Project+Based+Learning+Concept+Map

**The 8 Essentials to Project Based Learning as cited by the Buck Institute for Education: **

 * 1) ====**Significant Content: **“Teachers should plan a project to focus on important knowledge and concepts derived from standards. The content should also reflect what the teacher thinks is essential to understand about the topic. And students should find the content to be significant in terms of their own lives and interests.” ====
 * 2) ====**A Need to Know: ** “Teachers can powerfully activate students’ need to know content by launching a project with an “entry event” that engages student interest and initiates questioning. An entry event can be almost anything: a video, a lively discussion, a guest speaker, a field trip, or a piece of mock correspondence that sets up a scenario. In contrast, announcing a project with a packet of papers is likely to turn students off; it looks like a prelude to busywork... With a compelling student project, the reason for learning relevant material becomes clear: I need to know this to meet the challenge I’ve accepted.” ====
 * 3) ====**A Driving Question: ** “A good Driving Question captures the heart of the project in clear, compelling language, which gives students a sense of purpose and challenge. The Question should be provocative, open-ended,complex, and linked to the core of what you want students to learn. It could be abstract (When is war justified?); concrete (Is our water safe to drink?); or focused on solving a problem (How can we improve this website so that more young people will use it?).” ====
 * 4) ====**Student Voice and Choice: **“On the limited-choice end of the scale, learners can select what topic to study within a general Driving Question or choose how to design, create, and present products. As a middle ground, teachers might provide a limited menu of options for creative products to prevent students from becoming overwhelmed by choices. On the “the more the better” end of the scale, students can decide what product they will create, what resources they will use, and how they will structure their time. Students could even choose a project’s topic and Driving Question.” ====
 * 5) ====**21 Century Skills: **“A project should give students opportunities to build such 21st century skills as collaboration, communication, critical thinking, and the use of technology, which will serve them well in the workplace and life.” ====
 * 6) ====**Inquiry and Innovation: **“Students find project work to be more meaningful if they are asked to conduct real inquiry – which does not mean finding information in books or websites and pasting it onto a poster. In real inquiry, students follow a trail that begins with their own questions, leads to a search for resources and the discovery of answers, and which ultimately leads to generating new questions, testing ideas, and drawing their own conclusions.” ====
 * 7) ====**Feedback and Revision: **“Formalizing a process for feedback and revision during a project makes learning meaningful because it emphasizes that creating high-quality products and performances is an important purpose of the endeavor. Students need to learn that most people’s first attempts don’t result in high quality and that revision is a frequent feature of real-world work.” ====
 * 8) ====**Publicly Presented Product: **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">“Schoolwork is more meaningful when it’s not done only for the teacher or the test. When students present their work to a real audience, they care more about its quality.” ====

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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Larmer, J. & Mergendoller, J. R. (2010). The 8 essentials for project based learning. //Educational Leadership. The Buck Institute for Education. (68)//1. Retrieved from <span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">[|http] <span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">[|://] <span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">[|www] <span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">[|.] <span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">[|bie] <span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">[|.] <span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">[|org] <span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">[|/] <span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">[|images] <span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">[|/] <span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">[|uploads] <span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">[|/] <span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">[|useful] <span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">[|_] <span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">[|stuff] <span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">[|/8_] <span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">[|Essentials] <span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">[|_] <span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">[|EdLdr] <span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">[|_2012_] <span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">[|version] <span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">[|.] <span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">[|pdf]

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Yun, E (2000). The Project Approach as a Way of Making Life Meaningful in the Classroom. //Clearinghouse on Early education and Parenting//