Teachers should plan a project to focus on important knowledge and concepts derived from standards.
What is significant content?
100
When students present their work to a real audience, they care more about its quality and they verbalize what they have learned.
Why we have Expos and other public audiences?
100
The Kittens
What do we call Ms Carla's class?
100
The STEM curriculum we use for elementary school.
What is Project Lead the Way?
100
An open-ended opportunity for students to develop more than one reasonable, complex answer.
What is a Driving Question?
200
captures the heart of the project in clear, compelling language, which gives students a sense of purpose and challenge.
What is a Driving Question?
200
Students complete projects at home after covering a topic with a combination of lectures, textbook readings, and worksheets vs a class learning about a subject by actively solving a problem and completing a project in class that requires them to attain knowledge.
What is the difference between a school projects and a project-based learning approach to school?
200
The quality rating and improvement system we are going through to help make sure we are providing high quality care that supports each child's learning and development.
What is Early Achievers?
200
The focus of the 3rd Expo and shortened into the acronym ROOTS.
What is Reaching Out to Others Together in Service?
200
As important as the finished product in student learning, it can be broadly defined as 21st Century Skills.
What is the Process?
300
The 21st Century skills that students gain through PBL, that are authentic skills which will serve them in life.
What are critical thinking, collaboration, communication, and creativity/ innovation?
300
WA State Early Learning and Development Guidelines
Common Core Standards for Language Arts, Social Studies, Math
Next Generation Science Standards
How I can find significant content to cover in my projects?
300
The characteristic preschoolers have that we want to capitalize on with project based learning.
What is curiosity?
300
Students use feedback about the quality of their work or thinking to revise and improve.
What is Critique & Revision?
400
The element of Project Based Learning that is key in terms of making a project feel meaningful to students.
What is student Voice and Choice?
400
Not only does it make learning more interesting, it reflects real life. Life is full of complex problems that draw on our knowledge from multiple academic disciplines to be solved.
Why you integrate curriculum through PBL?
400
Ms Yolanda has a very hard time keeping this alive.
What is cats?
400
The Government
What is Ms Holly's nickname?
400
The mission of Hillside.
What is: to inspire passionate, confident and creative students in an individualized, hands-on learning environment that integrates Christian values while striving for academic excellence?
500
The eight essentials for Project-Based Learning.
What are 1) Significant Content 2) A Need to Know 3) A Driving Question 4) Student Voice and Choice 5) 21st Century Competencies 6) In-Depth Inquiry 7) Critique and Revision 8) Public Audience?
500
Facilitator
What is the role of the teacher in project based learning?
500
The best picture in the blogs so far!
What is the picture of Ms Heather kissing a pig?
500
The term given to our elementary program because it builds the key skills students needed to support all future learning.