Project Based Learning Samples

I already knew that if we could make education more tangible for our students then it would actually excite them and maybe even stick in their little minds, but I did not know that this concept was the central focus of Project Based Learning. Imagine my excitement when we were told that we were going to create our own PBL unit and then actually create the project!

For my PBL unit I have decided to have the children become Roller Coaster Engineers. They will create Roller Coasters on funderstanding.com. Then they will create a PowerPoint presentation under that guise that they are presenting their roller coasters to a theme park and must rate each roller coaster for safety, function and thrill level and decide which roller coaster is the best.

Creating the project myself was a great way to get all of these ideas that have been floating around in my head and making those ideas a tangible thought. I think that I have stretched my PowerPoint skills and I know that my students will learn some science, math and computer skills in this exercise.