Project Based Learning

1.Project Plan

1.1 The Define Phase

1.1.1 Introduction:

· Write a statement describing the overall purpose of the project.
· What is the key challenge or problem the project is aiming to address?
· What are students intended to learn from the project?

This project is intended to allow class VI students to explore a learning environment in which they can

1) Apply various techniques to collect, represent and analyse data

2) Demonstrate a critical approach to the data represented in the media

3) Justify choices for representing and analyzing

1.1.2 Project Scope:

Describe the scope of your project. This may include class and section, subjects it covers, self shills to be used etc. as well as other factors affecting scope.

Students from class VI.

Subjects involved: Mathematics, Social Science and English

Student research will be monitored and managed to avoid students going off track and out of scope.

1.1.3 Curriculum and Standards:

List the curriculum and standards this project with cover.

Class VI Maths Curriculum topics and standards related to this project

· State reasons for the need of data collection

· Differentiate between data and information

· Differentiate between qualitative and quantitative data

· State the four stages of a statistical investigation

Lesson 2

2.1 Essential Question:

Put in writing the question that will engage the students

What do you mean by data handling? How it can be used in decision making?

2.2 Grouping Strategy:

Describe the criteria that will be used to form students team and how this maps to the goals of the project.

Each team will have 9 members. Students of each group will be of both gender with mixed ability and skill level. The main objective of the project is to give an opportunity to students of different ability and skill level to work as one team and to provide an occasion to students with higher ability and skills for peer instructions and to deliver an opportunity to students with lower ability to students benefit from the more advanced collaboration that will arise from this.

2.3 Learning Environment:

Describe the learning environment for the project including any classroom adaptation that will be required.

The group working area will be set in such a way to allow the team members to conduct effective interaction. Classroom wall near the project area will be used to post paper materials collected during research. The online work will be conducted at computer labs. Research notes will be recorded in computers/blogs. To provide effective teamwork among the members email, blog, whats’app, messenger and etc will be used.

2.4 Assessment Approach:

Describe the approach for:

2.4.1 Authentic Assessment:

Authentic tasks such as

1. State reasons for sampling

2. Design a data collection sheet for a specified survey

2.4.2 Formative Assessment:

Regular feedback will be provided as the students

Ø Work on internet and library research

Ø Surveys

Ø Data sheets

Ø Presentation designs

2.4.3 Summative Assessment:

Assessment will be conducted on

Ø Team portfolios PowerPoint

Ø presentation on data handling/web design

2.4.4 Rubrics:

Rubrics will be used to assess:

Ø Surveys

Ø Data sheets

Ø Final presentations

Ø Blog

2.4.5 Gradings:

Project grades will be based on a combination of scores from assessments made during the project. A rubric will be used to compile grades.

Sample – Lesson 3

Plan Phase

3.1 Work Breakdown, Products and Milestones:

List the project task and, if possible at this stage include the sub-tasks. For each task add the product that will be created and indicate it will be a milestone.

Activity 1 : Collect the required data using interviews, questionnaire, experiments, etc

Activity 2 : Organising the data

Activity 3 : Analysing the data

Activity 4 : Graphical analysis of the data

Activity 5 : Interpretation of the results

Activity 6 : To find the range of the numerical data

Activity 7 : To find the mean, median and mode of the data

Research : Online resources and using articles from different medias

Survey : Collection

Presentation : Using charts, diagrams and ppts

Celebration : Mini exhibition

3.2 Role definition:

List the roles team members will fulfill in the project.

Project leader: Teacher

Researcher : Each student

Survey writer : Each student

Presentation : Every group member will take some part in the presentation

3.3 Task schedule:

Note start and end dates for the project.

Include expected dates to start specific tasks

Project Start date : 1st Nov 2016

Project end date : 15^th Dec 2016

3.4 Special Activities Plan:

List any special activities (e.g. Field trips or guest speakers) including dates.

Mini exhibition on 15-12-16

3.5 Resource Plan:

List resource that will be required during the project and any other date constraints associated with them.

Online resources, articles from different medias

3.6 Direct Instruction:

List any planned direct instruction sessions and link them to specific tasks if appropriate.

Types of data

Methods of data collection

Multiple ways of data representation

Measures of central tendency

3.7 Reviews and checkpoints:

Describe how you will incorporate review meetings and checkpoints in the project

At the end of every week, there will be a 15 minutes class conference to discuss progress, successes and challenges.

10 minutes group meeting will be done twice per week.

3.8 Assessment plan:

Describe the balanced assessment plan for the project. List products that will be assessed during the project. List rubrics that need to be created before project launch.

Assessment will be done based on surveys and results, collection , organization and analysis of the data, representation of the data using graphs and diagrams and interpretation of the results.

Rubrics will be prepared accordingly.

Work plan-Lesson 4

Prepare work plan in the format given below.

*Sl.* No	*TASK*	*SUBTASK*	*ROLE*	*START DATE*	*END DATE*	*PRODUCT*
01	Launch project			01-11-16	01-11-16	Project launched
02	Deliver classroom instruction	Areas to be covered. 1.Range 2.Mean, Median, Mode	Teacher	02-11-16	02-11-16	Initial classroom instruction is completed
03	Group selection	Group leaders 1. Nayanika Sajil 2. Sayooj 3. Parvathi Biju 4. Haripriya 5. Vinayak.L.Biju 6. Ridhul	Teacher	03-11-16	03-11-16	Group selection is completed
04	Conduct research	Collection of contents for finding averages	Student	04-11-16	10-11-16	Students recorded in the computer
05	Perform survey	Collection,organization, analysis and interpretation of the data	Student	11-11-16	20-11-16	Collected report
06	Programme sheet activity	Prepared based on curricular units, collection, organization,analysis and interpretation of data	Student and teacher	21-11-16	28-11-16	prepared
07	Advice meeting	Team prepare briefs	All team members	29-11-16	29-11-16	A meeting was held
08	Programme sheet presentation	Presentation of the interpreted data	All team members	30-11-16	2-12-16	Presented
09	Preparation of questionnaire	Eliciting from peer group and self analysation	Each member	3-12-16	3-12-16	Prepared questions
10	Lecture by subject expert	Mrs.Jyotsna PGT Maths	Teacher	5-12-16	5-12-16	Completed
11	Exhibition	Exhibition by students	All members	6-12-16	6-12-16	Completed
12	Project presentation	Posting in the computer/blog	All	9-12-16	9-12-16	Completed
13	Assessment and grading	Prepare rubrics and assessment	Teacher	13-12-16		Completed
14	Refection and evaluation	Student reflection and evaluation,Teacher refection and evaluation	Students and teacher	14-12-16		Completed
15	Project closed	Submitting to the Principal	Teacher	15-12-16		Closed

Project Plan – Lesson 5

The Do Phase

(5.1) Project Launch:

Describe how the project will be launched, including how goals, expectation, rules, procedures, assessment, and grading will be presented to the students.

The project will be launched in class VI E .

Instructions will be given about the survey to be carried out, research work to be done and to make the power point presentation.

(5.2) Artifacts:

List artifacts that will be created during the project

Research notes

Survey reports

Presentation

(5.3) Culminating product:

Describe what culminating product or products are expected to be created during the project and how they will be presented.

Ppt : Data Handling

Charts on group works

Reports on analysis of data

(5.4) Celebrating completion:

Describe how the students will celebrate when the project is completed.

A “mini exhibition” of the project will be done in the class.

Project Plan - Lesson 6

The Review Phase

(6.1)Student Reflection and Evaluation:

Describe how student reflection and evaluation will be conducted.

Each student will write about their topic, new information gained, new skills learnt, what they liked most about the project and what they did not like. Before writing the reflection, each student will go through their reports, presentations and powerpoints.

(6.2) Teacher Reflection and Evaluation:

Describe how teacher reflection and evaluation will be conducted.

Successes I will consider pbl as auccessful if every student understands the purpose of data handling and how it can be used for decision making.
Challenges : To make each student contribute some work for their group will be a real challenge.
Achievement of project goals : My goal will be achieved if I can ensure maximum students participation.
What I learned : Students gain deeper knowledge of the subject matter

(6.3) Assessment of 21^st Century skills:

List of 21^st century skills in this project and its assessment

Artifact	21^st Century skill(s)
Research notes	Problem solving, initiative, ICT
Survey designs	Creativity, problem solving, communication
Message boards	ICT, communication, teamwork
Presentation outlines	Initiative, creativity, ICT, communication

(6.4) Summative Assessment and Grading:

List products and the corresponding rubrics that will be used for SA and Grading

Product	Rubric	Grading
Survey results	Suryvey questions and results rubric
Activity sheets	Activity sheet rubric
presentation	Presentation rubric
Blog portfolio	Blog rubric

Project Plan – Lesson 7

The Manage Phase

(7.1) Process Management:

List tasks that will be used to manage the process of conducting the learning

Brief Introduction : Data Handling

Each group will be given a sub topic

Group 1 : To find the average age of teachers in their school

Group 2 : To find the average height of students of their class

Group 3 : To find the average weight of students of their class

Group 4 : To find the most favourite subject of students of class 6

Group 5 : To find the month of the year in which most students of class 6 were born

Group 6 : To find the average number of family members of their classmates

Regular monitoring of students works

(7.2) Student Preparation:

Describe how students will be prepared for the project prior to launch. List any specific instruction or tasks that will be needed

The students will be told about the idea for the project 2 weeks before it starts. New ICT tools to be used during the project (i.e. using a spreadsheet for survey results) will be practiced before the project launch.

(7.3) Facilitation:

Describe how facilitation of resources will be used to enable the students to be successful.

Use of the library and computer equipment will be scheduled and booked in advance.

(7.4) Progress Monitoring:

Describe how program will be monitored throughout the project.

Whole class conference once per week

Group Progress

Team checkpoint meetings as well informally daily checking with teams and individuals on their work.

Individual Progress

(7.5) Re-planning:

Describe how ‘re-planning’ will be used if the project goes off track

Since student autonomy is low there is low risk of the project going off track. 10% additional time allowance has been included for overrun but the end date cannot be exceeded. There is an option for homework to be used to catch up if necessary.

(7.6) Conflict Management:

Describe how to address problems related to participation, offer approaches to manage other conflicts that may arise.

Teamwork rules will be included in project launch presentation. Students are asked to initially try to work out conflicts on their own. In the case of a deadlock, issues are to be raised with the teacher. Lack of participation will be dealt with by culprits being removed from the project work and set to work on alternative individual tasks for the duration of the project.