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.

Activities for Atomic Theory and Atomic Issues

Check out activities with sheets and pics of some engaging games to teach the concepts of ‘isotope’ and of radioactive decay and half life. Beans, pennies and dice on rainy days, fun.

Concise Climate Change, for a Change

A less painful way to tackle climate change. No big secrets except a little lightness.

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?

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.

Re-engaging to Save the Civil in Civilization

Happy New Year? Let’s go!

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.

Rounding it up and going forward…

It was a really rugged end of the year for me and I’m trying to sort through why and what I’ll do/expect differently for next time.