PBL

1. Final Project: PBL
LESSONS
What is a PBL?
What are the guidelines?
Completing your project
The Problem Based Learning Scenario
Would you like to know more?
The best place to start is actually not with trying to form an
answer, but to form questions. It seems counter-intuitive at
first, but what you are doing is probing for what you want to
investigate. Then try to answer these smaller questions first.
Each humanities course is guided by a Critical
Question. You are going to address this question and
create a solution. For each course and for each
Critical Question, you must take a yes or no stance.
You must support your ideas with personal and
scholarly work (avoid things like, "Well, my mom told
me..."). And most importantly - How do you know and
how do we know you know?

2. Final Project: PBL
LESSONS
What is a PBL?
What are the guidelines?
Completing your project
What are the guidelines?
Would you like to know more?
Aim for strong content. Include information reviewing the question,
answering the question, explaining your website/blog/video channel,
explaining how you made yourwebsite/blog/video channel, and explaining
how your website/blog/video channel connects to the question.
Aim for 150 words. You will answer the Critical Question for
your course. Then you will create either a website, a blog, or a
video channel to express your ideas. Your final submission
must be published online. Answer the question. Be
comprehensive yet concise.
Aim for several pages/sections or several minutes. Make it
visually pleasing. Make some kind of visual aids that
represents the question and your answer.

3. Final Project: PBL
LESSONS
What is a PBL?
What are the guidelines?
Completing your project
Completing your project
Would you like to know more?
Sometimes my students think of doing this project as if they were a contestant on “Shark Tank.” That’s a good
way to approach this – be captivating, be fun, be informative – or in other words, know your stuff and be able to
convince others you are right!
https://abc.com/shows/shark-tank
You are trying to “sell” your solution. In a way, imagine yourself
“pitching” a project or product to investors. You are using your
explanations and answers, to be persuasive.
“When a person we don’t know pitches an idea to us, we search
for visual and verbal matches with those implicit models,
remembering only the characteristics that identify the pitcher as
one type or another. We subconsciously award points to people
we can easily identify as having creative traits; we subtract points
from those who are hard to assess or who fit negative
stereotypes.” How to Pitch a Brilliant Idea by Kimberly D. Elsbach (2003)