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Project Based Learning: Linking Nutrition and Common Core to Engage Students Valerie Parsons, M.Ed., M.A.
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Project Based Learning: Linking Nutrition and Common Core to Engage StudentsValerie Parsons, M.Ed., M.A.
Driving Question
How can we use nutrition to develop projects that makes content meaningful to students?
Knows/Need to Knows
What We Know about PBL…
What We Need to Know about PBL…
•Increases student motivation and engagement in learning
•Is more effective than traditional instruction in increasing academic achievement
•Improves student retention of knowledge over time
•Improves mastery of 21st century skills
•Is especially effective with lower-achieving students
•And, prepares students for new types of assessment…
Research says that Project Based Learning…
I Choose “C”.
Smarter Balance Assessment
How to Find Examples of Smarter Balance Test Questions
MUSD Nutrition Education
3 years of Nutrition Education Curriculum
On-line Pacing Guide provided for each year, divided into 3 grade spans: K-2, 3-5, 6-8
How to access the MUSD Nutrition Education Go to the MUSD website
Click on District Departments
Click on Network for a Healthy California
Click on MUSD Nutrition Education, then select the year and grade level.
Each Pacing Guide has the following components:
MUSD Nutrition Education Pacing Guide Year 1, Grades K-2
Month Aug/Sept Oct/Nov Dec/Jan Feb/Mar April/May
Nutrition Ed Lesson (Based on CA Health Ed. Standards)
MyPlate(Essential Concepts)
Food Groups(Analyzing influences)
I Spy: Nutrition Facts Label (Accessing Valid Health Information)
ShipwreckedIngredients List (Accessing Valid Health Information)
Convincing Others to Make Healthy Food Choices (Health Promotion)
Lesson Extension (connected to Common Core)
Write an informative/ explanatory piece: “My Favorite Healthy Food”
Presentation: Create MyPlate Poem: MyPlate
Write an informative explanatory piece: The Life of a Fruit or Veggie
Write an opinion piece: MyPlate to My Family
Resources Song “Alive with 5” Article: “15 ways to use Halloween Candy”
Funmi and Friends Discuss MyPlate
Tasting Trio Recipes PhotoVoice Resources and Photovoice.org
Videos Have a healthy plate when eating out.
Fizzy’s Lunch Lab—It’s Halloween Night
Choose MyPlate: A Lyrical Rendition
Fun with Fruits The Vegetable Song
Kaiser Permanente Community Health Initiative
Video Games Lunch Crunch2 Blast Off! With MyPlate
MyPlate Match Game Smash Your Food Make a Shake Point of View
Project The Healthy Hearts, Minds and Bodies Project
Get to know the 8 Essentials of PBL:
1. Choose one of the 8 essentials.
2. Illustrate your element.3. Give examples of your
element from the video.4. List what you are
already doing at your school that relates to your element.
Elementary PBL
PBL Book p. 7
PBL Book p. 10-13 (Misconceptions)
PBL Book p. 14-15 (3 Ways to Fit PBL into
your day)
1. Begin with the end in mind2. Meaningful and relevant3. Must fulfill and educational purpose.
Developing a Project Idea
PBL Book p. 3-5, 20-26 (Name is important)
Creating a Powerful Driving Question
One of the most important parts of PBL
Gives the students a purpose for doing the project
Engages students by giving them a direct “charge” to take action.
PBL Book p. 5, 37-42
Instructors at the Marin School of Arts and Technology refine an abstract idea into a concrete driving question relating local Watersheds.
Now its your turn…. Craft the Driving Question for your project idea.
Complete the first page of the Project Overview through the driving question.
Start by just writing down any questions that come to mind, then revise those into a driving question.
This will take about 20-30 minutes!
Things to ponder on the drive home…
Does the Driving Question need further revision?
What will the students products be?
How will you hook the students to make the project relevant and meaningful?
Questions for me? Post them in the “Parking Lot”.
PBL Book p. 33-36 (Product ideas)
Additional Reading in the PBL Book:
PBL: A Portrait, p. 75
Managing a Project, p. 85
Day 2…
Welcome
Agenda
Answers to Questions
What CCSS will be taught and assessed?
PBL Book p. 46 (Where does the FAST
Framework fit in?)
21st Century Skills and Major Products and Performances
PBL Book p. 5, 8-9, 31
What is 21st Century Education?
Even Kinder and 1st graders can present!
Que son las plantas?
Stray Animals
Entry Event
Hooks the kids and makes it relevant
Develop an entry event for your project…
PBL Book p. 59-62
New Home Builder Seeks Answer to Your Dreams
A local Builder will be creating a new home development based upon his vision of geometry and art, But he needs your help. While his vision is important, he believes that every family should live in the house of their dreams, but for every family the dream is different. Unfortunately, he can’t build a different home for each family, but he can incorporate many different dream in each one. Help him to understand your dreams by constructing a model dream house with your team members that reflects aspects of each individuals dreams! You will have about 10 minutes to design the model using the materials provided: grapes and toothpicks! Each team will present their “Dream Home”.
Design Your Own Dream House Rubric
What is a Rubric?
A rubric is an assessment FOR learning vs. an assessment OF learning.
It sets clear expectations and/or exemplars.
Focus is on the learning outcomes, not on the task.
Empowers students and fosters responsibility for learning.
Guides revision and reflection.
It has 3 parts: Criteria—lists specific measures for the product or
performance (left column)
Scale—differentiates between levels of development (top row)
Descriptors—Descriptions of each criteria and scale
PBL Book p. 49-50, 100
(Assessing Critical Thinking)
Explore Rubric Builders:
Rubistar
Rubistar tutorial
Schrockguide
Roobrix: the right and wrong way to grade rubrics.
Play time:
Explore the websites for rubrics and then work as a team to build a rubric for your project. (Note: Collaboration rubrics and presentation rubrics are already provided. Instead, make a rubric for a debate, multimedia, Power Point, etc.)
86.66+86.66+ 73.33 + 60 = 306.65 / 4 = 77%
100% 86.66% 73.33% 60%
100% 90% 80% 70%
90+80+90+70=330/4=9 (82.5)
Resources and Reflections
Find Reflection Forms in Student Handout Section
PBL Book p. 113 (Reflections)
p. 146-152 (Samples)
PBL Book p. 66
(Project Calendar)
Project Revisions based on Feedback
Overview of MUSD Nutrition Education Projects Year 1-3
Healthy Hearts, Minds and Bodies
Healthy Choices=Healthy Life!
Food for Thought: News for a Healthy You!
Reflection: Likes, Dislikes, Next Steps…
Project Based Learning in action with Stephanie Harvey
Fish Bowl Reflection (draw a card) Goldfish: inside circle
Fishbowl: outside circle
Fish Bowl Prompts:
“I like…” (Goldfish share what they liked)
“I wonder…” (Goldfish share concerns or next steps)
“I have…” (Goldfish share ideas)
Project-Based Learning Resources
http://www.pbl-online.org/mod1/movies/msatmovie.htm
http://pbl-online.org/
http://www.edutopia.org/project-learning
http://www.bie.org/
Using Edmodo for PBL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KJmI1ZcBv8
PBL Book p. 55-58, 71-72
(On-line resources)
Closure, Evaluations, and Raffles!
