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Sam Seidel, educator and author of Hip Hop Genius, will be a keynoter at PBL World in June. He offers a preview in this Q&A for Edutopia.-
Project Based Learning - Thank you, Suzie. This is wonderful insight into what Sam will have to offer at PBL World. We look forward to hearing him in person and hope that many members of our community are able to join us at PBL World. http://www.pblworld.org- Yesterday
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After teaching the first of two Octopus themed lessons to my young learners this afternoon I suddenly found myself reading more and more about octopuses. They are really interesting creatures.
I happened to come across an INTERVIEW WITH AN OCTOPUS that I thought could be exploited in a language arts/ESL or science class.
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Hey PBLers! As you know I write many blogs on PBL. When I write, I always want to make sure that I am writing to help teachers in the classroom. That being said, I would appreciate any topics to write about that will help you. Look over my blogs if you have the time!-
Mr. Luebbe - Mr. Miller. Where is your blog. i also blog on edtech at http://doesitcatchmice.blogspot.com/ . I'd also suggest you check out http://www.simceo.org as a unique PBL resource.- Feb 19, 2012
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Mr. Miller - Click above to find all my blog posts, thank you for the resources
- Feb 19, 2012
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Rabbi Yehuda Chanales - I have been enjoying your blogposts and would love to hear your thoughts on classroom management during PBL- especially for high school students. How do you deal with absent students? Students who do not complete their work and have difficulty scheduling? What are the best ways to determine which students to work with during class time?- Feb 19, 2012
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Mr. Miller - http://www.andrewkmiller.com/2011/09/twenty-t... Did you read this one? :)
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Mr. Luebbe - Thanks Andrew. Your blog looks really cool. i've subscribed and look forward to reading more.
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Mrs. Beaty - I also love your blogs on PBL. Similar to Mr. Miller, I would appreciate your thoughts on classroom management but with young students. I teach 1st grade and currently have 6 groups working on different products that were assigned by choice. It's fun but crazy. The students do well with collaborating but at their young age a lot of management goes into making sure they are all on task. I would love to read what others are doing.- Feb 20, 2012
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Mr. Miller - Mrs. Beaty, great blog idea!
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I teach high school math in the most easternly cityin North America. I have been given the go ahead to flip my advanced grade 11 class next year. I plan to meet with the parents next month when course selections are determined. Any suggestions on handouts etc? I'm in the middle of preparing a presentation. I am also going to do PBL (i know, im nuts) wiith my flipped class and partial PBL with my other math classes, so I would love to connect with another class to maybe work on a project together.-
Mr. Miller - Here are some blogs I wrote about Math, PBL and Common Core! Hope it helps
http://www.andrewkmiller.com/tag/math/- Feb 18, 2012
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Project Based Learning - You might want to check out our Math and PBL webinar archive. You can find it in our "collection" in the webinars' folder.
- Feb 19, 2012
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Mr. Bannister - Thanks for the responses. I will check out the resources you mentioned.
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Mrs. Meyers - Where is the folder pertaining to the PBL webinar? I would like any information you could provide about webinars for professional development, preferably free :-)- Feb 19, 2012
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Project Based Learning - Click on "collection" and then click on the folder "webinar". The webinar archive is located in that folder. All of our webinars are free, but you must register for them on our bie.org site.
- Feb 20, 2012
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Registration for PBL World is filling up fast! Be sure to claim your spot and spend a week with PBL experts for our signature PBL 101 workshop and our advanced PBL 201 sessions. We will also have keynotes from Cindy Johanson of Edutopia, author Sam Seidel of Hip Hop Genius: Remixing High School Education, and global educational thought leader and author Yong Zhao. It will be an incredible learning opportunity and a chance to interact with PBL teachers from all over the world!
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Visit our project website about our cross-curriculum project "Investigating the past of our city" and leave your comments on our website blog. -
Any ideas for PBL in a first grade classroom?-
Mrs. Lyons - I had my student research an animal they were interested in, read books on their topic, tell about how it lives, where it lives, and what it eats. They needed to create a poster for their project and present it to the class. My kiddos loved this activity as we spent several days in class just working on the project.- Feb 18, 2012
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Ms. Schmidt - Good idea! Thanks!
- Feb 18, 2012
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Project Based Learning - Remember that one of the major elements of PBL is to have a public audience. You might want to think about how you could extend this idea beyond the classroom.
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Ms. Baker - After reading about schools around the world our first graders choose a subject that they would like to add to the curriculum (dance, martial arts, cooking, etc). They make a Keynote or PowerPoint that has 5 slides. 1-title slide 2-slide with subject they wish to see and a graphic to support 3-one benefit of adding the subject to the curriculum 4-one thing they could after learning the new content that they can't do now 5-bibliography slide. This is their first PBL project of the year. It is completed in pairs.- Feb 18, 2012
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Ms. Baker - Another first grade project utilizes face time on iPad 2. Each first grade class decides on a career to research. The class finds a person in that career field. The worker takes an iPad 2 (from the school) to his or her job site. Using a second iPad 2 the class connects with the worker and conducts an interview and gets to take a tour. Each class prewrites the interview questions. The interview is recorded and then the video is imported into iMovie and the class edits. The videos are housed on our school server and each class watches the other classes interviews.
- Feb 18, 2012
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Ms. Schmidt - That is amazing that you can do that with your students! It might be something I can tweak a little, because we don't have iPads. Very cool!
- Feb 18, 2012
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Ms. Baker - I have a lot more PBL ideas. We are a magnet school for communication and technology and we are also a PBL school :-)
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Ms. Baker - If you don't have iPads or iPods with FaceTime Skype works great. We have used that too!!
- Feb 19, 2012
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Mr. Smith - I've had students work on mixing the skeletal systems of their favorite animals (maybe pair the kids up) and then we have them re-create them digitally using Photoshop or Pixlr. We follow that up with clay models and stop-motion animation (claymation). Here's a couple of links to samples you can build your curriculum off of...really fun PBL...and wait to see the names they come up with for their animals!
http://youtu.be/CpQdDaqrE-A
more...- Feb 19, 2012
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Mrs. Beaty - My first grade students have completed three projects and will wrap up our 4th one in 2 weeks. The first one started the second week of school. Students were asked what makes a successful learning community. We tied in our social studies standards about making rules, community, and democracy. Students read a variety of books and looked at primary sources such as our school's mission statement and the US constitution. They also interviewed our principal. In teams students came up with the most important concepts or words to add to our class constitution. Then together we more...
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Ms. Schmidt - Awesome! That is inspiring to hear what you've all been up to with your first graders! Thank you for the ideas!
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Mrs. Powers - if you use twitter - are you following @grade1 - she has great info, resources, ideas....- Yesterday
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Ms. Schmidt - No, I don't use Twitter... should I?
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Project Based Learning - Twitter is a great way to connect with professionals and engage in conversations surrounding your areas of interest. There is also a #pblchat on Tuesday evenings at 9:00 PM EST.
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For those of you new to our Edmodo Community, be sure to check out our resources in our "Collection" section!
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Does anyone have any good ideas for PBL in a Spanish classroom?-
Mrs. Straub - I second that!! Fabulous question as I too have been wondering for a while!- Feb 16, 2012
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Mrs. Straub - (My only idea is something to do with Lucha Libre towards the end of the year. My kids are interested in that, and there are lots of good cultural "hooks" to get them really involved and interested...)
- Feb 16, 2012
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Mr. Smith - I think that you could wrap any cultural project in ribbon of PBL. But how can we put grammar and vocabulary into it and make a nice unit?
- Feb 17, 2012
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Mr. Miller - How can your students learn specifics aspects of spanish culture and/or language AND provide a need, service, solve a problem? Think about this...
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Mr. Smith - The problem is being able to relate to another group, most Americans take the perspective of why should I learn another language, little less another culture, when they should learn mine. The need to be able to get along in an ever growing global market. If you don't understand the culture of the group being studied the language, in most cases is of little use. Culture is always the hook in FL.
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Mr. Miller - Ok good idea! I like the culture hook! Do you want them to learn the Culture standards for this project AND/OR language. I would advise to focus the inquiry.
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Mr. Smith - Both the culture standards and language acquisition. They go hand in hand and can't be seperated.
- Feb 19, 2012
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Mr. Miller - Which language acquisition targets? PBLs intent is to go in depth on specific targets, not "cover"
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Project Based Learning - Mrs. Smith - Be sure to check out our webinar archive on the 8 Essential Elements of PBL. This may help you to design a true PBL experience for your students. The webinar is located in the "Collections" section of this site.
- Feb 19, 2012
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Register for our free upcoming webinars on PBL & Web 2.0, PBL & Service Learning, and PBL for School Leaders!
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Mrs. Jacob - The webinar topics are great. Thanks for the reminder!- Feb 17, 2012
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Visit the website we made with our students during our project- The place where I live: Investigating the past. Please leave all you comments on the website's blog.
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Presented at PETE&C this week on Challenge Based Learning with my students. Thank you BIE for the ongoing inspiration and resources that supported my PD and allowed my kids to shine! The blog post was beautifully written on the Discovery blog and can be seen here: http://networkedblogs.com/tVxvr-
Dr. Mergendoller - Thank you (!) Ms. Brinson for the kind words about BIE. Just looked at your blog. The PSVs are excellent. Would it be OK to show these as examples of excellent student work in our PD workshops?- Feb 17, 2012
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Ms. Brinson - Dr Mergendoller - Absolutely, use whatever you'd like. We would be flattered. The kids did excellent work and I am very proud of their work and their presentation at PETE&C.
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I am currently working on my first PBL unit in a Bible/literature class. So far, my biggest challenge in classes of 11th and 12th graders has been student absences. With different students missing each day for extracurricular activities or just being seniors, how can I manage a class that is dependent on consistent group work? How/can I ask students to continue working on their projects when their fellow group members are absent? How can I hold absent students responsible for their work without overburdening them?
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Sueann Galt - If students use Google Docs, Skype/Twitter/Chat and/or Edmodo, the absent students can still collaborate with team members.- Feb 14, 2012
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Mr. Lowe - For more demanding tasks, they could use vyew.com our years used it during the revolution.- Feb 14, 2012
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Mr. Lowe - Year 6s :-)
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We, at High Tech High, just posted a Teacher's Guide to Project Based Learning: Work that Matters. You can download it directly on our homepage at http://www.hightechhigh.org
Hope others enjoy and find it helpful!-
Mr. Solis - Thanks for posting the great resource Ms. McBain. HTH is such a great source for inspiration! aL- Feb 13, 2012
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Project Based Learning - Our National Faculty enjoyed visiting HTH last fall. Thank you for posting the great resource!
- Feb 14, 2012
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Ms. Hutchison - Hello Ms. Mc Bain ... I cant seem to find the document you mentioned...- Feb 15, 2012
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Project Based Learning - Try this link: http://www.innovationunit.org/sites/default/f...
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Mr. Miller - The link above doesn't work either! :(
- Feb 19, 2012
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Project Based Learning - It has been uploaded to the "Collections" section of this site. You can view the .pdf in the "Articles" folder.
- Feb 19, 2012
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A while back I posted a request for help on a CSI/Forensics unit I was doing for the first time. Thanks to all of you that posted with help, questions and comments. Here is what I ended up with. Each student group came up with their own crime scene, evidence, suspects etc. Now we are going to solve the first crime. Thanks to a couple of you edmodo friends I made this handout. I am going to do a notebook assessment based on the entries from the attached handout. Each part has to get into their notebooks and each part is evaluated. Thanks again, and hope this is useful to some of you.A while back I posted a request for help on a CSI/Forensics unit I was doing for the first time. Thanks to all of you that posted with help, questions and comments. Here is what I ended up with. Each student group came up with their own crime scene, evidence, suspects etc. Now we are going to solve the first crime. Thanks to a couple of you edmodo friends I made this handout. I am going to do a notebook assessment based on the entries from the attached handout. Each part has to get into their notebooks and each part is evaluated. Thanks again, and hope this is useful...Show Full Post-
Mr. Spencer - Mr. Maurer,
We did a forensic's based science unit that tied in language arts and had the students write a choose-your-own-adventure book based on their findings. If you're interested in sharing ideas, email me at jtspencer@msddecatur.k12.in.us
Thanks!
Jeff- Feb 14, 2012
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Here's a timely resource for schools interested in addressing tough issues like bullying or intolerance. Not in Our Town: Class Actions is a new PBS documentary about 3 campuses that took a courageous stand. It's accompanied by online resources for schools ready to launch their own student-driven projects and be "upstanders" for tolerance. Great service-learning possibilities, and the current campaign includes mini-grants for teachers and video/art competitions for students. Details in the accompanying post.
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Mr. Linet - What kind of pre-algebra/algebra can be worked into the project? Any ideas on the use of variables, equations, proportional reasoning? I would think somehow being able to use angles of entry, similar triangle to find distance, use of distance=rate*time problems?- Feb 17, 2012
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How can using a "Flipped Classroom" support you in your project? http://www.eschoolnews.com/2012/02/09/a-first... -
Help! I would like to do a project based unit on weather. The unit must cover weather, climate, water cycle, ocean currents and atmosphere ( I am using a SEPUP Weather and Atmosphere kit) Ideas as to where I could go with this?
My initial thought is to have students research a place of interest, find monthly averages, use those to decide what climate their city is in, research the most common weather related disaster there and come up with an explanation of the weather disaster along with a disaster preparedness plan. This could be done as a web page, "infomercial", I don't know...
Ideas to push my thinking further? I would like their project to have some type of community connection.Help! I would like to do a project based unit on weather. The unit must cover weather, climate, water cycle, ocean currents and atmosphere ( I am using a SEPUP Weather and Atmosphere kit) Ideas as to where I could go with this?Show Full Post
My initial thought is to have students research a place of interest, find monthly averages, use those to decide what climate their city is in, research the most common weather related disaster there and come up with an explanation of the weather disaster along with a disaster preparedness plan. This could be done as a web page, "infomercial",...-
Project Based Learning - Perhaps identifying all of the 8 elements of PBL will ensure you have a well designed project. http://www.youtube.com/user/BIEPBL#p/c/A7998A...
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Mary Bowker - I am working on something similar...I am going to use some of the ideas from the "Adopt a City" lesson plan on the following website
http://www.middleschoolscience.com/earth.htm
I love the idea of the disaster preparedness plan!- Feb 13, 2012
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Does anyone have any ideas for PBL units in elementary general music? While there are many performance based projects, I am trying to "stretch my wings" and go other directions. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated!-
Mrs. Bauer - There is some great stuff on Stephen wrights website. Just google wrightstuffmusic- Feb 10, 2012
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Ms. Allen - I saw a great project called "Sing-a-grams." students created songs for sick children at a local children's hospital and recorded the songs onto those digital recordable cards. In this case, the teacher allowed the students to select and use a well known nursery rhyme and write and sing new lyrics. You could reframe it in terms of your specific instructional focus. It was really successful in terms of student engagement. Lots of lessons in empathy. The sick children were really thankful. Hope this helps!- Feb 12, 2012
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Mrs. Rutherford - These are great resources / ideas. Thanks!
- Feb 14, 2012
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Mrs. Beaty - My class is doing a project on helping our environment and one group decided to create a song to address the problem and possible solutions. They wrote the lyrics, added instruments and music, and will be recording it tomorrow.
- Feb 15, 2012
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Sign up for our next free webinars. PBL & Web 2.0 and PBL for Leaders. Each webinar is offered at two different times, but does require pre-registration.
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Mrs. Sotiriou - Hello from Greece
I was trying to register for one of the webinars but cannot find time converter for European timezone
is it possible to help me?
Thank you C.Sotiriou- doukas school- Feb 12, 2012
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Mr. Solis - Use this...http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/convert...
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Mrs. Sotiriou - thank you
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