The Top Ten Project represented a great example of Project Based Learning. Mrs. Pilver created a project that taught her students how to collaborate, the difference between facts and opinions, and researching skills. This activity exhibited real authentic learning lessons. The students addressed questions and problems that adults in the “real world” would have to tackle. They learned the difference between someone’s opinions and facts. This project based learning activity will help them later in life distinguish the difference between the two. It also allowed students to display their work to an external audience. They presented their project to community members, made a commercial that was viewed by their peers, and had a website that reached out to different people. The students also learned how to gather information from multiple sources. They used the internet to research, books, and many other outside resources. They also used high performance work organization skills by working in groups. Overall this PBL was a great lesson that can be tweaked and used in many classrooms for different subjects.
RLA.O.4.3.3
| recognize communication skills (e.g., speaking rate, audience, etiquette, active listening). |
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 | demonstrate curiosity, initiative and creativity by developing questions that lead to investigations; designing simple experiments; and trusting observations of discoveries when trying new tasks and skills. |
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| create models as representations of real things.
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