Since I teach environmental science, I used the concept of making cattle farming (fascinating, I know!) a sustainable enterprise as the main problem, and participants went through all of the steps I would have students do in order to solve the problem. The purpose of the session was not to have participants actually solve the problem, but to experience the process of PBL. If you would like a link directly to the presentation itself (so you can access all of the documents linked within the presentation), click here. If you have any questions, please feel free to fire away in the comments.
I recently had the privilege of being a session facilitator at the IntegratED conference in much-warmer-than-here-in-Illinois city of Portland, Oregon last week. As a facilitator, we are challenged with making our sessions interactive rather than sit-and-get, which I really enjoy. That's why in my session on getting started with problem-based learning I decided to have participants actually do a problem-based lesson in the two hours I had allotted to me just so they could see the process in action - and experience what their students would be experiencing when they were brain-deep in solving problems. Since I teach environmental science, I used the concept of making cattle farming (fascinating, I know!) a sustainable enterprise as the main problem, and participants went through all of the steps I would have students do in order to solve the problem. The purpose of the session was not to have participants actually solve the problem, but to experience the process of PBL. If you would like a link directly to the presentation itself (so you can access all of the documents linked within the presentation), click here. If you have any questions, please feel free to fire away in the comments. 3/7/2015 10:03:42 pm
This is wonderful! I just finished a STEM project with my fourth grade students (they were asked to make a "sail car" with certain materials). It was rather open-ended with a reflection piece at the end. I discovered they needed a bit more instruction/guidance than I gave. I love the structure and questions you provided & will certainly use this for the next project. Thanks for sharing! Comments are closed.
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