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A "mini" guide on where to start.

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PBL Electrical Engineering Project - Student work

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PBL Electrical Engineering Project - Student work

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Electrical Engineering Project using Complex Numbers taught in High School Algebra II

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Electrical Engineering PBL by Jens Natalie Haley Kylie

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Using Quadratic equations, transformations and zeros of the graph students have created fireworks displays and figured out safety limits for the viewing audience.

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Dawson Haley W and Breanna Fireworks Design PBL

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Students use their knowledge of systems of equations and graphing to present a recommendation of nutrition needs on an illness of their choice.

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One year "EOC Test Score" results with PBL in the classroom.

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One year "EOC Test Score" results with PBL in the classroom.

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The yellow bars are the results from previous year's work before PBL.  I had worked HARD for 3 years with Algebra II classes trying to inch our way each year closer to the state projected target for EOC test scores.  Please note: The students were not any different year to year on ability levels.   The blue bars are the scores of our students after teaching the same concepts, using the same prep information and the same teacher for 4 years teaching the same way I had for 20+ years but with one extra component - PBL .  I tried 5 projects that year not knowing how it would effect the test scores for my students but knew I wanted to try PBL for their benefit.

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What has to change in my classroom to use PBL?

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What has to change in my classroom to use PBL?

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For me, not much.  I simply mentioned at the beginning of a unit of study what our next "career focus" would be.  While giving notes that were related to information they would need to use in the project I would remind them how it could relate to the career focus for the unit.  I would give any vocabulary components, diagrams or drawing in five minutes time sprinkled through out the unit as they worked on another concept that would help them get a "final product".  Once we had learned 3/4 to all the material needed for the project then we would set aside one week in class for group work.  By the end of the week their groups needed to be able to present their final ideas and work.

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I was not good with technology when I started this journey.

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I was not good with technology when I started this journey.

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What was amazing was as you worked and had a digital question just ask the students for help - they normally knew a website or had a digital solution to what you described you needed the computer to do. You are still the expert in the subject content and asking for help involved them in a HUGE way. When I would work with them on a problem they would take ownership and pride that they helped you and their peers. We had student technology presentations on power point, excel, sway and office 365 that lasted maybe 5 minutes. I learned from students that presented to both me and the class all because I was not sure "what button to push". It only took a couple of "not sure" moments and now the digital world is not as hard to navigate. Helping students with technology sites they are not exposed to in video game or app worlds will only help them march boldly into their future careers - WIN WIN situation.

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We as teachers need websites that are free, easy and safe for students to use. This website graphs multiple graphs with multiple colors. It graphs as you type so students can see transformations, zeros and solutions. So many standards can be covered on this one website.

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Desmos offers best-in-class calculators, digital math activities, and curriculum to help every student love math and love learning math.

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This website records 15 minute videos in three ways for free. It can record just audio and screen shots (I always did because of not showing student images just student work). It can record web camera and audio (maybe used for a Science lab project or an English Reenactment of book works) - or a combination of both. Once the video is done it can save to a video file on your computer, straight to "you tube" and other options. Super easy and fast to use between student presentations in a single class period.

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PBL is a new concept for Education.  It is hard to find pre-made resources; however, a few sties are listed below to look for resources:
1.  BIE:

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Connect learning to the real world with NextLesson! NextLesson engages students in real world problem solving through topics they care about. Find thousands of lessons, worksheets and projects for math, ELA, science and social studies that are aligned to Common Core and state standards.

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When setting up groups only have 3 to 4 students in a group setting and make sure you have all areas of strengths and weakness levels in each group. The ones who are strong in the subject will help and tutor the ones that are weaker in the content area. Be aware these personality types will not like to release control of the final product so they will need to learn to share the outcome of the final project even if it was not done completely the way they would have envisioned. The ones weaker in the subject area will not just copy or wait for others that have more content knowledge in the group to do the work because each project should have a "group grade" component and an "individual grade" component to help with the temptation to just allow others to complete the project without any input.

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Websites that allow students to see  science at work in the real world.

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Open-and-go lessons that inspire kids to love science.

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Mystery Science offers open-and-go lessons that inspire kids to love science. The hook, visuals, and activity have all been prepared for you. Less prep, more learning.

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The Learning Journal. An easy way to document student portfolios.

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We express ourselves in different ways. On Flip, you can use our simple and fun built-in camera to record your thoughts, add effects and share within your Flip group as video, audio only or text in your web browser or mobile app.

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Flip is a video discussion and sharing app, free from Microsoft.

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Flip (formerly Flipgrid) is a video discussion and video sharing app, free from Microsoft, built for classrooms and beyond. Learn more.

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Great site for a coding class.

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What components of SAMR can I use to help with a PBL projects?

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Authentic Learning for students using PBL projects.

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When we talk about project-based learning (PBL), we focus our curriculum on finding real-world ways for students to learn problem-solving and communication skills. When doing this, authenticity is key.

When you are first developing a PBL unit, you must begin the journey by establishing an authentic goal. By the end of the unit, you want students to have solved something. Along the way, they will have written, collaborated, created, pitched, discussed, and presented. It sounds overwhelming, especially if you haven't found that launching pad (authentic goal) in the first place.

I think this is the main reason why the e-NABLE Community Foundation seems to have taken the PBL world by storm.

e-NABLE initially began in 2013 as a simple but powerful matching service between children who might benefit from receiving prosthetic hands and designers and makers who could construct those hands inexpensively and quickly.

Their passion for the open source movement helped to propel its popularity, and people like Jon Schull created the organization as we know it now. He also created a Google + community that served as an informal café for people to seek information from each other on anything from 3D printing in the news to improved prosthetic designs.

The e-NABLE Mission

Then, a gentleman named Rich Lehrer discovered the organization. He was intrigued by what looked like both an interesting device and organization, one that could possibly meet the needs of his own son. Lehrer was also a middle school teacher, and he soon realized that it wasn't just the recipient who could be impacted by this exchange of needs. He saw the potential for students to adopt the mindsets of both the maker and advocacy movement.

Cut to two years later, and e-NABLE has found its way into hundreds of classrooms and clubs around the world, including my own English-language arts class.

But this post isn't simply about e-NABLE. It's about a movement, an undertaking to combine authentic goals with student learning. So I spoke with Rich Lehrer, now the e-NABLE Educators Exchange Coordinator -- as well as the Innovation Coordinator at the Brookwood School in Massachusetts -- for his take on PBL, e-NABLE's influence in the classroom, and how teachers can find authentic objectives in their own backyard.

How to Find Authentic Goals

PBL is focused on helping solve the problems around us. e-NABLE has definitely tapped into something, but it doesn't need to be the charity that you focus your classroom on. Frankly, there is great power in discovering the needs of your own community, and teachers have a role to play in helping students ask the questions to discover what those needs are. This process of inquiry should be the initial part of any PBL unit.

For instance, earlier this year, I helped a colleague learn about PBL. We decided (based on her own interest in marathons) to have her English-language arts class host a 5K Fun Run fundraiser for a local charity. Her kids weren't the ones running, however. Instead, they were meeting with the timing company, developing the registration website, pitching sponsors, working on mapping the course, and meeting with the city to seek approvals on the process.

They settled on a local charity by researching from a list of local organizations. In small groups, they started researching using a hyperdoc the teacher had curated. They watched videos, examined documents, and each group created a Google slideshow about their charity to pitch to their class.

3 Tips for Finding Real-World Goals

In terms of finding real-world goals for your PBL unit, Rich Lehrer has some further advice:

1. Search Online. Google PBL + Authentic Projects. Also try searching the Buck Institute for Education website for project ideas using the key word authentic. There's a treasure trove of lists out there.

2. Have an Authentic Project Mindset. Seek outlets for authentic work in your life and in the lives your students. Sometimes a goal can be found in the stories and experiences of those found in your own classroom.

3. Make connections. "Connect with individuals and organizations in your community and around the world who are doing meaningful work and having tangible effects," recommends Lehrer. Involve your students in the work that is already going on in the world. How can we be of service? Lehrer stresses, "As the world becomes more connected, there are amazing chances for kids to do meaningful things."

Help your students develop a sense of their own power. Allow them in on the decision-making process in terms of selecting an authentic goal for your class' PBL unit and you will have increased their ownership of the unit from the get-go.

A Challenge to Rethink Your Overall Goals

e-NABLE has a happy problem: It has exploded in size. With that growth sometimes comes the pains of how to communicate quickly or how to address the needs of each of its donating participants. Nevertheless, if we, the participating classrooms, keep the focus on the experience of the recipients, we will have modeled other traits every PBL unit should strive for: resilience, patience, and selflessness.

In other words, we need to remember that PBL isn't just an authentic vehicle to teach literacy, writing, and speaking. It's also an authentic vehicle to teach character traits.

As just one of the many classrooms now affiliated with the organization, I find that I work hard with my students to print, write, pitch, and fundraise. However, at times, I find that I need to pause and remind myself, and my students, that we are now part of something far greater than a curriculum unit. At the end, there isn't a test. When we send a hand off, the learning isn't over.

The overall "mindset is vital," says Lehrer. This kind of experience gives students a "window to empathy and understanding."

"Kids have never been as empowered to change their local community than ever before," Lehrer exclaims excitedly. "Schools are now recognizing that this is vital for student development, that there is much educational value in this, and that kids now have access to the tools" to make long-lasting advocacy happen.

And so, I would like to leave you with this challenge: How can you create a unit that doesn't have an end? How can you tap into a local need to help teach deep advocacy, empathy, and problem solving? How can you transfer those lessons beyond a quarter or semester, beyond a school year, and beyond school in general? Please share in the comments section below.

We need our students to think of themselves as change agents in this world. They have access to the devices to help that happen, but now they need access to teachers willing to take them on that journey.

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Finding an Authentic Goal for Your PBL Classroom

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When we talk about project-based learning (PBL), we focus our curriculum on finding real-world ways for students to learn problem-solving and communication skills. When doing this, authenticity is key. When you are first developing a PBL unit, you must begin the journey by establishing an authentic goal.

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A different way to video a student presentation with video slides.

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This is a starting spot to figure out how technology fits into our classroom everyday work.