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Project Based Learning

October 2018

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Why PBL?

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Project Based Learning VS Projects

PBL

Culminating Project

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Interesting Problems + Creative, Student Driven Solutions = Fun, Engagement, Learning…

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Pages 13, 14, and 54 of workbook.

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Unpacking PBL

Talk about each element
How do these elements make a PBL different from a regular project
How do these elements make PBL worth doing
What are examples of these elements for your age group

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Is It PBL - Engaging the Standards (early Elem)

Design Elements Checklist - Page 69

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The Dog Project (Early Elem)

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Is It PBL - Engaging the Standards (Older Elem, JH and HS)

Design Elements Checklist - Page 69

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Mountain Continuum

Which design elements come the easiest to you?

Which ones will be the hardest for you to do?

Which 3 design elements can you commit to doing all year long whether you are doing PBL or not?

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10 Min Break

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Key Knowledge and LEarning Objectives

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Driving Question Review & Grouping

Philosophical or Debatable Issue, or an Intriguing Topic
Specifying a Product, Task, or Problem to be Solved
Adding a Real-World Role for Students

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Writing a Driving Question

An effective Driving Question is:

Engaging for students

Appropriate for the student population
Students can understand the Question
Doesn’t sound like it came from a teacher or textbook
Actively guides students through the project
Provokes students to ask further questions

Open-ended

Has several possible “right answers”
Shouldn’t be Google-able

Aligned to Learning Goals

Students will need to learn important content and skills in order to create project products
It’s not too big, requiring more knowledge than can be learned in a reasonable amount of time

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DQ Brainstorm for upcoming topics

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Framing Words	Person or Entity	Action or Challenge	Audience or Purpose
How can...	I We	Build… Create… Make...	Real-World Problem
How do...	We as, (roles, occupations)	Design… Plan...	For a Public Audience
Should...	(Town) (City) (County)	Solve...	For a School
Could...	(State) (Nation)	Write...	For a Classroom
What...	(Community) (Organization)	Propose… Decide….	For an Online AUdience

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Sustained Inquiry

Conducts an entry event to provoke questions and presents/co-constructs a driving question
Facilitates a process for generating student questions (Topic Web, KWL, I See,,,, I Think…, I Wonder…)
Guides students in finding and evaluating sources of information to answer questions (Experts, Experiments, Books, Observations, Games)
Provides scaffolds and support (e.g., lessons, workshops, note-taking guides)
Provides additional resources and experiences to generate deeper questions
Helps students reflect on the answers they find, and apply their new knowledge to project tasks

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Entry Events

Field Trip
Guest Speaker
Film, Video, Website
Simulation or Activity
Provocative Reading
Startling Statistics
Puzzling Problem
Song, Poem, Art
Lively Discussion

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Project management

Project Launch

Entry Event
Driving Question
Final Product
Start Need to Know list
Project teams formed
Discussion of expectations for teamwork
First team meeting: contract, initial task list

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Reflection

Journal / Learning Log
Whole-Class Discussion
Survey
Focus Group
Fishbowl Discussion
Other...

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Critique and Revision

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PuBLIC Product

Who are you going to include?

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Assessment in PBL

Pg. 30

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High Quality Assessment

Sounds like...

Looks like...

Feels like...

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Show Your Sketch