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Project Based LearningAn Introduction

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Project-based Learning

Project Based Learning aids the development of 21st century skills by supporting multiple learning styles and intelligences, providing opportunities for cross-curricular connections, and addressing more than one standard within the framework of a single project.

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Project-based Learning (cont’d)

Students are also more likely to remember concepts because they engage in project management and investigate topics using multiple strategies. Your students will learn to apply skills and concepts rather than just memorizing… (Stearns & Shay, 2008).

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Design Principles for Project-Based Learning

Design Principle #1:

Begin with the End in Mind

Design Principle #5:

Manage theProcess

Design Principle #4:

Map theProcess

Design Principle #2:

Develop theDriving Question

Design Principle #3:

Plan theAssessment

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Benefits of Project-based Learning

• Increases motivation• Allows children to use their individual learning strengths• Provides a practical real-world way to learn and use

technology• Provides collaborative opportunities to construct

knowledge• Develops and apply social and communication skills• Increases problem solving skills• Supports creating connections between disciplines

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CreatingProducing, Constructing, Inventing, Planning, Making

EvaluatingExperimenting, Judging, Testing, Hypothesizing

AnalyzingOrganizing, Structuring, Integrating

ApplyingUsing, Implementing, Carrying-out

UnderstandingSummarizing, Inferring, Classifying, Explaining

RememberingFinding, Naming,

Identifying, Listing, Describing

Bloom Revised by Anderson, Krathwohl(2000)

Blooms Taxonomy Revised