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Week 15: Global Change
Weeks 13, 14, and 15 make up the fourth three-week cycle of the course. Currently, you are in Week C: Teacher as Designer.

Use what you have learned about Problem-Based Learning lessons from being a student of Global Change to design your own PBL lesson and reflect on what you have learned about thinking systemically about Global Change.

Assignment

Individual: (by midnight Sunday)

  • Review the PBL Design Rubric
  • Review the readings and references.
  • Post a draft of a PBL lesson for your students about Global Change in the Teacher as Designer space in the Classroom.
  • Read your teammates' lessons. Revise your own.
  • Submit your lesson for a grade to your Portfolio in the Classroom and rate it using the rubric.
  • Act as a critical friend to two teammates by rating his or her lesson using the rubric in the Portfolio.

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Readings

You will want to locate other resources locally and on the Internet to supplement these. Post the resources you find in the Resource Space in the Classroom.

Problems as Possibilities: Transforming Gargage to Gold presents an account of the design and implementation of a project put out by the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy Center for Problem Based Learning.



Web Sites

Exploring the Environment™. A NASA Classroom of the Future™ site featuring Problem-Based Learning activities.

Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy. Center for Problem-Based Learning. Begin on the Navigation Assistance page to access a list of resources.

USC California Science Project used problem-based learning to train K-12 science teachers. They could then use PBL to instruct the students in their classrooms


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