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What is Project-Based Learning?
Based on a Driving Question.
Students produce authentic product and presentation for a public audience.
Project focuses on key knowledge and understanding.
Students work collaboratively.
Project develops Success Skills (also named 21st Century skills).
Students have voice and choice.
Students critique and revise.
Project-based Learning Explained (3:49)
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Project-based learning is becoming increasingly popular as teachers look for a way to make lessons stick in the minds of their students. According to Edutopia, studies have shown that students who use project-based learning remember the material much longer and have healthier attitudes toward education.
Project-based learning is based on the idea that students learn best by tackling and solving real world problems. Students are much more engaged with the subject matter and look to the teacher as more of a coach who guides them through their own reflections and ideas. Project-based learning often involves students working in pairs or groups, thus facilitating a deeper understanding of cooperation and communication in solving problems. Continue reading here.
Project-Based Learning and the Common Core: Resource Roundup
by Andrew. Miller
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Are you a project-based learning (PBL) school aligning to the Common Core State Standards (CCSS)? Are you a CCSS-aligned district needing to see the connections between the CCSS and PBL? Either way, here are some resources for you, broken down into three categories. Continue reading here.
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