Implementing Project Based Learning Rachel Cook and Stephanie Dulmage

1. Implementing Project Based LearningRachel Cook and Stephanie Dulmage

2. Session Agenda The Why and 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 ←

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5. Why PBL? PBL Helps Students 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 Project Based Learning (PBL)? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMCZvGesRz8 What is Project Based Learning?

8. “A project is meaningful if 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 Essential Elements http://www.bie.org

9. Project Oriented Learning Vs. 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/What+Project+Based+Learning+Isn

10. Conventional Vs. Project Based Instructional Approach http://www.intel.com/education/video/pbl/content.htm

11. Now what? Developing an Idea and Driving Question(s) Begin with the end in mind…sound familiar? http://www.bie.org

12. Developing a Project Idea: 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) Characteristics of a Driving Question • Provocative or challenging to students, because it is relevant, important, urgent or otherwise interesting. • Open-ended and/or complex; there is no single “right answer,” or at least no simple “yes” or “no” answer. It requires in-depth inquiry and higher-level thinking. Requires action! • Linked to the core of what you want students to learn; to answer it well, students would need to gain the knowledge and skills you have targeted as goals for the project. “A project without a Driving Question is like an essay without a thesis. Without one, a reader might be able to pick out the main point a writer is trying to make, but with a thesis the main point is unmistakable.” BIE

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 automation changed our society in the past century? • What is global warming? • How are living things in an eco-system connected? • How have robotics and automation changed our town and its businesses in the next century? • Should we be worried about global warming? • What does an in-depth study of a small pond tell us about oceans?

16. You Are What You Eat First Grade Project-Based Unit Driving Question(s)? • What is meant by the saying “You are what you eat? “ • How do healthy eating habits help me grow bigger and live longer? • How can we, as first graders, educate our school community about healthy living? Student-directed Transformative integration of technology and web 2.0 tools. Communication, creation, collaboration, and contribution. Focused on inquiry, problem-solving, and critical thinking. Perceptions surveys indicated high student engagement.

17. Energy Makes The World Go Round • How does energy impact our daily lives? • Why should we be responsible for using less energy? • How can we, as first graders, change the energy loss at Gretchko Elementary? Explored and researched energy in our lives. Engaged in 4 STEM Design Challenges. Communicated/ Collaborated via Kidblog & Twiducate. Gathered data on heat loss using FLIP cams, Ipods, & 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 RestauranteNuevoMS 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: More confidence in Spanish, better way to learn, felt more real-world ready, more fun Teacher Perspective: Relationship building, increased student engagement, JUST TRY IT!

19. Resources and Tools Web Resources 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 Gretchko Elementary 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 Twitter: @RachACook