PROJECT BASED LEARNING Courtney Lindmark

Zachary New

WHAT IS PROJECT BASED LEARNING?

Project Based Learning is a teaching method in which students gain knowledge and skills by working for an extended period of time to investigate and respond to a complex question, problem, or challenge.

Project Based Learning has the instructor serve as a facilitator of knowledge, instead of being a “master explicator.”

Project Based Learning encourages advance thinking skills, and for students collaborate with one another.

IMPORTANCE OF PROJECT BASED LEARNING

Project Based Learning is crucial to 21st century education because it places the students in charge of their learning.

Students work for a prolonged period of time to finish a project that has a level of complexity greater than an assignment or test.

Working for a extended period of time means that students have more chances to master the curriculum and potentially create an artifact of learning.

SKILLS TAUGHT BY PROJECT BASED LEARNING

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 ad choosing the most appropriate tool for the task

PROJECT BASED LEARNING AND TECHNOLOGY

Researching for projects has become increasingly easier as technology as advanced.

As a result, students are able to learn new things at a faster rate than ever before in history, allowing them to apply what they learn immediately.

Being invested in a project for a long period of time is just as effective as it was before the rise of technology.

“SELLING COLONIAL AMERICA”

In this activity, children will be broken into groups of two.

Students are randomly assigned one of the thirteen colonies in Colonial America and are asked to create a commercial inviting other students to come to their colony.

RUBRIC

Students much include the following in their commercials…

Economic Attractiveness

Religious Attributes

Housing and Educational Lure

City vs. Rural Life – Mapping and Geography

History: people, places, events of importance.

WORKS CITED

http://bie.org/about/what_pbl

http://gpschools.schoolwires.net/cms/lib05/MI01000971/Centricity/Domain/662/Selling%20Colonial%20America.pdfl

http://www.edutopia.org/project-based-learning-guide-importance