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Project Based Learning Presentation
This document provides an overview of implementing project based learning (PBL) in K-12 classrooms. It discusses the benefits of PBL, including developing 21st century skills. It explains the essential elements of PBL and distinguishes it from simple projects. Examples of PBL units are provided for first grade, middle school Spanish class, and getting started with resources. The presentation aims to convince teachers that PBL increases student engagement and prepares students for real world skills.
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Introduction to PBL by Rachel Cook and Stephanie Dulmage; session agenda includes objectives and activities.
Reasons to implement PBL: develops essential skills, fosters lifelong learning, incorporates technology, enhances assessment and accommodates diverse learning styles.
Explanation of PBL, highlighting the need for meaningful projects that balance personal relevance with educational goals.
Distinction between project-oriented (teacher-directed) and project-based learning (student-centered), with emphasis on collaboration and the development of 21st Century Skills.
Key steps in developing PBL: create driving questions, encourage in-depth inquiry; examples of appropriate driving questions for projects.
Showcases of PBL in first grade (healthy eating), 1st grade STEM project (energy), and MS Spanish project (cultural foods), emphasizing student engagement and real-world application.
Tips on online and book resources for PBL, plus contact information for presenters Rachel Cook and Stephanie Dulmage.
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- 1. IMPLEMENTING PROJECT BASED LEARNING RACHEL COOK AND STEPHANIE DULMAGE
- 2. SESSION AGENDA The Whyand 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
- 5. WHY PBL? PBL HelpsStudents 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
- 6. 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
- 7. WHAT IS PROJECTBASED LEARNING (PBL)? HTTP://WWW.YOUTUBE.COM/WATCH?V=LMCZVGESRZ8 What is Project Based Learning?
- 8. “A project is meaningfulif 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
- 9. PROJECT ORIENTED LEARNINGVS. 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/W hat+Project+Based+Learning+Isn
- 10. CONVENTIONAL VS. PROJECTBASED 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 Long-term investigations predetermined answers Standards-based Standards-based Assessment tests Ongoing assessments School-based Real-connections Quizzes and tests Reflections
- 11. NOW WHAT? DEVELOPING ANIDEA AND DRIVING QUESTION(S) Begin with the end in mind…sound familiar?
- 12. DEVELOPING A PROJECTIDEA: Developing a Project Idea Summary of the issue, challenge, investigation, scenario, or problem Student-driven Project resources Planning Forms Entry Event
- 13. Generate Driving Question(s) “A project without a Driving Characteristics of a Driving Question Question is like Provocative or challenging to students, an essay because it is relevant, important, without a thesis. urgent or otherwise interesting. Without one, a reader might be Open-ended and/or complex; there is able to pick out no single “right answer,” or at least no the main point a simple “yes” or “no” answer. It writer is trying requires in-depth inquiry and higher- to make, but with a thesis the level thinking. Requires action! main point is Linked to the core of what you want unmistakable.” students to learn; to answer it well, BIE students would need to gain the knowledge and skills you have targeted as goals for the project.
- 14. 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?
- 15. Good Better How have robotics and How have robotics and automation changed automation changed our our society in the past town and its businesses century? in the next century? Should we be worried What is global about global warming? warming? What does an in-depth How are living things in study of a small pond an eco-system tell us about oceans? connected?
- 16. You Are WhatYou Eat Student-directed First Grade Project-Based Unit Transformative integration of Driving Question(s)? technology and web 2.0 tools. What is meant by the saying “You are Communication, cr what you eat? “ eation, collaboratio n, and contribution. How do healthy eating habits help me Focused on grow bigger and live longer? inquiry, problem- How can we, as first graders, educate solving, and critical thinking. our school community about healthy living? Perceptions surveys indicated high student engagement.
- 17. Explored and Energy MakesThe World Go Round researched energy in our lives. How does energy impact our daily lives? Engaged in 4 STEM Design Challenges. Why should we be responsible for Communicated/ using less energy? Collaborated via Kidblog & Twiducate. How can we, as first graders, change Gathered data on heat the energy loss at Gretchko loss using FLIP cams, Ipods, & Elementary? 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.
- 18. UN RESTAURANTE NUEVO MS 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: Teacher Perspective: More confidence in Spanish, Relationship building, better way to learn, felt increased student more real-world ready, more engagement, JUST TRY fun IT!
- 19. RESOURCES AND TOOLS WebResources Buck 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 Books Project-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
- 20. CONTACT INFORMATION Stephanie Dulmage GretchkoElementary West Bloomfield School District dulmage@wbsd.org or dulmage@westbloomfield.k12.mi.us Twitter: stephe1234 http://educationvisionleadership.edublogs.org Rachel Cook Brownstown Middle School Woodhaven-Brownstown School District cookr@wbsdweb.com
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