Our Role: Teachers Our Audience: Parents
PBL
• What is it? Why is it beneficial?
• Podcasts: what are they, why are they good?
• Examples of PBL projects from textbooks
What we’ve done & What we chose
• Local History: Kalamazoo & MI
• Research & construct of MI history
• Collect data on classes’ favorite fruits & veggies
• Survey students: opinion of best name for Kzoo
• Writing: research naming & creating a historical story of the naming of their fictional town
• Survey: what township you live in
• Research historic places in Kzoo
What could be done/needs to be done & Big Bang project
1. Final Project:
o Historical tourism brochure “Travel through time”
o Invitations to open-house (for community & families)
o Make posters of facts
o Business-like, put tickets in invitations and provide a way to “buy” tickets at the door (Answer MI riddles to get ticket?)
Bold words are concepts from the book
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One person can discuss PBL, another the final project, and the 3rd can introduce what we've done and their two lessons. The other two can discuss what their lessons covered.
ReplyDeleteAny takers for a specific part?