Project Based Learning: Getting Started

DET NSW: The DQ should be clear, provocative, open-ended, challenging and linked to the core of what teachers want students to learn

Edutopia: First, we need to understand why we have them. Driving questions are there for two entities, the teacher and the student.

Learning in Hand: Writing an effective driving question is surprisingly challenging. You want the question to be intriguing and irresistible to students, which makes it very different from the typical questions they encounter on tests.

The mission of Gapminder Foundation is to fight devastating ignorance with a fact-based worldview that everyone can understand.The Gapminder Foundation started as a spin-off from Professor Hans Rosling’s teaching at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm. He encountered broad ignorance about the rapid health improvement in Asia. He started measuring the ignorance among students and professors and the surprising results from the so called “Chimpanzee Test” were presented in his first TED-talk in 2006.

Economy, Industry, People, Labour, Covid 19, Health, Environment, Snapshots of Australia

Imagine the world as a street. All houses are lined up by income, the poor living to the left and the rich to the right. Everybody else somewhere in between. Where would you live? Would your life look different than your neighbours’ from other parts of the world, who share the same income level? Welcome!

Where Can I find Inspiration for PBL? What to do when I find it?

The National Geographic Society has a five-step PBL model and resource library to foster deep learning whether students are in school or at home.

A number of downloadable templates for planning available at this site.

In the Australian Curriculum, students develop capability in critical and creative thinking as they learn to generate and evaluate knowledge, clarify concepts and ideas, seek possibilities, consider alternatives and solve problems.