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Not only does project based learning motivate students because it is an authentic use of technology, it facilitates active learning, critical thinking, collaboration, and creativity.
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- educating others
- solving a problem
- calling people to action
- building something useful
- planning an event
- raising money for a purpose
- recognizing or inspiring others
- designing a better way to do something
Projects can make a difference by...
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my fifth graders were obsessed with SpongeBob Squarepants.
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- What adventures would SpongeBob have during the Great Depression?
- You are in charge of Nickelodeon. Propose episodes of SpongeBob that teach kids about finding common denominators.
- How can we use SpongeBob to persuade our parents to protect Earth’s resources and environment?
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Who Writes the Question?
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It’s likely the teacher will be the one writing the driving question.
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Types of Questions
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Crafting Questions That Drive Projects
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Connie FinkA1: start with a driving question! #hacklearning https://t.co/w2BbebcRnl
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Bart VerswijvelCrafting Questions That Drive Projects https://t.co/NZw4CvfqJ7 #pblcourse
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can use students' interest as a starting point and
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Not only does project based learning motivate students because it is an authentic use of technology, it facilitates active learning, critical thinking, collaboration, and creativity. Projects begin with a driving question—an open-ended question that sets the stage for the project by creating interest and curiosity. Writing an effective driving question is surprisingly challenging.
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Like many educators, I call the “mission statement” of a project a driving question.
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Which comes first, the driving question or the learning goals? I think it depends. The most successful projects feed off of students’ passions. Don’t be afraid to tap into them. Take what they are interested in and find a way to connect that interest to learning standards.
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It’s likely the teacher will be the one writing the driving question. A good driving question is challenging to construct, even for an experienced professional educator. The teacher will know best how to form a question that incorporates learning standards. To involve students, the teacher could get input from them about the potential driving question.
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Solve a Problem: There’s a real-world predicament with multiple solutions.
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Educational: The purpose of the project is to teach others.
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Convince Others: Students persuade a specified audience to do something or change their opinions.
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Broad Theme: The project tackles big ideas.
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Opinion: Students need to consider all sides of an issue in order to form and justify their opinions.
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Divergent: Students make predictions about alternative timelines and scenarios.
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Scenario-Based: Students take on a fictional role with a mission to accomplish.
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- The question is appealing to students.
- The question taps into students’ interests and passions.
- The question does not sound like a test question.
- The question leads to more questions.
- There is more than one answer to the question.
- The topic is personal or local.
- Students can relate to the question in their daily lives.
- The question is concise.
- Students will have choices for end products.
- There is an authentic audience for the project.
- The question requires serious investigation.
- Students will learn important skills and content.
- The question has no easy answer.
- The project will somehow make a difference in the world.
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You want the question to be intriguing and irresistible to students
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“mission statement” of a project a driving question.
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Driving questions pose simply stated real world dilemmas
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It should push them toward a production or solution
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I think the best projects set out to make a dent. The dent might be big or small, but at least the project has made a difference in the universe.
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- ducating others
- solving a problem
- calling people to action
- building something useful
- planning an event
- raising money for a purpose
- recognizing or inspiring others
- designing a better way to do something
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If a student can ask Google, Cortana, or Siri a question and get the answer, then that question would not be a good driving question
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The most successful projects feed off of students’ passions
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to develop a driving question, you can use students' interest as a starting point
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project based learning
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Projects begin with a driving question—an open-ended question that sets the stage for the project by creating interest and curiosity
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They pose predicaments that students find interesting and actually want to answer.
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students
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discuss, inquire, and investigate the topic
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- educating others
- solving a problem
- calling people to action
- building something useful
- planning an event
- raising money for a purpose
- recognizing or inspiring others
- designing a better way to do something
Projects can make a difference by...
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Take what they are interested in and find a way to connect that interest to learning standards.
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SpongeBob Squarepants.
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- What adventures would SpongeBob have during the Great Depression?
- You are in charge of Nickelodeon. Propose episodes of SpongeBob that teach kids about finding common denominators.
- How can we use SpongeBob to persuade our parents to protect Earth’s resources and environment?
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It’s likely the teacher will be the one writing the driving question.
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Solve a Problem: There’s a real-world predicament with multiple solutions.
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Educational: The purpose of the project is to teach others.
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Convince Others: Students persuade a specified audience to do something or change their opinions.
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Broad Theme: The project tackles big ideas.
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Opinion: Students need to consider all sides of an issue in order to form and justify their opinions.
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Divergent: Students make predictions about alternative timelines and scenarios.
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Scenario-Based: Students take on a fictional role with a mission to accomplish.
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A good driving question will lead to more questions. Students will generate these sub questions and their answers are important for the project.
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A driving question guides a project, which can take days, weeks, or months to complete.
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You Know Better Than Anyone
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The most successful projects feed off of students’ passions
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Janelle CatlettExploring the idea of Driving Questions for a PBL unit.
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Projects begin with a driving question—an open-ended question that sets the stage for the project by creating interest and curiosity.
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sometimes the driving question is not interrogative. It might be a statement, but I’ll still refer to is as a question.
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Driving questions pose simply stated real world dilemmas. They pose predicaments that students find interesting and actually want to answer. The question drives students to discuss, inquire, and investigate the topic. It should push them toward a production or solution.
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If a student can ask Google, Cortana, or Siri a question and get the answer, then that question would not be a good driving question.
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Which comes first, the driving question or the learning goals? I think it depends.
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So, to develop a driving question, you can use students' interest as a starting point and then creatively connect learning standards. Alternatively, driving questions are often developed by first looking at learning standards.
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So, you can start with a topic or you start with learning standards to develop a driving question. In the end, the driving question should require students to learn skills and content in order to answer an interesting question.
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It’s likely the teacher will be the one writing the driving question.
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A driving question shouldn’t sound like a question students would find on a test.
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Making your question appealing to students is probably the most difficult part of crafting a question.
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Learning goals don’t have to be part of your driving question.
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the place to communicate learning outcomes is in your assessment instrument.
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“If you assign a project and you get back 30 of the exact same thing, that’s not a project, that’s a recipe.”
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A good driving question will lead to more questions. Students will generate these sub questions and their answers are important for the project. These sub questions branch off of the driving questions and each other.
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A driving question guides a project, which can take days, weeks, or months to complete. It’s a big deal.
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Lynn Ochs"Not only does project based learning motivate students because it is an authentic use of technology, it facilitates active learning, critical thinking, collaboration, and creativity. Projects begin with a driving question—an open-ended question that sets the stage for the project by creating interest and curiosity. Writing an effective driving question is surprisingly challenging. You want the question to be intriguing and irresistible to students, which makes it very different from the typical questions they encounter on tests."
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Russell KahleLots of advice and sample driving questions for project based learning: http://t.co/ChA8BIo3kI
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Peggy George“@tonyvincent: Lots of advice and sample driving questions for project based learning: http://t.co/4Cmd6xl65R ” #EdmodoCon
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valerie taylor"Driving questions pose simply stated real world dilemmas. They pose predicaments that students find interesting and actually want to answer. The question drives students to discuss, inquire, and investigate the topic. It should push them toward a production or solution. In the process of investigating the question and sharing their answers, students learn important content and skills. "
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call the “mission statement” of a project a driving question.
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Driving questions pose simply stated real world dilemmas.
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If a student can ask Google, Cortana, or Siri a question and get the answer, then that question would not be a good driving question
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Driving questions are rarely perfect after the first draft.
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A driving question shouldn’t sound like a question students would find on a test
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Making your question appealing to students is probably the most difficult part of crafting a question.
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Every project should turn out differently
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A good driving question will lead to more questions.
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driving question guides a project, which can take days, weeks, or months to complete. It’s a big deal.
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If you do your project alongside students, you can model thinking skills and perseverance. By doing your own project, you’re showing your students that the driving question is such a big deal, even you want to answer it.
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christickleQuestions for project based learning
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Not only does project based learning motivate students because it is an authentic use of technology, it facilitates active learning, critical thinking, collaboration, and creativity.
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Driving questions pose simply stated real world dilemmas. They pose predicaments that students find interesting and actually want to answer. The question drives students to discuss, inquire, and investigate the topic.
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So, to develop a driving question, you can use students' interest as a starting point and then creatively connect learning standards. Alternatively, driving questions are often developed by first looking at learning standards.
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- Web: Popplet, Lucidchart, Slatebox
- Chrome: Google Drawings, MindMup
- iOS: Popplet, Idea Sketch, SharpMindMap, WeMap
- Android: SimpleMind, WeMap
- Fire/Amazon Appstore: DrawExpress Diagram, Mind Plan
- Mac: SimpleMind Free, NovaMind
- Windows: NovaMind, <!--?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?-->NextGraph
Free mind mapping apps you might consider…
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teachers need to ask themselves, “What is it that I am trying to get others to do, and what reasons might they have for doing such things?” Answering a well-crafted driving question can be a terrific reason for learning!
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17 Apr 15
Deborah Baillesderr"What’s the best way to stop the flu at our school?"
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Driving questions pose simply stated real world dilemmas. They pose predicaments that students find interesting and actually want to answer. The question drives students to discuss, inquire, and investigate the topic. It should push them toward a production or solution.
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Steve Jobs had the mantra, “Let’s make a dent in the universe.” He was on a mission to change the world.
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The dent might be big or small, but at least the project has made a difference in the universe.
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If a student can ask Google, Cortana, or Siri a question and get the answer, then that question would not be a good driving question. Its answer is readily available. Answering it again as a project won’t make a dent in the universe. It would be work that keeps a student busy but has little value in itself (also known as busy work).
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The most successful projects feed off of students’ passions.
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Types of Questions
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Solve a Problem:
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Educational:
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Convince Others:
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Broad Theme:
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Opinion:
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Divergent:
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Scenario-Based:
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Scaffolded Around Framing Words
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- The question is appealing to students.
- The question taps into students’ interests and passions.
- The question does not sound like a test question.
- The question leads to more questions.
- There is more than one answer to the question.
- The topic is personal or local.
- Students can relate to the question in their daily lives.
- The question is concise.
- Students will have choices for end products.
- There is an authentic audience for the project.
- The question requires serious investigation.
- Students will learn important skills and content.
- The question has no easy answer.
- The project will somehow make a difference in the world.
Below is a checklist to help you refine your question. You might not be able to check off all the items, but the more the merrier!
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23 Mar 15
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Driving questions pose simply stated real world dilemmas. They pose predicaments that students find interesting and actually want to answer. The question drives students to discuss, inquire, and investigate the topic. It should push them toward a production or solution. In the process of investigating the question and sharing their answers, students learn important content and skills.
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12 Mar 15
Rhonda JessenGreat post about creating driving questions with links to exemplars and other resources.
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09 Mar 15
Maggie Keeler"Not only does project based learning motivate students because it is an authentic use of technology, it facilitates active learning, critical thinking, collaboration, and creativity. Projects begin with a driving question—an open-ended question that sets the stage for the project by creating interest and curiosity. Writing an effective driving question is surprisingly challenging"
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27 Feb 15
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Projects begin with a driving question—an open-ended question that sets the stage for the project by creating interest and curiosity
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- educating others
- solving a problem
- calling people to action
- building something useful
- planning an event
- raising money for a purpose
- recognizing or inspiring others
- designing a better way to do something
Projects can make a difference by...
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to develop a driving question, you can use students' interest as a starting point and then creatively connect learning standards. Alternatively, driving questions are often developed by first looking at learning standards.
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Solve a Problem: There’s a real-world predicament with multiple solutions.
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Educational: The purpose of the project is to teach others.
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Convince Others: Students persuade a specified audience to do something or change their opinions.
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Broad Theme: The project tackles big ideas.
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Below is a checklist to help you refine your question. You might not be able to check off all the items, but the more the merrier!
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A good driving question will lead to more questions. Students will generate these sub questions and their answers are important for the project. These sub questions branch off of the driving questions and each other. They are specific and can guide student research.
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06 Feb 15
Christopher SeeHow to develop questions for project based learning activities.
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05 Feb 15
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Projects begin with a driving question
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open-ended question that sets the stage for the project by creating interest and curiosity.
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want the question to be intriguing and irresistible to students
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sometimes the driving question is not interrogative. It might be a statement, but I’ll still refer to is as a question
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pose simply stated real world dilemmas.
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drives students to discuss, inquire, and investigate the topic
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- educating others
- solving a problem
- calling people to action
- building something useful
- planning an event
- raising money for a purpose
- recognizing or inspiring others
- designing a better way to do something
Projects can make a difference by...
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If a student can ask Google, Cortana, or Siri a question and get the answer, then that question would not be a good driving question.
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Take what they are interested in and find a way to connect that interest to learning standards
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- What adventures would SpongeBob have during the Great Depression?
- You are in charge of Nickelodeon. Propose episodes of SpongeBob that teach kids about finding common denominators.
- How can we use SpongeBob to persuade our parents to protect Earth’s resources and environment?
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Some of the learning aims my school had for students in math were working with decimals and graphing data.
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also wanted them to learn about spreadsheets.
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How would you use $1,000,000 to help our community?
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had to account for every penny, categorize expenses in a spreadsheet, and construct pie charts.
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Solve a Problem: There’s a real-world predicament with multiple solutions.
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Educational: The purpose of the project is to teach others.
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Create a campaign to teach senior citizens how to use an iPad
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Convince Others: Students persuade a specified audience to do something or change their opinions
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(PSA) that persuades teens to
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Convince grocery shoppers to return their shopping carts.
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Broad Theme: The project tackles big ideas.
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Opinion: Students need to consider all sides of an issue in order to form and justify their opinions.
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Should pets be allowed to attend class?
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Divergent: Students make predictions about alternative timelines and scenarios.
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What if Rosa Parks gave up her seat?
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How might your city change if the climate became an average of 10°F warmer?
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NASA engineer,
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most important things to include and why?
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Imagine that you are King George. What would you have done differently to keep American part of England?
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You’ve been hired to revamp your local shopping mall. Come up with a plan to increase business.
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How would you spend $1,000,000 to help your community?
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How can we find a solution to reduce the litter in our school permanently? (also from
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“How could you have convinced American colonists to support independence using today’s technology?
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checklist to help you refine your question
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appealing to students.
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question leads to more questions.
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more than one answer to the question
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topic is personal or local
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can relate to the question in their daily lives
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have choices for end products
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an authentic audience for the project
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requires serious investigation
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Students will learn important skills and content
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project will somehow make a difference in the world.
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Learning goals don’t have to be part of your driving question
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mentioning them in your driving question will complicate it
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place to communicate learning outcomes is in your assessment instrument.
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checklist, rating scale, or rubric,
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assign a project and you get back 30 of the exact same thing, that’s not a project, that’s a recipe.
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Do the project yourself! If you do your own project ahead of time, you might encounter some bumps in the road that you didn’t anticipate
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doing your own project, you’re showing your students that the driving question is such a big deal, even you want to answer it.
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graphic or poster
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04 Dec 14
Heather BailieNot only does project based learning motivate students because it is an authentic use of technology, it facilitates active learning, critical thinking, collaboration, and creativity. Projects begin with a driving question—an open-ended question that sets the stage for the project by creating interest and curiosity. Writing an effective driving question is surprisingly challenging. You want the question to be intriguing and irresistible to students, which makes it very different from the typical questions they encounter on tests.
KDSBytes Project Based Learning questions classroom activities Tony Vincent
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Ariane SkapetisCrafting Questions That Drive Projects
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Heather S"Not only does project based learning motivate students because it is an authentic use of technology, it facilitates active learning, critical thinking, collaboration, and creativity. Projects begin with a driving question-an open-ended question that sets the stage for the project by creating interest and curiosity. Writing an effective driving question is surprisingly challenging. You want the question to be intriguing and irresistible to students, which makes it very different from the typical questions they encounter on tests."
Lots of sample driving questions for project based learning: http://t.co/ChA8BIo3kIAAGT15 pblchat #VicPLN project-based learning driving questions annah
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deb loftsgardCrafting Questions That Drive Projects http://t.co/MrtfhxpNnA great resource to talk Humanities and #PBL @sj_downing @tamckeag @rpittma301
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Micahel MateraGetting started with #PBL? http://t.co/jsDu6nAKJ9
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Timothy ScholzeRT @tonyvincent: Getting started with #PBL? http://t.co/QR2xxSh8dK
#MiamiDevice #edtechchat http://t.co/eAvZmQJDXq #IAedchat #ICRegina
Getting started with #PBL? http://t.co/jsDu6nAKJ9
#MiamiDevice #edtechchat http://t.co/zw4VOwII8D
Getting started with #PBL? http://t.co/jsDu6nAKJ9
#MiamiDevice #edtechchat http://t.co/zw4VOwII8D
– Tony Vincent (tonyvincent) http://twitter.com/tonyvincent/status/528553360815689730#diigo PBL IAedchat MiamiDevice via:packrati.us ICRegina edtechchat
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Anne ShilloloCrafting Questions That Drive Projects http://t.co/dIRebBLUqU
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Holly EsterlineLinks in the article to other sites, too, that help develop 'driving questions'; includes apps and sites for mind mapping and for creating products
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