Putting the Passion in PBL

Putting the Passion in PBL

Today’s Objectives:Participants will gain background knowledge about Problem Based Learning and how to integrate PBL into a standards- based curriculum.

IntroductionsPBL Overview

How To Create a PBLSharing PBL Examples

*Essential Question*Building Background knowledge to prepare for research*Students generate questions to answer

*Teacher Produced*Collect information to report out

Pre-StandardsStandards BasedCurriculum

RESEARCH

PRODUCTS

TOPIC

*Teacher directed research*Books

*Web-based*Interviews*Collaborative

*May be student choice*May present to classroom*Teacher creates groups*One group the whole project

*Student driven *Student Choice*Includes authentic and meaningful presentation*Myriad of products not always using tech*Groups form by interest, student choice w/ guidance, may change throughout process

RESEARCH

PRODUCTS/GROUPS

ASSESSMENT

*Student input on rubrics*Standards based*Listening & speaking crucial*Many small assessments along the way to check standards are being met

*Teacher decision*One grade at the end

CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT*Set up at the beginning of the year for the class to run smoothly.

*Set up specifically for student collaboration and independence

Concept

Develop concept based on recurring themes and patterns in the standards.

Essential• Open ended• Thought provoking• Higher order thinking

skills• Transferrable• Inquiry generating• Requires support• Repeatable over time

Driving• Make the abstract

concrete• Engage students• Open ended• Higher order

thinking skills• Directly connected

to: Content Problem Project

Guiding• Student or teacher

created• Focused research• Numerous• Somewhat open

ended• May be inferential• Basic content

knowledge• Feed the driving

question

Turn and Talk:

Think about the standards you are currently using, what overarching concepts and essential questions can you envision?

Second Grade: Structure and Properties of Matter

Concept: Change

Essential Question: How does matter change?

Based on these big ideas what would you use as driving and guiding questions in this unit?

• Explicit content knowledge

• Skills to be assessed

Building Background Knowledge-For example “Life Cycles”SIOP Strategy for Background Knowledge

Teaching

RESEARCH

• Web-based research. Use text and web resources responsibly

• Collaborative- teams of students with similar questions can work together to gather information and data

• Use community members and other experts-have a bank of experts on hand for the school or classroom that can be used throughout the year for different projects

Community Fair Clip• Surveys and interviews-students gain knowledge about

the topic by creating surveys and interview questions

First Graders learned about the life cycle of a plant by exploring and observing seeds, growing their own plants,

and studying the plant environment in Ben Franklin’s Courtyard.

Once students learned what plants need to grow, they brainstormed ways to test the variables.

Inquiry wheel

Scientific Inquiry Wheel

Students changed one variable and controlled the other 3.

Plants need…

PRODUCTS AND GROUPING

Student Grouping:• Interest Based• Product Based• Reflection on collaboration is

ongoing using daily updates and a final collaboration rubric

PRODUCTS AND GROUPING

EAB Final Presentation- iMovie

Student Driven Products-Not always tech based

Authentic Presentations to more than just peers

Emerald Ash Borer

Glogster Online Posters

Brochures

Power Point Presentations

Turn and Talk: What type of final presentations or products would be most beneficial for your students to be a part of?

ASSESSMENT

Standards Based• Short Quizzes along the way• Assess while teaching background

knowledge• Rubrics created with students using

standards

Listening and Speaking Standards can be assessed with final presentations

Deconstruction Example

• What aspects of Problem Based Learning do you still have questions

about?

Basic Info

• Sarah Rodriguez – srodriguez@d41.org

• Stacy Slater– sslater@d41.org

• Slide Share– http://

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