I personally believe it is
I personally believe it is hard for us, teachers, to give up "teaching." By that I mean that with PBL we have to be willing to let our students have much more control over what and how they approach...
View ArticleThis year I will be working
This year I will be working in an inclusion classroom and have yet to meet the teachers I will be working with. I am moving from teaching fourth grade to moving to a support, or coteach situation in...
View ArticleResponse to Jane
Jane, my experience was from a summer program for grades 5 to 8, 12 students. I called the class "Engineering Through Models", they built a foam plate glider, a model solar car, and a mousetrap car....
View ArticleBill, Let me suggest a couple
Bill,Let me suggest a couple good NASA links for curriculum designed to be used in what we call "informal education."Rocketshttp://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/topnav/materials/listbytype/Ro...On...
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Jane, NASA sure provides a wealth of free materials, they really have some nice videos, I have links to them on Podcast section of my website. The project links you sent sure are well done, not sure...
View ArticleAnyone want to work on PBL with Higher Ed Professor
I am planning a PBL on suburbia and would like a cross disciplinary team. Any interest?
View ArticlePBL serves students best
I teach K-12 Visual and Media Art which is consistently project based. I also work in an afterschool STEM program geared for 3-10th graders applying hand's on approach to Science, Math and English...
View ArticleCity Technology Resources
Carolyn, Thanks for your comments, you must be very busy teaching in all those areas. I really enjoyed looking at the City Technology link and it has given me ideas. I am working on a construction...
View Articleproject based learning raises critical thinking skills
I find I do more teaching when students are assigned projects! I guide them and interact more with individuals and they enjoy it so much more. They use higher level thinking skills, the learning is...
View ArticleSheri What Age Groups?
Hi Sheri, interesting comments. It does seem that students remember the projects more later in life and not the tests they had taken. Just looked at your profile for age groups and it showed...
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