Problem-Based Learning
"Overview: Given the extensive literature on the composition and evolution of continental crust there are a number of teaching strategies that can be employed to encourage active learning by students. A critical reading of this collection of articles will prov...
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"Overview: Our Problem-Based Learning Project focuses on an area that combines both Social Studies, specifically government, and Science, specifically biology, that asks the question, ""What role does the government have...
How Can We Reduce Trash in the Cafeteria?
"Overview: This problem based learning (PBL) activity allows students to become educated on how excess waste can harm the environment. This activity then has the students form a plan on how their school can limit trash o...
Problem Based Learning Project
"Overview: This project is an example of how to address Conservation efforts in the schools today. Has an example of a problem based learning activity. Subject: Social Science Level: Upper Primary Grades: Grade 3, Grade...
Using Waits, Loops and Switches
"Overview: Students are given a difficult challenge that requires they integrate what they have learned so far in the unit about wait blocks, loops and switches. They incorporate these tools into their programming of the...
F8 Parent Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT)
"Overview: PCIT is founded on social learning and attachment theories, and it treats children between 2 and 7 years of age with disruptive or externalizing behavior problems. Participants will examine the interpersonal a...
City X Project
"Overview: The City X Project is an international educational workshop for 8-12 year-old students that teaches creative problem solving using 3D printing technologies and the design process. This 6-10 hour workshop is de...
Community-Centered Climate Action Course (for 3-5 Educators)
"Overview: This Professional Development course sets up teachers and students to use the perimeter of their school to inquire about and monitor air quality as well as learn about emissions and activism in their community...
Mission to Mars Content Guide
"Overview: Humans have been on a mission to learn more about the red planet. Use this content guide to learn more about the challenges facing robotic explorers of Mars. Subject: Applied Science, Engineering, Education,...
Construct and Test Roofs for Different Climates
"Overview: We design and create objects to make our lives easier and more comfortable. The houses in which we live are excellent examples of this. Depending on your local climate, the features of your house have been des...
How can classrooms be redesigned to better accommodate technology and student needs?
"Overview: Throughout this problem-based learning module students will address real world skills. Students will be asked to brainstorm ideas and think innovatively both independently and collaboratively in addressing a r...
Water Quality
"Overview: In this problem-based learning module, students work in teams to examine a broad array of information related to water quality in Lower Wheeling Creek and the Wheeling Creek watersheds in Wheeling, West Virgin...
Influencing Stakeholders: Dealing with Power and Dynamics in Teams and Networks
"Overview: Engineers have unique skills that give them the potential to be highly competent business leaders. As leaders, engineers have clear advantages: they are analytical, technically skilled, project-based, good wit...
Problem Based Module: Checks and Balances
"Overview: In this project, you will explore a real-world problem, and then work through a series of steps to analyze that problem, research ways the problem could be solved, then propose a possible solution to that prob...
Creative Problem Solving and Decision making
"Overview: Explore complex, multi-actor systems in which one factor influences all other factors. For instance, how innovative energy technologies merge into the existing energy system, or how new transport possibilities...
PRODUCT BASED ASSESSMENT
"Overview: Product-based assessment using a scrapbook is a unique approach that allows individuals to showcase their knowledge, skills, and creativity through a tangible collection of their work. Instead of traditional e...
Indiana Mammals and Their Environments
"Overview: This is a project-based learning lesson about Indiana Mammals and Their Environments. The lesson is about common Indiana animals that the kids see everyday and how humans impact their environments. The goal of...
Social work 515: Skills for the Helping Process-Groups
"Overview: The goal is to create a process for students to learn about the decolonization movement in Social Work and apply these concepts to reimage group work. They will do this by choosing a “problem” to address using...
Miss Soyka's Inquiry Based Learning Project
"Overview: This is a problem-based learning assignment with a driving question and a correlating activity. Subject: Social Science Level: Lower Primary, Upper Primary Grades: Grade 2, Grade 3 Material Type: Activity/Lab...
PROCESS-ORIENTED BASED AUTHENTIC ASSESSMENT
"Overview: Process-oriented based authentic assessment centers on evaluating a student's learning by focusing on the process they go through to complete a task or solve a problem. It emphasizes the student's thinking, pr...
Science in Your Neighborhood (for K-5 Educators)
"Overview: This professional development course is a series of Next Generation Science Standards-focused workshops developed by IslandWood with funding from the OSPI ClimeTime Grant. A PowerPoint slide deck and accompany...