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Project Based Learning: It All Starts with a Question
What makes PBL and ELA such a seamless fit is in one core principal: they're both inquiry driven. In your ELA classes, ask students to ask questions and to dig to find the answers. The same notion goes for PBL. Once you find a place in your curriculum that you want student questions to drive the learning, you've found a place for a PBL assignment or unit.
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Example - iWonder - World Hunger
Teacher-Directed Introduction: Explanation of hunger; hunger statistics; periods of history during which hunger impacted domestic and international affairs (Depression, Potato Famine in Ireland, revolutions, etc.); hunger today. Many students may be surprised to learn that 14 million children in the U.S. face food insecurity.
The Project: Each group will decide upon a project that provides solutions to hunger. The most ambitious project would be solutions to world hunger; however, most groups will select an option of solutions for individual countries. Their options might include the one of the top 10 countries where hunger is an issue or hunger in the U.S., which is not one of these 10.
The project will involve thorough and detailed research into their selection and then a considered and structured problem-solving process to determine potential solutions. Solutions must be plausible and long-term. *
Options for presentation can be given, within certain boundaries. A written report should not be an option. Art or music projects, plays, animated videos, movies, podcasts, “interviews,” etc. are all options. There can also be co-curricular activities, if the scheduling structure is conducive.
* Students create a prototype to illustrate or an add campaign to raise awareness or to raise funding to help with the problem.
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