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1. PROJECT BASED
LEARNING
Courtney Lindmark
Zachary New
Sydney Holland

2. WHAT IS PROJECT BASED LEARNING?
 Project Based Learning is a teaching method in which students
gain knowledge and skills by working for an extended period of
time to investigate and respond to a complex question, problem,
or challenge.
 Project Based Learning has the instructor serve as a facilitator of
knowledge, instead of being a “master explicator.”
 Project Based Learning encourages advance thinking skills, and
for students collaborate with one another.

3. IMPORTANCE OF PROJECT BASED
LEARNING
 Project Based Learning is crucial to 21st century education
because it places the students in charge of their learning.
 Students work for a prolonged period of time to finish a project
that has a level of complexity greater than an assignment or test.
 Working for a extended period of time means that students have
more chances to master the curriculum and potentially create
an artifact of learning.

4. SKILLS TAUGHT BY PROJECT BASED
LEARNING
 Personal and social responsibility
 Planning, critical thinking, reasoning, and creativity
 Strong communication skills, both for interpersonal and
presentation needs
 Cross-cultural understanding
 Visualizing and decision making
 Knowing how and when to use technology ad choosing the most
appropriate tool for the task

5. PROJECT BASED LEARNING AND
TECHNOLOGY
 Researching for projects has become increasingly easier as
technology as advanced.
 As a result, students are able to learn new things at a faster rate
than ever before in history, allowing them to apply what they
learn immediately.
 Being invested in a project for a long period of time is just as
effective as it was before the rise of technology.

6. “SELLING COLONIAL AMERICA”
 In this activity, children will be broken into groups of two.
 Students are randomly assigned one of the thirteen colonies in
Colonial America and are asked to create a commercial inviting
other students to come to their colony.

7. RUBRIC
Students much include the following in their commercials…
 Economic Attractiveness
 Religious Attributes
 Housing and Educational Lure
 City vs. Rural Life – Mapping and Geography
 History: people, places, events of importance.

9. WORKS CITED
 http://bie.org/about/what_pbl
 http://gpschools.schoolwires.net/cms/lib05/MI01000971/Centricit
y/Domain/662/Selling%20Colonial%20America.pdfl
 http://www.edutopia.org/project-based-learning-guide-
importance
 http://www.landofthebrave.info/pennslyvania-colony.htm