Camas Ridge Community School

PBL Workshop June 25, 2009

Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.

- Plato

Today1. Brain acrobatics - ShoeTech2. Assessment3. Today’s Tech - Essential

Learning Functions4. Project Planning5. Critical Friends 6. Project Refining

7.….

Assessment

Rubrics and our content standards

Assessment Timelines - Intel example

To Do

• Tuning protocol - upload and slide/handout on method

• Sara Armstrong elementary skype call 10:00

• Send Wally the activity based v. pbl slide - add “interesting now” --> “enduring”

• Storage of project plans• Next steps - David’s idea• Revisit parking lot…. Something missing• Invoice to Theresa• Course syllabus to Lynne A-I for approval

Thematic Unit• Read, write,

do math with apples

• Visit an orchard

• Make apple sauce

• Taste test• Paint and draw

apples• Put on a

Johnny Appleseed play

PBLWhere did the apples in my store come from? “Why these apples?”

preference, availability“How did they get from the tree to here?”

labor, distribution systems“Did grandma eat these apples at my age?”

change over time

Activity based v. PBL

Thematic Unit• Read, write,

do math with apples

• Visit an orchard

• Make apple sauce

• Taste test• Paint and draw

apples• Put on a

Johnny Appleseed play

PBLWhere did the apples in my store come from? “Why these apples?”

preference, availability“How did they get from the tree to here?”

labor, distribution systems“Did grandma eat these apples at my age?”

change over time