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=**Module 1 - Teaching with Projects**=

Module Content
Research on learning and teaching indicates the importance of: Projects concentrate on scenarios that provide rich learning opportunities. They involve students in problem solving investigations and other meaningful tasks. Projects establish connections to life outside the classroom and address real world concerns.
 * In-depth coverage of important subject matter
 * Big ideas to organize understanding
 * Ongoing assessment
 * Purposeful, authentic tasks

The steps for designing projects include:
 * 1) Determine specific learning goals (from standards and 21st century skills)
 * 2) Developing Curriculum-Framing Questions
 * 3) Making an assessment plan
 * 4) Designing activities

Module Tasks
Portfolio Checklist Quote of the day: //"If your classroom were a video game, would you buy it?"// by Glenn Wiebe
 * Set up your folders (page 1.07)
 * Unit Plan with student learning objectives aligned to state and/or national standards and curriculum-framing questions (please save this in your unit plan folder). Don't panic, this is just the beginning of your unit plan. You'll keep adding to this as we go through the remaining modules. [[file:Unit_Plan_Template.doc]]
 * Publication (Comic Life) to present the ideas of projects in your classroom (please save this in your unit plan folder)
 * Create your own personal blog (page 1.29) as a record of your learning as you move through this course. In module 7, you will share one of your blog entries with a colleague and discuss how your understanding and knowledge has changed over time. You might want to use blogger.com. [[file:Blogtutorial.pdf]]