Exploring Pennsylvania Through Project-Based Learning
Exploring Pennsylvania Through Project-Based Learning

Author: Carole Marsh

Publisher: Gallopade International

Published: 2016-06-01

Total Pages: 60

ISBN-13: 0635124122

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Exploring Pennsylvania through Project-Based Leaning includes 50 well-thought-out projects designed for grades 3-5. In assigning your students projects that dig into PennsylvaniaÕs geography, history, government, economy, current events, and famous people, you will deepen their appreciation and understanding of Pennsylvania while simultaneously improving their analytical skills and ability to recognize patterns and big-picture themes. Project-based learning today is much different than the craft-heavy classroom activities popular in the past. Inquiry, planning, research, collaboration, and analysis are key components of project-based learning activities today. However, that doesnÕt mean creativity, individual expression, and fun are out. They definitely arenÕt! Each project is designed to help students gain important knowledge and skills that are derived from standards and key concepts at the heart of academic subject areas. Students are asked to analyze and solve problems, to gather and interpret data, to develop and evaluate solutions, to support their answers with evidence, to think critically in a sustained way, and to use their newfound knowledge to formulate new questions worthy of exploring. While some projects are more complex and take longer than others, they all are set up in the same structure. Each begins with the central project-driving questions, proceeds through research and supportive questions, has the student choose a presentation option, and ends with a broader-view inquiry. Rubrics for reflection and assessments are included, too. This consistent framework will make it easier for you assign projects and for your students to follow along and consistently meet expectations. Encourage your students to take charge of their projects as much as possible. As a teacher, you can act as a facilitator and guide. The projects are structured such that students can often work through the process on their own or through cooperation with their classmates.

Core Practices for Project-Based Learning
Core Practices for Project-Based Learning

Author: Pam Grossman

Publisher:

Published: 2021-06-22

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 9781682536421

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Core Practices for Project-Based Learning offers a framework and essential set of strategies for successfully implementing project-based learning (PBL) in the classroom. Centering on teaching practice, this work moves beyond project planning to focus on the complex instructional demands of the student-centered PBL approach. Pam Grossman and her colleagues draw on their research with teachers, educational leaders, and curriculum designers to identify the instructional goals, practices, and mindsets that enable educators to effectively facilitate deep learning in PBL environments. The authors first define the four primary teaching goals of the PBL model: supporting subject-area learning, engaging students in authentic work, encouraging student collaboration and agency, and building an iterative culture where students are always prototyping, reflecting, and trying again. They then equip educators with ten key practices that serve these goals. These practices include methods to elicit higher-order thinking, engage students in disciplinary and interdisciplinary practice, and mentor student decision making. The authors guide educators from a clear starting place through a series of concrete, manageable steps that apply whether they are initiating PBL or working to improve the quality of existing PBL implementation. Extended case studies illustrate the use of the core practices in real-world situations. Core Practices for Project-Based Learning is an invaluable resource to help educators realize their instructional vision and create meaningful student experiences.

Teaching Core Practices in Teacher Education
Teaching Core Practices in Teacher Education

Author: Pam Grossman

Publisher: Harvard Education Press

Published: 2021-02-26

Total Pages: 243

ISBN-13: 1682531899

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In Teaching Core Practices in Teacher Education, Pam Grossman and her colleagues advocate an approach to practice-based teacher education that identifies “core practices” of teaching and supports novice teachers in learning how to enact them competently. Examples of core practices include facilitating whole-class discussion, eliciting student thinking, and maintaining classroom norms. The contributors argue that teacher education needs to do more to help teachers master these professional skills, rather than simply emphasizing content knowledge. Teaching Core Practices in Teacher Education outlines a series of pedagogies that teacher educators can use to help preservice students develop these teaching skills. Pedagogies include representations of practice (ways to show what this skill looks like and break it down into its component parts) and approximations of practice (the ways preservice teachers can try these skills out as they learn). Vignettes throughout the book illustrate how core practices can be incorporated into the teacher education curriculum. The book draws on the work of a consortium of teacher educators from thirteen universities devoted to describing and enacting pedagogies to help novice teachers develop these core practices in support of ambitious and equitable instruction. Their aim is to support teacher educator learning across institutions, content domains, and grade levels. The book also addresses efforts to support teacher learning outside formal teacher education programs. Contributors Chandra L. Alston Andrea Bien Janet Carlson Ashley Cartun Katie A. Danielson Elizabeth A. Davis Christopher G. Pupik Dean Brad Fogo Megan Franke Hala Ghousseini Lightning Peter Jay Sarah Schneider Kavanagh Elham Kazemi Megan Kelley-Petersen Matthew Kloser Sarah McGrew Chauncey Monte-Sano Abby Reisman Melissa A. Scheve Kristine M. Schutz Meghan Shaughnessy Andrea Wells

Pennsylvania in Public Memory
Pennsylvania in Public Memory

Author: Carolyn Kitch

Publisher: Penn State Press

Published: 2015-06-26

Total Pages: 434

ISBN-13: 027106885X

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What stories do we tell about America’s once-great industries at a time when they are fading from the landscape? Pennsylvania in Public Memory attempts to answer that question, exploring the emergence of a heritage culture of industry and its loss through the lens of its most representative industrial state. Based on news coverage, interviews, and more than two hundred heritage sites, this book traces the narrative themes that shape modern public memory of coal, steel, railroading, lumber, oil, and agriculture, and that collectively tell a story about national as well as local identity in a changing social and economic world.

Pennsylvania People Projects
Pennsylvania People Projects

Author: Carole Marsh

Publisher: Carole Marsh Books

Published: 2003-05-01

Total Pages: 32

ISBN-13: 9780635020079

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Grades K-8. Features 30 projects for kids to complete-and includes actual state facts. Each project is quick, easy, and inexpensive! Projects include: writing a poem about a state poet; creating a small bulletin board about a state leader; holding a classroom court; creating a costume to imitate one of the first people on our land; and more! Students will have a blast creating projects. Most projects use ordinary, easy-to-access materials. 32 pages.

Developing Natural Curiosity through Project-Based Learning
Developing Natural Curiosity through Project-Based Learning

Author: Dayna Laur

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-02-17

Total Pages: 173

ISBN-13: 1315528398

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Developing Natural Curiosity through Project-Based Learning is a practical guide that provides step-by-step instructions for PreK–3 teachers interested in embedding project-based learning (PBL) into their daily classroom routine. The book spells out the five steps teachers can use to create authentic PBL challenges for their learners and illustrates exactly what that looks like in an early childhood classroom. Authentic project-based learning experiences engage children in the mastery of twenty-first-century skills and state standards to empower them as learners, making an understanding of PBL vital for PreK–3 teachers everywhere.

Pennsylvania History Projects
Pennsylvania History Projects

Author: Carole Marsh

Publisher: Gallopade International

Published: 2011-01-01

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 0635094681

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This unique book combines state-specific facts and 30 fun-to-do hands-on projects. The History Project Book includes creating a cartoon panel to describe how your state name may have come about, creating a fort replica, making a state history museum, dressing up as a famous explorer and recreating the main discovery, and more! Kids will have a blast and build essential knowledge skills including research, reading, writing, science and math. Great for students in K-8 grades and for displaying in the classroom, library or home.

Reinventing Project-Based Learning
Reinventing Project-Based Learning

Author: Suzie Boss

Publisher: International Society for Technology in Education

Published: 2022-08-29

Total Pages: 313

ISBN-13: 1564847195

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This updated edition of the bestselling Reinventing Project-Based Learning offers examples of the latest tools, assessment strategies and promising practices poised to shape education in the future. This popular ISTE title follows the arc of a project, providing guided opportunities to direct and reflect educators’ own learning and professional development. This book shows how to design authentic projects that make the most of available and emerging technologies. This new edition: • Provides examples of how to merge personalized learning, flipped classrooms, and PBL for effective teaching and learning. • Includes coverage of computational thinking and coding, demonstrating ways to develop new approaches to solving problems as well as new forms of expression. • Discusses PBL as an equity consideration, with opportunities for personalization and empowerment, addressing issues of social justice and closing the achievement gap. Includes coverage on new trends like augmented and virtual reality; and new and updated Spotlights from educators featured in the first edition and others. • Features deeper focus on Gold Standard and High Quality PBL, the P21 Framework, and ISTE Standards for Students and Educators. With this book, teachers will come to appreciate the importance of problem-finding and problem-posing — thoughtful activity that needs to precede problem solving in any context. The companion jump start guide based on this book is Project-Based Learning: Strategies and Tools for Creating Authentic Experiences.