1. PROJECT BASED LEARNING
What is PBL?

2. Driving Question:
What is project based learning and how is it different from traditional teaching and learning?

3. This is a quick video to give you an overall idea/synopsis of what PBL looks like.

4. Knows & Need to Knows Knows: Need to Knows:
What do you know about the PBL?
What do you need to know about PBL?
Knowing that this is a part of our strategic plan and that our district is moving more towards performance tasks and PBL in order to achieve the 4 Cs, take a few minutes to create your list of knows and need to knows about project based learning.

5. What is the difference between projects and project-based learning?
Walk & Talk
Examine the graphic
Create a list of the similarities and differences between traditional projects and PBL
Find a walking partner or triad (consider someone who is not sitting at your table group)

6. Walk & Talk

7. What is the difference between projects and project-based learning?
While walking, talk about the following questions:
1. What differences stand out most to you?
2. What did you find most surprising or interesting and why?
3. Which do you think would be the easiest to implement and why?
4. Which do you think would be the most difficult to implement and why?
Walk & Talk

8. Projects vs. PBL PBL PROJECTS Explore the curriculum
Driving question or problem statement
Creates a reason to learn
Lectures, reading, assignments build skills for project completion (through application)
Learn content through completion (doing) of project
Real-world connection
Public product/ Presentation of knowledge
PROJECTS
Large or small activities after being pushed through
Assignments
Lectures
Reading
Usually a culminating event for a unit or semester
Only demonstration of knowledge learned
May or may not have a real-world connection

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