What is PBL? and how to teach PBL in classroom? It's still complicated for some people, same as me. Until lately, I found the interesting PBL introduction that made me got the idea better from utopia.org and I think it will clarify you.
"One important role the teacher plays in a PBL lesson is in helping students see the parallels between the project and similar real-world projects" (Moursund, D. 2003).
Teacher should pick the topic that student interesting. It has to build the new knowledge from the prior knowledge construct. You may interested in this VDO which is the classroom demonstration of hands-on activities that approach to PBL An Introduction to Project Learning | Edutopia
Inquiry-Based Learning The process of inquiring begins with gathering information and data through applying the human senses -- seeing, hearing, touching, tasting, and smelling. A complex process is involved when individuals attempt to convert information and data into useful knowledge. Useful application of inquiry learning involves several factors: a context for questions, a framework for questions, a focus for questions, and different levels of questions. Well-designed inquiry learning produces knowledge formation that can be widely applied.
www.globalschoolnet.org is a good website for teacher to search for the project and activity. It has a bunch of project registry. You can search or select projects associated with the criteria or features. I found interesting some PBL projects from this website that maybe gives you the idea for your own project.
- Changing seasons by Gina Mcgee
This project is suited for age 5-9. Students watch how the seasons change around the world. Participants will take a photo once a month and upload it to an online photo album. Descriptions of field trips, favorite months and artwork are also displayed.
I think this project encourage student to learn about the nature. Also, they will develop skills in observation. This is a very interesting topic to learn because the season changes every 3 to 4 months, so it will urge them to find the cause and effect. Moreover, this project requires student to upload online photo album which they can exchange the data and opinion to other students. Absolutely, this project will be world wide.
Crossing Borders is an opportunity for children around the world to learn about world geography, world cultures, and to make new friends.The "People Connection" is an important bridge to world peace and understanding between people of all nations. In this project, children in classes around the world would be invited to participate with other classes in an exchange of information.
In my opinion crossing borders provide the opportunity for students to learn more about the countries in the world and to learn the different culture and social. I think teacher should make a conditional that students have to choose the country that they interested and never known the information about it. This is gonna be fun.
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