Project+Based+Learning

**Content** Science
 * Project Based Learning**

**Grade Level** 8-12

**Curriculum Standards** SC.O.9.1.4 conduct and/or design investigations that incorporate the skills and attitudes and/or values of scientific inquiry (e.g., established research protocol, accurate record keeping, replication of results and peer review, objectivity, openness, skepticism, fairness, or creativity and logic). SC.O.9.1.7 design, conduct, evaluate and revise experiments (e.g., compose a question to be investigated, design a controlled investigation that produces numeric data, evaluate the data in the context of scientific laws and principles, construct a conclusion based on findings, propose revisions to investigations based on manipulation of variables and/or analysis of error, or communicate and defend the results and conclusions). **Description of Practices** Project based learning is an excellent strategy to use when teaching science to students at the secondary level. Project based learning opens the students mind to engage in a new way to learn. The teacher can use various projects to integrate into the classroom to encourage the students to learn through project based learning. The students can learn through hands on activities and experiments. This can be done using any topic in science. For example, project based learning can be done by learning subjects such as matter or areas of chemistry at the high school level. **Implementation Considerations**

When completing a project based learning activity in science, the teacher must consider whether they would like the students to work as a group, in partners, or individually. This can be done in whole group settings or small group settings. If project based leaning is done in a whole group setting, the teacher would have to consider who the students would work best with one another. Another consideration would be to base the project around whatever the students are learning in their science class during this time. **Example** This website gives an example of a project based learning unit that was completed in a chemistry classroom. []

**Citation** Blumenfeld, P., & Soloway, E. (1991). Motivating project based learning: sustaining the learning, supporting the learning. //Education Psychologist//, //3//(4), 369=398. Retrieved from http://www.tezakademisi.com/FileUpload/ks212629/File/motivating_project_based_learning_sustaining_the_doing_supporting_the_learner.pdf