PBL Showcase
Your Canvas...Your PBL
PBL is about the Creative Human Experience.
Project Idea: Creative Bio-Dome solutions for the Earth. Green spaces for all.
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Students for change
Project Idea: Scale and Proportion Landform/Architecture connection.
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Student Builders
Project Idea: Eco-Friendly business proposal - becoming entrepreneurs.
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Student Free-Thinkers
Project Idea: Creative and critical novel study analysis via student led literature circles.
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Students and symbolic imagination
Montour High School ~ History Project
Teaching team - Pam Diianni, Kara Olshenske, and Gina Ligouri
This PBL contest winning Showcase entry came to us from from Montour High School in Pennsylvania. Learn about this project below in their own words:
Our PBL was based on the content in our PBL Integrated Studies and Honors Integrated Studies courses. This was designed and implemented to blend the areas of History, English and STEM together as a cohesive discipline while incorporating areas of design and feedback loops with professionals in their respective fields and the school community as a whole.
In this project, the students were tasked to create a museum in the school community for the students and teachers to utilize as a resource. The content was based on the US History 10 curriculum and focused mostly on the “Impact of World War II in Pittsburgh”, which is where we are located. We (the three content area teachers) met over the summer to plan and coordinate with the Heinz History Center (HHC) as the outside professional resource for the project. After we collaborated with the archivist and curator, we took our students to the HHC to conduct “field research”.
The students participated in several LUMA Institute activities during the design and feedback sessions. Students received feedback at several points during this process from not only their classmates and teachers but also peers outside of the class, districtwide administrators and the archivist and curator of the HHC.
Collaboration
The students were tasked with being able to not only communicate with members of their own group, but they also had to communicate with the other groups in the class and also the other group of students who were working on this in a different class time period to put together a cohesive display.
Problem Solving
Students also needed to learn problem solving skills to overcome supply issues, budgetary restraints and technology limitations.
Meaningful Content
The students were able to take the content that they researched and developed plans on how they would execute their research and ultimately build a physical museum exhibit.
Exposition
In the end, the students created an exposition for the school and greater community, where it was open to the public for tours and presentations.