Project Based Learning

What are your impressions of PBL? How could you use it in your classroom?

According to Bransford & Stein, (1993) project-based learning is a comprehensive instructional approach to engage students in sustained, cooperative investigation.

Project based learning has a widespread application of uses. In my science classroom I would use PBL to develop the student’s ability to rationalise a method of doing an experiment. They would be able to perform different experiments and decide which one was best suited for the task at hand, and better yet, to decide what the task at hand was. Instead of telling them what the best way to figure out a problem, they could figure out first hand why that is the best, or an appropriate way to do the task. There are huge learning gains to be had by using PBL.