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Objective: Provide support for use of PBL and PjBL

Standards that can be addressed using PBL include:

PBL and PjBL
❏ ISTE Standards for Educators: Learner, Leader
Why We Should Utilise This Strategy and Facilitator
❏ ISTE Standards for Students: Empowered
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Communicator
❏ CSTP Standards 1-4

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21st Century Skills

Hop onto Jamboard #1

- list the 21st century

strategies you’ve
Cartoon depicting
used in the past
woman asking man, week
“ What skills do you graphic showing listing 21st century skills, entrepreneurship,
involvement, attitude, curiosity, creating, communicating,
have?” He replies, thinking, participating, thinking, colving, language, math,
basics, ICT.
“Tests. I can take
tests.”
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Knowledge in use Knowledge in use or action is the basis for P(j)BL

● content is applied, not discrete

What does this mean to you? ● the purpose of learning the material is clear
● connections are made both within and across subject areas
How do you design lessons to cater to this concept?
● learning is student centered, with scaffolding

Jot your thoughts onto Jamboard #2 ● iterations of student produced material increase
understanding

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PBL can help

Proponents for P(j)BL advocate that

● students gain if they have opportunity to make

prepare
learning develop 21st
leverage their knowledge to produce solutions make learning century students
more
to authentic problems student
cross-curricular skills for life
centered
● students’ mindset towards learning improves

● understanding of content is deeper

https://rdcu.be/cJP6h
Miller, E.C., Krajcik, J.S. Promoting deep learning through
project-based learning: a design problem. Discip Interdscip Sci
Educ Res 1, 7 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1186/s43031-019-
0009-6

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Recent studies ( > 6000 students in 114 schools) by USC

and Michigan State University show that

● PB classrooms outperformed traditional classes by 8% Alt Text: A graph with pass rate
on y axis and on the y axis two
plots , one of scores in a
● a second year of teaching with PBL raised scores by traditional classroom and one
in a PBL class. Scores for
10% traditional class are 37% while
PBL class scored 45%.

Source:
Youki Terada
Edutopia , Feb 21 2021

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PBL Boosts Science Scores Across All Reading Levels.

Study of 2371 3rd grade

Alt Text:
students cartoon
showing
Charlie Brown
as a student Source: ComicStrip
Alt text: Graph showing Generator
science performance on y with a thought
axis, versus reading percentile bubble and the
on x axis for traditional vs PBL words,” I
classroom. For every reading wonder if my
percentil group test scores in teacher gets
science are increased by at tired of saying
least 8 percentage points. “Wah wah wah”
all day?””

Source:
Youki Terada
Edutopia , Feb 21 2021

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•Build a P(j)BL experience for your students Recent PBL in 7th grade science

● If identical twins marry will their

children be identical?

● resources developed ideas related to

meiosis, sexual reproduction and
heredity
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● culminating project was recording a

presentation and production of
accompanying booklet
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Now You Try

Author John Spencer shares in his article
You know your students well - consider some “Seven Myths Keeping Teachers From
topics that you feel they would be engaged in Implementing Creative Projects,”
working on as a PBL.

Share out. “As I shifted toward a PBL approach, I

realized that it wasn’t about adding
something new to the plate. It was about
reorganizing my plate.”

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Examples of P(j)BL Now You Try - Together

How can I help birds in my community grow and
thrive?
What is the most equitable way to elect a new
English
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.WHST.6-8.1.A
Introduce claim(s) about a topic or issue, acknowledge and distinguish the claim(s) from alternate or opposing
claims, and organize the reasons and evidence logically
Social Studies
7.4 Students analyze the geographic, political, economic, religious, and social structures of the sub-Saharan
civilizations of Ghana and Mali in Medieval Africa

member of government? Math

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.7.SP.C.5 Understand that the probability of a chance event is a number between 0 and 1
that expresses the likelihood of the event occurring. Larger numbers indicate greater likelihood. A probability near

Design A Restaurant 0 indicates an unlikely event, a probability around 1/2 indicates an event that is neither unlikely nor likely, and a
probability near 1 indicates a likely event

Banned Book Week

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PBL benefits
Now You Try

Which of our students would this approach

benefit?

Which beneficial aspects of PBL would help

reach and support all learners?
Images of human surrounded by text
reading collaboration, control,
personalization, enjoymnet, challenge,
relevance

Image of child and adult hands cradling a

globe

Cartoon of 3 girls linking arms and raising

fists in sign of empowerment

Line drawing of man with light bulb above

his head signifying thought processes.

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Questions?

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