Combining Academic Rigor and Student Self-Discovery in Project-Based Learning

 

Here is a project based learning article to go with the Muse Project in an English Class.  To read the article click here.

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3 Important Resources to Help You Integrate Project Based Learning in Your Classroom

 

Hope you had a great weekend.  If your interested in trying Project Based Learning here are three websites you should look at by clicking here,  hopefully after checking out my amazon.ca ads below.   If you are Canadian and making any amazon.ca purchase please click on my links below first as I will get a small commission on anything you buy even if it is something else.   Thanks.  This post may contain affiliate links that earns me  a commission at no extra cost to you.  Buy your Christmas gifts soon.

Teaching Social Justice and Anti-Racism: 5 Engaging Project Ideas

Here are five incredible project-based experiences teachers are using to teach these themes and five provocative questions as you consider designing your own.  To see them click here,  hopefully after checking out my amazon.ca ads below.  If you are Canadian and making any amazon.ca purchase please click on my links below first as I will get a small commission on anything you buy even if it is something else.   Thanks.  This post may contain affiliate links that earns me  a commission at no extra cost to you.

How Can You Use TikTok For Learning?

 

Well I could not stay away for too long.  Yes I am retired but I enjoyed posting something everyday so I will continue.  Maybe not every day during the summer but I will try.  Terry Heick posted an article about using Tik Tok in the classroom.  I am not big on social media but for some of the savior teachers might enjoy this and definitely some students will.  To see the article click here.

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Project Based Learning in Math

 

Larry Ferlazzo wrote an article entitled "Don’t ‘Make the Math Classroom a Project-Based-Learning-Free Zone".  If you teach math you might want to spare 9 minutes to read this article.  Click here to read it.

Curriki - Project Based Learning

On February 21 2014, I had a post on Project Based Learning (PBL).  See the post by clicking here.  Today I have another post on PBL 

There are 6 PBL projects in Geometry given here.  Each project includes rubrics to assess student teamwork, presentation and performance, and a suggested overall rubric for the project.  CurrikiGeometry was specifically designed to enable educators to differentiate instruction for each student.

The 6 projects are:

Selling Geometry

Designing a Winner

What's Your Angle, Pythagoras?

TED Talk: House of The Future

The Art of Triangles

How Random is My Life.

Project Based Learning

 

The following video and link is for a senior academic class.  The main concept used is Project Based Learning.  From Edutopia, "To succeed in today’s complex, dynamic, and globally connected world, students need to have a depth of understanding and learning that is far more than memorization and recollection of facts and figures. Rigorous project-based learning (PBL), as well as the skills and resources for achieving it, offers a promising pedagogical approach to helping all students succeed".  To see the article click here.