project based learning in the elementary years

Project Based Learning

in the Elementary Years

Facilitator: Steve Chase

Presentation Online at: http://bit.ly/pblele

To learn something to enrich our practice,

and to find a way to make room for it.

Our Definition of 21st Century

Learning

We want our

learners to be...

We want our

learners to be able

to...

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BC’s Definition of 21st Century

Learning:

• Assessment

for Learning

• Social

Emotional

Learning

• 21st

Century

Learning

• Curiousity

• Connection

• Creation

Know Want to Know Learned

PBL Inquiry

Know Want to Know How Learned Action Questions

● I first saw this on the Langwitches blog here:

http://langwitches.org/blog/2011/07/21/upgrade-your-kwl-chart-to-the-21st-century/

● The original source is John Barell’s book “Why are School Busses Yellow”

http://www.morecuriousminds.com/bus.htm

PBL Inquiry+

What do we know about Project

Based Learning (PBL)?

What do we want to know about

PBL?

Question Formulating

Technique:

1. Prompt:

a. PBL has the potential to

enrich student learning

2. Rules:

a. Ask as many question as you

can

b. do not stop to discuss,

judge, or answer the

questions

c. write down every question

as it was stated

d. change statements into

questions

What do we want to know about

PBL?

Question Formulating

Technique:

3. Improve Questions:

a. Open vs Closed Q’s

4. Prioritize

a. Choose 4 Q’s you want to

explore

5. Next Steps

6. Reflect

Here’s another “Asking Questions Activity”

How: BIE Definition of PBL

http://pbl-

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How: Options for Project Exploration

1. Series of Short Summaries of

Projects and Authentic Roles

(book)

2. Detailed Summaries of Projects

(book)

3. From Worms to Wall Street -

Students and Teachers of various

Grades describe projects

4. Anatomy of a Project: Soil

Superheros Video -an

interdisciplinary 7th grade project

5. Kindergarten Project Presentation

6. Elementary Project: Courtyard

Redesign

7. Caine’s Arcade Style Project

Based Learning

8. Genius Hour: Student Directed

Passion Projects

Learned

? ?

? ?

Anatomy of a Project: Soil

Superheros

Caine’s Arcade Style: Project Based

Learning

Original Caine’s Arcade Video

From Worms to Wall Street

Kindergarten Project Presentation

Elementary Project: Courtyard

Redesign

Genius Hour

How: Planning Resources

Handout - BIE Project Overview

1. Backward Planning Resource by Angela Wilkins (TL at Van Bien)

2. Project Planning Document

3. Project Based Planning Sheets

To learn something to enrich our practice,

and to find a way to make room for it.

Know Want to Know How Learned Action Questions

Please feel free to connect:

schase@sd57.bc.ca

@Chase_Steve