Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, but how do you get started with Project Based Learning?

Overwhelmed by advice? Not sure you want to build a papier mache whale in your multipurpose room like you saw in someone else’s school that your principal pointed out to you? Here’s a slightly more distilled version of advice to get started from the school of hard knocks.

Socrates Cafe “How do you feel about the future?”

How DO kids feel about the future and what do they think energy and oil has to do with it? Krissy Hopper, student teacher ran it and comments in a guest blog today.

The Projectile Project – let’s do launch

Launching the first, very small project of the school year – a light lead-in to project based learning that was a hit, although not literally. Yet.

“All we have to fear is fear itself.”

Truman’s famous quote from the depths of the depression rings true today in the classroom, and in the wider world.

The Start of a Project Based Learning Community?

How to get started with Project Based Learning – boiling it down to a very few pieces: Linking to our own lives, time to brainstorm compelling questions, and a whole lot of resources.

PBL + Standardized Test Results = ?

What was the effect of a project-based 8th grade curriculum on standardized test scores?

Problems with Projects – TAP and POP come home to roost.

Posters for TAP are in. POP multi medias are supposed to be. Here are some things students needed more help with…

Problems with Oil Project – The movie

This is the whole thing in pictures with music, captions and pics of the people who might solve some of the problems with oil.

The “Magic” of Lego Machines

Four kinds of magic actually

The Great Carbon Race, evidence and the A, B, Cs of the working world.

A wild diversity of ways to approach saving carbon and showing what they did, from amazing to a parent note saying ‘My son saved carbon, signed, Mom’. How well do 8th graders understand the concept of ‘evidence’, and how this kind of project relates to the working world?