Blog Post # 9: What Can Teachers and Students Teach Us About Project Based Learning?

Seven Essentials for Project Based Learning 

This article is very helpful for when you are just starting your PBL and are lost in the depth of a PBL. The seven steps (need to know, driving question, student voice and choice, 21st century skills, inquiry and innovation, feedback and revision, and a publically presented project) easily break down the process and lead towards a strong project that is easily explained and thought out.

Project-Based Learning for Teachers

This short video is a great way to explain what PBL is and how it helps a teacher to center his or her lessons around a driving question that leads to a complete ending that the students have to share with their peers. In this video there are many different sites used to help a teacher with their use of PBL.

Ten Sites Supporting Digital Classroom Collaboration in Project Based Learning

This article discusses the importance of PBL and give ten resources for helpful tips on how to use PBL. Some of these sites were new to me and after looking over them I found them to be extremely helpful and will implement them in the future. 

What Motivates Students? 

In this short video, students explain what motivates them to do better. The answers range from the goal of having a family and a house and being able to support that lifestyle, going to college and be able to do what the student wants to do when they grow up, and being congratulated by teachers or other students for the hard work that paid off on a good test score. The second half of this video shows the students explaining the reward systems that they think work best for them. From stickers to pizza parties, motivation runs rich through these kids. 

Project Based Learning in PE

This blog post is about a high school that allows their students to plan and improve the physical fitness plans for the middle school students at the school. By following the The National Association for Sport and Physical Education standards not only are the high schoolers following the basic guidelines of physical fitness but are helping to mold the middle schoolers into a healthier lifestyle. This way to use PBL is a great idea to help all high schoolers promote physical fitness around the world. 

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