The project method is a teaching approach that involves assigning students a project to complete. It is based on the principles of learning by doing and learning through association, cooperation, and activity. Some key aspects of the project method are that projects should be purposeful, useful, allow student freedom, involve constructive activity, be realistic and related to students' lives, and focus on social development and usefulness to society. Students plan projects in advance to determine how, when, what, where, and why to solve problems.

1. Educational Technology
Midterm Lecture 2

2. Project Method
The variety of teaching and learning methods which is
used within a course is an important ingredient in
creating a course with interest to students. For
effective teaching to take place, a good method must
be adopted by a teacher. A teacher has many options
when choosing a style by which to teach. Few types of
the method (Project, Role Play and Brainstorming)
will be discussed.

3. Definitions
A voluntary undertaking which involves construction
effort eventuated into objective results The modern
teaching methods make provision for activity and co-
operation between members of a class.
This method is based on the philosophy of Pragmatism
and the principle of ‘Learning by doing’. In this strategy
pupils perform constructive activities in natural condition.
A project is a list of real life that has been imparted
into the school. It demands work from the pupils. The
class may be divided into 4-6 groups and each group could
be assigned one part of the project depending on their
interest, ability and skill.

4. Definitions
Care should be taken to see that no pupil is left
without a piece of work Various Definition The term
project has been defined by a number of educators in
their own way.
The popular definitions worth considering are:
1. According to Kilpatrick “A project is a whole- hearted
purposeful activity proceeding in a social
environment”.
2. According to Stevenson (1908) “A project is a
problematic act carried to completion in its natural
setting”.

5. Definitions
Care should be taken to see that no pupil is left
without a piece of work Various Definition The term
project has been defined by a number of educators in
their own way.
The popular definitions wo3. According to Ballard “A
project is a bit of real life that has been imparted into
the school”.
4. According to Thomas and Lang, “A project is a
Voluntary undertaking which involves constructive
effort or thought and eventuates into subjective
results”.

6. Project Method is based on the
following principles:
* Learning by doing.
* Learning by living.
* Children learn better through association, cooperation
and activity

7. PRINCIPLES OF PROJECT METHOD
Principles
1. Principle of Purposefulness The project should be
purposeful, and that should have some main
objective. The objective should give the enthusiasm
and work to the students, otherwise that will be a
wastage of time and energy.
2. Principle of Utility The project should be useful to
the students and the society. It will give some value to
the students. From the good project the students as
well as the society get the benefit a lot.

8. PRINCIPLES OF PROJECT METHOD
Principles
3. Principle of Freedom The students are free to select
the topic and execute the work according to their well
and wish, interest, attitude and capacity. The teacher
just a guide and give a guidelines to execute that.
4. Principle of Activity Project means the purposeful
activity, at the end of the project the students gain
knowledge through their activity. It is based on the
principle of learning by doing.

9. PRINCIPLES OF PROJECT METHOD
Principles
5. Principle of Reality Project should be real and related
to the life situation of the students and the society.
Only then they would be able to complete the project
naturally and really. Imaginary problems are not
taken up in the project.
6. Principle of Social Development A good project
focuses society needs, social development, and
usefulness to the society. A single project solves the
problem of the thousands of the people or the society.

10. PRINCIPLES OF PROJECT METHOD
Principles
7. Principle of Planning The student develops prior
planning in advance about the project. They find
solutions for - How? When? What? Where? Why? So,
good project develops the problem solving capacity
and prior planning for the execution.