Project Based Learning

Kerri Snell HansfordTitle Math Teacher/Crestview Elementary

cvhansfo@smsd.org

Common Core Math Standards

• What does mathematical understanding look like?

Look at the Standards

• As you read through the standards reflect on how this is going to change the way you teach…..

• Be prepared to share your thoughts on what you will need to do differently, what you think will stay the same, and what support or tools will be helpful.

What is project based learning?• http://www.edutopia.org/project-based-learning-

overview-video

What are the essentials for PBL?• Read the article: 7 Essentials for Project Based

Learning by John Larmer and John R. Mergendoller from ASCD Sept. 2010.

Essentials for Project Based Learning

1. A Need to Know

2. A Driving Question

3. Student Voice and Choice

4. 21st Century Skills

5. Inquiry and Innovation

6. Feedback and Revision

7. A Publicly Presented Product

Fantasy or Reality? What will work in a real classroom?• Jigsaw Activity

• Read the article and be prepared to share ideas that you agree or disagree with.

• Advantages for you and for students.

• After you have read reflect on how this can work in the real world.

Example of Project Based Learning

• http://www.edutopia.org/ferryway-ironworks-integrated-studies-video

Your Project!

http://www.bie.org/tools/freebies

http://www.edutopia.org/project-based-learning

http://pbl-online.org/

http://pblchecklist.4teachers.org/index.shtml

http://www.gsn.org/web/pbl/index.htm

http://www.ksde.org/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=-1Oh3zkCOmo%3d&tabid=4792&mid=12162

Review the Essentials for Project Based Learning

1. A Need to Know

2. A Driving Question

3. Student Voice and Choice

4. 21st Century Skills

5. Inquiry and Innovation

6. Feedback and Revision

7. A Publicly Presented Product

How do we do this?

• http://wveis.k12.wv.us/teach21/public/project/MainMenu.cfm?tsele1=2&tsele2=104

Planning Ideas

• http://www.edutopia.org/stw-maine-project-based-learning-six-steps-planning

• Step 1: Develop a compelling topic that covers state standards, has an authentic connection to the local community, and provides opportunities for every student to do meaningful, independent research.

• Step 2: Develop or design a comprehensive final product that each student will have a role in creating, and could be used by local residents or professionals in the field

• Step 3: Involve professional organizations and professionals from the community to connect the academic study with the real world, and have students assume these professional roles during the expedition so they get a sense of what it would mean to be

professionally engaged in meaningful work.• Step 4: Identify and organize the major learning resources

for the expedition, and make sure they're available. (This one is critical and is often left out by schools).

• Step 5: Coordinate calendars. (This may be the hardest piece of all.) Expeditions are interdisciplinary and require a lot of planning to ensure that each piece flows smoothly from one to the next. They require enough time for each component to be done well, for students to get time in the field, for experts to come in at the appropriate place, and for the final product to be high quality.

• Step 6: Plan a final experience or culminating event. Showcase student work to the public or outside of school.

Helpful Ideas

• http://www.internet4classrooms.com/links_grades_kindergarten_12/elementary_project.htm

• http://www.edutopia.org/project-learning-online-resources

• http://www.edutopia.org/stw-maine-project-based-learning-resources-downloads#frEdutopia

Can a Kindergarten class do this?• http://www.edutopia.org/kindergarten-project-ba

sed-learning-video

Driving Question and Planning Sheets• http://

www.pbl-online.org/ProjectPlanning/PlanningForm.htm

• http://www.bie.org/images/uploads/useful_stuff/Project_Overview.pdf

Work Time

• Revisit the Common Core Standards.

• Start with your Driving Question.

• Don’t start BIG, start little.

• Work in Grade Level Groups if you want.

• At 6:00 each individual or group will share out what they have so far. Be prepared to give feedback to them.