Project Based Math Session 1: Developing an idea.

How do we get started? Steps to developing an idea for your project: 1. Decide what objectives you want to teach. 2. Decide when you want to teach them. 3. Determine what resources you have available. 4. Develop a Driving question 5. Name your project! Steps to developing an idea for your project: 1. Decide what objectives you want to teach. 2. Decide when you want to teach them. 3. Determine what resources you have available. 4. Develop a Driving question 5. Name your project!

Selecting objectives Review 9 week Standards Division Documents for ELA, SS, Science, Math, Art, PE.Standards Division Documents Identify what 21 st Century skills you would like the students to learn: Collaboration, technology skills, communication skills, research skills. Look for possible connections that could be developed in a project. Review 9 week Standards Division Documents for ELA, SS, Science, Math, Art, PE.Standards Division Documents Identify what 21 st Century skills you would like the students to learn: Collaboration, technology skills, communication skills, research skills. Look for possible connections that could be developed in a project.

When? How Long? Determine when you plan on doing the project and how much time it will take to complete. What other academic initiatives are going on? Allow time for students to master content and skills in the development of their product. Determine when you plan on doing the project and how much time it will take to complete. What other academic initiatives are going on? Allow time for students to master content and skills in the development of their product.

Sources of Inspiration Your 9 week standard division documents Your community, your students' interests, what happens in the world outside of school, or your content standards. Your colleagues’ file cabinets might contain project ideas — or ideas could be in their heads, if you ask. Browse Online Project Libraries set up by some states, school districts, school reform networks, and other educational organizations.Online Project Libraries Use Project Search to easily access hundreds of indexed projects available on the Internet by simply choosing a subject. Your 9 week standard division documents Your community, your students' interests, what happens in the world outside of school, or your content standards. Your colleagues’ file cabinets might contain project ideas — or ideas could be in their heads, if you ask. Browse Online Project Libraries set up by some states, school districts, school reform networks, and other educational organizations.Online Project Libraries Use Project Search to easily access hundreds of indexed projects available on the Internet by simply choosing a subject.

What is a Driving Question? Provocative or challenging to students, because it is relevant, important, urgent or otherwise interesting. Open-ended and/or complex; there is no single “right answer,” or at least no simple “yes” or “no” answer. It requires in-depth inquiry and higher-level thinking. Linked to the core of what you want students to learn; to answer it well, students would need to gain the knowledge and skills you have targeted as goals for the project. Provocative or challenging to students, because it is relevant, important, urgent or otherwise interesting. Open-ended and/or complex; there is no single “right answer,” or at least no simple “yes” or “no” answer. It requires in-depth inquiry and higher-level thinking. Linked to the core of what you want students to learn; to answer it well, students would need to gain the knowledge and skills you have targeted as goals for the project.

Make and use a tubric to develop a Driving Question Crate a Tubric: Watch the TUBRIC video

What is your Driving question? Work with your team to develop a driving question. Post it on the PBM Edmodo Site. Work with your team to develop a driving question. Post it on the PBM Edmodo Site.

Naming your Project Imagine how thrilled your students would be to hear they were starting a project called “The 4th Amendment Project.” Now imagine if they’d be more interested in a project called “Can Police Do That to Me?” Or instead of “The Local Geology Project”, how about “This Place Rocks!” Come up with a creative project name and post it on the WikispaceWikispace Imagine how thrilled your students would be to hear they were starting a project called “The 4th Amendment Project.” Now imagine if they’d be more interested in a project called “Can Police Do That to Me?” Or instead of “The Local Geology Project”, how about “This Place Rocks!” Come up with a creative project name and post it on the WikispaceWikispace