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.

The First Tulip 360

The value of looking at things from different angles…

EnFORCING Actual Thinking: 200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 minutes

The Energy Opportunities Project is up and running as students link energy to their lives and today, to world issues. Or do they? Making the best of a Valentine’s Day lull in engagement. Who’d have predicted that?

Tap Dancing, Teaching and Learning

From TAP to actual tap – lessons for teachers as learners as well as for fun and fitness.

Feeling Forces – Making Bridges with Kids

Kids making bridges with their own bodies helps them remember where materials are under compression and tension in suspension, beam and arch bridges. And it’s like a camp game for team building. Very fun and different. How-to included.

Snapshots for the Science of Bridges

Awaken creativity in the service of science with the forbidden technology, shh, cell-phones… Plus Ca Science Teacher Conference workshop information and invitation.

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.

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.

Relaxing and Re-focussing…

…on photography, friends, fitness and a really good idea.

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…