Project-Based Education
• Relating questions and technology relative to the students everyday lives to classroom projects
• Students form their own investigation of their own group which allows students to develop valuable research skills
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Project-Based Education
• Apply problem to a real life situation
• Engage in design, problem solving, decision making, and investigative activities
• Come up with ideas and realistic solutions or presentations
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Project-Based Education
• Provide complex tasks based on challenging questions or problems
• Involve the students' problem solving, decision making, investigative skills, and reflection
• Include teacher facilitation, but not direction
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Project-Based Education
• Focus on questions that drive students to encounter the central concepts and principles of a subject hands-on
• Apply these experiences to their lives in the real world
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Project-Based Education
• Think in original ways to come up with the solutions to real world problems
• Conduit for creative thinking skills by showing that there are many ways to solve a problem
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Project-Based Education
• Emphasize learning activities that are long-term, interdisciplinary and student-centered – Students must organize
their own work and manage their own time
– Students collaborate, working together to make sense of what is going on
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