Teaching with Projects - Activity 4

Planning a Publication to Explain Projects - continued

  40 minutes

 

Step 2: Researching Project-Based Learning

During this step, you locate information about projects. Use the planning template in the Notebook.

Click here to see how you could optionally keep track of the information using one of the online tagging or bookmarking sites.

  1. Click here to go to the Intel® Designing Effective Projects resource.

  2. Explore the following sections available and decide which areas you need additional information about for your publication:

    1. Characteristics of Projects: The design elements used in planning a project-based project

    2. Planning Projects: Help with designing a classroom project, including how to use ongoing, learner-centred assessment strategies

    3. Curriculum-Framing Questions: How Focus and Content Questions spark interest and guide learning to higher levels of learner thinking and engagement

    4. Projects in Action: Examples of project-based approaches, changes in the roles of teachers and learners, and collaboration with those outside the classroom

    5. Open Project-based Learning Resources in the Project Learning section on the CD to locate additional resources on projects.


Step 3: Viewing Sample Publications

View sample publications on the CD for design and content ideas for your own newsletter, newspaper, brochure, or poster:

  1. Open the Sample Publications of interest in the Project Learning section on the CD.

  2. Note any ideas that you may want to include in your own publication.

 

Note Note:
For updated information on Designing Effective Projects go to the
Web Intel® Designing Projects website (optional)
For in-depth information on assessment, you can visit the
Web Intel® Assessing Projects resource (optional)

 

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