Final project (pbl)
- 1. Final Project: PBL LESSONS What is a PBL? What are the guidelines? Completing your project The Problem Based Learning Scenario Would you like to know more? The best place to start is actually not with trying to form an answer, but to form questions. It seems counter-intuitive at first, but what you are doing is probing for what you want to investigate. Then try to answer these smaller questions first. Each humanities course is guided by a Critical Question. You are going to address this question and create a solution. For each course and for each Critical Question, you must take a yes or no stance. You must support your ideas with personal and scholarly work (avoid things like, "Well, my mom told me..."). And most importantly - How do you know and how do we know you know?
- 2. Final Project: PBL LESSONS What is a PBL? What are the guidelines? Completing your project What are the guidelines? Would you like to know more? Aim for strong content. Include information reviewing the question, answering the question, explaining your website/blog/video channel, explaining how you made yourwebsite/blog/video channel, and explaining how your website/blog/video channel connects to the question. Aim for 150 words. You will answer the Critical Question for your course. Then you will create either a website, a blog, or a video channel to express your ideas. Your final submission must be published online. Answer the question. Be comprehensive yet concise. Aim for several pages/sections or several minutes. Make it visually pleasing. Make some kind of visual aids that represents the question and your answer.
- 3. Final Project: PBL LESSONS What is a PBL? What are the guidelines? Completing your project Completing your project Would you like to know more? Sometimes my students think of doing this project as if they were a contestant on “Shark Tank.” That’s a good way to approach this – be captivating, be fun, be informative – or in other words, know your stuff and be able to convince others you are right! https://abc.com/shows/shark-tank You are trying to “sell” your solution. In a way, imagine yourself “pitching” a project or product to investors. You are using your explanations and answers, to be persuasive. “When a person we don’t know pitches an idea to us, we search for visual and verbal matches with those implicit models, remembering only the characteristics that identify the pitcher as one type or another. We subconsciously award points to people we can easily identify as having creative traits; we subtract points from those who are hard to assess or who fit negative stereotypes.” How to Pitch a Brilliant Idea by Kimberly D. Elsbach (2003)