Wednesday, August 14, 2013

Excited about project based learning

I got my first taste of the amazing feeling of enough time and enough teachers to do project based learning successfully on a big scale! All four MPX teachers teamed up to plan the thirsty games with the purpose of giving the incoming freshman the experience of a full project cycle. Teams were provided dirty water and had time and tools to brainstorm a way to clean the water with limited tools.

Three 9th grade students planning to capture the steam released when they put their dirty water on a hot plate.
 
 

See colleague Mark Hines' curriculum snapshot on it here.

 

 

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