Project+Based+Learning


 * Use projects to move students from artificial to authentic. What could be better?**


 * "//Project Based Learning goes beyond generating student interest. Well designed projects encourage active inquiry and higher-level thinking."// (Thomas, 1998)**

Technology and Project Learning go hand in hand. Fortunately for us, many digital tools facilitate engaging and authentic student projects.

Tips on using digital tools to create student projects:

1. Begin with the end in mind: use technology to meet your core obligation - the standards 2. Start with guiding questions that are relevant to the real world 3. Expand your audience: students, parents, community, other classrooms 4. Test the tool first - the task may take longer than you think! 5. KISS: use simple tools first 6. Stay connected professionally to keep on the lookout for new resources and ideas media type="custom" key="4483628" align="right" Ask a Question- It may help you plan your project if you start with a question (see #2 above)- here are some [|examples of critical skills challenges] than might do that.

Example of Project Based Learning
[|Newsome Park Elementary School]

**Aligning Standards**

 * 1) Watch the following: [|8th Grade Math Unit]

2) In your group, try to align as many standards as you can within 10 minutes** you can use the SD DOE website as a reference [|SD DOE Standards]


 * 3) Let's share and compare.**

**Planning the Project**
[|Global School Introduction to Project Based Learning] [|Project Based Learning Online- from the Buck Institute and Edutopia] [|Designing a Project Based Lesson] [|Project Based Learning Checklists] [|Project Planning Graphic] PBL from Master Teacher Academy



Additional Resources
media type="custom" key="4470383" align="right" Joanne Bohl's Wiki

[|Making Teachers Nerdy- Let the Project Based Learning Begin]