What is Project Based Learning?
When teaching, do you feel the need to push the students through the content with rewards, encouragements, or threats? Do you continue to teach at the front of the classroom with a lecture style? Are you on the center of the stage? Do you give assessment at the end of each unit? Is it multiple choice, fill-in the blank, or essay questions?
Project based learning is different because students are given a question that is based on a real-world problem. Students are asked to solve the problem with a group of peers. They will work collaboratively in seeking the answers, learning from each other, designing a solution and then presenting it to other people.
Project based learning is different because students are given a question that is based on a real-world problem. Students are asked to solve the problem with a group of peers. They will work collaboratively in seeking the answers, learning from each other, designing a solution and then presenting it to other people.
PBL Misconceptions
PBL is not the dessert.
PBL is the main course.
PBL is not a string of activities tied together under a theme, concept, time period, or geographic area.
PBL is a set of learning experiences and tasks that guide students in inquiry toward answering the driving question.
PBL is not the same as having the students make something at the end of a unit.
PBL is the process of creating artifacts and presenting the solution of the driving question to an audience.
PBL is the main course.
PBL is not a string of activities tied together under a theme, concept, time period, or geographic area.
PBL is a set of learning experiences and tasks that guide students in inquiry toward answering the driving question.
PBL is not the same as having the students make something at the end of a unit.
PBL is the process of creating artifacts and presenting the solution of the driving question to an audience.