Curriculum Leadership Course

Project Learning in Project Learning in ChemistryChemistry

Fong Wai HungScience Section

2002

Project Learning• 'What we want... is for students to

get more interested in things, more involved in them, more engaged in wanting to know; to have projects that they can get excited about and work on over long periods of time, to be stimulated to find things out on their own.'

• Howard Gardner

Project Learning andLearning to Learn

Project Learning• Project Learning is a powerful learning and te

aching strategy to promote self-directed and self-regulated learning as well as self-reflection within and across Key Learning Areas (KLAs).

• Project Learning usually starts with a challenging question or a problem, and involves students in working together or individually to plan, read and make decisions over a period of time.

Project Learning and other Key Tasks

• Four Key Tasks: – Moral and Civic Education– Reading to Learn– Project Learning– IT for Interactive Learning

• The Four Key Tasks are inter-connected. Making use of one may help to strengthen learning in another, thus producing an overall beneficial impact on student learning.

Project Learning

• Project Learning enables students to construct and connect knowledge, skills, values and attitudes through a variety of activities. These activities often involve other Key Tasks, particularly Reading to Learn, and are conducive to students’ development of moral and civic values.

Project Learning• Project Learning can be used as a

separate learning and teaching strategies to achieve particular learning targets and objectives or to develop students’ potentials.

• Project Learning can work with other Key Tasks and put into action together to achieve a number of learning targets, objectives or unintended learning outcomes.

Project Learning and Generic Skills

Project Learning & Multiple Intelligence(MI)

• Linguistic Intelligence 語文• Logical-Mathematical Intelligence 邏緝、數學 • Spatial Intelligence 空間 • Bodily-kinesthetic Intelligence 肢體、動覺• Musical Intelligence 音樂• Interpersonal Intelligence 人際• Intrapersonal Intelligence 內省• Naturalistic Intelligence 自然觀察者(Frames of Mind, Howard Gardner, 1983)

Problem Management (PL/GS)

• Project Learning usually starts with a question and a problem. It asks students to view the problem from several perspectives and explore different ways to approach the question or problem.

• Creativity, critical thinking and problem solving skills fall into this category.

Information Management (PL/GS)

• Project Learning asks students to acquire, organise, and present information in verbal, numerical and graphic modes.

• Numeracy skills, information technology skills and study skills fall into this category.

Personal Management (PL/GS)

• Project Learning requires students to plan and manage their work.

• Collaboration skills, communication skills and self-management skills fall into this category.

Project Learning Process

Learning Activities

1. Planning 計劃2. Reading 閱讀資料3. Observing 觀察4. Judging 判斷5. Enquiring 提問6. Communicating 溝通7. Theorising 建立理論

Implementing tip #1• Training

– Prepare students to• review their concepts and

understanding about scientific investigation or inquiry

•develop students’ thinking skills like brain storming and discussion

•develop their practical and communication skills

• learn how to develop a plan and write a report

Implementing tip #2• Projects involving experimental

work– Remind students to consider safety

issues– Provide adequate safety instruction

and feedbacks to students’ plans– Provide personal protection

equipment (PPE) and access to fume cupboard etc. for students and remind them to use

Essential Quality of Project Learning

• Project Learning is not mere data-collection or scrapbook-creation set as homework.

• It should not be used only for assessing students’ end-products.

• The learning process should not be overlooked.

。興趣為先。定題具體。 一手資料。。中途報告。深入淺出。分配時間。

Project Work Assessment

Why Assess Project Learning?

Know what students can doPromote learningDevelop confidenceDevelop students’ ability to learnDiagnose students’ weakness so as to provide assistanceUnderstand whether students’ acquire problem solving skills

Which of the following is/are the purposes of assessing project work?

Assessment of Project Learning

• It is concerned with students’ learning process as well as outcomes to enable assessment of a range of connected knowledge, skills and attitudes.

• Students’ learning outcomes can be presented in a variety of forms, such as exhibition, oral presentation, written report, CD-ROM, web-page, models, etc.

• It enables teachers to provide continuous feedback to students to guide their learning. Apart from teachers, students and other people may also take part in the assessment.

Assessment Methods

Teacher as assessor• Students’ products• Project learning process –

observation, questioning, etc.• Students’ oral presentationStudent as assessor • Peer Assessment• Group leader’s assessmentOther means?

Project Work Competitions

Chemistry Olympiad

http://cd.ed.gov.hk/sci

                      

        

Project Learning Competition

• Hong Kong Student Science Project Competition 2003– http://www.hksspc.gov.hk

Hong Kong Student Science Project Competition

• An invention (Type A project): • A new and original product created by the

students, utilizing their scientific knowledge as well as imagination. The product should be demonstrated to be workable.

• An investigation of scientific phenomena or application of scientific theories (Type B project):

• This can be in the form of a paper report, with the support of experimental data and results.

Hong Kong Youth Science & Technology Invention Contest

http://www.newgen.org.hk

Summary• A worthwhile learning experience

– Skills – scientific method, practical skills, information searching skills, problem solving, …

– Values – confidence, collaboration, integrity, …

• Help students to develop a number of valuable attributes – Problem management– Information management– Personal management

• Integrate with other key tasks like “moral and civic education”, “reading to learn” and “IT for interactive learning”

• Broaden vision

Project Learning Ideas

A Chemistry Project Learning Idea

Aluminium Chlorine-bleach Cell (ACC)

Experience Sharingby Teachers

Ms KY Chan (Buddhist Tai Hung College)Mr YC Chan (United Christian College)Mr KT Cheng (United Christian College)Mr KC Pun (SKH Tsang Shiu Tim Sec Sch)

Reference

• http://cd.ed.gov.hk/sci• http://cd.ed.gov.hk/projectlearning• http://www.hksspc.gov.hk

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