the main point is unmistakable.” BIE
Generate Driving Question (s)
Characteristics of a Driving Question
Provocative or challenging to students, because it is relevant, important, urgent or otherwise interesting.
Open-ended and/or complex; there is no single “right answer,” or at least no simple “yes” or “no” answer. It requires in-depth inquiry and higher-level
thinking. Requires action! Linked to the core of what you want
students to learn; to answer it well, students would need to gain the knowledge and skills you have targeted as goals for the project.
EXAMPLES OF DQS
Why do people revolt? How do humans compete in an ecosystem? Will global warming affect our community? What does an in-depth study of a pond tell us
about an ocean? How can we educate students so that the
amount of trash decreases and recycling is increased at our school?
How can individuals make a difference in the world?
Is conquering the impossible possible? How are people and plants connected? Just because we can, should we?
How have robotics and automation changed our society in the past century?
What is global warming?
How are living things in an eco-system connected?
How have robotics and automation changed our town and its businesses in the next century?
Should we be worried about global warming?
What does an in-depth study of a small pond tell us about oceans?
Good Better
Student-directed
Transformative integration of technology and web 2.0 tools.
Communication, creation, collaboration, and contribution.
Focused on inquiry, problem-solving, and critical thinking.
Perceptions surveys indicated high student engagement.
You Are What You EatFirst Grade Project-Based Unit
Driving Question(s)?
What is meant by the saying “You are what you eat? “
How do healthy eating habits help me grow bigger and live longer?
How can we, as first graders, educate our school community
about healthy living?
Explored and researched energy in our lives.
Engaged in 4 STEM Design Challenges.
Communicated/ Collaborated via Kidblog & Twiducate.
Gathered data on heat loss using FLIP cams, Ipods, & Google Docs.
Student-led research on solutions for heat loss: Kid-Safe Google Search and SymbalooEdu
Student-led presentation to the Plant Engineer and Administrator.
Energy Makes The World Go Round
How does energy impact our daily lives?
Why should we be responsible for using less energy?
How can we, as first graders, change the energy loss at
Gretchko Elementary?
UN RESTAURANTE NUEVOMS SPANISH PBL
Driving Questions:What similarities and differences exist in cultural foods in Mexico, Spain, and the United States?
How might you incorporate this information into an open-house presentation of a new restaurant in Mexico or Spain?
How might you justify including artwork we have studied as decoration in your restaurant?
Products: Required: Restaurant Open-House Presentation,
Restaurant Menu (Spanish), Artwork (English)
Choice: Presentation Roles and Additional Written Product (News Article or Diet Plan)
Students Expressed:More confidence in Spanish, better way to learn, feltmore real-world ready, more fun
Teacher Perspective:Relationship building, increased student engagement, JUST TRY IT!
RESOURCES AND TOOLS
Web ResourcesBuck Institute for Education - http://www.bie.org/tools/freebies
Scoop-It - http://www.scoop.it/t/project-based-learning-2
Live Binders - http://www.livebinders.com/edit/index/448454
Suggested BooksProject-Based Learning for Gifted Students : A Handbook for the 21st-Century Classroom, by Todd Stanley
Bringing Innovation to School and Reinventing Project-Based Learning– Suzie Boss
Creating Innovators - Tony Wagner
World Class Learners Educating Creative and Entrepreneurial Students – Yong Zhao
CONTACT INFORMATIONStephanie DulmageGretchko ElementaryWest Bloomfield School [email protected] or [email protected]: stephe1234http://educationvisionleadership.edublogs.org
Rachel Cook
Brownstown Middle School
Woodhaven-Brownstown School District