Project Based Learning vs Projects

Mr. Ryan asks her students to research a famous Viking warrior after the Global Citizenship lesson and make a presentation about them.

• ''MAIN COURSE'' PBL

• ''DESSERT'' Project

After a four week unit on Vikings which also included a unit quiz, students spend an evening holding a mock market, with costumes, props, and Viking food and clothing to sell.

• ''MAIN COURSE'' PBL

• ''DESSERT'' Project

Students consider the driving question, “What does it mean to be a friend?”, and think of all the different things they do with their friends. They add their findings to a 'friendship classbook' they began making in the first lesson which they will present at the end of the semester.

• ''MAIN COURSE'' PBL

• ''DESSERT'' Project

After todays lesson, students make posters at home to illustrate ways to save water and display them up on the walls of the classroom.

• ''MAIN COURSE'' PBL

• ''DESSERT'' Project

Students investigate how to reduce pollution in Hanoi. They propose solutions to the problem and present them to city officials.

• ''MAIN COURSE PBL

• ''DESSERT'' Project

Mr. Joe gets her students to make an ecosystem with moss, water, stones etc. at the end of the end of the plants and animals unit.

• ''MAIN COURSE'' PBL

• ''DESSERT'' Project

Mr. Nick asks his students to create mobiles with various geometric shapes, which are hung in the classroom.

• ''MAIN COURSE'' PBL

• ''DESSERT'' Porject

Mr Michael gets his students to make a 'crime newspaper'. They spend a month or two adding different stories. The newspaper will eventually be presented to the VTV news.

• ''MAIN COURSE'' PBL

• ''DESSERT'' Project