Educational Issue: Project Based Learning- Colton Black and Mackenzie Harley

Learning Intentions: (what do you want students to understand and be able to do?)
- Students to gain a better understanding of what PBL is.
- How to implement PBL projects in practicums and their own classrooms in the future.
- Understand the pros and cons of PBL.

Task:

Hook:
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Introduce PBL.
Debate of the possible pros and cons of
PBL.
Close with researched pros and cons and
additional resources they can look into.

Sub task

Assessment Plan
What are the students doing?

What is the teacher doing?

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Presentation introducing PBL:

-what is PBL?
-How it works
-Example of it used in a
classroom

Observe the discussions

answer questions the groups
may have
Discuss conclusions of the
debates

Intro

Activity

Break into groups of 3 or

4
Presenters will assign
whether you are to argue
pro or con
Students will take 5 mins
to prepare their argument
Match up with the
opposite argument and
have a 10 minute debate

Begin presentation by asking

if anyone has used PBL before
Short video of PBL in use.

Discuss the researched pros

Educational Issue: Project Based Learning- Colton Black and Mackenzie Harley

Closing

Additional
Resources:

Participate in poll
questions

and cons of PBL

Poll questions on the use of
PBL in their own classrooms

Bender, William N.( 2012). Project- Based Learning. Thousand Oaks, CA:
Corwin A Sage Company.
Buck Institute for Education. (2016). Why Project Based Learning (PBL)?
Retrieved from http://www.bie.org/about/why_pbl
Holmes, Vicki- Lynn and Yooyeun Hwang (2016) Exploring the effects of
project-based learning in secondary mathematics education. The Journal of
Educational Research, 109 (5), 449-463. DOI: 10.1080/00220671.2014.979911
Whats the difference between projects and project based learning? Sabanci
University School of Languages. 2012. Accessed October 12th, 2016.
https://slpbl.wordpress.com/interesting-links-and-articles/whats-the-differencebetween-doing-projects-and-project-based-learning/
Phyllis C. Blumenfeld, Elliot Soloway, Ronald W. Marx, Joseph S. Krajcik,
Mark Guzdial & Annemarie Palincsar (1991) Motivating Project-Based
Learning: Sustaining the Doing, Supporting the Learning, Educational
Psychologist, 26:3-4, 369-398, DOI: 10.1080/00461520.1991.9653139
Paul A. Kirschner, John Sweller & Richard E. Clark (2006) Why Minimal
Guidance During Instruction Does Not Work: An Analysis of the Failure of
Constructivist, Discovery, Problem-Based, Experiential, and Inquiry-Based
Teaching, Educational Psychologist, 41:2, 75-86, DOI:
10.1207/s15326985ep4102_1