master global, project- based learning in 5 simple steps

Master Project- Based Learning

In 5 simple steps

Who am I?

Objectives Learn the simple, five- step process

for creating kick- butt projects

How to connect your PBL experience with experts

How to establish the topic for your PBL experience

How to incorporate rigorous content and skills

The typical project…

Complex structures beget simple designs

The well- designed project

Simple structures beget complex

designs

The 5 step process for good project

design.

Pick an engaging Topic

Find Collaborators

Create Driving Question

Envision Final Product

Align Content

Step One: Pick a Topic

Perfect Topic

Real World

Curriculum

Passion

Global Food Crisis…

Step Two: Find Collaborators

Who knows about this stuff?

Who are the best collaborators?

People who do this work in the real world!

People who have worked with students in the past

People who know people

What is the most important question to answer related to

this topic?

Step Three: Create Driving Question

The best Questions… Are questions people in

the real world are trying to answer

Inspire students Are simple enough to

understand, but complex enough for deep inquiry

Lead to a clear and concrete project outcome

As members of a new society,

how will you feed your population?

Step Four: Envision Final Product

What will students create to answer the driving question?

What will students create?Method of food production Persuasive Proposal

What will students create?

Simple structures beget complex designs

Align Content

Align Content

What content and skills will students need to answer the

driving question?

What will students create?Method of food production Persuasive Proposal

Creating food

production model

MS-LS1-7 Develop model to demonstrate

how food is rearranged forming new molecules to support growth

MS-LS1-6 Construct a scientific explanation based on evidence for role of photosynthesis

in cycling of matter

MS-LS-1 Conduct an investigation to

provide evidence that living things are made

of cells

MS-ETS1-3 Analyze data from design

solutions to create a solution that meets criteria for success

Writing argumentative

proposal

CCSS ELA- W. 7.1 Write arguments to support

claims with clear reasons and relevant

evidence

CCSS ELA- W 7.7 Conduct short term research projects to answer a question, drawing on several

resources

CCSS R.P.A. 1 Analyze proportional

relationships and use them to solve real-

world and mathematical

problems

MS-ETS1-3 Explain the relationship between

the physical and human characteristics of different places or

regions

21st Century Skills

Global Thinking

Innovation

Communication

Collaboration

The Five Simple Steps to create kick butt projects with your students

Pick a Topic

Find Collaborators

Create Driving Question

Envision Final Product

Align Content

The well- designed project

Where to learn more…

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E-mail me:

kylewagner@transformschool.com