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Here is an article for parents that will help explain a little more about PBL and what you can do at home to encourage them when they are also at school!
We have already begun our healthy living PBL (the week after Halloween) and it will continue until the week prior to Science Camp (in February). There will be a Health Fair here at Burnett on Thursday, February 8th in the morning. There are are total of 5 classrooms (5th and 6th) working on various parts of this PBL and we would all love to have parents here on that day!
What have we done so far?
Using our Driving Question: How can we convince our community to lead healthy lifestyles?
Student were teamed up to create a list of Need to Knows that they will continue investigating over the course of this PBL.
Students researched several days and also got a closer look at analyzing what is really in some of those chemicals when we brought in a Taco Bell Nachos Bell Grande and had them investigate just what makes them so "yummy"...?
Students then were placed in their PBL Groups and started to look at the farming industry and created slideshow presentations.
What are we working on now?
Students are investigating good fat versus bad fat, as well other nutritional label information with their own favorite foods and snacks. They started by looking at an avocado and comparing it to a bag of hot cheetos.
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