PBL

My favorite project was the one where students were building a state of the art high school for the year 2050 (http://www.edutopia.org/mountlake-terrace-schools-2050-project).  I liked this project more than the rest for one specific reason.  Not only was the teacher going to assess the student's work, but each group presented their designs too two Seattle architects and so they will be able to help the teacher assess even more because they know exactly what would be good in the design or bad.

This project really requires all of the levels of thinking because you need to start at the bottom and be able to understand what the task is and what the best way to go about solving it is.  You also need evaluation, the highest level, because you need to be able to evaluate your project before you turn it in to be assessed by professionals.

I think the one thing that could improve this project is have the student's design a school for a closer year, such as 2020 or 2030 rather than 2050 because that is a long ways off and the teacher has no idea what will happen in 40 years so he could better assess it if it were a closer year because he has more of an idea of what is possible and what is not. Print Page in IE