PPT – 3.2.

PROBLEM BASED LEARNING

Why we need consider Problem-Based Learning
in the classroom?
 Problem Based Learning …
• is a multilevel approach to learning that
incorporates relevance and complexity while
strengthening critical and analytical thinking
• provides an opportunity for self-assessment
and continuous improvement
• develop a sense of self-esteem and ownership
for the students’ work
• introduce in the context of real world problems
 A good PBL problem
• must engage the students’ interest;
• must motivate them to independently search for more
knowledge;
• must require – and allow – students to relate the new
concepts being introduced to previous knowledge.
• should emphasize the importance of group work, by not
being open for a “divide and conquer” approach, where
group members can divide subtasks between each other
rather than work together
• must be related to the real world.
 PBL stages
1. Ideas
2. Known fact
3. Learning issues
4. Action Plan
5. Evaluation
 An example
Problem Based Learning
activity
SAMPLE PROBLEM : A MOTORCYCLE HELMET
A motorcycle helmet.
How protective can it be? A motorcycle helmet.
How protective can it be?
A motorcyclist was killed in a traffic accident. The police report said that he did not
wear the right kind of helmet. If he had worn a different kind of helmet, his life
would have been saved. Investigate what design, which properties and materials
used for the helmet could have saved his life?
Problem-Based
Learning Phase 1 – Problem
Procedures
based oriented for
students

Phase 2 – Organizing
students

Phase 3 –Guiding students’ in

individual an group investigation

Phase 4 – Developing and

presenting the result

Phase 5 – Analyzing and

evaluating a process of
problem solving