Project-Based Learning

Krajcik, Joseph; Blumenfeld, Phyllis C.

doi:10.1017/cbo9780511816833.020

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“…According to Krajcik and Blumenfeld [38], PBL is based on four major learning science ideas: active construction of knowledge by the learner, situated learning (i.e., authentic situations that make learning relevant and valuable), social interaction (collaboration), and the use of cognitive tools that amplify what students learn (e.g., learning technologies, computer simulations). PBL has five key features: it starts with a driving question that spurs interest and relates both to students' lives and Table 2 Summary of prior research on student knowledge organized by the four ways of thinking about size and scale.…”

Section: Development Of Curriculum and Instructionmentioning

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A middle school instructional unit for size and scale contextualized in nanotechnology

Delgado

Stevens

Shin

et al. 2015

Nanotechnology Reviews

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Size and scale is a "big idea" in nanoscale science and engineering and is poorly understood by secondary students. This paper describes the design process, implementation, and evaluation of a 12-h instructional unit for size and scale, in a summer science camp for middle school students from a low SES public school district. Instructional activities were designed following a construct-centered design approach and included the use of microscopes, custom-made computer simulations, and 2-D and 3-D scale models. The unit followed a project-based instructional approach and was contextualized with the driving question, "How can nanotechnology keep me from getting sick?" Pre-and post-intervention interviews revealed that students significantly increased their qualitative and quantitative knowledge of the size of objects including atom, viruses, and cells, with an effect size of 0.8 for an overall metric. The campers closed the gap with private middle school students and on some measures surpassed high school students from the same district. The principle of "broad spectrum" curriculum and instruction -activities that target specific advanced understandings but simultaneously scaffold or support the learning of more fundamental, prerequisite ideaswas inductively generated from an analysis of the learning activities.

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Section: Development Of Curriculum and Instructionmentioning

confidence: 99%

A middle school instructional unit for size and scale contextualized in nanotechnology

Delgado

Stevens

Shin

et al. 2015

Nanotechnology Reviews

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“…Such problem-based curricula can facilitate students' pursuit of knowledge and development of skills as they engage with others on authentic tasks (e.g., Hmelo-Silver, 2004). Students often become more motivated to learn in such programs (e.g., Krajcik & Blumenfeld, 2006), and this study illustrates that educators and advisors may still have a vital role to play in directly providing unique expertise and encouragement.…”

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Advising a Model United Nations club: A scaffolded youth-adult partnership to foster active participation and political engagement

Levy

2016

Teaching and Teacher Education

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“…This research found that student generated data was an engaging source of discussion and inquiry in later classroom activities. Fraser's SENSE project, in which students (ages [10][11][12][13][14] collect environmental data in the field and share this information with their peers on returning to the classroom, found the process of viewing data from another class helped students reflect and understand new perspectives [7].…”

Section: Capturing and Visualizing Student-collected Datamentioning

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“…In scientific inquiry, an established approach advocated by educational research, students typically investigate a phenomenon and draw conclusions about it. Instead of mastering disconnected facts, this approach places a heavy emphasis on posing questions, gathering and analyzing data, and constructing evidence-based arguments (e.g., [4,10,12]). However, in traditional inquiry-based learning, students typically work autonomously as individuals, pairs or, at most, in small groups.…”

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Supporting learners in collecting and exploring data from immersive simulations in collective inquiry

Lui

Kuhn

Acosta

et al. 2014

Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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Digitally augmented physical spaces (e.g., smart classrooms) offer opportunities to engage students in novel and potentially transformative learning experiences. This paper presents an immersive rainforest simulation and collective inquiry activity where students collect observational data from the environment and explore their peers' data through large visualization displays and personal mobile devices. Two iterations of the design were tested, which resulted in higher quality student explanations constructed. Images were found to be an important source of evidence for the explanations, more so than text-only evidence. We also found that patterns of collective ideas influenced student performance, and that visualizations, as ambient or plenary displays, supported both teacher and students in reviewing patterns of collected data.

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Project-Based Learning

Cited by 318 publications

References 36 publications

A middle school instructional unit for size and scale contextualized in nanotechnology

A middle school instructional unit for size and scale contextualized in nanotechnology

Advising a Model United Nations club: A scaffolded youth-adult partnership to foster active participation and political engagement

Supporting learners in collecting and exploring data from immersive simulations in collective inquiry

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