Use these prompts to guide design of your own project-based learning experience.
Project Title |
Learning Area/Subject/Grade |
| Name | Time Required |
Step 1: Determine specific project goals by using assessment standards and desired higher-order thinking skills. |
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| From your assessment standards and your own high expectations, what is it that you want your learners to be able to know, do, or understand? | |
| What higher-order thinking skills do you want to target? | |
| Step 2: Develop Curriculum-Aligned Questions. | |
| What is the focus in those targeted assessment standards, higher order thinking and 21st Century learning skills? | |
| What Focus and Content Questions will you use to help focus the learning for your learners? | |
| Focus Questions focus attention on the important learning goal of the project. Example: Are there rules that affect the way things move? |
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| Content Questions lead to fundamental and specific answers. Example: How are density, buoyancy, and displacement related? How can you measure volume of irregular solids? |
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| Step 3: Make an Assessment Plan. | |
| How will you know your learners have met the project goals? | |
| By what criteria will learners be assessed so that you know that they have achieved the assessment standards? | |
| What methods of assessment will you use throughout the project in order to inform you and your learners about their learning process? | |
| What reporting and monitoring methods will you use to encourage learner self-management and progress during independent and group work? | |
| Step 4: Design Activities. | |
| What scenarios will you develop to provide rich learning opportunities to help learners meet the project goals? | |
| How can you involve learners in problem-solving investigations or other meaningful tasks that will help answer the Curriculum-Aligned Questions and establish connections to life outside the classroom and address real-world concerns? | |
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