you remember what school was like?
It was boring, you sat in class all day,
tried to memorize as much as you could and tried to pass a test
at the end, but is that good enough these days,
school can be more interesting and effective by focusing
students on work that matters.
This is project based learning explained most adults live in a
world of projects, whether it's a job assignment,
home improvement or planning a wedding,
we need to actively solve problems.
But unfortunately schoolwork looks more like this than this.
Let's take a look at this project based world Meet Madison.
She was recently presented with a challenge. Her company,
Super Suds make Soap and it was up to her to find the most earth
friendly way to produce it in the future.
Her instructor gave her a budget and a few requirements and it
was up to her to come up with a solution.
She organized and managed a team who researched the options and
created materials, summarizing the issues.
Madison's team asked for feedback and presented their findings
to the instructor.
Madison came out of the project looking like a rock star and she
learned a lot about green products.
If you look closely, Madison's success involved,
critical thinking, collaboration and communication,
things that aren't often taught in traditional classrooms.
The world needs more Madison's so how do we get them?
The answer is project based learning or PBL by focusing students
on a project.
Teachers put them on the path that deepens their knowledge and
build skills they'll need in the future. Here's what I mean.
Mr thomas has always been a good science teacher and his
students do well on friday's test but unfortunately what they
learned is going by saturday morning,
this wasn't good enough for Mr thomas.
Soon he learned about project based learning and decided to give
it a shot.
Mr thomas got the idea for his first project on microorganisms,
where nearly half of his students were suddenly absent with the
flu, he asked his students why they thought so many of their
classmates got sick at the same time.
That lively discussion produced a lot of good questions and a
list of things that kids wanted to know.
Mr thomas then announced their project was to help their peers
understand how to prevent the spread of germs.
After dividing the class and the teams he got them started on
the project, it was up to the students to ask questions,
research, collaborate,
give feedback and figure out the best ways to make their points
clear to their peers.
One team chose to make an educational video on the connection
between handwashing and avoiding the flu.
Another chose to create posters to show how viruses spread the
project. Teams then showed off their final work,
too enthusiastic audience of their peers and teachers sitting in
the front row was our good friend and local rock star Madison
and her peers, soaking it all in.
It was clear that the project was a success for the students and
the audience and mr thomas,
his students practice critical thinking,
collaboration and communication.
The project was about memorization but learning in depth about
viruses and how to prevent spreading disease.
A lesson they will never forget.
Let's take a look at a couple other projects that our students
have developed about germs.
Thinking of putting your backpack on the floor.
No bathrooms have been shown to have fecal matter otherwise
known as Duty Dukie number two.
So be sure to put your backpack on the hook.
This also goes for a woman's purse.
Is about 25% of women's purses have been shown to have fecal
matter on the bottom of them.
Do you really want to hold your mom's purse?
Now I don't James s James.
James. E as James are nasty to get on our hands.
We wash them or we don't want them here.
They make they make us meet we want those bedrooms or to leave
their small organisms that we can't see.
They stick on you, they stick on me, we cover our map,
we cover our nose,
we wash our hair so they all can go top and bottom end in
between them all together. Now they're all clean G. P. R.
This concludes our lesson on project based learning.
Now let's make it happen