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Project Based Learning

Learning Goals:

1. Key Knowledge
2. Understanding
3. Success Skills

Success Skills of Students:

  • Problem Solver
  • Responsible
  • Collaborator
  • Can work independently
  • Critical Thinker
  • Confident
  • Manages time
  • Works effectively
  • Communicates well

Essential Design Elements:


1.  A Challenging Problem or Question - Make it meaningful and appropriate
2.  Sustained Inquiry - Students engage in a rigorous process of posing questions, finding resources, and applying information 
3.  Authenticity - The project involves real-world context and speaks to personal concerns, interests, or issues in the students' lives.
4.  Student Voice and Choice - Students can make some decisions about the project.
5.  Reflection - Teachers and students both reflect on learning, the process, the student work, obstacles, and strategies.
​6.  Critique and Revision - Students give, receive, and apply feedback to improve their process and products.
7.  Public Product - Students make their work public to audiences beyond the classroom.

Types of Products:

1.  Solving a Real-World Problem
2.  Design Challenge
3.  Exploring an Abstract Question
4.  Conducting an Investigation
5.  Taking a Position on an Issue

Major Products:

1. Presentations or action products
  • Speech
  • Debate
  • Mock Trial
  • News Show
  • Panel Discussion
  • Play/Skit
  • Music/Song/Dance
  • Lesson 
  • Public Event
  • Service to Others
  • Sales Pitch
  • Community Service
2. Written Products
  • ​Research Report
  • Lab Report
  • Letter
  • Brochure
  • Script
  • Blog
  • Editorial
  • Book Review
  • Training Manual
  • Field Guide
3.  Media and Technology Products
  • Audio Recording/Podcast
  • Slideshow
  • Drawing/Painting
  • Graphic Design
  • Collage/Scrapbook
  • Photo Exhibit
  • Video Animation
  • Website
  • Computer Program or App
  • Digital Story/Comic
  • Social Media Campaign
  • Video Production
4.  Constructed Products
  • Small Scale Model
  • Prototype
  • Consumer Product
  • Device/Machine
  • Vehicle
  • Invention
  • Scientific Instrument
  • Museum Exhibit
  • Structure
  • Garden
  • Magazine Spread



5.  Planning Products
  • Proposal
  • Business Plan
  • Marketing Plan
  • Project Management Plan
  • Design
  • Timeline
  • Flowchart













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  • Home
  • General Biology
    • What is a Healthy Diet?
    • What is cancer?
    • Are GMOs helpful or harmful?
    • Are Humans Creating Superbugs?
  • Bio 110
    • Unit 1 - Intro and Cells
    • Unit 2 - Energy
    • Unit 3 - Cell Processes
    • Unit 4 - Genetics
  • Advising
    • Advising Lessons
  • Project Based Learning