How To Plan a Project
In 1993, Outward Bound launched its expeditionary learning program at ten schools, including King Middle School. After pulling together projects for more than 25 years, they have concrete examples of how to plan and implement great lessons. Project learning does take time and collaboration to develop an idea, connect it to your state's standards, and pull together all the pieces from resources to technical know-how, but here are some practical ways you can get started today.
On the Record:
Juniors at Casco Bay High School record stories of homeless people that will accompany a photo exhibit.
Credit: Michael Warren
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Use these guiding principles to pull together projects with the time and resources you have.
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Here are five questions that the teachers of King Middle School ask themselves before embarking on an expedition.
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Video / AudioMon, Mar 15, 2010 | 0 comment(s)Project Learning Assignment: Seventh graders work with community experts to advance their understanding of bacteria in the environment -- and then share their findings with the community at large.
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Video / AudioMon, Mar 15, 2010 | 1 comment(s)Juniors at Casco Bay High School, in Portland, Maine, explore homelessness by working in teams to make audio slide-show portraits in a semester-long project about housing issues and public policy.
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Video / AudioWed, Mar 31, 2010 | 0 comment(s)Art, history, engineering, language arts, and technology, both old and new, come together for eighth grade students in this rich project learning expedition at King Middle School in Portland, Maine.
