The Seven Essentials for Project Based Learning taught me many things I had not previously known. There are great ideas about introducing the projects and having a driving question. All seven of the topics listed are very important for PBL and essential to having a good PBL experience.
Project Based Learning for Teachers tells us about all that you can do with PBL. It explains how it ties in with common core standards and gives some benefits of using PBL over regular instruction in the classroom.
High School Teachers Meet the Challenges of PBL is all about high school teachers who come up with PBL for every subject - even math and PE. They discuss about how to come up with good ideas and presentation. This video bothered me a little because the teachers kept saying it was hard. You can't go into teaching for the summers and weekends off.
In What Motivates Students, students tell us what motivates them and what they like as rewards. There are all kinds of things that motivate them, like being told they did well and their visions of the future. It's hard to believe that project based learning can be used in every aspect in education, but it can!
PBL in PE is an article that starts telling us about the six standards PBL easily meets. It also gives the students to be more creative in an area that they don't always get to be creative in. They can meet higher fitness levels, and set their own goals.
PBL is so amazing. There is so much we have to learn and so much we can use it for. It's interesting, exciting, stimulating, and all around fun for everyone. The teacher gets to put their creativity into the project and then the students can take that and spiral it off and way they see fit. It's a great look for the future to have things this cool and easy so readily available.
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