Project Based Learning
1.Project Plan
(1.1)The
Define Phase
(1.11)Introduction:
· Write
a statement describing the overall purpose of the project.
·
What is the key challenge or problem the
project is aiming to address?
· What
are students intended to learn from the project?
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1)
Understanding
about rusting.
2)
Medium
affecting corrosion.
3)
Methods
to prevent corrosion.
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(1.12)Project
Scope:
Describe the scope of your
project. This may include class and section, subjects it covers, self shills to
be used etc. as well as other factors affecting scope.
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Students
Class VIII
Subject
involved Science.
Students
work will be monitored and managed to avoid students going off track.
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(1.13) Curriculum
and Standards:
List the curriculum and
standards this project with cover.
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Standard
VIII Science curriculum topics.
1)
Reaction
of oxygen with Iron.
2)
Different
medium affecting rusting.
3)
Rate of
rusting depend upon conditions.
4)
Prevention
of rusting.
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Project Based Learning
Lesson 2
2.1 Essential
Question:
Put in writing the
question that will engage the students
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What causes rusting?
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2.2 Grouping
Strategy:
Describe the criteria that
will be used to form students team and how this maps to the goals of the
project.
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1)
Each team consists of 9 students of mixed
genders.
2)
Team consists of students of mixed ability and
skills.
3)
One of the goals is to promote team work, peer
learning, developing skills and scientific attitude.
4)
Students with lower ability can benefit from
students with better ability.
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2.3 Learning
Environment:
Describe the learning
environment for the project including any classroom adaptation that will be
required.
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1)
A group working
area in the classroom will be set aside.
2)
Computer labs
will be used.
3)
Sharing of
ideas between students through e-mail.
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2.4Assessment
Approach:
Describe
the approach for:
2.41 Authentic Assessment:
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1)
Making a survey
in home, school rate of rusting in different articles.
2)
Suggestions to
reduce it, in daily life.
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2.42 Formative Assessment:
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Periodic feedback will be provided
depending upon the observation made by the students.
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2.43 Summative Assessment:
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1) Power point presentation.
2) Innovative method devised
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2.44 Rubrics:
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1) Posters
2) Scrap book
3) Final Presentation.
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2.45 Gradings:
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Grades will be awarded on combination
of scores from assessment made during the project.
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Project Based Learning
Sample – Lesson 3
Plan Phase
3.1 Work
Breakdown, Products and Milestones:
List the project task
and, if possible at this stage include the sub-tasks. For each task add the
product that will be created and indicate it will be a milestone.
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Classroom instruction: Basics of rusting
Select student groups
Research: Online and Library
Activity: Collecting the articles
Presentation: Cause and consequence of rusting- talk.
Celebration: Presentation to other divisions of Class VIII
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3.2 Role
definition:
List the roles team members
will fulfill in the project.
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Project Leader: Teacher will be fulfilling this role.
Survey writer: All students will contribute.
Presenter: All students will take some part in the presentation.
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3.3 Task
schedule:
Note start and end dates for
the project.
Include
expected dates to start specific tasks
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Project start date: 8/8/2016
Project end date: 31/8/2016
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3.4Special
Activities Plan:
List
any special activities (e.g. Field trips or guest speakers) including dates.
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Parents can take
children to visit nearby factories and bridges etc.
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3.5Resource
Plan:
List resource that will be required
during the project and any other date constraints associated with them.
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Computer Lab: 11/8/16, 18/8/2016, 25/8/216
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3.6 Direct
Instruction:
List any planned direct instruction
sessions and link them to specific tasks if appropriate.
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Different medium affecting rusting;
Creating a survey.
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3.7 Reviews
and checkpoints:
Describe
how you will incorporate review meetings and checkpoints in the project
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Every weekend, there will be a 15 minutes class conference, to
discuss programs and successes.
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3.8 Assessment
plan:
Describe the balanced
assessment plan for the project. List products that will be assessed during the
project. List rubrics that need to be created before project launch.
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Opportunities for authentic assessment will include the surveys and
results.
Formative assessments will be focused on the observations made by the
students.
Summative assessments will be performed on Power Point presentation,
survey results, rubrics prepared on observations, presentation, grading
rubric.
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Work plan-Lesson 4
Prepare
work plan in the format given below.
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Sl.
No
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TASK
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SUBTASK
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ROLE
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START DATE
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END DATE
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PRODUCT
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1)
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Launch Project
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8/8/16
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8/8/16
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Project Launched
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2)
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Giving Classrooms
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Areas to be covered
1)
Define the project
2)
Aim of the project
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Teacher
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9/8/16
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9/8/16
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Initial Classroom Instruction
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3)
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Group Selection
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Students with different abilities
and different genders.
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Teacher
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10/8/16
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10/8/16
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Group selection completed
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4)
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Requirements
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Collection of materials
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Student
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11/8/16
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12/8/16
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Materials are ready
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5)
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Starting activity
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Work will be started in teams
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Student
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16/8/16
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20/8/16
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Activity completed
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6)
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Collection of data
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Collecting data from each group
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Student
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22/8/16
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22/8/16
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Meeting held
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7)
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Advice meeting
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Team prepares their brief
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All
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23/8/16
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23/8/16
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8)
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Compiling the results
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Team prepares their brief
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All
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24/8/16
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24/8/16
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Result prepared
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9)
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Interpretation of the results
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Presentation
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Group Leaders
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25/8/16
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25/8/16
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10)
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Project Presentation
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Posting in the computer
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All
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27/8/16
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29/8/16
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Presented
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11)
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Assessment and grading
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Prepare rubrics and assessment
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Teacher
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30/8/16
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30/8/16
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12)
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Project Closed
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Submitting to the principle
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Teacher
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31/8/16
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31/8/16
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Closed
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Project Plan – Lesson 5
The Do Phase
(5.1)
Project Launch:
Describe how the project will be
launched, including how goals, expectation, rules, procedures, assessment, and
grading will be presented to the students.
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Launching
the project with a group meeting for the whole class. Explaining about aim,
procedure, goals, expectations, compiling results. The final presentation
will be printed and displayed in the classroom as well as posted in PBL blog.
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(5.2)
Artifacts:
List artifacts that will be
created during the project
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Posters
Experiments
Power
Point presentations
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(5.3)
Culminating product:
Describe what culminating product
or products are expected to be created during the project and how they will be
presented.
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Each
group will give a presentation about their results.
Posting
in blog will be presented by each team.
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(5.4)
Celebrating completion:
Describe how the students will
celebrate when the project is completed.
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Interaction
with the other divisions of 8th class, as in the form of presentations.
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Project Plan - Lesson 6
The Review Phase
(6.1)Student Reflection and Evaluation:
Describe
how student reflection and evaluation will be conducted.
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Evaluation on group discussions, difficulties they faced
and modifications they can make on it.
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(6.2) Teacher Reflection and Evaluation:
Describe
how teacher reflection and evaluation will be conducted.
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Challenges
Successes
Modifications that can be implemented next time.
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(6.3) Assessment of 21st Century skills:
List of
21st century skills in this project and its assessment
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Innovative practices, communication ICT, posters.
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(6.4) Summative Assessment and Grading:
List
products and the corresponding rubrics that will be used for SA and Grading
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Product
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Rubric
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Grading
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Posters
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Designed to assess creativity and communication skills
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3 marks
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Presentation
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Rubric presentation
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4 marks
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Interpretation of results
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Blog Rubric
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3 marks
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Project Plan – Lesson 7
The
Manage Phase
(7.1) Process Management:
List
tasks that will be used to manage the process of conducting the learning
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Progress monitoring
Removal of oxygen from water
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(7.2) Student Preparation:
Describe
how students will be prepared for the project prior to launch. List any
specific instruction or tasks that will be needed
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Collecting the previous
knowledge about rusting related to daily life.
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(7.3) Facilitation:
Describe
how facilitation of resources will be used to enable the students to be
successful.
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Use of the library and
computer.
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(7.4) Progress Monitoring:
Describe
how program will be monitored throughout the project.
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Meeting once per week and motivating them to
know more about it.
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Group Progress
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Informal meetings on daily programs
discussed with children.
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Individual Progress
(7.5) Re-planning:
Describe
how ‘re-planning’ will be used if the project goes off track
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Being a group work, children will share their ideas.
Daily monitoring and discussions will help the children.
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(7.6) Conflict Management:
Describe
how to address problems related to participation, offer approaches to manage
other conflicts that may arise.
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Responsibility will be given to each member which will
inculcate joy of team work.
Conflicts to be solved on their own.
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Our topic for PBL is corrosion. Our science
teacher explained what is corrosion. Corrosion is the deterioration of a metal
as a result of chemical reaction between it with the environment. Our teacher
gave an activity for studying about corrosion. Madam divided the students into
4 groups. The group leaders of each group were Ashwin.V.Menon, Archana
Jayakumar, Adithya Shivaram and Lisa Merin Johney, Every group consists of 10 members.
PROCESS - We were asked to bring the materials for
activity. Each group brought one iron nail. Madam provided each group with
one-one boiling tube. All 4 groups were given 4 topics. For 1st
group it was given ‘without air’ for
the 2nd group it was ‘pure
water’ and for the next group it was given ‘water without air ‘ and for the 4th group it was given
‘saline water’. The next day we all
were called to the chemistry lab. Each group prepared their solutions in the
boiling tubes and then get the results we kept the solutions under observation
for 18 days. Every day 2-3 members of each group with their group leader went
to the chemistry lab for the observation of nail and the solution. In the
beginning we observed that nail in saline water had a large amount of iron
deposit on it and also the nail in water had a little amount of iron deposit on
it. The iron nails in the other boiling tubes which contained of ‘water without air’ and ‘without air’ and water had no changes.
Day-by-day the amount of iron deposits increased in the nails except the nail
which was in the boiling tube that contained without air. In the boiling tubes
of ‘saline water’ and ‘without air’ the colour of the
solution also changed, which was becoming darker black day-by-day. The nails in
the saline water was expanding in the size because of iron deposited over it
and a little amount of iron deposits were also formed at the bottom of the
boiling tubes. As a result or conclusion we found that without water or
moisture corrosion doesn’t take place in any cases. Meanwhile during the days
of observation we also made a log book describing the observation and what we
did each day. In the last day of activity, group leaders of each group made a
chart and they described about the corrosion that took place in each boiling
tube to the students. By this we completed our activity:
From this we study environmental conditions
will affect the process corrosion.
